Sentences with phrase «landslide defeat»

It has led to many rebellions, numerous defections, the downfall of Thatcher, and partly accounts for the Conservatives» landslide defeat in 1997.

This constituency is held by Iain Gray, the MSP who led Labour to landslide defeat at the last 2011 Scottish parliament election.

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Osborne lauded Hague to the rooftop for the disastrous general election campaign of 2001, when the former leader took his party to a second landslide defeat.

The Johnson landslide defeated many conservative Republican congressmen, giving him a majority that could overcome the conservative coalition.

If the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) were a candidate in this election year, its track record would invite landslide defeat.

The 1997 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered in the British Conservative Party when John Major resigned on 2 May 1997, following his party's landslide defeat at the 1997 general election, which ended 18 years of Conservative Government of the United Kingdom.

This excellent new book seeks to explain why it has taken the Conservative Party so long to rekindle the support of voters since the landslide defeat of 1997.

None of this changes the fact that Labour are still 15 - 20 points behind in the polls and facing a landslide defeat.

Prentis suggested Labor's landslide defeat was the result of appearing «a disunited party», warning at a press conference in Bournemouth: «It will happen to the Labour party in this country if it does not get its act together.»

The previous record was in 1945 when the Conservatives went down to their landslide defeat at the hands of their wartime coalition partners, the Labour Party.

After a landslide defeat in the election on 1 May 1997, John Major resigned on the morning of 2 May.

Sir John, so ridiculed when in office, led the Conservatives to a landslide defeat after 18 years in power.

Cahill has strong support from the Alliance for Quality Education and former Metro - North chairman Joe Lhota, last year's Republican mayoral candidate in New York City, who was handed a landslide defeat by Bill de Blasio.

Accusing some colleagues, also unnamed, of trying to «make political capital out of demonising minorities», she charged others with indulging themselves «in petty feuding or sniping instead of getting behind a leader who is doing an enormous amount to change a party which has suffered two landslide defeats».

One of only a handful of Labour frontbenchers to retain his seat in the landslide defeat of 1931, he became the party's Deputy Leader.

Five weeks ago the Channel 4 News Facing the Crunch poll had Gordon Brown facing a landslide defeat and the debate was whether to ditch him as Labour leader.

He suffered a landslide defeat against a Blair who was always himself, whether in private or public.

In a landslide defeat at the 2015 UK general election, Scottish Labour was reduced to a single Member of Parliament, losing 40 of its 41 seats to the SNP, the first time the party had not won the largest number of seats in Scotland since 1959.

Labour's poll ratings in Scotland did not reverse, and the party suffered a landslide defeat in the general election in May 2015, losing 40 of their 41 seats to the SNP.

«It is on record that, the party has a 13 - man committee led by Professor Kwesi Botchwey, with a mandate to determine and report same, as to the reasons for the landslide defeat of the party in the last elections.

Earlier this week he addressed the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee and talked about his landslide defeat in 2006, when he lost his Senate seat to Bob Casey.

Decapitations: In 1997 around a third of the Conservative cabinet lost their seats — even if Labour go down to a landslide defeat there should be no similar slaughter in their cabinet ranks.