Sentences with phrase «election under its new leader»

Davey, who was energy and climate change secretary in the coalition government of 2010 - 15, said there was frustration that the party had failed to make progress in the polls since last year's general election under its new leader, Vince Cable, another former coalition minister.

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Radical Islam gained a foothold in the early 1980s, strengthened after the 1999 election, took on the name Boko Haram, and blew up into a military insurgency in 2009 under a new leader, Abubakar Shekau, according to the report.

A minority Tory government might well fall if Lib Dems took against them; the Tories would lose an autumn election to Labour - cleansed of Brown under a fresh new leader.»

Blair announced in September 2006 that he would quit as leader within the year, though he had been under pressure to quit earlier than May 2007 in order to get a new leader in place before the May elections which were expected to be disastrous for Labour.

More than half the money given to candidates in last month's special election to replace former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was transferred by political party committees, a long - standing practice that is under new scrutiny.

«The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader has galvanised a new generation of activists, and this year at Left Field we aim to give them a platform to discuss issues around social justice, the economy, gender and the possibilities for genuine change under a Corbyn government.»

Every press release featured an earnest - looking photograph of Mr Kennedy - in the style of the Tony Blair shot which appeared on Labour's election manifesto - under the slogan «A new leader for new times».