Sentences with phrase «dem leadership contender»

Back home, Liberal party members were elated when he was recently touted as a possible leadership contender (a notion quickly quashed by the central bank).

The Liberal leadership contender explains herself to the Canadian Press.

The Peterborough Examiner - Federal Liberal leadership contender Alex Burton searches for support in smaller centres B.C. lawyer Alex Burton stopped in Peterborough on Monday on the 10th day of a 40 - day cross-country tour in his bid to become the new... Read More

The Orangeville Banner - Liberal leadership contender stops in Orangeville Alex Burton is looking to preach outside of the usual choir targeted during the race for leader of the Federal Liberal Party... Read More

In this episode, we welcomed Martha Hall Findlay, former MP and leadership contender for the federal Liberals, to discuss the stories and the problems they expose.

The long - gun registry split the NDP leadership contenders.

And the politics of a bitter conservative establishment festered as aspiring leadership contenders jockeyed for power.

Following his election as party leader, Stelmach announced a new cabinet that included all of the leadership contenders who had supported him in the second round of voting.

Federal Liberal leadership contender Martha Hall Findlay says she has encountered many people who have been inundated by robocalls asking for donations to the provincial leadership campaigns.

More quietly, Alberta backbencher Heather Sweet led a successful bid to quash a convention resolution to ban tankers off British Columbia's north coast, promoted by the riding association of MP Nathan Cullen, a past NDP leadership contender and a western power broker.

Labour leadership contenders Ed Balls and Ed Miliband have spoken out against the Iraq war, but only one of them has defended the conflict outright.

Much of the party's leftwing moaned that the likely leadership contenders were members of the coalition.

After being accused of «fascism» by politicians Ukip leadership contender Suzanne Evans day really goes downhill as Harry Potter author mocks her.

Davidson glided smoothly in to her expert skewering of the Tory leadership contender who was accused of exaggerating her CV and who tried to claim that reporting what she had said was gutter journalism.

The Labour leadership contenders are spending more on their campaigns than the Green Party spent nationally in the general election.

As polls closed, Andy Burnham, one of the 2015 leadership contenders, appeared to declare that he would be standing for the post of Manchester mayor in 2017.

The format of the televised debates is quite challenging, as the leadership contenders have to pitch both to the party and to a fragmented electorate.

She simply is no longer a credible leadership contender.

Former Labour leadership contender Owen Smith - who was sacked from Mr Corbyn's frontbench after breaking from party policy to call for a second referendum - seized on the apparent slip of the tongue by Ms Thornberry, saying it was the latest in a string of inconsistencies on Brexit from Labour frontbenchers.

Yvette Cooper positioned herself as the only leadership contender prepared to stand up for the last Labour government's financial management.

John Gummer and Michael Jack have sponsored the Bill, as well as several non-Conservatives including former Energy Minister John Battle and LibDem leadership contender Chris Huhne.

Scottish National party and WEP activists are also involved in the new movement, which has been endorsed by Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, and the Norwich South MP and possible Labour leadership contender, Clive Lewis.

[68] Shortly after the 2015 General Election, Liberal Democrat leadership contender Norman Lamb conceded that Clegg's broken pledge on university tuition had cost the party dear.

Not so for Simon Hughes, another leadership contender, who was outed by the Sun just four days later.

Failed leadership contender Liz Kendall lashed out at «new party members who have been in our party for a couple of months and think they can tell us what to do».

Asked about which possible Labour leadership contenders people felt warmest towards, Greenberg said David Miliband was the favourite, followed by his brother, Ed, the likely candidate from the left of the party Jon Cruddas, and then the former schools secretary Ed Balls.

Cruddas will take the leadership contenders up on their offer, saying: «I want to see a more democratic party with an actively involved membership, a conference that is strengthened and its agenda setting opened up.

Andy Burnham is the Labour leadership contender most likely to improve the party's chances at the next general election, according to a survey of 2,000 people for The Independent by ORB.

A committee of Labour's ruling body set a cap of # 156,000 for each leadership contender — equivalent to # 1 for each party member registered at the time the contest began.

But if Lisbon can not be renegotiated, it would certainly be possible to have another referendum on Europe, as David Davis, the former Tory leadership contender, proposed in this newspaper yesterday.

She also made a calculated attempt to seize and redefine a term that's being argued about by Labour leadership contenders, although amongst them «aspiration» is often code for a return to the kind of politics seen under Tony Blair.

Ed Miliband, the Labour leadership contender, said: «These are very serious allegations.

Most leadership contenders have agreed with a suggestion mooted by David Miliband that the currently appointed position should be elected by party members as part of a package of reforms to make the party more sensitive to its activists.

Owners of homes worth # 2million or more should pay a «mansion tax» to help the poor, Labour leadership contender David Miliband said yesterday.

Labour leadership contender Ed Balls has warned his party that it risked falling into David Cameron's «trap» by focusing its attack on the Liberal Democrats.

Whilst the existence of the document itself is cause for much cheer, it appears as if the leadership contenders are coming to the wider debate about the future of the Labour party with their direction already established.

Nex, which used to be known as Icap and is one of the world's biggest money - broking firms, is attempting to head off a rebellion at next week's annual general meeting by announcing its chairman will personally pay back the # 25,000 used to fund the candidates, including one who ran against Lib Dem leadership contender Sir Vince Cable.

In this issue, at the midway stage of the contest, we interview all five leadership contenders.

The former Labour leadership contender only revealed his relationship with the 31 - year - old just a couple of days before he announced his candidacy.

You can't be a perennial Conservative leadership contender for a decade without having had quite a few polling questions asked about you, so what do the polls say about Ken Clarke?

Mr Rees - Mogg is more than a possible leadership contender: he and his claques are in contention for the soul...

Tom Clark speaks to leadership contender Norman Lamb about his bid for the leadership and of course his own memories of Charles Kennedy.

Another leadership contender, Andy Burnham, accused Mandelson of self - indulgence yesterday.And former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott admitted that faction - fighting may have hurt the party the general election.

Damian Hinds, tipped as a future Tory leadership contender, says his review of tuition fees will look at wholesale changes

Other leadership contenders, inluding front runner Charles Kennedy, have doubts about Ashdown's policy of ever - greater co-operation with the Labour Party.

Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has praised Welsh Labour's record and calls for closer links with the UK party.

Noticeably absent from the list of signatories of the Trade Union Freedom Bill are Labour leadership contenders Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper.

Ed Miliband, one of the five Labour leadership contenders, today urged the party to «move on» from the «factionalism and psychodramas» of the party's past.

Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn praises Welsh Labour's record and calls for closer links with the UK party.

The top six is rounded off by previous leadership contenders Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham (59 % and 54 % respectively).