Sentences with phrase «clegg remained leader»

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

There is a post-7 May scenario in which Nick Clegg remains Lib Dem leader.

And former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg urged MPs to «find the nerve» and ensure the requirement for a Parliamentary vote remained in the bill.

Climate change campaigners begged both Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband to make arrangements for the energy secretary to remain, because of the vital role he had been given by the Mexican hosts in leading discussions on the fate of the earlier Kyoto Protocol.

Imagine that at the next election the party leaders remained David Cameron for the Conservatives, Ed Miliband for Labour and Nick Clegg for the Liberal Democrats.

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.

Nick Clegg will not even have a chance of remaining his party's leader if he does not win the public's support for the coalition.

They point to his admission this week that even on the day before he eventually became Prime Minister, he was convinced Clegg had done a deal with Labour and he would remain Leader of the Opposition.

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».

He had been desperate to secure a coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats and despite Nick Clegg's statement that he could not remain as leader, felt he could remain in place for up to a year in order to secure the nation's economic recovery.

A senior Lib Dem source said the party believes leader Nick Clegg personally enjoys strong support among the remaining quarter of voters.»

30 % of people say that Clegg should remain as leader, compared to 40 % who think he should be replaced.