Sentences with phrase «election defeat»

Tax and spend was the bloody hook upon which four Labour general election defeats were hung.

Some blame New Labour for the mistakes which led to the party's third worst election defeat in its history.

It has been observed that in most political parties after a bad election defeat the leader is sacked.

Standing on your head on questions like the electoral system only the day after election defeat would not convince the public.

The shadow Scottish secretary said the last thing any party should do after a heavy election defeat is make «knee jerk reactions and turn in on themselves».

Both parties remain haunted by their most recent election defeats.

In both instances their party was left to simultaneously cope with a catastrophic election defeat, the search for a new leader and the search for an explanation for their electoral failure.

They accepted that running a deficit would not lead to a Liberal election defeat, but in fact would allow them to win the election.

Labour seems absent without leave on too many issues since the 2015 general election defeat.

Strong challenges from within the party contributed to the eventual general election defeats of Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush.

Following election defeats in former strongholds including Glasgow East, ministers are under growing pressure from Labour MPs to adopt policies that will appeal to the party's core vote.

The Conservatives are heading to a crushing election defeat with only 31 % support according to a YouGov poll for the Sun and the Sunday Times.

After Hillary Clinton's shock election defeat last year, the left began a prolonged period of soul - searching.

Labour MP Paul Flynn says his party needs to win over voters disillusioned with the political system to recover from its general election defeat by the Conservatives.

His comments come after fellow Labour MP John Mann appeared to lay the blame for election defeat squarely at the leader's door...

In the early 2000s Al Gore emerged from a devastating presidential election defeat with a new quest: to warn the world about global warming.

After Labour's election defeat at the 2015 general election, many Blairites believed that their shattered party needed a turn to the right to revive the New Labour electoral magic.

Richard Milhous Nixon bounced back from election defeats by parlaying his legal career in New York City into a platform for the 1968 election, which he won as the Republican candidate.

Labour has slipped to its lowest poll ratings since 1983, recalling its crushing election defeat under Michael Foot.

Rafael Malek shares research from BritainThinks which shows that national level concerns, party «brand» and leadership all played their part in consigning Labour to a second consecutive election defeat.

this weekend on Andy Burnham telling her that Labour must shout louder or risk election defeat.

Yet his impulse was always to make Labour feel good about itself and its core instincts, and to blame election defeat on the sort of things Labour activists hate (inequality, the Iraq war, New Labour's cosying up to the financial sector).

After John Kerry's 2004 presidential election defeat, however, the Democrats decided that in a country where only 2 % of the population self - identifies as atheist, it was probably not so smart to be seen as the anti-God party.

(So far, they've had two successes with the primary loss of Sen. Bill Stachowski and the special election defeat of ex-Sen.

Labour has picked Tom Watson as its deputy leader in a role that will involve helping to rebuild the party after its bruising election defeat and leadership contest.

The coming power struggle pits the neoliberal capitalist class — big business and the banks with their friends in the media and their governing allies in the Tory party — against a weakened Labour party pushed on the back foot by a big election defeat and a trade union movement still hamstrung by Thatcher's legal minefield.

Party says it refused to accept Farage's decision to step down and he will continue as leader despite election defeat

Schumer acknowledged that Democrats questioning the party's messaging problems have a point in the wake of another House election defeat.

Charlie Whelan, the former Labour spin doctor, has blamed the party's election defeat squarely on Lord Mandelson and urged «annoying» David Miliband to «get a life» after his failed leadership battle.

President Yahya Jammeh, who initially admitted election defeat, says he will not step down until May, when the Supreme Court can hear his challenge.

He also admitted the local election defeats last week had revealed a divided country: «It is not lost on me that where our two parties got a particular beating last week was in Wales, Scotland and in the large cities of northern England.

Warning that Labour's general election defeat showed it could no longer afford to oppose all such austerity measures, Ms Harman also announced MPs would not oppose the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

«In an unusual bullish move for the non-yielding safe haven asset after a rate hike, this can be entirely attributed to the aforementioned USD weakness, as Wilders» Dutch election defeat eases some fears of a populist European backlash.»

Stephen Harper's policy from his 2015 election defeat until now has been not to comment on any action of the Trudeau government.

These two major election defeats shattered many common beliefs about politics in Alberta and Canada.

If the Right of the Tory Party think that the Party is losing the battle of ideas because it is insufficiently Right - wing, the the eight years of modernisation under Cameron and the three election defeats between 1997 and 2005 has been lost on them.

The Conservatives twice failed to have any proper inquest into election defeats: only in 2005 did Michael Howard provide more time and space.

The combination of an uninspiring line - up of candidates, new selection rules and the shock of the 2015 general election defeat left Labour open to a left - wing insurgency.

Not only did he lead Labour to an abject election defeat in propitious circumstances, he introduced the new rules by which the party elects its leader, opening the way for the Corbyn insurgency.

Both Miliband and Kinnock took charge of their party after seismic election defeats.

Clinton's upcoming book will double down on Russia's interference and James Comey's involvement in her stunning election defeat, according to sources familiar with the memoir.

However, very few affiliated union members will be entitled to vote if a leadership contest is called after a 2015 election defeat due to the phasing of the scheme.

Don't burn the books A scorching hot list of summer political reading selected by Mark Perryman A year ago as Labour sought to recover from the May General Election defeat halls were starting to fill up for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign rallies.

For many Lib Dems, last night's by - election defeat feels like a victory.

The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has described persons blaming former President John Mahama for the party's election defeat as «uninformed», and has called on them to «stop talking anyhow» about the party's electoral loss.

If the mindset is all about what happens after some future election defeat, then the game's up.»

As a shadow cabinet colleague, Oliver Letwin, denounced the party's «weird» reliance on white, male MPs, another measure of the desperation which grips the Tories 16 months after their second crushing election defeat came from a former party research chief.

For Labour members, many still reeling from last year's brutal election defeat, electoral disaster is unthinkable.

Campaigners for democratic reform give a mixed reaction on Mr Brown's proposals, with some, such as Power 2010 saying it did not go far enough: «Without troubling the public for their views, ministers hand - picked the voting system they favour in a cynical exercise aimed at wrong - footing the Tories ahead of a likely election defeat.

My suggestion that Corbyn stand down in favour of another candidate was driven by a desire to save his policies — which, as the polling shows, are very popular indeed — from being buried in the rubble of a terrible election defeat.