Sentences with phrase «conservative leadership candidate»

Wagner is the son of Claude Wagner, a Quebec lawyer, prosecutor, judge, cabinet minister, federal Conservative leadership candidate, senator, who gave him much inspiration.

The PQ in Quebec called on the provincial Liberal government to do such, as did at least one Conservative leadership candidate.

Within minutes, Michael Gove — former government minister, failed Conservative leadership candidate, an engineer of Brexit — had tweeted that her work was «modish crap» and an expression of «the tragic emptiness of now».

33 % is the percentage of more than a thousand Scottish voters who thought Scottish Conservative leadership candidate Murdo Fraser's plan to «develop a much more distinct Scottish identity with different policies from the party in the rest of the UK» would have a positive effect on the fortunes of the party in Scotland.

Conservative leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom has sensationally dropped out of the race to replace David Cameron, apparently clearing the way for Theresa May to become the UK's second female prime inister.

Ontario Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown addresses supporters in Toronto on Feb. 18.

CALGARY — Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney says he's confident of winning, but willing to move to Plan B if the party won't follow his plan to merge with the Wildrose.

Today, Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Mr. Prentice pledged to limit future Premiers to two - terms and MLAs to three - terms in office.

The article also features a photo of Calgary MLA and Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Ric McIver as the parade marshal for the group's 2013 event.

Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney probably levelled the silliest criticism of the carbon tax when he tweeted on January 4 a photo of Tesla charging station in Fort Macleod, which was empty.

O'Leary was spotted chatting with former MP and Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney at last weekend's Manning Centre Conference in Ottawa.

At one point, when federal Conservative leadership candidate Chris Alexander referred to Notley, the crowd began chanting: «Lock her up!

Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jim Prentice was a vocal supporter of a move to a single regulator during his time as a federal cabinet minister.

The Conservative leadership candidate is pledging to boost Canada's economic growth to 3 % if he were elected prime minister.

In 2008, Anita Bell took a job with O'Leary Funds Management, the investment firm co-founded by businessman, television star and now Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary.

The search engine giant's data suggests Conservative leadership candidates are having a hard time standing out in the crowded race

Via Postmedia News, Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership candidates are calling for another round of Senator - in - Waiting elections to happen concurrent with the next provincial election:

The validation of being targeted as a future prime minister by Labour and allure of being discussed as such in the media would be an intoxicating elixir for future Conservative leadership candidates.

Three Conservative leadership candidates remain in the fight to become the next prime minister, after Liam Fox was eliminated in the first round of voting by Tory MPs, and Stephen Crabb dropped out.

There is an ICM study in today's Guardian which, like the YouGov poll in last week's Spectator, tries to get round the fact that some of the Conservative leadership candidates are very unfamiliar to the public by giving respondents information about the candidates before asking questions.

Not exact matches

Candidate Maxime Bernier has championed a Chinese trade deal in the Conservative Party leadership race.

WASHINGTON — Many Democrats want breathing room for their candidates to break with both leadership and the base if they want to continue to win in moderate conservative districts across the US.

Alison Haley, who supports leadership candidate Lisa Raitt, holds a cutout of leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary before the Conservative leadership debate at the Manning Centre conference, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 in Ottawa.

Quick: Name all the candidates still standing in the Conservative leadership race.

What you didn't know about the potential candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada

Candidates for the leadership include former Fort McMurray - Athabasca Conservative MP Brian Jean, former Strathcona County mayor Linda Osinchuk and Cypress - Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes.

The single most discouraging thing to come out of the sudden leadership race for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario are new promises to roll back the sex education curriculum by candidates in this race.

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.

Back to the federal Conservative leadership, Fildebrandt has endorsed leadership candidate Maxime Bernier, the Quebec MP known for his libertarian views briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs before resigning in 2008 after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open, apparently at his former girlfriend's home.

He was widely expected to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada and only just recently began positioning himself as candidate to unite Alberta's conservative partisans underConservative Party of Canada and only just recently began positioning himself as candidate to unite Alberta's conservative partisans underconservative partisans under one banner.

This weekâ $ ™ s Angus Reid poll on the United Conservative Party, its approval levels, and those of the three leadership candidates didnâ $ ™ t tell us anything the half dozen or more polls released since...

Here is a preliminary list and map of MLAs who are supporting candidates in the 2011 Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership contest.

The week of intrigue & tumult in the affairs of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta began last Saturday with the decision by the party executive to suspend leadership candidate Jas...

We must do something to change it as soon as possible and I am doing my part by stepping up to the plate to run as a United Conservative Party candidate, under the strong leadership of Jason Kenney, to defeat the NDP government in 2019 and to put Alberta's economy back on track!

Richard Starke (Progressive Conservative — Vermilion - Lloydminster): The former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister and leadership candidate opted not to join his fellow PC MLAs when they joined the Wildrose - heavy UCP caucus in July 2017.

The two main candidates for the leadership of the party, Jason Kenney and Brian Jean, are openly appealing to the party's social conservative and rural base of supporters and have been extremely reluctant to discuss any social issues.

CALGARY — Days after a female candidate cited intolerable abuse as her reason for pulling out of the race for the leadership of the Alberta Conservatives, a male candidate says he has also had verbal threats aimed at him.

Now every candidate in the Conservative leadership contest is insisting that the UK must have access to the single market while also claiming that it must also no longer be obliged to accept free movement of labour.

DiCarlo launched his primary with the backing of 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate and businessman Carl Paladino, who has pledged to unseat incumbent Republicans and install a new, more conservative leadership team in the state Senate.

Which takes us back to the Conservatives» prospective leadership candidates.

The candidates for the Conservative leadership today attempted to woo business leaders at the CBI annual conference in London.

Would the Conservative leadership then deselect such candidates?

Davis had previously been a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2001 and 2005, coming fourth and second respectively.

To make such a promise at this stage can rightly be seen as anticipating Liam Fox's bid for leadership of the Conservative right — there are several more credible candidates - but it is also an appeal to Ukip, whose attitude to the EU he once described as «headbanging».

The Labour leadership candidate, who has built his campaign on his ability to attract votes from the Liberal Democrats, said he would «make sure he is punished at the ballot box» for joining government with the Conservatives.

[324] Johnson then endorsed Andrea Leadsom as a candidate for the Conservative leadership, but she dropped out of the race a week later.

In terms of proving progressive credentials to the Left my guess is that the Conservative leadership would also point to the party's acceptance of homosexual rights, efforts to promote women and ethnic minority candidates and the significant emphasis that the party has placed on civil libertarianism and combating climate change.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

On domestic policy, all the candidates are tilting leftwards and are at least attempting to be bold, even if at times they seem to be conducting a private conversation, addressing the party rather than the nation - as Tony Blair did so successfully when he ran for the leadership in 1994, or David Cameron did when he became leader of the Conservative Party in 2005.

Another GOP candidate, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, started a dash to the caucuses at Iowa State University in Ames, where stressed that he represents the next generation of conservative leadership.