Sentences with phrase «pelosi as party leader»

A poll conducted earlier this year by Abacus Data found respondents identified the Conservative as the party leader who was best suited to running a large company.

It might also be one last attempt to distance herself from the antisemitism and racism associated with her party and her father, Jean - Marie Le Pen — an image she has worked tirelessly to erase since taking over from him as party leader in 2011.

The tape, in which Trump boasted about sexually assaulting women, sent the Republican Party into a panic as party leaders and donors pressured the Republican National Committee to force the former reality - TV star off the ticket.

Perversely, this perceived insincerity has hurt the anti-Brexit camp more than it has Boris Johnson, the Tory ex-Mayor of London, who has shamelessly changed his tune on the E.U. to make Brexit the instrument by which he can oust Cameron as party leader and take over as Prime Minister.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

As candidates door - knock in Alberta, they don't talk economy in abstract «R - word» terms as often as party leaders in more economically robust (or at least consistent) parts of Canada.

As his first anniversary as party leader approaches, Scheer still awaits the test that all rookie opposition leaders face, Chantal Hébert writes.

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak, right, announces next to his wife Deb Hutton that he will be stepping down as party leader after being defeated his election night campaign head quarters in Grimsby, Ont., on June 12, 2014.

Clark was a former Liberal, having worked as a staffer at the Legislature during Laurence Decore «s time as party leader (Clark's father, Gilbert Clark, was 823 votes away from ending Ralph Klein «s political career when the former mayor first ran for provincial office in Calgary - Elbow in 1989).

Clark has served as party leader since 2013 and became the party's first elected MLA in 2015 when he unseated Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Gordon Dirks in Calgary - Elbow.

John, I like your explanation of Jim Prentice's departure but I think Jerrymacgp is right, resigning as party leader made perfect sense.

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.

O'Leary say his chief goal is to find a way to bring down the current Liberal government, and he feels he can use his considerable social media and television presence to do that as party leader or by supporting another candidate.

He began serving with the University of Georgia College Republicans and rose up to serve as a party leader at the state level before his involvement in the Bush - Cheney campaigns.

It's a real shame because even if he was not to make it as party leader, his presence would really shake up the debate and make the others think, if not answer things they may otherwise not be so comfortable in adderessing.

Green MP Caroline Lucas has admitted that party leader Natalie Bennett could have performed better in the general election campaign - and has left the door ajar to returning as party leader.

The week ended with a call by Matthew Oakeshott, that most troublesome of Lib Dem peers, for Nick Clegg to resign as party leader.

That crucial gap was from 4 October 1956 to 3 February 1957, when Anthony Eden resigned and Macmillan succeeded him as party leader and prime minister.

The email comes as party leaders from across the state and the political spectrum question or outright oppose ending the law, which allows members of one political party a waiver to run on another ballot line.

«There's got to be a Chinese Wall between my work here (as a party leader) and my work for the AG.»

John Swinney had been jettisoned as party leader following a horrific set of European election results, plunging the party into chaos.

Not only is the former Tooting MP Labour's most senior elected figure, he also appears to be the Labour politician most likely to be popular as a party leader.

There is no reason why she should not remain as party leader, though the situation is exceptional.

After his rise as party leader and then Italy's youngest ever Prime Minister, Renzi has become a favourite of the international press.

Farage has previously admitted that his future as party leader depends on him winning the seat.

Upon defeat, Brown resigned as party leader and Harman became Acting Leader and Leader of the Opposition until Ed Miliband was elected leader.

His main rivals, Tory Craig Mackinlay and Labour's Will Scobie (right), say he barely visited the constituency before Christmas and accuse him of prioritising his roles as party leader and MEP.

The Republican tax bill hurtling through Congress is increasingly tilting the United States tax code to benefit wealthy Americans, as party leaders race to shore up wavering lawmakers who are requesting more help for high - earning business owners.

These doctors have managed to persuade the old political parties that all - women shortlists should be employed in parliamentary selections and the Labour party that they have to have a woman either as party leader or deputy.

Sadly for the Conservatives, not one of her successors as party leader (notably the current holder) can match her political skills, strengths and service.

A bullish Jeremy Corbyn insisted that he can guide Labour to general election victory as he launched his campaign for re-election as party leader.

Even Clegg's most fiercely loyal friends recognise that, if the Lib Dems suffer significant losses and return to opposition, his tenure as party leader will soon end.

He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.

Here's how it could work... Clegg announces that he will resign as party leader but continue as Deputy Prime Minister: «I have a duty, on behalf of my party and my country, to see through the job that I signed up to,» he would nobly say.

Rannoch joined UKIP in 2007 and served as party leader for a year.

[23] Sir Vince Cable succeeded Tim Farron as party leader following the general election.

Whether Osborne is now officially the Tory backbenchers» favourite to replace David Cameron as party leader, as the report suggests, I don't know — but his position is certainly far less vulnerable than it was last summer, when I wrote about it for the Times (#).

[159] The Liberal Democrat leader Jim Wallace became Deputy First Minister, a role he continued until his retirement as party leader in 2005.

At the 2015 general election, the party was reduced to eight MPs, and Clegg resigned as party leader after eight years in the role.

Chuka Umunna is among the big name Labour MPs who have left Brighton before Jeremy Corbyn makes his first conference speech as party leader.

recent sexual harassment allegations, the scarcity of women or ethnic minority MPs in the party's front and back benches and the failed attempts to oust Nick Clegg as party leader are hardly stories that will improve the image of an already unpopular party.

As a party leader, Nigel's job is to talk up favourable polls — like those recently commissioned from Survation by his party treasurer, Alan Bown, which put UKIP in a strong position in various marginal seats — or dismiss bad ones, or advise us to ignore them altogether, as circumstances dictate.

I am not going to withdraw it because he is not living up to expectation as a party leader.»

Brown has not even been elected as party leader, let alone allowed anyone outside Labour to have any input into his tenure at No. 10.

But it is the country he needs to persuade if he is ever to return to a Labour conference as party leader and prime minister.»

On the contrary they were given by me, nominated by me as party leader, for party service in the way that other party leaders are entitled to do.

In contrast, he thinks historians have been too generous to Clement Attlee who was less than adequate as a party leader but a great achiever as prime minister.

Speaking in public for the first time since his resignation as party leader a day after the general election, in which the Lib Dems lost 48 of their 56 MPs, Clegg said his successor deserved the party's «undivided unity and support».

The Tories, having acknowledged defeat would themselves face either a leadership election (if Cameron resigns as party leader as well as PM) or a leadership crisis (if he tries to hang on).

Two years ago the party elected Caroline Lucas as their party leader in England and Wales and with her came mainstream policies on jobs and the economy.