Sentences with phrase «becoming party leader»

Prior to becoming party leader, «Ming» - as he is universally known - regularly put the government on the spot over the war on Iraq after Charles Kennedy controversially committed the Lib Dems to opposing it.

Jon is right: the root and branch reconsideration of Party policy set in train by Ed Miliband shortly after becoming Party leader has turned out to be a sham.

While George Osborne harbours hopes of becoming party leader and prime minister in the next parliament, it's doubtful that he wishes to fight the general election on a similarly joint ticket.

Mr Huhne, an economics spokesman, said the «recognition factor is lower» for any MP before becoming party leader.

On Friday Labour's Ed Miliband published a list of the 43 meetings and dinners he has had with trade union bosses and individual donors since becoming party leader.

Butler's slim chances of becoming party leader were finished by the fallout.

It's all different now; gone is a lifetime of service and a gradual rise through the party ranks before becoming party leader.

Hoping to emulate her father's huge upset in the 2002 presidential elections, in which he progressed to the second round of voting before losing to Jacques Chirac, Le Pen started campaigning for the 2012 presidential elections almost as soon as she became party leader in 2011.

Trudeau became party leader in 2013 and immediately began the Obamanization of the Liberals: reaching out to the young and minorities, and utilizing social media.

He became party leader in March 2004 following the resignation of then - leader Ken Nicol.

The former business secretary might be a popular figure among the public — he is the first Strictly Come Dancing contestant to become a party leader — but not every activist is pleased by his sudden, uncontested resurrection.

Whether Boris Johnson or Theresa May, or another as yet unknown candidate, becomes party leader, they will have an uphill battle to unite the Conservatives and fight off calls for another general election.

I voted for you to become our party leader.

The stitching up of Parliamentary candidate selections has happened on an industrial scale since Blair became Party Leader.

When Alan Johnson told reporters he was too old to become party leader many scratched their heads and wondered when youth, rather than experience and knowledge, had become a necessary qualification for leadership.

The proposals are particularly interesting, given that David Miliband had planned to reword Clause One if he became party leader.

Today's globalisation is more about the rise of Asia than was the case when Blair became party leader.

Neil Kinnock's first decision when he became party leader six months later was to reverse party policy.

After husband, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, failed in his bid to become party leader, Ms Cooper is now the bookies» favourite.

Remained parliamentary leader after Jacques Parizeau became party leader from 19 March 1988 until Parizeau won a seat on 25 September 1989.

Asked about Sir Menzies» performance so far on the GMTV programme, he said: «There may be a nervousness - it just goes to show, doesn't it, that when you suddenly become party leader you may have had lots of political experience but actually it's a fairly daunting job and people are real human beings, and they're not clones.

Sir Menzies became party leader at the beginning of March, and despite years as the party's foreign affairs spokesman, has failed to land a punch on Mr Blair at prime minister's questions since then.

«It's worth remembering that he might have become party leader in 1975, if he had stood,» a former Minister said to me.

We've had our lukewarm [on CAGW] PM politically assassinated last week in a slow - burning coup that started the moment he became party leader in opposition to the Copenhagen conference in 2009 --- and accelerated the moment he was elected in September 2013 in a landslide.

Not exact matches

Then this March, he became his party's nominee to become the President of Indonesia (that same month, FORTUNE ranked him No. 37 on its 2014 list of 50 World's Greatest Leaders.)

Rowley is the current deputy leader of the Scottish Labour party, and as such will become the interim leader in Dugdale's absence.

And he became a source of division and turmoil within the Republican Party, as GOP leaders navigated the challenge of supporting their party's nominee while condemning some of his most controversial rhetoric and behaParty, as GOP leaders navigated the challenge of supporting their party's nominee while condemning some of his most controversial rhetoric and behaparty's nominee while condemning some of his most controversial rhetoric and behavior.

The opposition Tories and Wildrose aren't named in this 2017 budget speech either — and nor is Jason Kenney, the man who will become Tory leader Saturday and try to fuse two parties into one conservative monolith.

A federal Conservative, he got involved in the BC Liberal party after Campbell became leader.

Known for: Having waged a war against corrupt officials and won official recognition as the party's «core,» Xi became China's most dominant leader in decades in his first term.

YEREVAN, Armenia — After weeks of raucous protests, the streets of the Armenian capital suddenly calmed Thursday and the ruling party confirmed it would back an opposition leader to become prime minister next week.

Kinder Morgan's 1,000 - kilometre expansion project has become a national rallying cry for environmentalists, sparked protests from Indigenous communities, caused a trade war between two provinces and brought about the arrest of a federal party leader.

If the NDP's John Horgan becomes the next premier in a few weeks, he and his new bestie, Green party leader Andrew Weaver, promise to do everything they can to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Since I became leader of the Liberal Party last spring, we have been talking about solutions to grow our economy and give Canadians a real and fair chance to succeed — infrastructure investment, access to post-secondary education, strengthening our trade relationships and innovation.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

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 now, with Mr. Prentice as leader of the PC Party, it has become difficult to point out significant policy differences between the two parties.

Greg Clark (Calgary - Elbow) has been the little engine that could ever since he became leader of the rumpish Alberta Party three years ago.

Clark has served as party leader since 2013 and became the party's first elected MLA in 2015 when he unseated Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Gordon Dirks in Calgary - Elbow.

He was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1993 and became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1995.

He was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1998, and became leader of the New Democratic Party in 2002.

In 1998, he became leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and was elected to the Quebec Assemblée Nationale.

Edmonton - Gold Bar Liberal MLA Bettie Hewes became the first woman to lead a major political party when she served as interim leader of the Official Opposition in 1994.

The future of the PC Party could be determined by the candidates who step forward to become its next leader and, for the time being, the next premier of Alberta.

Leader Greg Clark became the first MLA elected under the Alberta Party banner when he unseated PC Education Minister Gordon Dirks in Calgary - Elbow in in May 2015.

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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.

Narendra Modi, leader of India's divisive Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will almost certainly become the country's next prime minister.

The Northern League, once a marginal party that called for the independence of the northern Padania region, became mainstream by appealing to national and religious sentiments under its new leader, Matteo Salvini.

The political manipulation of Christianity was the design behind the declaration of the National Party's first prime minister, D. F. Malan, that the church's «special calling» was to «guard the [Afrikaner] national interest,» and it is the design behind the recent call of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo for «every good believer to become a witness for liberation.»