Sentences with phrase «since winning the leadership election»

Since winning the leadership election in a landslide vote, Corbyn has, however, accepted an invitation to become a member of the Queen's privy council.

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As more than one candidate ran for the party leadership, it was the first contested UKIP leadership election since 2010; Farage won the 2014 leadership election unopposed.

These two facts suggest that a new factor has been added to those which have destabilised the Party over the past 25 years or so (namely, the failure to win an election since 1992, divisions over the EU, and leadership election rules that encourage secrecy and cowardice: no wonder these have taken place at a rate of one every three years or so).

It is unclear whether Mr Corbyn would win a second leadership election in a one - on - one race, since his grip on the members appears to be waning.

A defiant Mr McDonnell added that since Mr Corbyn won the leadership election they had been expecting a «coup».

Labour spent the first six months since the election on the leadership election (i.e. doing nothing politically useful); and has spent the last six months providing a too - subtle — that is, a bit muddled — message on cuts and the economy, on which it has so far lost the argument (let's hope that it's genuinely still possible to win it, long shot though that may seem).

Ever since he won a special election to replace Eric Massa last year, Reed has been central to leadership's dealings with the freshmen.

Although the Labour leadership claimed last week's local and regional elections showed «steady progress» since the general election, the research suggests Mr Corbyn still has a long way to go to win over key groups of voters.