Sentences with phrase «conservative leadership contenders»

First, since we've been discussing how few people actually know who the Conservative leadership contenders are, there was a question on recognition.

You can't be a perennial Conservative leadership contender for a decade without having had quite a few polling questions asked about you, so what do the polls say about Ken Clarke?

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 07: British Home Secretary and Conservative leadership contender Theresa May waves outside the Houses of Parliament on July 7, 2016 in London, England.

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Rempel is now being talked about as a contender for the Conservative leadership, a prospect she addressed in a series of sardonic tweets last year, including, «All your DMs with DO IT aren't helping.

And the politics of a bitter conservative establishment festered as aspiring leadership contenders jockeyed for power.

Some Conservatives are beginning to look back to 2005 when more established Tory leadership contenders Ken Clarke, Liam Fox and David Davis all lost out to the fresh - faced Cameron.

Rifkind — the «you» in question — is, like Clarke, a former Conservative cabinet minister and leadership contender.

The Huhne speech will confirm to parliament observers that relations between the former leadership contender and his Conservative colleagues were irreparably damaged by the AV referendum, when he broke ranks to publicly criticise Tory ministers for their strategy.

Labour leadership contender Owen Smith delivers a speech at the Open University in Milton Keynes, where he promised to reverse Conservative cuts set to leave millions of low paid workers thousands of pounds a year worse off

But Mr Blaney does have some influential friends; the foundation's parliamentary counsel contains the former Conservative party chairman, Cecil Parkinson, Tory MP Gerald Howarth and shadow deputy prime minister, and likely future leadership contender, David Davis.

While other potential 2012 presidential contenders largely stayed quiet on the divisive congressional race that has exposed fault lines in the party, Palin delivered a slap in the face to Republican Party leadership in Washington when she offered a full - throated endorsement of third - party conservative Doug Hoffman over the GOP's anointed candidate, Dede Scozzafava.