Sentences with phrase «elections as leader»

Following two narrow defeats for the Conservatives at the polls, in February and October 1974, significant disquiet in the party had developed over the leadership of Edward Heath, who had lost three elections as leader.

He emerged from two general elections as leader of the party with the most seats in a minority parliament.

They pre-date Scheer's election as leader.

Flanagan's election as leader has been met with skepticism by upstate Republicans, who have pointed to his vote in 2013 in favor of the SAFE Act.

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Following Ed Miliband's election as leader, she returned to her role as Deputy Leader, shadowing Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and with the title of Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

Following Brown's resignation, she quickly announced that she would remain Deputy Leader rather than standing for election as Leader.

David Cameron, Tony Blair and John Smith's election as leader all resulted in a noticeable boost to their respective parties.

«Since my election as leader of our party last year, we've won every parliamentary by - election, some with vastly increased majorities.

The problem, as described by Lewis Minkin in The Blair Supremacy (Labour First «s secretary Luke Akehurst's «book of the year» in 2014), was that «Blair, despite a huge victory in his election as leader, had in practice only a narrow base of committed supporters of his full political project» [p663].

Articulations of class division in cultural terms have become stronger in Labour since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader.

«Let's stop these childish attacks» on a Labour faction that has done nothing but undermine Ed since his election as Leader... why?

One weakness of Cameron at 10 is that we really only assess him as Prime Minister after 2010 and only have glimpses of his background, education, family, decision to enter politics and his election as leader - something which, although attracting controversy, can be found in Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott Call me Dave.

Speaking at a media conference after the national executive meeting, he said: «It is clear that a small minority who didn't accept my election as leader of the Scottish Labour Party just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the party.

Chuka Umunna was the second candidate to declare he would stand for election as leader of the Labour Party.

Jowell had been elected to the Commons as MP for Dulwich (later Dulwich and West Norwood), in 1992, only two years before Blair's election as leader, but she had previously acquired 15 years of political expertise as a Labour councillor.

But speaking to the Times, Mandelson said anyone who tried to take Labour back to the era before Blair's election as leader in 1994 would wreck the party's chances of a swift return to power.

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

While largely ignoring the moves against him, he did make several references to his election as leader to highlight his overwhelming mandate from Labour members.

Butler, by contrast, was seen as on the liberal wing of the Conservatives, and his election as leader might split the party.

Acting leader between the resignation of Charles Kennedy on 7 January 2006 and his own election as leader on 2 March 2006.

But FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said the party «had changed for the better» since Jeremy Corbyn's spectacular election as leader in September this year.

The number of constituencies represented this year at the conference at which Ed Milliband's election as leader was announced was the lowest in living memory — 412 meaning more than one in three -LSB-...]

The number of constituencies represented this year at the conference at which Ed Milliband's election as leader was announced was the lowest in living memory — 412 meaning more than one in three parties was unrepresented.

Given this is his last general election as leader — «not according to your last question,» he interjects, laughing — which three key seats on the night of 7 May would he be looking out for as proof that he was heading back to Number 10?

He was a respected incumbent in the post but, after Tony Blair's election as leader, his days were numbered, not least when he delayed the announcement of a frontbench reshuffle by five days because of his opposition to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as a junior opposition whip.

Although Straw was subsequently cleared of misconduct by the parliamentary standards watchdog, his chances of a seat in the Lords are said to have disappeared after Corbyn's election as leader in September.

Of the 75 polls between Corbyn's election as leader and the tabling of of a motion of no confidence in him the day after the EU referendum, only 15 showed Labour within three points of the Conservatives, and only three showed Labour ahead, by one, three and three points.

Whatever Corbyn's shortcomings his election as leader would take us into uncharted territory and the confusion it would generate would open up space for some creative thinking (again, a phrase Labour politics rarely brings to mind).

He further suggested that those on the right of the party had resented her election as leader and ignored her, treating her as a «wee lassie».

Not exact matches

It was the NDP leader's first major speech to the industry since winning the provincial election in May; although prior to Oct. 9 she had consulted with individuals and small groups, she'd yet to speak directly to the sector as one entity.

A regional election in Sicily over the weekend could lift the party of former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi, as the country gears up for a national vote next year.

As soon as the May 2 federal election was called, the questions began for New Democratic Leader Jack LaytoAs soon as the May 2 federal election was called, the questions began for New Democratic Leader Jack Laytoas the May 2 federal election was called, the questions began for New Democratic Leader Jack Layton.

The assertions of voter fraud, which Trump first made shortly after the election, gained traction this week after Trump, as president, repeated them during a closed - door meeting with congressional leaders on Monday.

Investors also kept to the sidelines on an uncertain political outlook in the world's two largest oil consumers thi s month as Americans head to the polls for the presidential elections next week and China's leaders meet to fill top posts.

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

The latest sanctions come as President Donald Trump's relationship with Putin is under greater scrutiny since the American leader congratulated the Russian president for his landslide election victory last month.

Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the South African opposition Democratic Alliance party — and an ally of the fractious MDC — called for Mugabe to resign immediately, and for «fresh elections to be held in Zimbabwe as soon as practically possible.»

A former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had the following assessment after Democrat Doug Jones defeated embattled Republican Roy Moore in the special election to fill a Senate seat in Alabama: Anyone out of the phone book — aside from Moore — would've won as a Republican.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

The resignation chatter was swiftly denied by the PM's communications staff, but with an election coming up in 2015, we're watching the Conservatives» internal maneuvering as the party contemplates a fourth election with Harper as leader.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

As if to prove this claim, federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced that one plank of his election platform will be to realign the tax system to shift wealth away from those nasty one - percenters and down to the middle class.

Hoping to emulate her father's huge upset in the 2002 presidential elections, in which he progressed to the second round of voting before losing to Jacques Chirac, Le Pen started campaigning for the 2012 presidential elections almost as soon as she became party leader in 2011.

Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018: PM Modi will address a rally in Santhemarahalli town of Chamarajanagar district, where the party has never been very strong, as local leaders believe the BJP has the opportunity to make gains in the region.

Having tried to dissuade Trump behind the scenes, hoping that he would vacillate on this issue as he had on DACA and guns, the usually supine Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan finally spoke up after five days of public silence, expressing concern on the part of their followers that the tariffs would set off a trade war and wipe out the economic gains on which they were pinning their November election prospects.

The suggestions didn't receive as much attention as they should have when they were released — blame bigger distractions, such as Doug Ford's election as Ontario Progressive Conservative leader.

Based on what Environment Minister Peter Kent recently told CBC's Evan Solomon, the Tories no longer oppose only the broadest form of carbon tax (as proposed Stéphane Dion is his disastrous 2008 election run as Liberal leader), but also the cap - and - trade option, which use to be in the Conservative platform (it's on page 32 here).

By comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grants.