0 in politics, someone who competes for a position that they have no chance of winning, in order to divide the opposition to a particular group or to take attention away from another person who that group really wants to win. --
I do not believe that he is anyone's creature or stalking horse.
I turn to the favourite stalking horse of the party opposite—the capital gains tax.
I am not persuaded that it is right to let a local authority, however powerful and resourceful, be the stalking horse for that controversial issue.
Once again it is a stalking horse for something much more important.
I make no secret of the fact that this has been an old stalking horse of mine.
Perhaps the real stalking horse will come not this year, but next year.
It is only put forward as a sort of stalking horse.
Is there to be a stalking horse or not?
