Sentences with phrase «conservative leadership election»

In his early political career he was a disciple of Enoch Powell, voting for him in the Conservative leadership election of 1965.

With nearly all the newspaper commissed opinion polls covering the Conservative leadership election, it's easy to forget that the Labour party conference was also dominated by questions about their party leadership — when exactly should Tony Blair step down, and should Gordon Brown replace him?

With Michael Howard's resignation letter due to land on Michael Spicer's desk on Friday the Conservative leadership election has now really begun, the country having endured a sort of phoney leadership election for the last five months.

Two years ago, he was losing the Conservative leadership election until he got on his feet and delivered a speech that changed his destiny.

The ballot papers for the Conservative leadership election will be sent out next Friday, and conventional wisdom is that most party members will return them almost straightaway.

The Conservative leadership election is (briefly!)

(It summed up that year's Conservative leadership election as «Redwood versus Deadwood».)

[10] Also in 2007, Cameron used the website to challenge Gordon Brown to a live televised political debate as he prepared to succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister, arguing the format had proved useful for discussing «serious policy issues» during the 2005 Conservative leadership election.

Perhaps Osborne should take some time out from his campaign for the Conservative leadership election in 2015 and focus on his day job?

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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.

If there were a Conservative leadership election tomorrow, it's very hard to predict who would win.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

It is expected that current Progressive Conservative MLA and former Premier Alison Redford could resign to allow Jim Prentice to run in a by - election shortly after he wins the PC leadership race in September.

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:

In America's Forbes Magazine this week, Alejandro Chafuen praised the leadership of the conservative policy think - tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across conservative policy think - tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across conservative politicians across the country.

Heath became the Conservative Party's first elected leader in 1965, a reign brought to an end by Margaret Thatcher in a tumultuous party leadership election in February 1975.

Conservatives betting their # 3s on his winning the Labour leadership could lose their party at the election.

The executive summary of the article concludes: «In preparing for a second election the Tory leadership needs to negotiate for the debates to take place earlier in the campaign; put more money into its ground war; build better relations with the whole of the party and Conservative movement; trust professional polling to test messages; and develop clearer decision - making structures.»

As noted, the party leadership, including George Osborne's office, has been quick to reaffirm that the policy will be in the election manifesto and enacted within the term of a future Conservative government.

In terms of the strategy behind calling the election it seems likely that the Conservative leadership has two main motivations.

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.

The poll will add to pressure on Mr Cameron who has been the subject of speculation about his leadership after the Conservatives suffered a bruising defeat to both the Liberal Democrats and Ukip in the Eastleigh by - election.

Under first past the post William Hague would have also lost the Conservative Party leadership election in 1997.

After Labour lost the Copeland by - election in February, despite defending a much larger majority over the Conservatives than in Barrow, Woodcock warned Labour was headed for a «historic and catastrophic» election defeat under Corbyn's leadership.

[443][444][445] In June 2016, Nick Clegg described him as «like Donald Trump with a thesaurus», [446] while fellow Conservative MP Kenneth Clarke described him as a «nicer Donald Trump» [447] and EU official Martin Selmayr described the potential election of Johnson and Trump to the leadership of their respective countries as a «horror scenario».

Two nights before the Conservative Party leadership election in November 1990, he visited then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.

In May 2010, many voters and MPs believed that the talks between the Conservative and Lib Dem leaderships and the coalition agreement was a triumph of real - time diplomacy and spontaneous statesmanship, but as D'Ancona shows clearly, it owed everything to the strategic preparations undertaken by Cameron and Clegg before the election.

With his help, she won the Conservative Party leadership, the 1979 general election and left Downing Street 11 years later no longer the Milk Snatcher, but the Iron Lady.

What other publication would think to link together the Conservative Party leadership election result and advances in maxillofacial surgery, and say so much as a result?

The party leadership should not forget that 79 % of Tory members want to see the Conservatives governing alone rather than in Coalition after the next general election.

With the results of the Scottish Conservative party leadership elections expected later today, David Cameron has paid tribute to outgoing leader Annabel Goldie, and her contributions to both Scotland and the party.

Before British politics got swept up in a whirlwind of Brexit, leadership challenges and a change of cabinet, one of the biggest stories was the allegations surrounding Conservative general election spending in 2015.

During the subsequent leadership election on 20 November, he polled 152 votes (40.9 %) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory.

He was a leading performer in the election and it was felt that had the Conservatives lost he might well have won the party leadership and been Leader of the Opposition, while if they won he would probably be given Trade and Industry, the job he had always wanted.

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.

They're against farmers too,» added a frustrated Rep. Bill FloresWilliam (Bill) Hose FloresGOP revolts multiply against retiring Ryan Republicans express doubts that Ryan can stay on as Speaker McCarthy says early leadership election to replace Ryan unlikely MORE (R - Texas), the former chairman of the other conservative caucus, the Republican Study Committee.

Some of the other Conservative «rebels» on Lords reform are more generally opposed to Cameron's leadership and the coalition, blaming their leader for failing to win a clear majority in 2010 and failing to pursue the more populist eurosceptic and anti-immigrant positions of his predecessors (who were actually much less successful in general election terms).

I don't think that the vast majority of the members of the Conservative party would like to rerun the leadership election.

There's generally two ways you can become Prime Minister in the UK through (i) winning a General Election (ii) winning a party leadership election (or in the pre-1965 Conservative party being «chosen») to become head of the largest party when a Prime Minister leaves - see this great infographElection (ii) winning a party leadership election (or in the pre-1965 Conservative party being «chosen») to become head of the largest party when a Prime Minister leaves - see this great infographelection (or in the pre-1965 Conservative party being «chosen») to become head of the largest party when a Prime Minister leaves - see this great infographic here.

We're advocating for Jacob Rees - Mogg to become leader of the Conservatives in a future leadership election.

In order to avoid voting on a controversial gun bill during an election year — a move that no doubt would have further enraged their conservative allies who were still smarting over passage of the SAFE Act - the Senate Republicans moved the bill from the Codes Committee to the Rules Committee, which is controlled with an iron fist by the leadership.

In a recent article for the Labour modernisers» house journal, Progress, the blogger and former Labour Party staffer Hopi Sen commented on the growing consensus within and without the Conservative Party that a Tory loss at the 2015 General Election would trigger the end of David Cameron's leadership.

«I renounced the seriously misjudged views I expressed during the leadership election shortly after David Cameron was elected, as I broadly approve the policy direction that the Conservatives are taking under his leadership.

Labour are down sharply, the Liberal Democrats are up, benefiting either from the publicity of their leadership election or through Labour's misfortune, the Conservative vote is down very slightly — the same as we saw with BPIX, rather than the sharp drop we saw with ICM.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- In a sign that the national Republican leadership is lining up behind Doug Hoffman, House GOP campaign Chairman Pete Sessions will endorse the Conservative Party candidate in the New York special congressional election, a senior Republican source tells CNN.

I had a short spell as editor of the Conservatives Against NewLabourisation blog but I renounced the seriously misjudged views I expressed during the leadership election shortly after David Cameron was elected, as I broadly approve the policy direction that the Conservatives are taking under his leadership.

On economic competence, Labour's lead is down to 8 points compared to 22 points at the general election and, perhaps surprisingly given the Conservative party is in the midst of a leadership campaign, while both parties are seen as divided, more people think Labour is divided than the Tories (70 % compared to 58 %).

[35][36] Seven parties (Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, UKIP, SNP, PC and Green) participated in the election leadership debates.