Sentences with phrase «defeated leadership candidate»

CCHQ is briefing that it was in December that George Osborne first suggested a frontbench role for the former Chancellor and thrice - defeated leadership candidate.

Leicester West MP and defeated leadership candidate Liz Kendall has shared a tweet from «Comrade Gintz» calling for a «final solution to purge Blairite scum» from the party.

Defeated leadership candidate David Miliband has told the Labour party to stop worrying about his future - without revealing his intentions.

Not exact matches

It is apparently for that reason that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's allies in the party leadership, including party president John Walsh and Harper's chief of staff, Ray Novak, are not inviting defeated candidates for the first post-election caucus meeting, apparently in mid-November: They want to contain a rising tide of anger against Harper and his campaign.

Bruce McAllister (Chestermere - Rockyview) Defeated senior cabinet minister and former PC leadership candidate Ted Morton.

We must do something to change it as soon as possible and I am doing my part by stepping up to the plate to run as a United Conservative Party candidate, under the strong leadership of Jason Kenney, to defeat the NDP government in 2019 and to put Alberta's economy back on track!

In a situation of perceived absence of leadership, anger and even revolt against present political elites may become popular fashion; political outsiders may seek to exploit disaffections as a political strategy to defeat established candidates.

[80] The three other defeated candidates for the Labour leadership all stood in the election, though Diane Abbott failed to win enough votes to gain a place.

Among others he appointed Alan Johnson as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Yvette Cooper was chosen as Shadow Foreign Secretary, and both defeated Labour leadership candidates Ed Balls and Andy Burnham were given senior roles, becoming Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Education Secretary respectively.

But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

«However since the night of our defeat last week I have been subject to the added level of pressure that comes with being a leadership candidate.

Adam Parkhomenko, the co-founder of «Ready for Hillary» and a lifelong supporter of the defeated Democratic presidential candidate, is being endorsed by three former chairmen of the Democratic National Committee for a role in the party's leadership.

According to a piece published in Le Figaro on 22 November 2017, Najat Vallaud - Belkacem, former Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research and defeated candidate in the 2017 legislative elections, sought to lead the Socialist Party (PS) list in the 2019 European elections as a condition of her becoming a candidate for the party leadership, in addition to asking that the post of general secretary be paid in the event that she obtained the post.

Several Labour MPs - including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and former minister Diane Abbott - voted against the bill, despite the party's official stance being to abstain after an amendment tabled by acting Labour leader Harriet Harman was defeated.

Party leadership's preferred council candidate Adrienne Carey defeated Don Franchino 310 — 179 votes.

It is very easy to blame the three leadership candidates Corbyn defeated, but this misses the point.

The four declared candidates for the Labour leadership race have been taking questions from the public as they try to build support among activists in the wake of the party's election defeat.

Defeated Labour leadership candidate had planned to expound on his vision for party and building a good society

was blamed for the defeats of two Democratic candidates in races last week in Georgia and South Carolina with some in her party even suggesting a change in leadership is needed if they have any hope of winning control of the House in the 2018 mid-term elections.

And what serious leadership candidate would willingly step forward at this point to carry the can for election defeat when a new start would be available after Gordon Brown has lost the election?

A leadership candidate who describes the manifesto which took the party to its worst defeat in a generation as one of its best should give anyone who truly wants a Labour PM on the steps of Downing Street in May 2020 pause.

Gordon Brown's dismissal of Gillian Duffy as a «bigot» was one of the defining moments of the election campaign, and Labour leadership candidates are now queuing up to blame their electoral defeat on the party's failure to address immigration on the doorstep.