Sentences with phrase «campaign against his leadership»

``... an active campaign against my leadership by a local Momentum organiser, being called a neo-Nazi by some Corbyn t - shirt wearing person outside the Labour Party Conference, and events at a national level targeting Labour Councillors and Labour Councils that do not conform to the particular form of ideological purity that seems to have taken a grip of the party...»

Not exact matches

You talk about «against leadership» and it's hard not to think about the presidential campaign, in which the winner bashed this department, a man who dodged military service himself, disparaged the service of one of our most honored veterans, Sen. McCain, and engaged in a flamewar with a Gold Star family.

It is apparently for that reason that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's allies in the party leadership, including party president John Walsh and Harper's chief of staff, Ray Novak, are not inviting defeated candidates for the first post-election caucus meeting, apparently in mid-November: They want to contain a rising tide of anger against Harper and his campaign.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

I really struggle with concerns that participating in a church community that restricts the roles of women in leadership, or that actively campaigns against the civil rights of gays and lesbians, makes me complicit in those activities.

His campaign had previously suggested there were «thousands» of Tories who had infiltrated the leadership election and suggested he could mount a legal challenge against a Corbyn win.

As Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, under the leadership of John Smith MP, Harriet led Labour's campaign against the Tory decision to put 17.5 % VAT on gas and electricity.

The party's current success comes against a backdrop of winning only 6 MPs in 2010, having as little popularity as the widely - loathed Scottish Conservatives as recently as 2013 and, in September of last year, leading a losing referendum campaign that forced a change in party leadership.

Former cable news host and Saranac Lake native Dylan Ratigan announced his campaign against Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, admitting during his press conference that he has done drugs and «never voted in my life,» because «the two choices that are available to me don't reflect the potential leadership in this country and it disgusts me.»

The Sussex Against Privatisation Campaign originally sought support from the existing union branches on campus — Unite, Unison and UCU — but were rebuffed by what they see as a conservative leadership presiding over an ossified system.

During the Labour leadership campaign, he described himself as a socialist, and spoke out against some of the actions of the Blair ministry, including criticising its record on civil liberties and foreign policy.

Mr Huhne, who narrowly lost the leadership fight for the party against Mr Clegg, was a robust defender of Lib Dem policies in government, not least during the AV referendum, when he led the attack against Tory campaign tactics.

Krueger's comment came in response to my question about whether Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson will retain his leadership role in light of the fact that he backed a number of incumbents — notably Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. — against whom rank - and - file members like Krueger campaigned.

Following her vigorous campaigning against payday loans companies and an impressive performance in the deputy leadership election last year, Stella Creasy is seen by many Labour moderates as one of their brightest stars.

We helped lead the campaign against the attempt to disenfranchise party members in the current leadership election.

Mr Rowley is a former general secretary of the Labour Party in Scotland and ran Neil Findlay's campaign for the leadership against Mr Murphy last year.

Jeremy Corbyn's Labour critics are already discussing how to respond if the party sustains heavy losses on election night — with most counselling against an early leadership challenge after his better - than - expected performance on the campaign trail.

The party leadership has to demonstrate that it can work with the Conservatives and campaign against them at the same time.

In perhaps a signal to the Working Families Party, the governor now says he may very well campaign against the Senate leadership in the fall elections if they don't agree to expand public campaign financing by the end of the legislative session.

Stuart Weir was an early Bennite in the 1970s, fell out with his hero over Tony Benn's campaign against the Labour Party leadership in the 1980s, and fell for him again when he became a popular sage after 2001.

We need a strong message, on the lines of that which Ed Balls used in the leadership campaign, that sets out the narrative against cuts rather than meekly accepting them.

Against expectation the NEC decided today Mr Brown will not be made to take part in this campaign if he is the sole leadership candidate.

Stella Creasy running a campaign against PFI is a good example of positioning that puts her on the side of members (and crucially not against the leadership).

She worked briefly for Mr Huhne during his unsuccessful campaign against Nick Clegg for the Lib Dem leadership in 2007, when the pair are thought to have met.

Perhaps the insurgent nature of his political identity spurred Mr Williams on to become Chris Huhne's electoral agent in the 2006 leadership campaign against eventual winner Menzies Campbell.

Jeremy Corbyn insisted he would put nuclear disarmament at the heart of his leadership re-election campaign as he promised to vote against the renewal of Trident in a Commons debate that will expose deep divisions within the Labour party.

At the time, Fox was the leading candidate of the party's right in the leadership campaign against Cameron and David Davis.

The former comptroller entered talks with the Queens Democratic Party leadership to run against Avella and officially launched his campaign for District 11, which covers northeast Queens, at the beginning of the summer.

In the same way that the election campaigns of 2001 and 2005 have been criticised for solely focussing on the core vote, so the same criticism can be levied against the current Party leadership for solely focussing on the centre ground.

He has promised that, under his leadership, the Lib Dems would campaign against government proposals to extend the right to buy to housing association tenants, something he has predicted Labour will not be brave enough to oppose.

Ms Eagle, who announced she was standing against Mr Corbyn for the Labour leadership yesterday, has had to move a planned campaign event in Luton over safety fears.

When Angela Eagle announced she was intending to stand against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership campaign she faced death threats and a brick was thrown through her office window.

In reality, though, the real insidious comfort zone in this leadership campaign is probably the nineties and noughties — the mythical golden age when New Labour could win big majorities against a directionless and demoralised Tory party in elections fought on centre - right, neo-liberal territory.

Corbyn is facing an all - out coup against him from Labour MPs angry at his leadership during the referendum campaign.

Jordan is going up against former Rep. Pat Tiberi, a close ally of GOP leadership who resigned from his seat in January and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars from his old campaign account to boost state Sen. Troy Balderson as his successor.

Former President Rawlings, who was speaking at a meeting with the National Road Safety Commission last Friday, called on leadership at all levels to also lead the campaign against indiscipline on the roads.

Tim Congdon, who ran against Farage for the party's leadership in 2010 and led the internal referendum campaign opposed to forming a Pepp, said: «In 2011 Ukip held a big internal debate on the issue.

In line with the change agenda of the federal government of Nigeria and the «Change Begins with Me Campaign», the Nigeria Police force under my leadership is ensuring accountability by ensuring that citizens and residents of the country have a unit through which all grievances against police actions and inactions are taken and redressed.

In 1981 the LCC supported the campaign of Tony Benn against Denis Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, but many were deeply unhappy with Benn's campaign and approach and the LCC began to evolve into a body aiming to rescue the party from the mess it found itself in as the SDP split and Benn's campaign imprinted an image of extremism in the minds of the voters.

There is speculation Tkaczyk may use her leadership of the party to launch a third campaign against her Republican foe Senator George Amedore next year.

Campaigning group Next Generation Labour (NGL) has established itself as a leading voice within the Labour party against George Osborne's austerity package, to which the party leadership has made dangerous concessions.

Mr Corbyn floated the idea of scrapping the House of Lords in August while campaigning during last year's Labour leadership contest against Owen Smith.

Both Ms Cooper and Mr Umunna had been expected to launch leadership campaigns if Mr Corbyn had lost badly against Theresa May.

He praised Cuomo and New York for showing «exceptional moral leadership» against BDS and bolstering the «strong American front against this hateful campaign.»

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell, chairman of his leadership campaign, said when people joined they were told «very clearly» they would be able to vote in the contest, and «to deny them that democratic right flies against all the traditions of our party».

[152] Ian Davidson claimed that supporters of Murphy, who subsequently announced his intention to stand in the leadership contest to succeed Lamont, had conducted a whispering campaign against her.

Boris had a wobble over a terrible, failed leadership campaign that saw his best mate Michael Gove stab him in the back and run against him at the last moment, forcing him to dramatically pull out himself.

[94] Lamont told Scottish Labour's 2012 annual conference she wanted her party's campaign to be one of «collective leadership» against independence, [95] a strategy which she envisaged would become a cross-party movement arguing the case for keeping Scotland in the UK.

Liberal Democrat leadership front runner Sir Menzies Campbell is battling against a whispering campaign from MPs and activists who are convinced that he lacks the political skills to turn the party's opinion poll plunge around.

Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Canada.