Sentences with phrase «for leadership contest»

Labour's national executive committee (NEC) will consider widening the franchise when it fixes the timetable for the leadership contest tomorrow.

Large group of MPs plan to call for leadership contest if this month's budget and May's local elections go poorly

Despite attempts during conference to smear as traitors those who, like Siobhain McDonagh and Joan Ryan, called publicly for a leadership contest, the two women ended up looking more like conscientious objectors.

Senior Labour MP Barry Sheerman has called for its leadership contest to be «paused» over fears it has been infiltrated by supporters of other parties.

He survived them all, as he did in January of this year when two former Cabinet ministers - Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon - called for a leadership contest to resolve his position once and for all.

Several MPs said that if Brown did not recover in the polls by early 2009, he should call for a leadership contest.

His unpopularity led eight Labour MPs to call for a leadership contest in September 2008, less than 15 months into his premiership.

Calling for a leadership contest when Mr Blair steps down, Mr Mandelson said the chancellor has leadership potential because he «is a modest man» with «real depth» who is able to «set a direction for the country».

That would pave the way for a leadership contest that could involve Yvette Cooper, Chuka Umunna and Andy Burnham, to name but three.

Falconer's call for a leadership contest was swiftly rejected by the newly promoted home secretary, Alan Johnson, who is widely regarded as the most likely successor to Brown if the prime minister is ousted.

Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, is facing accusations that she is «on manoeuvres» for a leadership contest if Labour loses the next election.

His criticism, which he soon toned down, placed Mr Kennedy in an ideal position for the leadership contest as he picked up votes from across the party.

There simply isn't enough parliamentary time for a leadership contest.

A senior Labour MP has called for its leadership contest to be «paused» over fears it has been infiltrated by supporters of other parties.

As Owen Smith's odds of winning dropped from 6/1 to 7/1 with William Hill, the MP responded by calling for the leadership contest to be extended.

Champion is one of the 35 MPs who nominated Corbyn for the leadership contest last year, saying she did so in order to «broaden the debate».

Such a commitment does not exclude forming internal groups with different ideological objectives, or from seeking to attract members for another leadership contest in the future.

Harper needs to step aside now to allow time for a leadership contest to occur.

The other motion reduces from 15 per cent to 5 per cent the number of parliamentary Labour party nominations required for leadership contests — which would smooth the path for a left wing replacement to Corbyn.

Not exact matches

Below you'll find Google Trends charts for the 100 days before the campaign's last month for both the Conservative and Liberal leadership contests, along with explanations for some of the biggest spikes in search volume during that time.

The person who leads it will need to win an open leadership contest, just as Stephen Harper did in 2004 for the new federal Conservative party.

Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

This being the party's first contested leadership campaign since 1996, it is unclear what the benchmark for membership sales should be.

Regardless if these registered supporters actually vote in their leadership contest, their names are now entered into a database that will be useful for the Liberals in the next provincial election.

After weeks of coyness, MLA Sandra Jansen, 53 (Calgary - North West) finally announced her candidacy for the Progressive Conservative leadership contest.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

Mr. Adatia was the Chief Financial Officer for Premier Alison Redford «s leadership campaign in 2011, and he was an unsuccessful candidate in the hotly contested PC nomination in Calgary - Hawkwood earlier this year.

It is hard to see Mr. Prentice's term - limit pledge as anything but an attempt to distract Albertans from lacklustre leadership contest and the ongoing government spending and airplane scandals (and the PC government's unwillingness to take responsibility for its actions).

If we are a Christian congregation we can elect a man of virtue as pastor but there is no need for any contest concerning leadership.

The main candidates in the Tory leadership contest are fully formed politicians, tested by politics at the highest level for many years.

Jacob Rees - Mogg, who acts more and more like he is in a leadership contest, said «I profoundly disagree with the chancellor» and damned ministers for being «cowed by the EU».

Of course Khan is highly unlikely to be back in the Commons in time for a pre-2020 leadership contest.

Leadsom had moderate Tories fearing for their party's future during the recent leadership contest.

Now that we have been rushed into a leadership contest, there is an urgent need for those MPs who see themselves as democratic socialists (of whatever hue) to get together at a meeting in the Commons to agree on a candidate for the leadership election.

Owen Smith launched a new vision for workers» rights today with a spring in his step — after new sampling from the Labour leadership contest showed he has a sliver of a chance of winning.

And crucially, for now at least, the feverish talk of leadership contests seems to have gone quiet.

Last week she received 199 nominations in the second ballot of Tory MPs for the Conservative leadership race, and secured the top job after her rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the contest.

It is entirely legitimate for her to stay on while she tries to sort out a deal with the DUP, asks for a delay in talks, then presides over a leadership contest.

The Scottish Tories will then have a leadership contest that should be an opportunity for a wider debate about the party's position in Scotland.

If the next Tory leadership contest comes down to Boris versus that EuroMP Fox News has the hots for, I think I know which one Conspirators would want to win.

For many Conservative MPs and cabinet ministers, that might be better than an uncertain leadership contest that could hand the prize to someone detested by at least one side of the Brexit divide.

One interesting issue in this scenario is whether Labour would seek to hasten a departure by Nick Clegg (as the Liberal Democrats did for Gordon Brown in 2010) and whether the context of being in government with Labour would affect the outcome of any Lib Dem leadership contest (for which Tim Farron is currently hotly tipped).

The Scottish Labour leadership contest this autumn is important for the entire Labour Party in Britain, because how the party performs in Scotland will be a significant factor in whether Labour can form the next UK government.

I saw an interesting graph of the polls and Labour for 12 months was level with, sometimes just ahead, and sometimes just behind the Tories before the Right Wing coup when unsurprisingly the polls have gone downhill and we have had to waste months on a leadership contest when we could have been hammering the Tories.

They should be kicking themselves for being so absorbed in a non-existent leadership contest that they made themselves class warriors, not moaning that Ed Miliband noted a weak spot.

«Yvette is 100 % going for leader,» one ally of Cooper told friends this week, adding that the campaign message on why the MP for Pontefract and Castleford only came third in the 2015 leadership contest has already been put together.

The first is that the Conservatives don't even end up as the largest party and Cameron is summarily ejected from Downing Street, in which case he would immediately resign, leaving the way clear for Boris to fight a leadership contest against, in all probability, George Osborne and Theresa May and possibly one or two other, darker horses — odds on Chris Grayling anyone?

Did Boris Johnson today make one of the first moves, however prematurely, to prepare for the next Conservative Party leadership contest?

Beckett has already described herself as a «moron» for having nominated Corbyn in the last Labour leadership contest.

If and when he and his party wield power again will depend on whether the contest for its leadership really does begin Labour's renewal.