Sentences with phrase «as opposition leader»

On several issues he called the shots, a position that is almost impossible to secure as opposition leader.

These are the moments you have to make the most of as opposition leader.

We have people who don't even have a proper leadership vocabulary as opposition leaders.

This was unusual behaviour for a sitting premier who doesn't want to be perceived as auditioning for a role as opposition leader.

But it's one thing to make grim threats as an opposition leader; it's another to do so as premier, which may explain the jumbled and evasive way Notley wound up declaring that she has a giant, red button on her desk and she's not afraid to use it.

Armenia's political crisis deepened Wednesday as opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan called for protesters to block key transport links after lawmakers rejected his bid to become prime minister.

Patrick Diamond assesses the Labour leader's performance as an opposition leader according to five criteria, and concludes the risk of a Labour schism between «principles» and «power» — of the kind that rivened the party in the early 1980s — is considerable.

He's convincing at the monthly press conferences he used to give as opposition leader, successful in the Commons and engaging on the stump - but this is the third conference speech in a row that has been drab and insubstantial.

Mr Miliband has made a confident start as Opposition leader, while Alan Johnson has confounded sceptics with a sure - footed debut as shadow Chancellor.

It's the morning of July 21 1994 and after three months of speculation about whether John Smith will be fit to continue as Labour Party leader after his heart attack in May, he announces he will indeed resume as opposition leader and take his party into the next election.

When he appeared on the Jonathon Ross programme as opposition leader, he looked visibly uncomfortable when being asked whether he fantasised over Margaret Thatcher.

Faced with a troublesome parliamentary Conservative party and a human vacuum as an opposition leader, May would be sensible to pick the human vacuum.

Three in ten are satisfied with his performance as party leader, while 56 % are dissatisfied — a higher dissatisfaction rating than Cameron, Michael Howard, or Iain Duncan Smith ever faced as opposition leaders.

«Jeremy Corbyn has failed as opposition leader and failed to stand up for Britain's place in Europe.

As an opposition leader and especially as Prime Minister, Harper has shown a remarkable ability to shed and replace chiefs of staff, communications directors, and other key advisors.

The previous winter Harold Wilson had just beaten the volatile George Brown and Jim Callaghan (Wilson's successor in 1976) in the contest to succeed Hugh Gaitskell — who had died suddenly — as opposition leader, soon to be PM.

The key to understanding Cameron's foreign policy judgement came in 2008, when he flew, as opposition leader, to Tblisi and stood alongside Georgian prime minister Lado Gurgenidze to demand an end to Russian hostile action.

Why did Hague, as opposition leader, agree that the deal satisfied the undertaking Ashcroft had made to him when the spirit of the undertaking was clearly that Ashcroft would become a full UK taxpayer?