Some Republicans favor Thompson as a reliable Southern conservative in an uncertain field, likening him to another actor-politician: Ronald Reagan.
Labour MP Frank Field and Conservative Nicholas Soames - who campaign on the issue of immigration - said it was "more evidence of the pressure that uncontrolled immigration will place on our population, and therefore our quality of life".
Mark Field, a Conservative MP whose constituency includes the City of London, also warned of the dangers of uncertainty hanging over the banking sector.
In 2008, the most conservative voters split among a broad field of candidates.
Mr Field and the last Conservative government both favoured funded pensions (ie, paid for out of investments rather than current taxation).
But it is the GOP field's most conservative candidate -- Ron Greer, a black minister and former firefighter -- who has attracted the most attention.
However, the Ulster Unionists have ruled out any merger with the DUP and restated their commitment to their electoral pact with the Conservative Party, where they will field joint candidates under the banner Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force (UCUNF).
Contributions by business in favour of conservative candidates and causes would only level the playing field.
Labour MPs Frank Field, Angela Eagle and Alison McGovern and Conservative MP Esther McVey, who represent the four Wirral constituencies, claimed the move would cost the NHS extra money and take services further away from people who need them.
Saudis had cited the lack of qualified female athletes, and conservative opinion in the kingdom, in declining for years to field a woman.
It is not obvious that a "kinder, gentler" Republicanism will fare well in the primary process come 2016, but it is a shrewd way to differentiate oneself from a primary field in which most challengers will be competing to demonstrate their conservative bona fides.
In South Korea, two presidential hopefuls will join forces and field only one candidate between the two of them in an effort to beat their conservative opponent.
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Mr Ahmadinejad, the mayor of the capital, Tehran, and a hardline religious conservative, garnered around 62% of the vote, despite having gone almost unnoticed in the field of seven candidates who had contested the first round of voting, a week earlier.
Two officials close to the conservative commentator said Buchanan could still reverse course and stay out of the increasingly crowded third-party field, even though that appeared unlikely.
The obvious question all along has been what happens when the field winnows down to Romney, the irrepressible Ron Paul and a lone Tea Party and social conservative candidate.
If both parties field extremist candidates, Bloomberg could position himself as a moderate alternative, one who is both fiscally conservative and socially progressive.
Penny Mordaunt, Conservative MP for Portsmouth North, said it was important UK recyclers had the chance to prove themselves in the field but she was also keen to see at least one of them saved from the scrapyard.
In the exit polls, he crushed the rest of the Democratic field among independent- and Republican-leaning voters, as well as among those who identified themselves as conservative or moderate.
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