Sentences with phrase «current leadership contenders»

Warning that Labour is «headed downwards», Mandelson suggests none of the current leadership contenders has fully grasped the challenge the party faces because they are all putting too much emphasis on the need for unity.

Not exact matches

Building the kind of local base from which Ashdown himself and most of the current contenders for the leadership sprang is a slow and painstaking business, the practice of which some senior figures in the party are beginning to fear might undermine true Liberal Democrat values.

Liberal Democrat leadership contender Norman Lamb has attacked current UK drug laws as «pathetic» and called for a more liberal approach.

Rumours about Labour's ability to weather the current the political storm abound, with many commentators already drawing up a list of potential leadership contenders.

If in the TV debates at the next election the other parties» candidates turned on any of the current Labour leadership contenders and sneered «You're no John Kennedy», what answer would they have?»