Sentences with phrase «dem acting leader»

When we need to act we leaders are often our best resources, despite the vaunted reputation of others.

Enable Others to Act Leaders foster collaboration and build spirited teams.

Ukip's acting leader has revealed he wouldn't want to personally see any new mosques built in the UK as «Islam doesn't allow a Christian church or a Sikh temple to be built in its heartland, because it's in the Koran».

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Dugdale's deputy, Alex Rowley - formerly close to ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown - is now acting leader of the party and a front - runner to succeed her.

Upon defeat, Brown resigned as party leader and Harman became Acting Leader and Leader of the Opposition until Ed Miliband was elected leader.

He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party (as chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party) from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government.

She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she has served as the Acting Leader of the Labour Party twice and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.

Deputy Leader Harriet Harman took over as Acting Leader and became Leader of the Opposition.

[51] Campbell resigned on 15 October 2007, and Vince Cable became acting leader until a leadership election could be held.

By the very nature of the political leaders considered all are men, with the exception of Thatcher, and briefly for Labour, Harriet Harman, as acting leader.

Harriet Harman MP, acting leader of the UK Labour Party, said it would be for Scottish Labour to choose a new leader.

Sir Menzies, the Lib Dem acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said he would have «no problem» with still being leader at the age of 72.

But, as the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, called on the Acting Leader of the House, Mr. Mohammed Monguno, to move a motion for the debate, some members kicked against it.

Tributes to Lord McConnell were led by Harriet Harman, Labour's acting leader.

Last Monday at 6 pm, Cruddas and most of the other remaining 231 Labour MPs (26 fewer than a week before) crammed into committee room 14 in the House of Commons to hear Harriet Harman, the acting leader, attempt to lift the depleted, demoralised parliamentary party off the floor.

Earlier acting leader Vince Cable, transport spokeswoman Susan Kramer and elections co-ordinator Ed Davey had all said they would be not running.

Harriet Harman became the Leader of the Opposition and acting Leader of the Labour Party following the resignation of Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010, pending a leadership election [89] subsequently won by Ed Miliband.

Jane Dodds, Montgomeryshire Candidate and child protection social worker, takes over the role from Acting Leader Kirsty Williams immediately.

Labour MP Diane Abbott says acting leader Harriet Harman «miscalculated» opposition outside Westminster to the government's Welfare Bill.

In 1976, when Thorpe was forced to resign because of a scandal, Grimond stepped in as acting leader until the election of a replacement, David Steel.

UKIP could have spent the summer with an acting leader in the form of deputy chairman Suzanne Evans but the risk of losing three months of media coverage was far too high.

In the days after the Budget, unease grew as Harriet Harman, the party's acting leader, and Chris Leslie, the shadow chancellor, signalled that Labour would not oppose Conservative policies such as the 1 per cent cap on public - sector pay rises for four years and the reduced benefit cap of # 20,000 (# 23,000 in London).

The acting leader was described by one Blairite MP as having been «mugged by reality».

Acting leader Vince Cable said it was «essential» to establish the facts and for anyone that has broken the law to face the consequences of their actions.

Vince Cable, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, told Channel 4 News the appointment «makes the whole resignation look absolutely cynical».

Sources close to the acting leader stress that it was drawn up by the 2014 Collins Review into party reform and agreed at a special conference last year.

Instead, lining up in the centre for Labour were acting leader Harriet Harman and new shadow chancellor Chris Leslie.

In his speech to the hacks, Burnham put Labour's acting leader in the same bracket as George Osborne on welfare.

In a short speech, he confirmed he was standing down and said he would recommend Suzanne Evans to be acting leader ahead of a leadership election in the autumn.

But they would also like to see a bit of leadership at the same time from the acting leader and the various wannabes.

Mr Gray is on 6/4, while Cathy Jamieson, acting leader, has odds of 11/4.

«We have got to look deep in our souls, but we shouldn't open our veins,» said Harriet Harman, the acting leader of the Labour party, as she implored her colleagues to stop bloodletting after the party's loss and the resignation of Ed Miliband.

Sir Menzies, the Lib Dem acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, will appear on The World at One on Thursday, followed by party president Mr Hughes on Friday.

Sir Menzies, the Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman and acting leader, is writing to Mr Blair asking him to urge the US either to put the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay on trial or release them.

Ahead of the Manchester hustings, Sir Menzies, the party's acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said: «I want to win power, so that we can give power away.

One key backer of the acting leader fumes: «It was a cheap shot and what makes it all so absurd is Rachel Reeves has been at the heart of this, and she'd be his Shadow Chancellor.»

And there will be at least three new women to join Yvette Cooper and (less certainly) Tessa Jowell and Rosie Winterton (recently promoted because Harriet Harman is acting Leader).

Yesterday I wrote to Harriet Harman to urge her to use her position as Acting Leader in association with the party's national officers to secure a reduction of the qualifying threshold for candidates to be allowed onto the ballot paper.

Labour will not contest the Government's latest round of welfare cuts, including the lower household benefits cap and new limits on child tax credits, the party's acting leader has said.

For this, the acting leader has been denounced as a crypto - Tory, mocked and briefed against.

Harriet Harman, Labour's acting leader, has also promised to hold Cameron to account over what he has promised on childcare, noting the cost for the average family has soared by # 1,500 a year since 2010.

Acting leader between the resignation of Charles Kennedy on 7 January 2006 and his own election as leader on 2 March 2006.

Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman has announced that the party's policy will be to vote in favour of its own amendment to the government's measures, before abstaining on the main vote should the amendment fail.

Acting leader between the resignation of Menzies Campbell on 15 October 2007 and the election of a new leader on 18 December 2007.

Frist came the defeat in South Thanet, the resignation that never quite was, and the unresignation that meant Evans was not going to be acting leader after all.

[45] Jackie Baillie took over as acting leader until the conclusion of the leadership election.

Those LibDems who think Vince Cable should be their leader might have their enthusiasm cooled by the revelation that just 8 % think their acting leader is cut out for the job.

Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman is struggling to squash claims that the party is «purging» supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, the surprise frontrunner in its leadership contest.

Under normal circumstances, Deputy Leader Kezia Dugdale would become acting leader, but former Leader Iain Gray was appointed Acting Leader whilst a leadership and a deputy leadership election are being simultaneously held on account of Dugdale resigning as Deputy Leader to stand for Leader.