Sentences with phrase «election winning prime»

It's unfashionable in these parts to praise the triple - election winning prime minister, but Murphy isn't worried about that type of thing.

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Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said he channeled an anonymous $ 700 million donation to politicians and projects to help his ruling party win 2013 elections, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed cabinet minister.

It has been a year since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won the election, and the economy still sucks.

«My party (Labour) hasn't been strong enough to push for red lines» and the May - led - government «answers to only a few Brexiteers» with the prime minister focused on «keeping her party together and win the next elections,» Dance added.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

For all you kids out there, Bennett was the Conservative prime minister who did the Liberals a favour by winning the 1930 election, relieving William Lyon Mackenzie King of the responsibility of dealing with the Great Depression.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party that he heads won a landslide election in May 2014, ousting the centre - left Congress party and giving India its most business - friendly government in a decade: one committed to boosting growth, creating jobs, and...

Japan's Abe secures supermajority Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won a landslide victory in last weekend's general election, opening the way for a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution.

Reform candidate Stanley Waters won the 1989 election and was appointed to the Senate in 1990 on the advice of then - prime minister Brian Mulroney.

The nation's general election on June 8 resulted in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party failing to win a parliamentary majority.

Today, Prime Minister David Cameron said if he wins the next general election, his government would reduce the maximum amount a household could claim in benefits from # 26,000 to # 23,000 a year.

Elections are announced in Great Britain and this party is finally going to win them in July 1945, bringing Clement Attlee into the position of Prime Minister.

Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority» that is, with a political entity that is kept alive on the West Bank by an American - trained militia and the Israeli Army, and that is headed by a prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose party won 2 percent of the vote in the last elections and who faces a constituency two - thirds of which tells pollsters that it doesn't want any deal with a Jewish state.

Colonel George Wigg, who has been the watchdog for scandals and security leaks in Harold Wilson's government and a close confidant of the Prime Minister (he helped win the election for the Socialists by exposing Profumo), became the No. 1 man in British racing last week.

In three elections over just a few years, Walker's team seems to have built an operation that's primed to leverage digital tools to help win Walker the Republican presidential nomination.

Elections are won at the water cooler, at the bar, at the dinner table, over the phone and in bed, and Obama's supporters were primed to know the messages, know the strategy and understand the stakes every time his candidacy came up in conversation.

The Prime Minister won the last election, but the fact he has said he will not fight the next has led some to question his future authority, with malcontents in the Tory ranks already calling for his head.

«Churchill won an election and became prime minister in his mid-to late 70s.

Since then, he has won a series of controversial elections that critics claim he rigged, including one in 2008 which he lost to now Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, sparking political violence that human rights groups say claimed over 200 lives.

Prime Minister David Cameron's promise to hold an in - or - out referendum on British EU membership (were the Tories to win the 2015 election) was ostensibly triggered in part by the pressure from UKIP in the opinion polls.

She also knows that Prime Ministers are seldom stronger than when first elected or fresh from winning a general election.

Apart from a call for repatriating certain powers, the Prime Minister promised the British people an in - or - out referendum in 2017 should his party win the 2015 general election.

But elections are also won at the water cooler, on Facebook and at the church supper, and the more people primed to answer Fox News propaganda with their own experiences, the better a chance we have to blunt the hard edge of the Republican message.

In the general election Ed Miliband sought to project himself as an outsider insurgent but it was the Etonian Prime Minister who won.

Even so at the start of a reign a prime minister has an authority he or she will only possess again if they win a big election victory.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

Prior to 2011, the law was that an election had to be held at least every 5 years, but there was no minimum time; elections were called whenever the Prime Minister felt they had the best chance of winning.

They are probably thinking «oooh... look at the Tories going all political fight club over Europe... wouldn't it be marv if Brexit won, Cameron would go and then we'd have an election and hello Prime Minister Corbyn!!»

There has previously been some speculation that if the Conservatives win the general election and David Cameron becomes Prime Minister, he might combine the Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices into a single «Department for the Nations» or such like, with one minister sitting in the Cabinet.

London (CNN) British Prime Minister Theresa May has failed to win a parliamentary majority in the UK election, leaving the country with what's known as a «hung parliament.»

But after Brexit, appearing «prime ministerial» is no longer the deal - breaker it used to be for the kind of angry voter Labour needs to attract if it is to win the next election.

The election was won by the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was placed under house arrest and not permitted to become prime minister.

During the recent by - election at Nantwich and Crewe which the Conservatives gained by overturning a huge Labour majority, various comments were heard from teenage voters and early twenty - somethings such as: «If Tories win does it mean a change of Prime Minister?»

Moreover, «[i] f the election results in an overall majority for a different party, the incumbent Prime Minister and government will immediately resign and the Sovereign will invite the leader of the party that has won the election to form a government» (§ 2.11).

He has turned the debate on an iconic right of centre policy (inheritance tax), stymied plans for a 2007 election, prised open important new debates on tax complexity and green taxation and even managed to win the favours of the Prime Minister's erstwhile mistress, Miss Prudence.

The prime minister, in one of the most premature election events in British political history, told them he would do more about welfare if they won in 2015.

In Australia too, Tony Abbott has just won the election despite being seen as a worse potential prime minister than his Labor opponent.

Cameron needs the authority of being prime minister because MPs across the party are dismayed at his failure to win the election.

The former shadow business secretary argued Mr Corbyn was unable to «provide the leadership» to win a general election but that she believed she had what it takes to become Prime Minister.

Mr Harpham had won the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough seat at last year's general election and grilled David Cameron over 100 job losses in Sheffield steel at Prime Minister's Questions just two weeks before he died.

Tories say the atmosphere in the parliamentary party has changed over the past week after a consensus had been formed around Easter that the prime minister was secure at least until next year's European parliamentary elections, which Ukip is expected to win.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party has won the most seats in parliamentary elections, first exit polls say.

Anything other than an overwhelming win in a constituency identified as prime UKIP territory, would have been an anti-climax in this by - election, for both Carswell and UKIP.

Although often seen as «lame ducks» or less legitimate, remember both Lloyd George and Winston Churchill and Lloyd George, number 1 and number 2 respectively in the highest rated Prime Ministers of the 20th century, got to 10 Downing Street without winning an election.

There are no examples on record of a British party winning a general election despite being less trusted on the economy than its main rival and with a leader not seen as the strongest candidate to become prime minister.

There's generally two ways you can become Prime Minister in the UK through (i) winning a General Election (ii) winning a party leadership election (or in the pre-1965 Conservative party being «chosen») to become head of the largest party when a Prime Minister leaves - see this great infographElection (ii) winning a party leadership election (or in the pre-1965 Conservative party being «chosen») to become head of the largest party when a Prime Minister leaves - see this great infographelection (or in the pre-1965 Conservative party being «chosen») to become head of the largest party when a Prime Minister leaves - see this great infographic here.

The Prime Minister said: «I am determined to win this seat back at the next general election because anything other than a Conservative government will put our recovery at risk and Ed Miliband in Downing Street.»