Sentences with phrase «libdem leader»

But maybe, just maybe, this shortage is not the result of sexism and a flawed selection process but because (as the LibDem leader Nick Clegg so candidly revealed this week) the female candidates are still not up to it.

The LibDem leader's «holier than thou» act needs to be exposed by newspapers and bloggers - but NOT by the Tory leadership.

The Whips» Office has already launched a campaign to get Labour MPs to back former LibDem leader Sir Menzies Campbell to become the new Speaker.

The campaigners behind the Bill savagely attacked Mr Lamb and said the decision would «haunt» the LibDem leader Nick Clegg who had «handed down a death sentence to cancer patients».

Acting LibDem leader Vince Cable became a superstar in the Westminster Village because of his From Stalin to Mr Bean jibe.

The LibDem leader knows that he can't rule out a coalition with Labour or he'll risk losing a large number of his left - leaning voters.

In his last Commons appearance as acting LibDem leader, Vince Cable said that the Prime Minister had been «incompetent» for not organising his diary so that he could attend the Lisbon signing, or «discourteous» for not having tried or «duplicitous» for trying to have a halfway house of signing when noone else was there.

Not exact matches

13eastie This piece was simply flagging up quite a significant policy suggestion by the LibDem deputy leader, which though the South London Press had splashed it in print had not been mentioned at all online in the media / blogs / twitter.

The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.

The LibDems aren't going to lose «a bit of ground» to the Tories, they're going to lose 30 - 40 seats to them (i.e. about half the Parliamentary Party), not least because they have their most ineffective leader since Clement Davis.

Ot this great amount of liberal Or Respect voters who'll return labour too power, in fact the Libdem supporters now voting Labour would have turned had Balls or David M been leader,

A former leader of the Conservative MEPs, he opposed David Cameron's split from the mainstream EPP Group in 2009 and sat as a LibDem until 2014.

Labour of course has plenty of both numbers & splits: 30 times as many MPs as The Libdems of whom a tiny fraction back The New Leader & his Politics.

So the LibDems are negotiating with a Labour team that does not include its possible next leader!!

On the ground, we've always thought that it's easier to take Labour votes than Tory - gone - LibDem ones - and that's been true - at last we have a leader who wants to do something about that!

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

But even if labour keeps those voters who are current, y thinking of voting Libdem or Tory and managed to get a leader who would get back the blue labour vote, that's 35 % of the vote.

As a Conservative, I find a «crumb of comfort» in knowing that the former leader of the LibDems has started funding our target seats campaigns.

Lord Oakeshott resigns from Libdems saying party is «heading for disaster» with Nick Clegg as leader

Indeed a LibDem Councillor in Eastleigh told me in 2004 that Mr Huhne had told them that he would be the next leader after Kennedy - before he had even entered Parliament.

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.

He tweeted: «I've resigned as LibDems Shadow Home Secretary over concerns about the leader's views on various issues that were highlighted during GE17.»

[4] Wardle supported Nigel Farage (who later became the Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party), but Barker won the safe seat securing over 10,500 votes ahead of LibDem Stephen Hardy.

Will the LibDems simply sit quietly by and allow the Conservatives to change leader and PM, with all the possible consequences for the content of the Coalition Agreement?

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 in David Cameron, Europe, LibDem - Tory relations, Next Tory leader, Parliamentary Conservative Party, Team Cameron, The Coalition, The Conservative Right Permalink

Welsh Tory leader Nick Bourne (who blogs here) has long hoped to put his Tory group into a grand coalition but that hope only became feasible when Mike German AM pulled out of talks to put his LibDem group into coalition with Rhodri Morgan's Welsh Labour party.

Incidentally the Odds now show that the Parties will face leadership elections in the following order: UKIP, LibDem, SNP, Labour, Tory so the consensus now seems to be May will go after Brexit with a new Leader in place by the 2019 Tory Conference.

According to Tim Montgomerie on Conservative Home, the poll also shows that «24 % told GfK NOP that they would prefer Charles Kennedy to return as leader and slightly more (7 %) preferred LibDem Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg to the embattled Sir Menzies (6 %)», though I'm not sure what sort of question or structure this was in response to.

The LibDems remain subdued under their new leader.

BenM, I dnt know what these Blairites, in2010 you think predicted a easy Tory victory his time are, OK many people suggested in the media, it would take 2 election for the Tories too win in 2010, I recall many people saying the cuts would be so savage that whoever won, would be out of power for years after wards, Dan Hodges has been predicting a Tory win, but he backed David Miliband for leader, so he didn't start saying this till 2012 ′ and the bonus of Ulip (allegedly) spitting the right wing vote and ex Libdems coming back to us, would have made a labour win, all the easier,