Sentences with phrase «big election defeat»

The coming power struggle pits the neoliberal capitalist class — big business and the banks with their friends in the media and their governing allies in the Tory party — against a weakened Labour party pushed on the back foot by a big election defeat and a trade union movement still hamstrung by Thatcher's legal minefield.

Not exact matches

And even if he does win, it would be a pyrrhic victory which would cost him a lot personally, cost the party a disastrous general election defeat and cost the country a bigger Tory majority and the arrival of UKIP in our Parliament.

But he was defeated in a September primary by Paladino, who petitioned his way onto the ballot and then went on to lose big in the general election to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

Andrew Tyrie took the Treasury Select Committee; Richard Ottaway, Foreign Affairs (a big, big consolation prize, after his defeat in the 1922 Committee Chairmanship election); James Arbuthnot, Defence; Stephen Dorrell, Health; Tim Yeo, Climate Change.

David Cameron faces his biggest by - election defeat yet at the hands of Ukip defector Douglas Carswell in Clacton.

The boundary changes defeat matters far more to the outcome of the next election than even the coalition's biggest U-turn, or the resignation of a Cabinet minister.

He warned that if Mr Murphy remained leader, Labour was heading for another big defeat at the Holyrood elections in 2016.

The biggest beast of all though, Winston Churchill, was defeated when he had to contest a by - election in his seat in Manchester North West on his appointment to the cabinet in 1908.

In the early 90s, following the trauma of the 1980s and the desolation of the defeat in 1992, the backing of soft left members and MPs, helped give Tony Blair, a member of the rarefied revisionist tradition, his big majority in 1994's leadership election.

Last week was the Labour leader's big fight - back speech, this week was meant to be about the Tory by - election defeat to Ukip and next week should have been David Cameron's Götterdämmerung with new defections to Ukip and the emergence of a letter in the press, signed by dozens of Tory backbenchers, calling for a change in leader.

Mr. Boland noted whether that happens is a much bigger question that who will win the election — as Governor Cuomo is expected to handily defeat GOP Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

After the legislative session concluded, two of the biggest stories of the year were the elections and the defeat of Initiative 42.

If you thought that a defeat for a union in a unionization election was the end of Big Labor's efforts, you'd be wrong.

'' «Mr. Steyer's strategy is to spend heavily this fall to help defeat sitting lawmakers who oppose Mr. Inslee's agenda and pave the way for the governor to move his policies through next year — an example, his critics say, of the insidious influence of big money from outsiders that makes local elections less local... «Mr. Steyer has not said what he will spend in the districts, but his previous pattern indicates it will be hundreds of thousands of dollars for each candidate — a huge amount for a Washington State race.»»

As election season gets under way, Tea Party favourites such as Joe Miller, who caused the biggest upset of the primaries when he defeated the Republican incumbent Lisa Murkowski in Alaska last month, have been upfront about their doubts on climate science.