Sentences with phrase «conservative leadership challengers»
Cable is leading the fight against further cuts to the welfare budget, but the Treasury also faces opposition from potential Conservative leadership challengers including defence secretary Philip Hammond and environment secretary Owen Paterson.
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It is unclear how Heseltine voted in the first ballot of the 1975 Conservative leadership election, in which the challenger Margaret Thatcher defeated Heath.
Oddly, in spite of the overwhelmingly negative sentiments about the Democratic leadership in Washington and the GOP enrollment edge in NY - 23, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is doing well in the district, leading his GOP / Conservative challenger, Carl Paladino, 53 - 32.
They were eager to see the leadership post in the Senate go to a conservative upstater, and are now vowing to get their revenge by backing primary challengers against some of the more pragmatic GOP members in 2016.