Sentences with phrase «first leadership bid»

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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.

Next month, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will celebrate the first anniversary of his successful bid to succeed Stephen Harper in the probable knowledge that some of his former rivals — as well as other ambitious Conservatives — are holding a bit of a deathwatch on his leadership.

He was, as Danny writes, the first shadow cabinet minister to back David Cameron's leadership bid.

Supporters of Charles Kennedy's bid for the Liberal Democrat leadership are increasingly concerned that the frontrunner to succeed Paddy Ashdown has not done enough to clinch victory in the first count - and may face a dangerous run - off against the rising challenge of Simon Hughes.

Today, when he finally did confirm his leadership bid, he said he needed to talk to «stakeholders» in the Labour party first.

NJ Gov. Chris Christie is preparing to take his first concrete steps toward a presidential bid by setting up a leadership political action committee as early as this month that could help pay for travel and provide a fund - raising vehicle for would - be donors.

«Throughout the campaign I was also very vocal about my support for restrictions on lobbying activity, or bidding on state contracts, reform to restrictions on outside income, and term limits for our bodies» leaders, which is what we had voted on in our rules, that was the first thing that we did - eight years that we wanted for committee chairs and for leadership,» Serino says.

Mr Cameron made a commitment to support marriage as one of the first acts of his Tory leadership bid.

The former Energy Minister was moved to Liz Truss's old job - getting a seat at the Cabinet table for the first time - despite quitting her leadership bid within days amid a major row over comments she made about motherhood.

A top operative of the commission said on Friday that the leadership of the commission had initiated a discreet probe of the former First Lady in a bid to assemble evidence against her in the event of her prosecution as a fallout of the commission's decision to freeze $ 20m traced to her.