Sentences with phrase «about the party leadership»

Our latest Welsh Political Barometer poll included two sets of questions about party leadership.

With nearly all the newspaper commissed opinion polls covering the Conservative leadership election, it's easy to forget that the Labour party conference was also dominated by questions about their party leadership — when exactly should Tony Blair step down, and should Gordon Brown replace him?

Labour's blinkered decision to field a candidate in the face of these political realities — unlike the Greens, to their lasting credit — speaks volumes about the party leadership's inability to recognise the enormity of the crisis Britain faces today — the gravest since the Second World War.

Not exact matches

And how about this uplifting message from Jagmeet Singh after he won the leadership of the New Democratic Party on the weekend: «At a time when people are feeling so despondent, when there is a lack of hope, when it feels like things will only get worse before they get better, Canadians must stand united and champion a politics of courage to fight the politics of fear.»

As Alliance leader, he helped bring about the merger with the Progressive Conservative party, then swept to the leadership of the new party in March of this year.

He spoke about the need for leadership on this issue, and with him in the delegation were premiers, First Nations leaders and party leaders.

What you didn't know about the potential candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada

As for related reports that Carney indulged in private conversations with Liberals about seeking their party's leadership, back before his surprise announcement late last November that he would be leaving next spring to become governor of the Bank of England, his answer today indicated that those were one - sided discussions.

One of Mr. Jean's first acts as leader was to dismiss Calgary - South East candidate Bill Jarvis, whose comments about «brown people» embarrassed the party on the night of its leadership announcement.

He crafted a 25 - page memo to himself about how to retake Alberta, become leader of a dilapidated PC party, forge a merger with Wildrose, secure leadership of that new party and then keep marching onwards, right at Premier Rachel Notley.

And since the former Alberta Green Party leader became aware his own constituency association president was challenging him, he's already said some pretty harsh things about the Wildrose Party and its leadership.

About half a dozen others are considering a run for the federal party leadership.

What does that say about his leadership skills when the Congressmen and women in his own party voted 80 % to censure their leader.

They believe what they are told by the military junta about economic progress in Argentina or, alternatively, what they are told by the party leadership in Peking about conditions in China.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

Beyond that there were doubts about the leadership and capacity of the Scottish Nationalists and of the other Scottish political parties; and there was also a dislike of the idea of separating Scotland from the rest of the U.K.: As it was often put, «Why break up the most successful political union of nations in modern history?»

Dr Stone, who has a PhD in economics, is concerned Australia's last fruit manufacturer could close by the middle of 2014 with about 3000 job losses in the Goulburn Valley region if the party leadership rejects its request when it next meets in late January.

And we have a Prime Minister who seized the leadership of the Liberal Party by opposing the best method of trying to do something about it and who appoints advisers who believe the whole thing is a plot by the United Nations to undermine democracy.

Questions are being raised about the British National party (BNP) after a mysterious # 5,000 donation was not declared by the leadership.

Coming so fast on Boris» speech to the Tory party conference, when he raised eyebrows by telling an audience of right - wingers they ought to pull themselves together on immigration, Dave will be getting much more relaxed about the leadership threat from his floppy - haired Bullingdon rival.

It says a lot about a political party when they have pigs like Broidy and Steve Wynn — and blatant criminals like Cohen in key leadership roles as fundraisers.

There's certainly much more to be said about the economic repercussions of the Leave vote, which, alongside changes in party leadership is a genuine «leap in the dark,» but it is important to address directly and forcefully the question of popular anger that led to the success of Leave.

In the Duma, all deputies might soon be required to inform their party leadership about their intention to introduce a bill.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo met privately with the leadership of the Working Families Party about a month after Election Day, newly released public schedules show.

Liberal Democrats are worried about the national party's willingness to embrace centrist / moderate congressional candidates, who might, if they're elected, feel inclined to buck the party leadership and stray from its policy agenda.

«This is a campaign about, on one level, the leadership of the Labour party, but it's also a campaign about how we do politics in our society.

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

The Scottish Tories will then have a leadership contest that should be an opportunity for a wider debate about the party's position in Scotland.

Redwood is reminding the leadership of an issue about which he feels strongly, of the new power of the right of the Party, and of his own credentials for government.

BBC Parliament would be a good choice, if it wasn't for that annoying balance requirement (how about arguing the other parties can also have their leadership election debates televised, they just have to hold a leadership competition...)

The introduction of YouGov polling will give the Cameron leadership a new source of information about issues that voters are discussing, how they perceive the party and the most streetwise language that the party should be using.

At the beginning of this parliament the Labour party lost precious months conducting an overlong leadership campaign that allowed the coalition government to develop its big fat lie about the global recession, while we in Labour examined our collective navel.

Meanwhile the stock of Balls's somewhat reluctant future leadership rival Ed Miliband, who also warned Brown about McBride after last autumn's party conference, remains high.

Tell me about the discussions you've had with the Republican Party leadership and what they are telling you.

«We're hoping we can move the party into a better position; it's not about leadership, the party leadership is there... but more and more everyday people don't want to be republicans because of the mass - media looking at us as anti-everything.

Maybe this is his strategy — stay out of the last leadership race — it's likely to produce a dud, get the position of party chairman, make challenging powerful speeches and articles (he has identified the English democratic defecit, Toque, in his New Statesman article, which is about the best on the issue from any MP see: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/08/labour-party-english-england), make more of a public name for himself, then stand when the prospects of victory are real.

It was only a matter of days between Nigel Farage winning the referendum to him resigning; a matter of hours between the results being announced and David Cameron resigning; and a matter of minutes between Boris Johnson being about to launch his campaign for the Conservative leadership as the presumptive frontrunner to falling victim to rapidly shifting allegiances in his party.

This meant he resisted an invitation from Cameron, who had suggested the unions» support for his leadership was a «scandal he should do something about», to repeat last week's party funding offensive.

I don't know who to write about my fears, but I hope you can pass this on to Tea Party leadership.

David Cameron today warned his Conservative leadership rival of the «tone» he adopts in talking about anti-social behaviour, suggesting it was giving the party a bad name.

She accepts it is «probably true» that many people have struggled to get excited about the contest, but adds that she's «not sure anyone ever gets excited about political party leaderships».

«This is a prime minister who talks a lot about leadership but, because he and his party are wedded to outdated thinking and refuse to learn the lessons of the past, he has shown the Tories are unable to lead Britain to a better future.»

* House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered an ethics probe, and a senior Democratic aide told The Post that «the [party] leadership is obviously very furious about the way he handled this.

There is no doubt that the leadership - challenge - that - never - was has seriously undermined the authority of Ed Miliband but it also has raised questions about the credibility of the party as a whole.

From that, it would appear that this has been approved by the Quad, which raises some serious questions about the way the leadership is running the party.

She has been sceptical about him from the start, voting for Yvette Cooper in the leadership contest and wondering aloud how a perennial rebel such as Corbyn could enforce party discipline.

The leadership of the parties» themselves have often shown that they care little about what their own members want.

Having argued about it constantly since the EU referendum, the Labour Party now, finally, has a leadership contest underway.

The row over party funding and concerns about voter fraud are largely down to a «lack of courage, competence and leadership» by the Electoral Commission, a new report warns.

And given that Paul Ryan has just been elected as Speaker of the House promising to «take the fight to the Democrats», and Tea Party members are already angry at the GOP leadership about the budget deal, I think there's a significant chance that of a Shutdown threat.