Sentences with phrase «as party leader after»

Paddy Ashdown last night stunned Liberal Democrats when he announced that he will resign as party leader after this spring's crucial local and Euro - elections - just as he gets closer to the reins of power than any predecessor since Lloyd George.

When we last reported on who Conservative members want as Party leader after David Cameron, the Mayor of London was the clear leader.

The most recent state campaign finance reports show that former Suffolk Conservative chairman Edward Walsh received $ 16,550 in wages for April and May even though he was automatically removed as party leader after his March 31 conviction on federal corruption charges.

Mr Ashdown will step down as party leader after the June European elections, and retire as MP for Yeovil at the next general election, but his restless energy is unlikely to be satisfied solely by more time spent at his house in France and with his baby grandson.

Home secretary during 2010 election reveals plan to stand as party leader after Lib Dems» coalition condition for PM to resign

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

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.

Not exact matches

The euro hit a two - month low against the yen soon after FDP leader Christian Lindner said on Sunday that his party was withdrawing from the talks as the three would - be partners could not find common ground on key issues.

A decade ago, he was the Harper Conservative MP assigned to gleefully explain to reporters the party strategy behind the attack ads unfurled against Stéphane Dion weeks after federal Liberals crowned the former environment minister as leader.

Three weeks after being selected as leader of the governing Progressive Conservative Party, Premier Jim Prentice still does not have a seat in the Alberta Legislative Assembly.

Rod Sykes (Social Credit leader, 1980 to 1982): After serving two terms as the Mayor of Calgary (1969 - 1977), Mayor Sykes took over the leadership of the Social Credit Party.

Outspoken Wildrose Party MLA Derek Fildebrandt, who finds himself frequently at odds with leader Brian Jean, remains in his high - profile role as Official Opposition Finance & Treasury critic after a shuffle of critic portfolios in the Wildrose caucus this week.

Ross Harvey (NDP leader, 1994 to 1996): The former NDP Member of Parliament was selected as leader of the seatless party shortly after he was unseated in the 1993 federal election.

After vowing to stay on, Barnaby Joyce has announced he is resigning as leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister.

Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson is back as Northern Ireland's first minister, after claiming his wife's scandal did not pose a legal threat to him.

When this new alliance - the European Conservatives and Reformists - was created after the 2009 Euro - election with «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers» (as Nick Clegg later described them in a TV leaders debate) I objected and was expelled from the Conservative Party.

After Dugdale last week added her voice to the chorus of those calling for Jeremy Corbyn to step down as leader of the Labour Party, her own deputy led calls for him to stay.

The endorsement from the small but influential party was expected after Cuomo pulled out of the running late Friday as union leaders split over whom the party should endorse.

NYC's Democratic Party leaders, less than a week after helping ensure Johnson's election as speaker, are wielding sway over the appointment of powerful committee chairs.

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

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

After a decade as Conservative Party leader, David Cameron remains an enigma to those outside his tight - knit inner circle.

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

After being called the «most dangerous man in British politics», Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to use his first party conference in Brighton to show he is as normal and British as a cup of milky...

Conducted after the first Scottish leaders» debate on STV on Tuesday, but with much of the interviewing completed before the second instalment on BBC on Wednesday, the poll must have come as a bitter disappointment to the Labour party.

After the 2015 general election, in which Labour lost to the Conservative Party, Miliband resigned as leader.

After moderate success in that election, Schneiderman quarterbacked then - State Senator David Paterson's effort to unseat longtime Senate minority leader Marty Connor, seen as an important step in changing the culture of the Democratic Party in the Senate.

SWARM, Scot - Pep and National Ugly Mugs are calling for an apology after the leader of the Women's Equality Party, Sophie Walker, publicly dismissed a sex working woman as a «sex bot».

After the Labour Party was defeated at the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party; in September 2010, Miliband was elected to replace him.

If, as I expect, after the election Alan Johnson becomes Labour leader the Labour party will do so too.

Nixon arrived at the Albany Hilton as debate over the endorsement pinged back and forth in a basement ballroom, only entering to applause after the results of ballot — which she ultimately carried with 91.5 % of the vote — were confirmed and trumpeted by party leaders.

Mr Murphy stepped down as Scottish Labour leader last year after the SNP swept the electoral board taking 56 of 59 Westminster seats, including his East Renfrewshire constituency, and leaving the party with one MP in Scotland.

[32] On 28 June 2007, after she became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Brown was appointed Prime Minister, Harman joined Brown's Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal and Minister for Women and Equality, and was also given the title of Labour Party Chair.

There I was, standing on the green opposite Parliament, waiting to interview Angus Robertson after his re-election as the SNP's Westminster leader at a meeting of the party's 56 MPs in the Grand Committee Room off Westminster Hall.

If Jo Swinson beats the odds to hold her East Dunbartonshire seat, she would stand a very good chance — on her own merits, but also because the party is embarrassed by its lack of women MPs, and likely to be more so after the next election (though chances are the Farron or Lamb teams will try to sign her up to a «dream ticket» as deputy leader).

Conference will be extremely important as the new leader seeks to unite the party (and possibly the Miliband family) after the contest and start to build a new team to take on the coalition.

The new government's majority is also smaller than the outgoing coalition's and the party's leaders will face a growing challenge from rebellious backbenchers, just as John Major, elected in similar circumstances, did after 1992.

Following the election of Tony Blair as Labour leader in July 1994 after the death of his predecessor John Smith, Ashdown pursued co-operation between the two parties because he wanted to form a coalition government should the next general election end without any party having an overall majority.

After a barrage of bad press over his position on Trident and his flip - flop over the so - called «shoot - to - kill» policy for armed terrorists, you'd expect Jeremy Corbyn's stock to be sinking fast, even among the most starry eyed of the «Jez - we - can» supporters who voted him in as leader of the Labour party in September.

Rarely after losing a race can someone claim victory - but, I feel we did win last year, because conservative Republicans and Tea Party members sent a crystal clear message to GOP leaders in New York and Washington that choosing liberals to run as Republicans would not be taken lying down.

This morning, after the biggest Tory rebellion of the postwar era, there are two views of David Cameron: some Tories continue to regard him as a skilful and far - sighted leader, while others dismiss him as an arrogant little shit who has lost control of his own party and is not even a proper Conservative.

His withdrawal, after Mr. Cox amassed the support of a vast majority of the party's county leaders, is a setback for Mr. Giuliani as he considers entering next year's race for governor.

Shortly after the leader's speech, Diane Abbott was asked if peace had broken out in the Labour party, She replied: «I wouldn't go as far as to say that.»

George Osborne's hopes of replacing David Cameron as Conservative party leader took a setback today after a surprisingly poor performance filling in for David Cameron at prime minister's questions.

Reading, which had been a Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition, is to be run as a minority Labour administration after the Green party abstained in the leader vote.

Delivering the first leaders speech to a Conservative conference as prime minister since 1996, Mr Cameron was keen to remind his party that it had finally returned to Downing Street after so long in the electoral wilderness.

Speaking at a media conference after the national executive meeting, he said: «It is clear that a small minority who didn't accept my election as leader of the Scottish Labour Party just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the pParty just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the partyparty.

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».

Following the General Election, and after failing to persuade the Lib Dems to form a coalition government with Labour, Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the party on 11th May 2010.

Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones may need to form a coalition to remain as First Minister after the party lost one Assembly member - ending with 29 out of 60.