Sentences with phrase «during leadership campaign»

Aside from a commitment to oppose the expansion of selection in English schools, the Labour conference has been light on education policy, and although Corbyn has renewed a commitment to the idea of a national education service, there have been few details about the policy first mooted during his leadership campaign last year.

Corbyn made a promising start in committing to gender equality during his leadership campaign.

Grayling was «official cheerleader in chief» for May during her leadership campaign.

People * are * concerned about the junking of long - standing policy without warning during the leadership campaign or debate subsequent to it.

His radical past came under scrutiny during the leadership campaign, including an article he wrote at Oxford, which appeared to advocate the use of LSD and other hard drugs.

His supporters insisted during the leadership campaign that he was more «human», less aloof than David.

May pledged during her leadership campaign that she would pursue companies and individuals who took part in deliberate tax avoidance.

David Milliband has announced this weekend that he is launching a grassroots «Movement for Change», promising to recruit «1000 Labour Party members to become «Future Leaders» during the leadership campaign — and more if elected Leader.»

Of course, during the leadership campaign, it was Cameron who dealt well with Paxman, while Davis fared badly...

Is the real reason that he doesn't want people to talk about Europe that he is trying to tiptoe away quietly from the only hard promise he made during the leadership campaign - to break with the EPP?

During the leadership campaign I wrote a couple of pieces predicting doom for Corbyn's candidacy.

During the leadership campaign, his keynote speech was the first to make a genuinely convincing alternative case for cuts.

But Miliband, who mounted a strong defence of the universal welfare state during his leadership campaign, finally showed his hand today.

She attempted to present herself otherwise during the leadership campaign, but she is certainly to the right of David Cameron, who was a more centrist figure.

As Jon well knows, Luke supported Yvette during the leadership campaign and his views are, broadly, supported by a wide plularity of those 40 % of the electorate that voted for Liz, Yvette or Andy — around 60 % of the then membership.

After coming out in support of the graduate tax during his leadership campaign, Mr Miliband's favoured policy was instantly destabilised by outspoken comments from his shadow chancellor saying he still supported tuition fees, which he originally helped to bring in while in government.

During the leadership campaign, the Blairites came across as loftily condescending, suggesting that anyone who thought differently was either mad or a revolutionary.

He made the pledge during his leadership campaign last year but changed his mind after asking the former director of Liberty to chair an inquiry into anti-Semitism within Labour, which reported back earlier this summer.

It would need to exclude, for example, the likes of Andy Burnham, whose dog whistling over some issues during the leadership campaign I don't think I'll ever be able to forget.

Likewise Owen Smith spoke of Corbynistas as parasites during his leadership campaign, «trying to use our movement as a host body, seeking to occupy it, hollow it out, until its outlived its usefulness, when you throw it aside like a dead husk».

The similarity you raise between it and the documents during the leadership campaigns is interesting.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Through the campaign so far and during the debate, neither Tony Abbott nor Julia Gillard is showing the type of leadership required to inspire voters at the upcoming poll.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

Under the leadership of either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, each of whom has addressed virtual currency and blockchain technology during their respective presidential campaigns, Congress will hopefully move swiftly to pass legislation that accomplishes the goals set forth in H.R. 835.

Below you'll find Google Trends charts for the 100 days before the campaign's last month for both the Conservative and Liberal leadership contests, along with explanations for some of the biggest spikes in search volume during that time.

He became one of Mr. Prentice's campaign co-chairs during his party's 2014 PC leadership contest and was rewarded with an appointment as Minister of Infrastructure, a position he held until the 2015 re-election.

During the UPC leadership campaign, and in his victory speech last weekend, Jason Kenney repeatedly described the NDP as â $ œthis deceptive, divisive, debt - quadrupling, tax - hiking, job - killing, acciden...

Three MLAs crossed to the PCs during his time as leader and his leadership opponent MLA Sine Chadi waged a constant campaign to undermine his leadership.

In fact, during the last leadership election for Jeremy Corbyn, and at many of his rallies in this campaign, I was repeatedly taken by how many teachers and nurses and fire - fighters and doctors I came across.

One would have thought that some of the issues that became talking points during the campaigning would have played a part on the voting day, but instead the voters ignored and gave this great country the most odious of leadership, since independence.

Another Lib Dem Cabinet casualty, the energy and climate change secretary's departure from parliament ends the speculation heard during the campaign that he might be a possible leadership candidate.

That hardly needs restating after weeks of a leadership campaign during which he has signalled his intention to return to the pre-Tony Blair era, when Labour was pure and unsullied by tawdry compromise.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed 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.»

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.

It follows a campaign by Momentum and other supporters of Jeremy Corbyn to decrease the threshold after Corbyn, unpopular with most MPs, struggled to pass it during the 2015 Labour leadership election.

Then get a transplant,» was but the first of various interventions he made during the party's protracted leadership campaign — interventions that weren't just counter-productive, but also rather disingenuous.

Theresa May tells BBC David Cameron grew in leadership qualities during the campaign.

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.

«Tom DiNapoli brings energetic and trusted leadership to a tough job during difficult times,» Staten Island Democratic Chairman John Gulino said in a statement released by the comptroller's campaign.

During most of the campaign, there was a marked reluctance in the leadership of the No campaign to discuss proposals for constitutional change.

It wasn't until 1980 when I was working for CLPD that I first met the man himself but within a few months, as secretary of his campaign committee during the deputy leadership campaign, I worked with him in the basement of his house in Notting Hill.

[36] During the speech launching her campaign, Sturgeon announced that she would resign as Depute Leader, triggering a concurrent depute leadership election; the MSPs Angela Constance and Keith Brown and the MP Stewart Hosie all nominated themselves to succeed Sturgeon as Depute Leader.

Regulator expected to set date to examine claim that 10 different rules were breached during union's leadership campaign

During the three - month Labour leadership campaign, the debate increasingly addressed the failings of New Labour and the polices needed to rebuild Labour's support.

Astorino allies made little secret of their disdain with the GOP leadership in the chamber, and blasted Senate Republicans during the gubernatorial campaign for not effectively opposing Cuomo's first term policies.

They stuck by him during his nadir last summer, when his leadership of the party seemed doomed - indeed, the organisational, campaigning and social media nous of the pro-migrant radical left probably saved him, and certainly boosted his general election performance.

Labour deputy leadership candidate Stella Creasy has responded to internet trolls by releasing a video in which she reads out some of the offensive messages she has been sent during the campaign.

During the current Labour leadership campaign he has spoken at rallies in support of Jeremy Corbyn.