Sentences with phrase «conservative leadership needs»

To bolster its meagre majority, the Conservative leadership needs a policy platform to win over the two groups which it lost most ground to Labour at the general election: young people and urban voters.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives bought radio ads last year accusing NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who backed cap and trade during his leadership bid, of a «carbon tax» plan that «would make everything you need cost more.»
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.
There is widespread agreement on this need by all sectors of black leadership, but neither black liberals nor the new black conservatives adequately speak to this need.
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.
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 well as organisational renewal, we need political renewal: a strong clear signal that under your leadership the Conservative party will not become the soulless, technocratic managerial defenders of a divisive austerity Brexit, but the champions of a bold new generation unleashing a spirit of enterprise, energy and ambition.»
But in practice the difficulty for both the Tory and Lib Dem leadership of maintaining a deal to govern together means that the Conservatives will need to woo the Liberal Democrats in a way that Labour would not need to do were the arithmetic the other way round.
And Bronx Conservative leader Bill Newmark also touted Malpass's fiscal credentials, saying he will «provide the kind of principled leadership that is so desperately needed in Washington.»
Grayling, who was Theresa May's leadership campaign chief, said the Conservatives needed to «step up a gear».
«However, I am sorry to say it has become clear beyond doubt to me that you and your team are not providing the strong, forward looking and competent leadership we need to provide an alternative government to these increasingly right wing Conservatives that are doing such damage to this country and to my constituency.
Purchase spoke of his despair at the pragmatic rightwing views which he believed the Labour leadership had stolen from the Conservatives and which failed to meet the needs of those he called «our people».
[4] Among the candidates for the Conservative Party leadership election there were disagreements about when this should be: Theresa May said that the UK needed a clear negotiating position before triggering Article 50, and that she would not do so in 2016, while Andrea Leadsom said that she would trigger it as soon as possible.
Mr Clarke, the shadow business secretary, has recently returned to the Conservative front bench, but his views on whether the party needs to offer incentives for couples to marry is at odds with the leadership.
«Public blame the Conservatives for breaking Coalition Agreement Main The Tory leadership needs to accept that boundary reform is dead and become much bolder as a result»
As a way around that, MPs will now get to select a shortlist of leadership candidates for the membership to vote on, along similar lines to the system operated by the Conservative Party - candidates will need to be nominated by at least 15 % of Labour MPs.
That said, David Cameron specifically promised that he would take Conservative MEPs out of the EPP as part of his leadership campaign - he needs to follow through on this pledge.
All we need is for a conservative policymaker to step up and take a leadership role to implement this no - brainer win - win of a global warming solution.
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