Sentences with phrase «whoever wins the leadership»

Whoever wins the leadership contest will be subject to sustained scrutiny and criticism from a Conservative press emboldened by their perceived successes in the general election.

Secondly we also need to recognise that whoever wins the leadership campaign needs to be someone able to draw the party back from bankruptcy, raise enough money to cover the party's existing debts, be able to hopefully convert the loans to donations, and to raise enough money to fight Lord Ashcroft's millions come the next election.

The shadow chancellor said that Owen Smith was a «friend» said that, as a «democrat» he would unite behind whoever wins the leadership contest, not look to split the party.

I don't think any of us wants to get involved in the underhand personality politics that the media sometimes invent; and as I've said, whoever wins the leadership contest I will back 100 % so there is no doubt about that.

Whoever wins the leadership election will have to outwardly talk up their chances in 2020, though in reality any proper revival will take much longer.

What he fails to acknowledge however, is that Labour will fail to win a majority whoever wins the leadership election.

Mr Betts said the party had to work together whoever wins the leadership contest, adding that Labour voters had told him on the doorstep they'd find it difficult to support such a divided party.

Ed Miliband has a sense of vision that appeals to members in Reading, but local people know that, whoever wins the leadership, Labour will be in there fighting hard on their side.»

Not exact matches

Whoever wins the race for the leadership will have just a day to get used to his new role before facing Tony Blair at the dispatch box during prime minister's questions on Wednesday.

The next parliament will be testing for whoever wins; that will be the real test of leadership character.

Whoever, wins the leadership, the Left must continue to press its case within the Labour Party on policy issues and the reform of the party structure.

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 agenda.

Compass will always work constructively, but without illusions, with whoever wins the Labour leadership, just as we will with the leaders of the Greens, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru.

The challenges are awesome, if not terrifying, for whoever wins the Conservative leadership.