Sentences with phrase «failed leadership bid»

Former education secretary and chief whip Gove, 48, had kept a low profile since his failed leadership bid before stepping out earlier this month to attend the festival.

He was given a gong for «comeback of the year» after his failed leadership bid propelled him into King Charles Street.

Sometimes over the years the deputy leadership was a consolation prize for a failed leadership bid.

Not exact matches

And Balls could lift the lid on his failed 2010 Labour leadership bid and the role he played in his wife Yvette Cooper's failed bid last year.

«The full scale of the backlash against two former cabinet ministers» failed bid to initiate a secret ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership started to emerge today.

There has been considerable displeasure with Cox's leadership among rank - and - file Republicans for some time, with upset over everything from his failure to fulfill his fundraising pledges to his wooing of Levy to the failed congressional bid of his son, Chris, in NY - 1.

In a statement issued last night Mr Hain said: «As I said in December, as a result of administrative failings within my campaign there were donations to my deputy leadership bid which were not registered within the normal time to the Electoral Commission.

Jeremy Corbyn has denounced a failed legal bid to have him kicked off the Labour leadership ballot as a «waste of time and resources».

Mr Hain has been attacked by the Conservatives for failing to fully explain why around # 50,000 was channelled into his campaign through the PPF, which was set up in December 2006, three months after he launched his deputy leadership bid.

It seemed that she was determined to ensure that his leadership bid failed.

Under the leadership of Astorino and his appointees the county jail has become a state of confusion and danger for officers, civilians and prisoners, a local Westchester blog «Independent Democrats «reported, during Astorino's fail bid for the gubernatorial seat.

When announcing his leadership bid on Wednesday, Ed Balls mentioned the «I» word endlessly, and praised a politician whose sour countenance and self - styled toughness have long embodied the most dried - up school of Labour politics: Phil Woolas, this week heard bemoaning the fact that Labour failed to make more of the policy whereby benefits are refused to those seeking indefinite leave to remain (which would have made for very uplifting posters).

Speculation about his leadership bid came after he failed to win the backing of the Unite union, which gave its endorsement to Ed Miliband.

Foster, who has repeatedly criticised Mr Corbyn's tenure as party leader, launched a failed legal bid to block him from the leadership ballot triggered by a shadow cabinet revolt last summer.

The No campaign, Better Together, with its focus - group tested slogan, «No Thanks», was essentially run by the Labour Party — chaired by Alistair Darling, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible with Brown for the deregulation of uk banks, and directed by Blair McDougall, who had organized David Miliband's failed Labour leadership bid — though its platform included local Tories and Liberal Democrats, to the embarrassment of many Labour functionaries, who preferred to claim that the whole referendum campaign was a waste of time.