Sentences with phrase «elected deputy leader»

Fears among senior Liberal Democrats about the coalition with the Tories were brought into the open yesterday as Simon Hughes, the party's newly elected deputy leader, raised the prospect of tabling rebel amendments to the finance bill.

After Swinson, who was elected deputy leader last week, the party's health spokesman and 2015 leadership candidate Norman Lamb also ruled out running.

Its founder Martin Robbins wrote: «Jeremy Corbyn's aides are allegedly preventing him from meeting with the elected deputy leader of the Labour Party, in case he resigns out of sheer unhappiness.

She recounts one almost farcical encounter with Brown, in which he asked her to defend him publicly against charges of using women as window dressing, while refusing to give her, his elected deputy leader, the cabinet post that would make her title meaningful.

Harriet Harman was elected deputy leader on 24 June 2007 with 50.43 % of the final redistributed vote.

(I don't think Howe was First Sec of State; It is suggested that Mandelson is therefore being presented as de facto deputy PM, though he does not have that title, not least because the party has an elected deputy leader).

Mr Hain is hoping to be elected deputy leader when John Prescott steps down alongside Mr Blair.

The primary figurehead for this leftist trend was Tony Benn, who narrowly missed being elected deputy leader of Labour in September 1981, under new party leader Michael Foot.

On 24 June 2007, in what was a close contest Harman was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

Moderates will hope that the newly - elected deputy leader, Tom Watson, will prove a restraining influence.

Liberal Democrat members of Parliament also elect a Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons, often colloquially referred to as the Deputy Leader.

Not exact matches

In 2007 Harriet was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.

The Lib Dem deputy leader threatened «consequences» if Tory rebels do not fall into line over the proposals to make the Lords an 80 % elected second chamber.

Announcing the timetable for the election, Ms Harman said: «Our challenge now is to use this time to listen and learn, to elect a new leader and deputy leader who will rebuild the Labour party in order to take the fight to this Tory government and to stand up for Britain.»

Once elected, the metro mayor will be required to appoint a deputy mayor, drawn from one of the constituent authority leaders, to whom the metro mayor can delegate powers as they see fit.

As our Deputy Leader, we will almost tonight certainly elect Adrian Ramsay, Charles Clarke's opponent for the Parlimentary seat in Norwich South.

The deputy speaker was immediately replaced by Mr Emmanuel Tsamdu (APC - Madagali) while Mr Hassan Burguma (APC - Hong) was also elected new majority leader.

The house elected Abubakar Isa (APC - Shelleng) new deputy majority leader while Mr Lamsumbani Dili (PDP - Demsa) took over as the minority leader.

When he was elected to the deputy leader role in October 2016 he succeed Stewart Hosie, who quit the position following claims about his personal life.

The post of deputy leader is open to all Labour elected representatives in Scotland - MSPs, MPs, councillors and MEPs.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

«I am grateful to have the support of deputy SNP leader Stewart Hosie MP, former first minister Alex Salmond MP and the encouragement from colleagues across the newly - elected SNP group.

Benn was only narrowly defeated by Healey in a bitterly fought deputy leadership election in 1981 after the introduction of an electoral college intended to widen the voting franchise to elect the leader and their deputy.

This would entitle them to vote in electing the party leader and deputy leader and the London mayoral candidate.

DeFrancisco, who was elected to the state Senate in 1992 and now serves as the chamber's deputy majority leader, insists that he's made no formal decision about the 2018 election.

McGovern was first elected as a councillor for Brunswick Park in the London Borough of Southwark in 2006, later becoming the Deputy Leader of the borough council's 29 - member group of Labour councillors.

(announced Oct. 26, 2015) over 100 elected officials, community, coalition and grassroots leaders including... Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins U.S. Rep. Steve Israel U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks U.S. Rep. Grace Meng U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez State Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Democratic Leader State Sen. Michael Gianaris, Deputy Democratic Leader State Assemblyman Carl Heastie, Speaker State Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper, Deputy Speaker State Assemblyman Joseph Morelle, Majority Leader... 2 of 2 Democratic U.S. Sens. and 18 of 18 Democratic U.S. Reps.

A new Labour leader and deputy leader will be elected at a special leadership conference on June 24th.

«Although he eventually lost to Assemblyman Mel Miller, Alan was elected to be Deputy Majority Leader... Miller, however, out of spite, stripped Alan of his beloved Health Committee Chairmanship.

Minutes after Natalie Bennett was elected Green party leader, deputy leadership candidates Caroline Allen and Alexandra Phillip were dropped from the race because of their genitals.

«For months we have been engaging with elected officials, community leaders, and parents, so we can best serve the needs of students in this neighborhood,» Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning Marc Sternberg said in a statement.

During the Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections last year I made a promise to our members that I would serve whoever they elected to be leader.

«Labour is lucky, save in the 1981 deputy leadership contest, that it has never elected a leader or deputy in the modern era against the majority wishes of ordinary party members.

«He's not properly engaged with even the deputy leader of the party, who was elected with a mandate too.

The Deputy Speaker, Chime Oji who was recently elected to represent Enugu North / South Federal Constituency, Hon. Emeka Ogbuabor and Deputy House Leader, John Kevin Ukwuta were suspended at the sitting for alleged anti-House activities.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mariya Umar was elected National Women Leader, Umoru Hadiza, Deputy National Women Leader, and Emmanuel Enoidem, National Youth Leader.

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..

However Gordon Brown, who was elected leader on the same day, did not subsequently appoint her deputy prime minister, instead leaving the office vacant.

The group will appoint their own whips in parliament to co-ordinate rebellions where they disagree with Mr Corbyn's policy and look to change the rules to appoint an elected Shadow Cabinet, as previously called for by the party's deputy leader Tom Watson.

Plus: as the SNP prepares to elect a new deputy leader, Libby Brooks looks at a contest that has been dominated by one question: when should Scotland next vote on independence?

Derek Wyatt MP told the same programme that he hoped Mr Prescott would «see sense» and resign as deputy prime minister - although he did not call for him to quit his job as deputy leader of the Labour party, an elected post.

Unlike some New York elected officials, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco's campaign will hold on to donations from COR Development despite the arrests of two of its executives on bid - rigging charges.

Following several years with IBM, he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1966 and to the New York State Senate in 1967, rising to become Deputy Minority Leader.

In 2005, following the resignation of his predecessor Jim Wallace, he was elected leader of the party and also became Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning.

If Mr Murphy was elected and Mr Sarwar remained deputy leader it would leave the Scottish Labour Party without a leader at Holyrood.

The Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

Labour's deputy leader wants to ditch the «one member one vote» system that elected Jeremy Corbyn, he has revealed.

2015 is also the year that the Labour party, which used to love to taunt the Conservatives over their «women problems», elected a man to be the Leader, Deputy Leader and their London Mayoral candidate.

The solution proposed is electing Labour's leader and deputy on a joint ticket with a deputy (of -LSB-...]