Sentences with phrase «conservative party leadership election»

All campaign spending was fully declared to CCHQ as required under Conservative party leadership election rules.»

Cameron is credited with coining the phrase «There is such a thing as society, it's just not the same thing as the state» (seen as a rejoinder to Margaret Thatcher's famous comment that there is «no such thing» as society), [27] which has been said several times by David Cameron, including in his victory speech following his victory in the Conservative party leadership election in 2005.

Portillo was elected in the subsequent by - election and became Shadow Chancellor but his subsequent career stalled and he crashed out of the 2001 Conservative Party leadership election and returned to the backbenches.

[4] Among the candidates for the Conservative Party leadership election there were disagreements about when this should be: Theresa May said that the UK needed a clear negotiating position before triggering Article 50, and that she would not do so in 2016, while Andrea Leadsom said that she would trigger it as soon as possible.

Weeks after crashing out of the Conservative party leadership election, Michael Gove has been spotted sporting a new beard.

The next Conservative Party leadership election has not yet been formally launched.

In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition, the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom.

What other publication would think to link together the Conservative Party leadership election result and advances in maxillofacial surgery, and say so much as a result?

Two nights before the Conservative Party leadership election in November 1990, he visited then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.

Under first past the post William Hague would have also lost the Conservative Party leadership election in 1997.

With the results of the Scottish Conservative party leadership elections expected later today, David Cameron has paid tribute to outgoing leader Annabel Goldie, and her contributions to both Scotland and the party.

Not exact matches

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

Simcoe — Grey MP and former Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate the Hon. Dr. Kellie Leitch announced this week that she would not seek office in the 2019 election.

Heath became the Conservative Party's first elected leader in 1965, a reign brought to an end by Margaret Thatcher in a tumultuous party leadership election in February Party's first elected leader in 1965, a reign brought to an end by Margaret Thatcher in a tumultuous party leadership election in February party leadership election in February 1975.

Conservatives betting their # 3s on his winning the Labour leadership could lose their party at the election.

The executive summary of the article concludes: «In preparing for a second election the Tory leadership needs to negotiate for the debates to take place earlier in the campaign; put more money into its ground war; build better relations with the whole of the party and Conservative movement; trust professional polling to test messages; and develop clearer decision - making structures.»

As noted, the party leadership, including George Osborne's office, has been quick to reaffirm that the policy will be in the election manifesto and enacted within the term of a future Conservative government.

With his help, she won the Conservative Party leadership, the 1979 general election and left Downing Street 11 years later no longer the Milk Snatcher, but the Iron Lady.

The party leadership should not forget that 79 % of Tory members want to see the Conservatives governing alone rather than in Coalition after the next general election.

He was a leading performer in the election and it was felt that had the Conservatives lost he might well have won the party leadership and been Leader of the Opposition, while if they won he would probably be given Trade and Industry, the job he had always wanted.

In November 1990 following a contested leadership election, Margaret Thatcher resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and was succeeded as leader and Prime Minister by John Major.

I don't think that the vast majority of the members of the Conservative party would like to rerun the leadership election.

There's generally two ways you can become Prime Minister in the UK through (i) winning a General Election (ii) winning a party leadership election (or in the pre-1965 Conservative party being «chosen») to become head of the largest party when a Prime Minister leaves - see this great infographElection (ii) winning a party leadership election (or in the pre-1965 Conservative party being «chosen») to become head of the largest party when a Prime Minister leaves - see this great infographelection (or in the pre-1965 Conservative party being «chosen») to become head of the largest party when a Prime Minister leaves - see this great infographic here.

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In a recent article for the Labour modernisers» house journal, Progress, the blogger and former Labour Party staffer Hopi Sen commented on the growing consensus within and without the Conservative Party that a Tory loss at the 2015 General Election would trigger the end of David Cameron's leadership.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- In a sign that the national Republican leadership is lining up behind Doug Hoffman, House GOP campaign Chairman Pete Sessions will endorse the Conservative Party candidate in the New York special congressional election, a senior Republican source tells CNN.

On economic competence, Labour's lead is down to 8 points compared to 22 points at the general election and, perhaps surprisingly given the Conservative party is in the midst of a leadership campaign, while both parties are seen as divided, more people think Labour is divided than the Tories (70 % compared to 58 %).

[35][36] Seven parties (Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, UKIP, SNP, PC and Green) participated in the election leadership debates.

However, he was narrowly defeated by the Conservatives under the leadership of Winston Churchill, despite winning the most votes of any political party in any general election in British political history until the Conservative Party's fourth consecutive victory in party in any general election in British political history until the Conservative Party's fourth consecutive victory in Party's fourth consecutive victory in 1992.

Tomorrow's Times has a poll of Conservative party members about the forthcoming leadership election, showing Theresa May ahead of the supposed favourite, Boris Johnson.

[13] He decided to resign at that time in the expectation that the Conservative Party would make over 500 gains in local government elections, but in the belief that these would be achieved in spite of, rather than because of, Iain Duncan Smith's leadership.

She also said she disagreed with some of her fellow Conservative MPs that Mrs May would not be the party's leader at the next election, though refused to directly deny speculation she would run for the Tory party leadership.

After Britain voted to leave the EU, David Cameron resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister which caused the leadership election.

Former Cabinet minister Nicky Morgan said that May could not lead the Conservative Party into the next general election and called for a leadership election in the summer or in 2018 before the Brexit deal is finalised.

Later that year he was defeated in the leadership election to succeed Kinnock after the general election, which Labour lost to the Conservative Party for the fourth election in succession.

Of course, Smith supporters might well contend that current Labour supporters are the people who have stuck with the party under the Corbyn leadership, while current Conservative supporters include many people that Labour have to win over to achieve an election victory.

First, he fought and won a testing leadership election, offering his alternative vision for the future of the Party to a sophisticated electorate of Conservative MPs, taking on serious heavyweight alternatives in Michael Heseltine and Douglas Hurd.

In a move that surprised most political analysts, Gove withdrew his support for Johnson on 30 June 2016, hours before the deadline, without any previous notice to Johnson and announced his own candidacy in the Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2016.

The ballot papers for the Conservative leadership election will be sent out next Friday, and conventional wisdom is that most party members will return them almost straightaway.

Following two narrow defeats for the Conservatives at the polls, in February and October 1974, significant disquiet in the party had developed over the leadership of Edward Heath, who had lost three elections as leader.

During the campaign Lichfield was one of the councils visited by Conservative leader William Hague, on the 29 April, with the overall local elections seen by commentators as crucial to his leadership of the party.

With nearly all the newspaper commissed opinion polls covering the Conservative leadership election, it's easy to forget that the Labour party conference was also dominated by questions about their party leadership — when exactly should Tony Blair step down, and should Gordon Brown replace him?

Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.

Owen Paterson dodged questions last night on whether he's organising a challenge to the Conservative Party leadership in the run - up to next May's general election.

Given heightened prominence during the recent U.S. election, it has since become a growing concern in Europe and even Canada, where a campaign manager for a federal Conservative Party leadership candidate admitted recently to publishing a fake article online to rile the «left» about the supposed «billions» the Liberal Party was spending on international aid.