Sentences with phrase «clegg as party leader»

Mr Pugh has previously served as shadow spokesman for transport and health, and, after the election of Nick Clegg as party leader, he worked with Vince Cable as shadow Treasury spokesman.

Business Secretary Vince Cable is the most popular candidate among Lib Dem councillors to succeed Nick Clegg as party leader, a BBC Sunday Politics poll found.

Business Secretary Vince Cable is the most popular candidate among Lib Dem councillors to succeed Nick Clegg as party leader, a BBC survey says.

recent sexual harassment allegations, the scarcity of women or ethnic minority MPs in the party's front and back benches and the failed attempts to oust Nick Clegg as party leader are hardly stories that will improve the image of an already unpopular party.

Not exact matches

The week ended with a call by Matthew Oakeshott, that most troublesome of Lib Dem peers, for Nick Clegg to resign as party leader.

This time around, sources suggest that the party must hold on to at least 30 seats if Clegg is to remain as leader.

When this new alliance - the European Conservatives and Reformists - was created after the 2009 Euro - election with «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers» (as Nick Clegg later described them in a TV leaders debate) I objected and was expelled from the Conservative Party.

Former Deputy PM Nick Clegg moved first in the autumn of 2013 (his penultimate party conference as leader) and the Labour leader felt compelled to follow.

Even Clegg's most fiercely loyal friends recognise that, if the Lib Dems suffer significant losses and return to opposition, his tenure as party leader will soon end.

Unlock Democracy's protest on Saturday succeeded in attracting support from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and the group is hoping its efforts will help strengthen the party's resolve in calling for a referendum on electoral reform as coalition negotiations continue.

Here's how it could work... Clegg announces that he will resign as party leader but continue as Deputy Prime Minister: «I have a duty, on behalf of my party and my country, to see through the job that I signed up to,» he would nobly say.

At the 2015 general election, the party was reduced to eight MPs, and Clegg resigned as party leader after eight years in the role.

As Rob Hutton notes of party leader Nick Clegg: a public apology on tuition fees, a weekly phone - in show and being rude about David Cameron and Boris Johnson have done little to change the public mood toward him and his party.

Such moves could appear to leave party leader Nick Clegg, who is seen by many voters as being wholly associated with his coalition partner David Cameron, extremely isolated.

Speaking in public for the first time since his resignation as party leader a day after the general election, in which the Lib Dems lost 48 of their 56 MPs, Clegg said his successor deserved the party's «undivided unity and support».

Many on the left of the party — including party grandees such as former leader Charles Kennedy — are likely to be further troubled by Clegg's message that under his leadership the party is no longer a natural home for disaffected Labour supporters.

The activists who take part are slowly undergoing a journey a bit like that of the dissident - turned - conformist Winston Smith in 1984, with Nick Clegg playing the role of O'Brien, as the menacing thought police leader who explains to Orwell's hero what needs to be done to serve the party objective, namely, power.

Party leader Nick Clegg takes questions from Cardiff factory workers as he launches Welsh Liberal Democrats» election campaign

The failure of the talks is putting pressure on the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, to reactivate an inquiry into whether Rennard has brought the party into disrepute for failing to offer an apology to the women, as had been recommended by a previous inquiry.

The Conservative Party and UKIP want an in / out referendum, Labour does not and the Liberal Democrats certainly recognise it as an important matter, even if leader Nick Clegg is refusing to come down on either side of the debate.

The deputy party leader's comments echo those of Richard Reeves, who stood down last week as Clegg's director of strategy and suggested that Lib Dems would retaliate by blocking other constitutional measures if the prime minister failed to persuade Tory MPs to support Lords reform.

Dismissing David Cameron's Conservative party manifesto as one «of style over substance», Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said he was determined to offer «something different» to the British people.

Ed Miliband's ratings are also unchanged this month, with just over a third (36 %) satisfied with the way he is doing his job as leader of the Labour party and two in five (43 %) dissatisfied, his net score of minus 7 being better than Cameron's or Clegg's.

«And the MP who tops our poll as the next leader if there were a vacancy — current party president Tim Farron — has already pledged his loyalty to Nick Clegg.

As Sir Christopher Kelly's review was being written up, Nick Clegg, Lib Dem leader, called for all three parties to sign up for its recommendations, before it had even been published.

In his keynote speech to the conference tomorrow, party leader Nick Clegg is expected to issue a warning that a vote for the SNP is not as «harmless» as people might think.

Nick Clegg is seen as the least trustworthy party leader (34 %) although this is a significant improvement from the 25 % he rated in December 2010 following the tuition fees vote in Parliament.

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Two local Liberal Democrat parties have called on Nick Clegg to quit, as part of a growing grass - roots campaign to oust the Lib Dem leader.

Clegg resigned as Liberal Democrat leader after his party saw its Commons presence slashed to just eight MPs in May's election.

The polls, commissioned by Lib Dem peer Matthew Oakeshott, showed several of the party's biggest hitters set to lose their seats if Clegg remains as leader.

But activist efforts to remove Clegg as leader continue, prompting an intervention from former leader Paddy Ashdown calling on the party to get behind its leader.

In his first major interview since quitting as party leader, Clegg said he initially did not believe the election night exit poll which suggested his party would be cut to 10 MPs.

Meanwhile, Nick Clegg resigned as Liberal Democrat leader after his party suffered heavy losses and UKIP leader Nigel Farage also stood down.

The party's leader Nick Clegg told a conference rally in Bournemouth they had to be «realistic» about the promise to abolish tuition fees, as new figures out today show total public borrowing has risen above # 800bn for the first time.

Until now, the shadow chancellor has always suggested that Nick Clegg's removal as Liberal Democrat leader is a pre-condition of any coalition between the Deputy PM's party and Labour.

Lord Oakeshott resigns from Libdems saying party is «heading for disaster» with Nick Clegg as leader

Clegg's speeches as leader in opposition placed Labour and the Tories as defenders of an Establishment two - party system.

Nick Clegg said he would work as leader to «break the stifling mould of two - party politics within the next decade».

Lord Ashdown says replacing Nick Clegg as the Liberal Democrat leader «would damage the party forever».

The Liberal Democrat party leader, Nick Clegg, insisted last week that he had taken immediate action after learning of «appalling» allegations levelled against the MP as he came in for criticism for failing to do anything in the three years after the party was notified of the complaints.

Nick Clegg has hit back at a leading Liberal Democrat peer who said the party should consider deposing the deputy prime minister as their leader before the next general election.

The former party leader Paddy Ashdown praised Clegg's resilience, saying he had withstood «the most ravenous media feeding frenzy I have ever experienced as a Lib Dem in 40 years of politics».

The general election race was thrown wide open today as polls showed that Nick Clegg's mould - breaking performance in the first of the televised leaders» debates had dramatically boosted his party's support, prompting the two major parties to vow to train their guns on its «eccentric, surprising» policies.

As leader of the third largest party, Clegg had announced that the Liberal Democrats would enter talks with whichever party held the greater number of seats.

Nick Clegg resigned as Lib Dem leader after the party's worst performance in a general election since its formation.

With some Lib Dems describing Clegg as a potential British Barack Obama, the former party leader Lord Ashdown vowed: «No triumphalism, this is serious stuff now — they are going to go for us, you watch.»

Replacing Nick Clegg as the Liberal Democrat leader was «just about the silliest idea I have heard in my political career» and «would damage the party forever», said Lord Ashdown.

Labour denied reports of a heated telephone conversation between Brown and Clegg, and support among Brown's Cabinet colleagues remained strong, but one backbencher, John Mann, urged Brown to step aside as Labour leader before the party conference in September, arguing that Brown's continued leadership «rules out the credibility of a Lib / Lab pact».

Labour's Ed Miliband, the Liberal Democrat's Nick Clegg, and Nigel Farage of UKIP have all resigned as leaders of their respective parties in the wake of the results.