Sentences with phrase «conservative leadership contests»

In the last 20 years, since John Major's election in 1990, the trend has been even more pronounced - seven elections out of nine, including all four Conservative leadership contests.

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

After weeks of coyness, MLA Sandra Jansen, 53 (Calgary - North West) finally announced her candidacy for the Progressive Conservative leadership contest.

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.

In her speech during the Conservative leadership contest in the summer May also sounded even more radical than Labour's 2015 manifesto when she pledged: «We're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but employees as well.»

At the time of the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, David Davis was Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department.

Blogs do best when they cover subjects whose minutiae are ignored by the mainstream media, as was true on the right during the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, and more recently the coverage of selections for individual parliamentary seats.

She became PM without facing a full Conservative leadership contest after her key rivals from what had been the Leave side pulled out.

Andrea Leadsom tells Times journalist Rachel Sylvester that being a mother gives her the edge over Theresa May, her rival in the race in the Conservative leadership contest.

It follows another day of dramatic developments in the political world, when Andrea Leadsom unexpectedly quit the two - way Conservative leadership contest, saying she did not have the support to build «a strong and stable government».

During the subsequent Conservative leadership contest, he publicly backed David Davis over David Cameron, Kenneth Clarke and Liam Fox.

Were Boris to re-enter the Commons in 2015 and David Cameron to lose, the election the former would not be able to enter an immediate Conservative leadership contest without being seen to break his word to serve a full - term as Mayor.

Mrs Thatcher eventually pulled out of the Conservative leadership contest which followed and resigned as PM later that month.

Michael Gove is eliminated from the Conservative leadership contest in the second round of voting.

Not exact matches

Below you'll find Google Trends charts for the 100 days before the campaign's last month for both the Conservative and Liberal leadership contests, along with explanations for some of the biggest spikes in search volume during that time.

The person who leads it will need to win an open leadership contest, just as Stephen Harper did in 2004 for the new federal Conservative party.

It is pennies compared to the $ 1.8 million raised by Jim Prentice during the Progressive Conservative leadership race, but in the world of the Alberta NDP leadership contest, the money is flowing.

The Liberal contest is not as exciting as the Progressive Conservative's leadership contest, as flashy as the Wildrose (now minus the Alliance), or intriguing as the new Alberta Party, but it is important enough not to ignore.

Even Dr. Sherman was a member of the federal Liberals before he was elected as a Progressive Conservative MLA in 2008 (he supported Gerard Kennedy in the 2006 federal Liberal leadership contest).

The winner of the Conservative contest therefore needs to be not only a brilliant negotiator, but also a genius that can deal with the gradual realisation of some in the «Out» camp that the deal available from the EU will be nowhere near as dreamlike as the one floated in the leadership contest.

After a bitter referendum campaign which featured much blue - on - blue infighting, the Conservatives now face a leadership contest to choose the next Prime Minister.

Last week she received 199 nominations in the second ballot of Tory MPs for the Conservative leadership race, and secured the top job after her rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the contest.

Whoever wins the leadership contest will be subject to sustained scrutiny and criticism from a Conservative press emboldened by their perceived successes in the general election.

For many Conservative MPs and cabinet ministers, that might be better than an uncertain leadership contest that could hand the prize to someone detested by at least one side of the Brexit divide.

The first is that the Conservatives don't even end up as the largest party and Cameron is summarily ejected from Downing Street, in which case he would immediately resign, leaving the way clear for Boris to fight a leadership contest against, in all probability, George Osborne and Theresa May and possibly one or two other, darker horses — odds on Chris Grayling anyone?

Did Boris Johnson today make one of the first moves, however prematurely, to prepare for the next Conservative Party leadership contest?

Whilst David Cameron was prime minister, Osborne was widely viewed as a potential future leader of the Conservatives were Cameron to stand down and trigger a leadership contest, despite being seen as a relatively unpopular figure with the general public.

His Campaign Manager in the leadership contest was Conservative MP and Davis's deputy as Shadow Home Secretary, Andrew Mitchell (who in 2010 became Secretary of State for International Development in Prime Minister David Cameron's Cabinet).

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.

Gimson's piece states that Gove «foresees a day when Hinds might contest the Conservative Party leadership against Gavin Williamson, the defence secretary.

«I wanted the Conservative party to have a debate about the way forward before we got into a leadership contest.

The shadow chancellor says a wrong choice in the Labour leadership contest could lead to 10 years of Conservative government

With the Conservatives having recently prevaricated on the agenda, and with Labour poised to win most of the metro - mayor contests next year, it was a golden opportunity for the party leadership to reclaim the mantle of torch - bearers for decentralisation — an opportunity Corbyn has failed to seize, but which May might grasp next week.

After 1997 the Conservatives elected the wrong leader twice when decent alternatives were available in leadership contests.

The political commentariat comprehensively failed to predict either the Conservative victory in the May general election or the emergence of Jeremy Corbyn as the eventual victor of the Labour leadership contest.

In fact during the leadership contest, many told me that they would vote conservative if Ken was leader.

The hustings came as Conservative MPs who support all three remaining leadership candidates are urging the party to speed up the contest so a new prime minister is chosen by the end of the month.

JUNE 30, 2016: Announces he will not run in the Conservative Party leadership contest.

Theresa May is taking a commanding lead in the Tory leadership contest, with the home secretary thought to be able to count on the backing of six out of 10 Conservative MPs.

The Conservative chairman has claimed that the Labour leadership contest had revealed a party too deeply split to act as a functioning party.

In contrast, there was much excitement when Labour staged a leadership contest in 1994 just as John Major's Conservative government was falling apart.

Bob and Roberta Smith has tweeted his support for the rather unlikely prospect of a second referendum (as if the first one weren't tiresome enough); Wolfgang Tillmans has been quick to warn American conservatives to hold their noses in this autumn's Trump / Clinton contest in light of the supposedly populist victory, and Anish Kapoor has accused outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron of a «failure of leadership».