Sentences with phrase «democrat leadership contender»

Liberal Democrat leadership contender Norman Lamb has attacked current UK drug laws as «pathetic» and called for a more liberal approach.

[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.

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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.

Building the kind of local base from which Ashdown himself and most of the current contenders for the leadership sprang is a slow and painstaking business, the practice of which some senior figures in the party are beginning to fear might undermine true Liberal Democrat values.

«LABOUR leadership contender Ed Miliband launched a withering attack on the Liberal Democrats during a trip to the Senedd yesterday, accusing them of selling out their principles to prop up a right - wing Tory Government.»

The highest profile Liberal Democrat with a vulnerable majority is former leadership contender Chris Huhne, sitting on just a 1.1 % majority in Eastleigh.