Sentences with phrase «elected as leader»

Shortly after he was elected as leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn asked Lord Bach to carry out a comprehensive review of legal aid, considering civil, crime, family and social welfare law.

He noted that President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, did not reply a letter written by Buhari to congratulate him after he was elected as leader of the apex socio - political body of the Igbo.

As well as understanding that Labour must be a party which reaches out to the public, he tackled probably the biggest elephant in the room, and tackled it head - on: the system which elected him as leader.

He was elected as the leader of the 14 member forum on Wednesday.

In April 2008 Rahman was elected as Leader of the majority Labour Group on Tower Hamlets Council, and therefore became Leader of the Council, replacing Denise Jones.

He was elected as leader of the Welsh Conservative group on the 14 July 2011, having won 53.1 per cent of the vote.

Trudeau wasn't elected as leader until nearly two years after the 2011 election as the party re-grouped under interim leader Bob Rae, a stark contrast to the Labour party's immediate and interminable leadership contest.

Richard Leonard won the leadership election with 56.7 % of the vote and was elected as the leader of the Scottish Labour Party on 18 November.

David Cameron was elected as leader of the Tory party on the basis that they should stop «banging on about Europe».

I'm not really into all women short lists or having to have a woman as deputy if a man is elected as leader etc..

After the resignation of George Lansbury in 1935, he was elected as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in the subsequent leadership election.

Well, let's hope the Tories can clear up the mess that their referendum has caused and let's hope those Labour MPs who ignored the membership and undermined Corbyn from the day he was elected as leader can clear up the mess they have now caused.

Q. (from Andrew Robinson): Will you fight to get benefit cuts reversed if you are elected as leader of the Labour Party at the party conference?

We are delighted to announce that @timfarron has been elected as Leader of the Lib Dems.

«We hope to be able to build on the level of interest received in our leadership election and develop our movement, while we unite behind whoever is elected as our leader on Saturday and come to together to take on the Tories as we head towards important local elections and the next general election.»

Speaking in January, shortly after David Cameron had been elected as leader of the Conservative party, Mr Murdoch challenged him to focus less on being image friendly and more on delivering concrete policy.

I'm not behaving any differently now to how I would be if anyone else had been elected as leader of the party.

Ashley was elected as Leader of the Conservative MEPs in November 2014.

After Jeremy Corbyn was elected as leader of the Labour Party, he was named as new Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

In 1998 Michael German was elected as leader of the Welsh party, and he led the new Assembly group.

Vulnerable to the charge of having previously shown no interest in Holyrood, he told STV's Scotland Tonight that he will be a candidate for the Scottish Parliament elections in 2016 and added «if I can get into the Scottish parliament earlier than that that would be better» as he would be duty - bound to do under present party rules if elected as leader.

It has been 18 months since Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as leader of the Labour party, promising «a new kind of politics».

It is, therefore, disappointing that he has not responded to the call for him to issue a «Manifesto of Intent» related to Clause 4 and spelling out his plan of direction should he be elected as leader.

Denham was instrumental in getting Ed Miliband elected as leader, and so his speech is about as loyalist as it gets.

Aung San Suu Kyi was elected as leader in 1990, however the military didn't like that and put her under house arrest for 21 years.

Since he was elected as leader of the Catholic church in the spring of 2013, Pope Francis has been wildly popular and massively influential both inside the Church and to the broader world.

One is that if someone is ELECTED as the leader, doesn't that mean that the organization is ok with them as their leader?

In my opinion, I would have people who supported the values of the group be part of the group and be nominated and elected as my leaders who uphold the standards and values of the group.

The eurosceptic Rees - Mogg also suggested that the Tories would not elect as leader anyone who had backed the In campaign for remaining in the European Union.

Voting gets under way in the Labour leadership election, as David Miliband becomes the latest senior Labour figure to warn of the dangers of electing as leader the left - wing backbencher, Jeremy Corbyn.

But it's rather harder to see those cold, calculating Conservative MPs ever electing him as their leader.

For what its worth, I don't think that it is unreasonable for a political party to face the ultimate sanction for electing as their leaders and bestowing upon the nation the likes of Gordon Brown with his immoral lust for debt and for the terrible legacy of Tony Blair.

Not exact matches

WA Labor leader Mark McGowan today guaranteed that, if elected in the March state poll, he would return the budget to surplus within his first term as premier.

The African National Congress, which has ruled South Africa since the end of Apartheid in 1991, elected Cyril Ramaphosa as its new leader, making it likely he will succeed President Jacob Zuma in 2019.

When South Korea's first female leader was elected it was not just her background as daughter of a former president that helped her win.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Dublin on Tuesday as one of the first world leaders to meet with Ireland's new Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who was elected last month.

Tokyo elected its first female governor as it prepares to host the 2020 Olympics, with voters turning to a leader promising clean politics.

So it may come as no surprise that the top five highest - earning elected women serving in governments worldwide, as surveyed by British financial service firm IG Group, coincidentally happen to earn less than their elected male counterparts in an all - gender list of of elected, appointed and lifetime world leaders.

He succeeded Hu Jintao as leader of the Communist Party and was elected president in March 2013.

Just as Conservatives gathered to elect a new leader, Statistics Canada released income data for 2015.

I'm a conservative Republican out of Michigan (and working to better understand that conservative position) and would want to know as much as possible about who or what moves or influences my elected or unelected leaders to make the decisions they make.

The Prince George Citizen - Burton backs building base When the federal Liberal party elects their new leader, the votes coming from the less - populated ridings will be just as important as those from the urban centres... Read More

Dr. Sherman was first elected as a Progressive Conservative MLA in 2008, became Liberal leader in 2011 and was re-elected as MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in the recent vote.

Former leader Paul Hinman returned to the Assembly in a 2009 by - election and Heather Forsyth, Rob Anderson, and Guy Boutilier were elected as PC candidates in 2008 before crossing the floor to join the Wildrose Party in 2010.

As president - elect of the National Conference of State Legislatures, state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D - Olympia Fields, sent the four Congressional leaders a letter Nov. 16 opposing elimination of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction.

The President of Treasury Board, Tony Clement, had made his government's anti-union agenda personal, refusing any consultation and referring to me and to other duly elected union leaders as «union bosses,» demonstrating nothing but contempt for us and for those whom we represent.

Wildrose leader Danielle Smith said in 2012 that, if elected, she would only serve two - terms as Premier (her party constitution had it enshrined until it was removed in 2013).

Clark has served as party leader since 2013 and became the party's first elected MLA in 2015 when he unseated Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Gordon Dirks in Calgary - Elbow.

When the PC party elected Jim Prentice as its leader it brought Albertans even deeper into the corporatocracy fold.

The larger GRCs are unpopular with voters as they are seen as unfair and undemocratic — allowing politically inexperienced rookies to get elected on the coattails of their heavyweight leaders.