Sentences with phrase «conservative as the party leader»

A poll conducted earlier this year by Abacus Data found respondents identified the Conservative as the party leader who was best suited to running a large company.

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The resignation chatter was swiftly denied by the PM's communications staff, but with an election coming up in 2015, we're watching the Conservatives» internal maneuvering as the party contemplates a fourth election with Harper as leader.

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.

A decade ago, he was the Harper Conservative MP assigned to gleefully explain to reporters the party strategy behind the attack ads unfurled against Stéphane Dion weeks after federal Liberals crowned the former environment minister as leader.

Texas and South Carolina are home to leading opponents of the bank, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party favorite and Republican presidential candidate; Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who, as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has defied Speaker John A. Boehner and refused to bring any bank bill to a vote in his panel; and Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader among conservatives in the House.

As Alliance leader, he helped bring about the merger with the Progressive Conservative party, then swept to the leadership of the new party in March of this year.

Join The Globe and Mail on Thursday, September 17, as it hosts Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak, right, announces next to his wife Deb Hutton that he will be stepping down as party leader after being defeated his election night campaign head quarters in Grimsby, Ont., on June 12, 2014.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

Perhaps not where anyone would expect him to be during the last weekend of the campaign, Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman was scheduled to spend today in the traditionally conservative voting Red Deer, where the Liberals nabbed prominent local historian Michael Dawe as their candidate in Red Deer - North.

Three weeks after being selected as leader of the governing Progressive Conservative Party, Premier Jim Prentice still does not have a seat in the Alberta Legislative Assembly.

If his first week of transitioning into the Premier's Office is going smoothly, the same might not be the case for his first week as leader of the 43 - year governing Progressive Conservative Party.

Upon his election as United Conservative Party leader, Jason Kenney expressed his thanks to Alberta Can't Wait for being an early proponent of conservative unity in the province and echoed the feelings of many Albertans stating that the province was «one step closer to renewing the Alberta advanConservative Party leader, Jason Kenney expressed his thanks to Alberta Can't Wait for being an early proponent of conservative unity in the province and echoed the feelings of many Albertans stating that the province was «one step closer to renewing the Alberta advanconservative unity in the province and echoed the feelings of many Albertans stating that the province was «one step closer to renewing the Alberta advantage.»

Clark has served as party leader since 2013 and became the party's first elected MLA in 2015 when he unseated Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Gordon Dirks in Calgary - Elbow.

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

«I would also respect my mandate as the leader of the Progressive Conservative party to carry on, to build a platform for unity in the future.

It sounds rather evangelical, though Avakian is, as you may have guessed, a leftist, and in fact the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party» which seems, if we understand Revolution, the broadsheet on whose back page that quote appears, to think Mao too conservative.

Five candidates remain in contention to replace David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party and each one of them has previously spoken openly about their Christian faith.

Five candidates remain in contention to replace David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party and each one of them has previously spoken... More

Christian and Conservative politician David Burrowes has failed to be re-elected as the MP for Enfield Southgate during an election which has disastrously backfired on his party's leader.

In other words, evangelical leaders were willing to speak about the issue when it was unpopular to many conservatives (this is another reason why Christians should not be seen as a wing of any political party; they must speak prophetically as needed on issues).

A federal judge denied former Suffolk County Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh's motion for a new trial, and ordered him to report to prison in October to begin serving a two - year sentence for illegally pocketing over $ 200,000 in salary and overtime in his job as a lieutenant in the county sheriff's department.

Iain Duncan Smith I resigned from the Conservative Party when he became leader because someone rightly characterised by John Major as a bastard didn't strike me as a worthy leader of the pParty when he became leader because someone rightly characterised by John Major as a bastard didn't strike me as a worthy leader of the partyparty.

Boris Johnson's performance against Ed Miliband on the Andrew Marr sofa could go down in history as the moment he threw away his best chance of becoming Conservative party leader and prime minister.

The state Democratic Party responded to the Republicans» new «more of the same» ad campaign with this little Web video, which reminds GOP and Conservative leaders how they used to feel about Carl Paladino — «lo those many moons ago before they embraced him as their gubernatorial standard - bearer.

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.

Ukip would be open to do a deal with the Conservative party if it elected Michael Gove as leader, Nigel Farage said today.

The leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron commented on the recent publication of «risqué» photos of his wife Samantha Cameron, who struck a variety of poses as a favour to a friend.

And we won't just find Republican leaders and the party apparatus online: individual conservative activists can learn from Obama's online organizing as fast as their liberal counterparts (Ron Paul's supporters certainly did their part to lead the way).

Theresa May today took aim at Boris Johnson as she set out her stall as the unity candidate to become the next leader of the Conservative party.

She is now tipped as a Chancellor - in - waiting and a future Conservative Party leader.

With polls suggesting the Tories could challenge Labour as the main opposition party in Scotland, our fifth most - read item this week was an interview with the Scottish Conservative Leader, Ruth Davidson.

Is determined to push Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos right of center, in order to make the Republican Party as irrelevant as the Conservative Party; or at the very least unable to support Cuomo's Progressive legislation agenda.

Prior to Theresa May's anointment as Conservative leader — when the Tory party was undergoing its own post-referendum civil war and the inept, inexperienced, uber right - wing Andrea Leadsom was looking like a plausible contender — Labour was still polling seven points behind.

Who David Cameron chooses to appoint as Britain's next European commissioner is going to be critical for the UK's standing on the continent — and for his position as leader of the Conservative party.

Although Walsh is the leader of a minor party dwarfed in size by the Republican and Democratic parties, he is able to exert influence that goes far beyond the 22,401 voters enrolled as Conservatives in Suffolk.

After a decade as Conservative Party leader, David Cameron remains an enigma to those outside his tight - knit inner circle.

His tenure as Labour leader was characterised by a leftward shift in his party's policies, and by opposition to the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government's cuts to the public sector.

Some party leaders believe his increasingly conservative positions as he approached a presidential campaign turned off Massachusetts» more - moderate brand of Republicans.

Following Labour's defeat by the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, Miliband announced his resignation as leader on 8 May 2015.

After the 2015 general election, in which Labour lost to the Conservative Party, Miliband resigned as leader.

When Michael Howard was elected Conservative Party leader in November 2003, Lidington became Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, but was not included as a member of the Shadow Cabinet.

The resignation brings to an end another bruising period for the Conservative party, which saw them associated with a class snobbery Cameron had spent much of his time as leader trying to dispel.

Perhaps, as the union leaders become even more gung - ho, the Labour Party will never come back to election - winning strength, say Conservative thinkers.

But his rival, who is currently leading the race to succeed Michael Howard as Conservative leader, insisted he would not tolerate Lord Archer taking the party whip in the Lords.

In an outcome that stunned political observers in Wales, the former Conservative MP deposed the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as he got the nod by four votes to three.

By comparison, when Iain Duncan Smith faced a no confidence vote as Conservative party leader, he lost by 90 votes to 75.

Sadly for the Conservatives, not one of her successors as party leader (notably the current holder) can match her political skills, strengths and service.

The Conservatives will portray themselves as the party for the working families of Britain with new policies designed to revitalise social mobility, the party's leader has announced.

There was widespread sniggering early in David Cameron's tenure as leader of the party when candidates started appearing on local election ballot papers tagged as David Cameron's Conservatives.