Sentences with phrase «first leaders of the party»

The three leaders the Party had after Major and before Cameron were the first leaders of the Party not to make it to Prime Minister since Austen Chamberlain in the 1920s.

Not exact matches

Layton was, for most of the last decade, the tireless leader of the New Democratic Party (traditionally Canada's «third» party), and eventually led it during its historical first turn as the Official Opposition in the House of ComParty (traditionally Canada's «third» party), and eventually led it during its historical first turn as the Official Opposition in the House of Comparty), and eventually led it during its historical first turn as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

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.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will be given first chance as the leader of the party with most votes but his choices are limited.

So Kenney knows the drill, and had more or less telegraphed the NDP's first step, predicting that they would go negative because gosh what kind of governing party would stoop to doing that against a newly minted leader 18 months before the next general election.

The U.K.'s ruling Conservative party will hold the first stage of its selection process for a new leader on Tuesday evening and potential candidates have been busy putting their ideas forward for the post-Brexit environment.

One of Mr. Jean's first acts as leader was to dismiss Calgary - South East candidate Bill Jarvis, whose comments about «brown people» embarrassed the party on the night of its leadership announcement.

If his first week of transitioning into the Premier's Office is going smoothly, the same might not be the case for his first week as leader of the 43 - year governing Progressive Conservative Party.

He was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1993 and became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1995.

He was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1998, and became leader of the New Democratic Party in 2002.

Edmonton - Gold Bar Liberal MLA Bettie Hewes became the first woman to lead a major political party when she served as interim leader of the Official Opposition in 1994.

United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney has vowed to repeal the carbon tax if he is chosen the next Premier of Alberta, with his first piece of Legislation Bill 1, the Carbon Tax Repeal Act.

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers appeared to secure enough votes on Friday to pass the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades, putting them on the cusp of their first significant legislative victory as leaders geared up to pass a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut along party lines and send it to President Trump by Christmas.

The political manipulation of Christianity was the design behind the declaration of the National Party's first prime minister, D. F. Malan, that the church's «special calling» was to «guard the [Afrikaner] national interest,» and it is the design behind the recent call of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo for «every good believer to become a witness for liberation.»

The «social market» program put forward by Konrad Adenauer, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in the Federal Republic's first parliamentary elections in 1949, was a key element in this social and political transformation.

After coming to Turin he became one of the first outstanding leaders of the Italian Communist party.

The councilman said Ragusa's defense of Queens GOP First Vice Chair Stephen Graves is a «slap in the face» to rank - and - file party members, and he called on fellow elected officials and GOP leaders to boycott the Queens Republican Party dinner, which is scheduled for Apriparty members, and he called on fellow elected officials and GOP leaders to boycott the Queens Republican Party dinner, which is scheduled for ApriParty dinner, which is scheduled for April 18.

Scotland's first minister and the Scottish National party's leader is also MSP for the constituency of Gordon, leading his opponents to question how he could carry out three jobs at once.

However, in order to get a shot of becoming leader, Johnson must first convince Tory MPs that he has what it takes to be both leader of their party and ultimately prime minister.

The first leader of the new Party, Walter Veltroni, embraced the liberal agenda in a powerful speech given in Turin in June 2007 and, on the basis of that political platform, engaged Silvio Berlusconi in the 2008 electoral campaign.

The statement was signed by Nicola Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland, Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas, co-leaders of the Green party, Leanne Wood, leader of Plaid Cymru, Steven Agnew, leader of the Green party of Northern Ireland, Patrick Harvie, co-convener of the Scottish Green party and Alice Hooker - Stroud, leader of the Wales Green party.

First, government leaders deployed party whips effectively to enforce the discipline of their own MPs.

Mondello, a former state Republican Party chairman and longtime leader of the Nassau GOP, is the first party leader to announce his support of Maragos's US SenateParty chairman and longtime leader of the Nassau GOP, is the first party leader to announce his support of Maragos's US Senateparty leader to announce his support of Maragos's US Senate run.

This is not the first time the Tory leader has seen a prominent member of his party pay the price for being caught up in allegations that lobbying rules have been broken.

Although he is the first party leader since Margaret Thatcher to change the minds of some colleagues and commentators about the electoral consequences of espousing radical policies he is still constrained by party orthodoxies of which he is personally opposed.

According to Ipsos Mori, which has been asking voters the same question at every general election since the early 1980s, 2010 was the first year when as many people said they were voting on the character of the leader as much as they were on his party's policies.

First of all, in USSR there was never such a position as «party leader».

Bill Lipton, the state political director of the Working Families Party, told the AP that if Nixon should lose the September Democratic Party primary to Cuomo, his party leaders will meet with her and «make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.&rParty, told the AP that if Nixon should lose the September Democratic Party primary to Cuomo, his party leaders will meet with her and «make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.&rParty primary to Cuomo, his party leaders will meet with her and «make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.&rparty leaders will meet with her and «make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.»

This brings Labour level, the first time this has happened in a Mori since 2008, and will greeted with glee by the party, which still remains without a leader until September 25th, the eve of its conference.

Nassau's Democratic Committee this week launched the first of what it says will be numerous advertisements targeting Democratic county executive candidate George Maragos, who assails party leaders frequently.

If borne out it would be the first time a leader of the three main political parties has lost their seat in a general election since Labour's Arthur Henderson in 1931.

No surprise, as the Club's District Leader, Jacob Gold, had earlier become the first Brooklyn member of the Democratic State Committee to pledge his vote at the party convention to Cynthia Nixon.

AV is a first, timid step towards political renewal and away from the unedifying sight of the leaders of the two main parties jostling for the trappings of power, much in the manner of two bald men over a comb.

The establishment of an Irish Constitutional Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 centenary.

Former Deputy PM Nick Clegg moved first in the autumn of 2013 (his penultimate party conference as leader) and the Labour leader felt compelled to follow.

I predict that she will tonight win election as the first - ever Leader of the Green Party.

After being called the «most dangerous man in British politics», Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to use his first party conference in Brighton to show he is as normal and British as a cup of milky...

How did he reach the top, first in the party and then as the leader of the UK's first coalition government since the Second World War?

In September 2001, at the age of 47, he was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in the first - ever ballot of the Party's membership.

Conducted after the first Scottish leaders» debate on STV on Tuesday, but with much of the interviewing completed before the second instalment on BBC on Wednesday, the poll must have come as a bitter disappointment to the Labour party.

It is a race that is, at the very least, bound to be entertaining — the Queens County Democratic Party has backed Ms. Meng, even though Ms. Crowley is first cousins with the leader of the party, Congressman Joe CroParty has backed Ms. Meng, even though Ms. Crowley is first cousins with the leader of the party, Congressman Joe Croparty, Congressman Joe Crowley.

It has been 18 months since Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as leader of the Labour party, promising «a new kind of politics».

Scotland's first minister and leader of the SNP told the Guardian: «With fixed term parliaments, it gives parties in a minority government situation --(where) hopefully the SNP will be in a position of influence — huge ability to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.....»

Party leader Nigel Farage had failed to become Thanet South's MP, but his party reduced Labour councillors from 24 to four and won overall control of Thanet district — its first principal couParty leader Nigel Farage had failed to become Thanet South's MP, but his party reduced Labour councillors from 24 to four and won overall control of Thanet district — its first principal couparty reduced Labour councillors from 24 to four and won overall control of Thanet district — its first principal council.

Committee members remain divided on the idea of a 60 % reduction: Some, like longtime party leader Leah Daughtry, support eliminating superdelegates altogether on a first ballot convention vote.

Miliband is of Jewish heritage — the first Jewish leader of the Labour Party [157][158]-- and describes himself as a Jewish atheist.

At the time, the choice to entrust the incumbent prime minister rather than the leader of the largest party with the first attempt to form a government had cross-party approval.

I think British political leaders through out history can be fitted into the following 4 types, when it comes to the role of the state: Big Redistribution + Centralised State Big Redistribution + Decentralized State Small Redistribution + Centralized State Small Redistribution + Decentralized State The modernized wing of the labour party fit's basically in the first category, particularly post Credit Crunch.

Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders, [1] she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan governor in the general election.