Sentences with phrase «liberal leadership contest»

Even Dr. Sherman was a member of the federal Liberals before he was elected as a Progressive Conservative MLA in 2008 (he supported Gerard Kennedy in the 2006 federal Liberal leadership contest).

But such a scenario, which seems unrealistic on its face, is at best a long way off given the near - certainty of another divisive Liberal leadership contest.

Below you'll find Google Trends charts for the 100 days before the campaign's last month for both the Conservative and Liberal leadership contests, along with explanations for some of the biggest spikes in search volume during that time.

Not exact matches

The Liberal contest is not as exciting as the Progressive Conservative's leadership contest, as flashy as the Wildrose (now minus the Alliance), or intriguing as the new Alberta Party, but it is important enough not to ignore.

You might be forgiven if you have not paid much attention to the Alberta Liberal Party leadership contest, which is currently under way.

Regardless if these registered supporters actually vote in their leadership contest, their names are now entered into a database that will be useful for the Liberals in the next provincial election.

She was re-elected as MLA in 1997 and in 1998 she placed third in the Liberal Party's leadership contest, behind former Tory cabinet minister Nancy MacBeth and Lethbridge MLA Ken Nicol.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, has joined these calls, as have the interim Labour Leader Harriet Harman and all the candidates in the Labour leadership contest.

One interesting issue in this scenario is whether Labour would seek to hasten a departure by Nick Clegg (as the Liberal Democrats did for Gordon Brown in 2010) and whether the context of being in government with Labour would affect the outcome of any Lib Dem leadership contest (for which Tim Farron is currently hotly tipped).

24th September 2016, The Independent: Labour leadership: Liberal Democrats report increase in new members as Jeremy Corbyn win contest

This rather shameful and funny Sun headline really came to symbolise the shambolic Liberal Democrat leadership contest, in which Mark Oaten's career was obliterated and Simon Hughes outed as bisexual.

Notably, he received fewer votes in this latest leadership contest than his rival, Chris Huhne, polled in the last Liberal Democrat election in March 2006.

Charles Kennedy's Liberal Democrat leadership campaign gathered more momentum yesterday after Don Foster, the only other candidate in favour of the party's continued cooperation with Labour, stood down from the contest.

The Liberal Democrat leadership contest has been scathingly labelled «The battle of the Seven Dwarfs».

NEW YORK — Bernie Sanders, the Vermont U.S. senator who stoked liberal passions nationwide as a Democratic candidate in last year's presidential contest, stepped into New York politics for a day on Monday, casting first - term Mayor Bill de Blasio as the antidote to the «un-American» leadership of President Trump.

· Nick Clegg MP is the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman and a candidate in the party leadership contest

In a farewell open letter in the Guardian after 11 years at the Liberal Democrat helm, Mr Ashdown tells whoever wins the coming leadership contest that, while «socialism is dead and conservatism is dying», they will have to take risks to ensure the triumph of the new liberal, international Liberal Democrat helm, Mr Ashdown tells whoever wins the coming leadership contest that, while «socialism is dead and conservatism is dying», they will have to take risks to ensure the triumph of the new liberal, international liberal, international agenda.

Former Liberal Senator and powerbroker Nick Minchin, an outspoken climate science denier, was key to Abbott gaining enough support to oust leader Malcolm Turnbull during a bitter leadership contest in 2009.