Sentences with phrase «election defeat under»

Labour MPs will gather for the first time since last week's general election defeat under the interim leadership of Harriet Harman.

After Labour lost the Copeland by - election in February, despite defending a much larger majority over the Conservatives than in Barrow, Woodcock warned Labour was headed for a «historic and catastrophic» election defeat under Corbyn's leadership.

Not exact matches

These new devotees of evangelism are imperialistic, attacking those who deviate as secular humanists (read pagans) and demanding conformity of its adherents under pain of excommunication (read being targeted for defeat in the next election).

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.

Though Corbyn's polling is diabolical and the likelihood of Labour winning an election under his leadership is slim, that does not mean Smith will defeat him in the leadership election.

He has spent three decades in the party, more than John Prescott when he took the same role under Tony Blair, and had ringside seats for the general election defeats of Neil Kinnock - twice - Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband.

Joe Seeman, a MoveOn organizer from Saratoga County, said the protest was aimed at defeating Buerkle in the November election and preserving the Affordable Care Act, the health care program passed under the Obama administration.

[26] Suffering mass electoral defeat at the local elections, in London, Labour lost 15 boroughs, including Livingstone's London Borough of Lambeth, which came under Conservative control.

Quebec separatists routinely dominated Canadian federal elections (held under first - past - the - post) within their province after two defeated independence referendums, usually winning two - thirds of Quebec's 75 seats.

Abbott's comments come as Ed Miliband comes under pressure to take a «tougher» line on immigration following the party's near defeat in the Heywood and Middleton by - election.

However, he was narrowly defeated by the Conservatives under the leadership of Winston Churchill, despite winning the most votes of any political party in any general election in British political history until the Conservative Party's fourth consecutive victory in 1992.

It is an election which, for Labour, may prompt the sort of soul searching that accompanied other devastating defeats such as under Michael Foot in 1983 and Neil Kinnock in 1992.

[11] In the general election, Swalwell narrowly defeated Stark by just under 10,000 votes.

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.

He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, until his defeat in the 2010 general election by Ben Gummer, son of former MP John Gummer.

Neither party, though, could stomach a long leadership election under a leader who has just led their party to humbling defeat.

As election season gets under way, Tea Party favourites such as Joe Miller, who caused the biggest upset of the primaries when he defeated the Republican incumbent Lisa Murkowski in Alaska last month, have been upfront about their doubts on climate science.