Sentences with phrase «deal with party leaders»

Perhaps it is the same pragmatism that convinced the union leaders to do a deal with Party leaders to accept an austerity programme thereby undermining opposition to austerity at the NPF.

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What's to understand, May has said it before this deal is not about endorsing the Liberal party but about their leader who she feels she could work with in a coalition.

Ukip would be open to do a deal with the Conservative party if it elected Michael Gove as leader, Nigel Farage said today.

This felt like the deputy prime minister dealing with a pack of very predictable journalists, not a party leader sweet - talking his supporters.

But according to sources Schaffer was busy behind the scenes working on a deal with Conservative and Republican Party Leaders for various patronage appointments.

«Today's bills are just further proof that the Republican party is so terrified of dealing with this country's gun problem that they are willing to bury their heads in the sand,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Clegg's comments follow an interview with former party leader Paddy Ashdown in the Observer, in which he said he had been wrong to press for a deal with Labour in 2010.

Thirteen months after its devolution deal was first announced, not a single candidate from a major party has come forward to stand in the city region's mayoral election next year, while local leaders have continued to question whether they should even have to introduce a metro mayor full - stop — despite the Communities secretary Sajid Javid stating explicitly that this would continue to be a «real red line» for progressing with devolution deals.

Aside from a power play between two potential future Conservative party leaders, what seems to be at the heart of the May - Gove struggle is a disagreement about extremism and how to deal with it.

«This week a number of leaders in the Working Families Party struck a deal with Governor Cuomo,» she said in a Sunday evening release.

In an interview with gay magazine Attitude during the 2005 election, Michael Howard, then leader of the Conservative Party, commented:» [Section 28] was brought in to deal with what was seen to be a specific problem at the time.

The day after Labour's non-dom announcement, Fallon launched a deliberately excessive attack on Miliband, suggesting he would betray the country by surrendering the Trident nuclear deterrent in order to reach a deal with the Scottish National party: «Miliband stabbed his own brother in the back to become Labour leader.

Klein had backed the deal, which is aimed at giving the party a working majority in the chamber and would likely make him co-leader with Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Recent admissions that he had dinner with James Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks and their partners just two days after taking away responsibility for the BSkyB deal from Vince Cable have prompted the Lib Dems» deputy leader Simon Hughes and party president Tim Farron to report the prime minister to the Cabinet Office secretary.

A ComRes poll for the Independent found that all party leaders had been hit by the phone - hacking scandal - even Ed Miliband, who was widely considered to have dealt with it well - but that Mr Cameron was considerably the most damaged.

Osborne, to his credit, stayed firm, suggesting unfortunate things about the party leader's ability to deal with even moderate levels of media pressure.

Currently however George Osborne is negotiating behind closed doors with Labour leaders in the conurbations for deals whose covert aim is to destroy the Labour Party in its core constituencies — something the SNP has already done in Scotland.

The former Prime Minister on dealing with the right - wing press, New Labour's alleged obsession with celebrities and how he wished he had reformed the party to ensure that Jeremy Corbyn could never have been leader

Mr Paterson also pointed to a recent interview with former Ulster Unionist Party leader, Lord Trimble, one of the architects of the 1998 peace deal.

If the Democrats reach a deal with Klein to bring his faction back into the party, expect it to include some sort of fancy title that gives him some control over legislation, or at the very least fractures the influence currently vested in the leader position.

Weak leaders can severely damage a party's prospects because voters have little faith they will be able to deliver on their promises or to deal with crises.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the liberal Democratic Party, seems like he has childhood issues he needs to deal with.

And for those Lib Dems keen to keep a possible deal with Labour alive post-2015, there's a reminder that Ed Miliband is in fact «a weak leader» who heads up a «divided party.»

Ipsos Mori asked which of the parties has the best team of leaders to deal with the country's problems.

In the same month that party leader Nick Clegg publicly insisted he was not the «kingmaker» in the general election his aides were secretly planning how to deal with the hung parliament scenario which eventually emerged.

President Trump's deal cut with congressional Democrats is a nightmare come true for Republicans: An ideologically flexible president making an agreement with the minority party amid turmoil with GOP leaders.

The Hansard Society say the incumbent «caretaker» prime minister has first call on forming an administration: «Only if the incumbent prime minister fails to put together a deal with one or more of the other parties, or, after having chosen to «meet» parliament, he loses a confidence motion, will the leader of the opposition party be invited to form a government.»

But there were already signs of tension last night as Kennedy aides suggested that the new leader would proceed as he sees fit in dealing with Labour - and Hughes aides said he could not act «without agreement of the party».

As an educator, we are calling on all, especially chiefs, traditional leaders, opinion leaders, Assembly members, political parties and everyone, to ensure that the galamsey menace is dealt with.

While they didn't speak, there were even leaders of the Working Families Party — who reluctantly made Cuomo their standard bearer last year only to claim he went back on a deal to help Democrats reclaim the State Senate — standing on the stage with the governor.

Local Democratic leaders in this old steel town have struggled to deal with their views on race and integrate their operations with the many minorities flooding the party in support of Barack Obama.

«Dianne Hayter, chairman of Labour's National Executive Committee, said: «We do not believe a parliamentary by - election should be held at taxpayers» expense to resolve tensions at the top of the Conservative Party... She claimed that Mr Davis had done a deal with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who said last week that his party would not contest the by - election, and never intended to put his seat at risk.&rParty... She claimed that Mr Davis had done a deal with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who said last week that his party would not contest the by - election, and never intended to put his seat at risk.&rparty would not contest the by - election, and never intended to put his seat at risk.»

The Labour leader has written to the party's general secretary, Iain McNicol, about a spate of suspensions warning: «The online and press speculation around the reasons for suspension and how these are being dealt with are raising concerns about whether members are being treated in a consistent and proportionate manner,» he said.

But the Guardian understands that there have been no formal talks about such reconciliation and the leader is not ready to do a deal with the parliamentary Labour party over how he puts together his frontbench team.

Appointed a leader to the party machine — ultimately in charge of dealing with first - level disciplinary issues — who had previously been in controversy over remarks that many perceived as downplaying racism;

Some Suffolk County Dems accuse Schaffer of being more interested in holding on to power and gaining patronage jobs by cutting deals with local GOP and conservative party leaders than helping his own party win state office races.

In terms that will alarm some on the left of his party, who resent working with the Conservatives, the former Lib Dem leader admits that he was wrong to have pushed so hard for a deal with Labour after the 2010 election, when Nick Clegg was moving towards the Tories.

As a result party leaders are now much more ruthless than they used to be when dealing with such issues.

It involves how we choose leaders (elections, wars of succession, etc.), what leaders do (legislate, interpret laws, enact deals with other leaders), the formation of political units (nations, cities, parties), the activities of political actors (voters, juries, government officials, etc..)

Washington, D.C. (WBEN / AP)- With both sides digging in, and the tide turning against a deal to end the government shutdown on Monday, Senator Susan Collins R - Maine, gathered a meeting about two dozen leaders from both parties in her office.

He says: «The assumption that the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg having consolidated a centre right hold on the party is preparing to do a deal with the Tories is wrong.»

I have never and will never abandon my values to cut back room deals with corrupt party leaders, but my opponent has.

The Tory leader utterly ignored her party's disastrous election performance as she confirmed a deal with Northern Ireland's right - wing DUP in an extraordinary statement on the steps of Downing Street.

Labour insiders believe the list emerged from a team of MPs loyal to Corbyn, who call themselves the «core group», and meet regularly — separately from the shadow cabinet — to discuss policy issues, and strategies for dealing with the divided state of the parliamentary party and shoring up the leader.

The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg defends his deal with the Conservatives - telling his party's annual conference that the coalition government will «govern well for the next five years».

A leader's authority with his party tends to be at its highest immediately upon being elected, the party itself tends to receive a great deal of publicity and much of it will be favourable.

More often than not, party leaders on the local level choose the path of least resistance, which sometimes means making deals with the opposition which preclude competitive elections.

ALBANY — The most prominent elements of the Working Families Party spent Friday at war with one another, with labor leaders hoping to broker a deal to endorse Governor Andrew Cuomo threatening to formally, publicly secede, and activists digging in around the candidacy of Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout.

Leaders of Britain's Jews have branded a meeting with Jeremy Corbyn a «missed opportunity» to deal with anti-Semitism in the Labour party.

«Anybody who is a Republican leader, who is making deals that are not in the interests of the Republican Party, who are playing footsie with the Democrats, we've got to get rid of them,» Nelligan said.