Sentences with phrase «from deputy leader»

Following poor election results in the 2010 UK general election as well as the 2011 Northern Ireland Assembly election, it was reported that the then - SDLP leader, Margaret Ritchie, faced a leadership challenge from deputy leader Patsy McGlone.

Maybe one of those involved could explain how Angela Eagle made the transition from deputy leader candidate of choice to spearhead of the anti-Corbyn camp.

Michael Ellis Although it's not an official promotion, the Northampton North MP's move from deputy leader of the Commons to junior culture minister can be seen as an upward trajectory.

Not exact matches

Sarwar was MP for Glasgow Central from 2010 to 2015 and became an MSP for the Glasgow region in 2016, and was deputy leader of Scottish Labour under Johann Lamont's leadership.

The interventions ahead of Wednesday's OPEC meeting came at key moments from Putin, Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani, OPEC and non-OPEC sources said.

Promoted from deputy to William Gallas to the leader in the defensive line, Vermaelen has an opportunity to assert his personality on the players around him and enforce this mentality on his fellow defenders.

«Hard working families» would benefit from an SNP - led Scotland, the party's deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon promised today.

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

Reports suggest Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, whose husband Jack Dromey replaced Mr Simon in his Birmingham Erdington seat, and party fixer Tom Watson - another Birmingham MP - are considering blocking sitting MPs from standing.

The deputy Labour leader wrote in the run - up to a regional Cabinet meeting in Exeter: «This will be a chance for me to hear directly from you as party members in a private meeting to talk about the issues and campaigning activity.

David Heath, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader of the Commons, says there's been «good support» for the bill - a comment which triggers mocking laughter from MPs.

Angela Smith, the shadow deputy leader of the Commons, defends New Labour's record from the despatch box.

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.

Having been demoted from foreign secretary to leader of the house in 1989 — although he was given the largely meaningless title of Deputy PM to soften the blow — Howe quit in November 1990, and in one of the great acts of Commons theatre used his resignation speech to savage Thatcher over the Poll Tax and Europe.

Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress [NDC], Koku Anyidoho has call on the New Patriotic Party Leader Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to distance himself from Kennedy Agyapong.

To give you an idea of just how unhappy lawmakers are with the governor's habit — like other governors before him — of stuffing non-budget policy items into the budget, Deputy Senate Minority Leader John DeFrancisco has suggested the Legislature move a constitutional amendment that would go before voters to outlaw anything other than spending from being put into the annual spending plan.

Lansman, an old Bennite, will recall that unions effectively vetoed Tony Benn wresting the deputy leader crown from Denis Healey in 1981 and wish to remain King or Queen makers.

Interestingly, we haven't heard a PUBLIC word from Skelos since Klein's big reveal, although Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous went on Talk 1300 this morning with the NY Post's Fred Dicker and called Klein's coalition government statement «very powerful,» without either confirming or denying that talks to form a coalition are actually underway.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFranciso disputed the charge from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Monday that the Republican conference was practicing «fuzzy math» in its assessment the proposed state budget includes $ 803 million in new fees and taxes.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous, who received a $ 7,500 contribution from the NRA in 2010, this year only received $ 1,500.

While Tom Watson, the party's deputy leader, distanced himself from the decision in an interview on Radio 4's Today:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to change the state tax code to get around the loss of deductions under the new federal law is «the work of a mind severed from reason and reality,» GOP gubernatorial candidate John DeFrancisco, the deputy state Senate majority leader, said.

At 10 a.m., Deputy Senate Minority Leader Mike Gianaris holds an event highlighting his bill that would ban pet stores from selling animals from for - profit «mills,» 31 - 19 Newtown Ave., Astoria, Queens.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a gubernatorial candidate, criticized Cuomo for accepting campaign contributions from political appointees, saying the governor violated his own executive order.

DeFransisco, who is deputy Senate majority leader, says the lesson from the Cuomo administration approach, is that all businesses should benefit from state help, not just those chosen by politicians.

She was Deputy Leader of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2010.

«The Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara as well as the Deputy Speaker, Yussuf Lasun; the Minority Leader, Leo Ogor; and the Chief Whip, Hassan Ado are not immune from investigation under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, even though the Hon. Speaker Hon. Yakubu Dogara has been talking tough saying that the EFCC can not investigate him.»

She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she has served as the Acting Leader of the Labour Party twice and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.

Once elected, the metro mayor will be required to appoint a deputy mayor, drawn from one of the constituent authority leaders, to whom the metro mayor can delegate powers as they see fit.

And Mr. Gentile's office, too, would not say whether the councilman was definitely running for the seat — but said that as a prosecutor, state senator and now deputy majority leader in the Council, he'd «never backed away from a fight.»

[21] On 27 November 2006, the Press Association reported that she had commissioned an opinion poll from YouGov which found that Harman would be the most likely potential deputy leader to increase the Labour vote at the next general election.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous just finished up an appearance on Talk 1300AM's «Live From The State Capitol With Fred Dicker.»

A spokesman for Labour's deputy leader said: «Tom Watson has received an apology from James Mills on behalf of the junior press officer in Jeremy Corbyn's campaign team who released this list by mistake.»

Recent admissions that he had dinner with James Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks and their partners just two days after taking away responsibility for the BSkyB deal from Vince Cable have prompted the Lib Dems» deputy leader Simon Hughes and party president Tim Farron to report the prime minister to the Cabinet Office secretary.

The decision to write the CJN arose from a point of order which was raised by the Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, who called the attention of the chamber to newspaper reports indicating the decision of the Abuja to stop the process of amendments.

Here was the Lib Dem leader differentiating himself from the deputy prime minister.

I know Catholics who have voted Ukip and the Deputy Leader, Paul Nuttall is a practising pro-life Catholic from Liverpool.

It was a noisy and acrimonious scene on the floor of the Senate as Senator Thomas W. Libous, a Republican from Binghamton and the party's deputy leader, shouted for a roll - call vote, while Democrats attempted to stall the vote by asking to adjourn the session.

Valesky, the IDC's deputy leader, rejects the charge from Democratic critics that he has betrayed the party.

Representatives have included Labour councillor Michael Michael, who was deputy leader of the Cardiff Council until 2008 [4] and Plaid Cymru's Neil McEvoy, who was deputy leader of the council from 2008 to 2012.

Someone from the party's left might fancy a stab at the deputy leader job.

On the other extreme, in a December 2010 award to the union representing St. Lawrence County sheriff's deputies, an arbitration panel chairman faulted the county's leaders for seeking a wage and benefit freeze from deputies without seeking «even a small sacrifice from County taxpayers or other groups.»

DeFrancisco, the Senate deputy majority leader from Syracuse, is going to be the No. 1 target of the new Fighting for Children PAC that Gary Greenberg says he's in the process of forming.

However, she later withdrew from the contest in favour of Alex Salmond, standing instead as depute (deputy) leader on a joint ticket with Salmond.

Party chairs met Monday at the Fort Orange Club, just up the hill from the state Capitol, to hear the three remaining gubernatorial prospects: Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco and Joel Giambra, a lobbyist and former Erie County executive.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous, R - Binghamton, received a letter from JCOPE informing him of the inquiry, the Times Union reported this morning.

Commenting on the fallout from the matter on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.5 FM, Ablakwa said he was taken aback as to why the Deputy Majority Leader, Adwoa Safo will be involved in such outright falsehood to deceive her constituents.

(Airs 2/01 @ 3 p.m. & 2/03/18 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with newly announced Republican candidate for governor, State Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, from New York's 50th District.

Speaking on the same programme, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes said he believed the Tories would suffer the most from Ukip as they are most obviously attractive to people who «want to vote on the right for less public expenditure».

They're scheduled to hear from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous and AFSCME International Secretary - Treasurer Lee A. Saunders.