To run his campaign, Mr Goldsmith called in Mark Fullbrook, the campaign manager behind Boris Johnson's 2012 victory, and a key member of Lynton Crosby's team which oversaw the
Tory General election victory in May.
National Executive Committee, 4 November 2014 As usual the first meeting after conference was an extended session, setting strategy for the year ahead,
with general election victory the over-riding objective.
The election was the third
consecutive general election victory for the Conservative Party, and second landslide under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, who became the first Prime Minister since the 2nd Earl of Liverpool in 1820 to lead a party into three successive electoral victories.
Bath 1992Although Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing
party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3,768.
But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory
general election victory apart from John Smith.
As a prime minister without her
own general election victory, May clearly hoped that her «hard Brexit» rhetoric would buy her plenty of votes from UKIP, strengthening her grip on Downing Street.
One might have thought that the Tory leadership — one that looks certain to
deliver general election victory — would be popular with the constituency party, but the reverse is true.
Some of Mr Blair's allies fear Mr Miliband is not doing enough to appeal to the centre - ground voters who gave the party three
general election victories between 1997 and 2005.
This Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Harold Wilson, considered to be one of Labour's most successful leaders with four
general election victories under his belt.
Warning that achieving a fourth
straight general election victory will be a «massive challenge» for his party, Mr Miliband stresses that the «real choice» is not between himself and Mr Brown, but between Labour and the Conservatives.
High March 30th: The return of Blair - The man who led New Labour to three consecutive
general election victories made his first major speech on British domestic politics since quitting Downing Street in 2007.
So in the next few months, just a year or so after winning an
unexpected general election victory, David Cameron is the party leader whose position is suddenly most under threat.
Jeremy Corbyn has made his first official visit to Scotland as Labour leader, pledging to «win back support» for the party following the SNP's
crushing general election victory.
June 2009 though has the advantages for Labour that they can save money by combining Local, EU and General Election campaigns and also maximise Labour turnout in the EU and Local Elections, a much improved performance in the EU and 2009 Local Elections along with a
solid General Election victory and Labour dissidents in parliament will largely fall quiet for some time and the next parliament will be off to a good start for the Prime Minister.
As usual the first meeting after conference was an extended session, setting strategy for the year ahead,
with general election victory the over-riding objective.
«Having been hammered by political punters backing Jeremy Corbyn at 200/1 to be Labour leader, Donald Trump at 150/1 to be US President, Brexit and a
Tory General Election victory both at 6/1, we're taking no chances this time round,» William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said.
Conaghan charts the sometimes difficult birth of the Monetary Policy Committee following Labour's
general election victory in 1997.
Following New Labour's landslide
general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.
I suggested to Bill that this Parliament might be like 1992, when within months of
his general election victory on April 9 John Major was plunged into a civil war with backbenchers like him over Maastricht.
Labour had pledged to ban tobacco advertising in its manifesto ahead of its 1997
General Election victory, supporting a proposed European Union Directive banning tobacco advertising and sponsorship.
Nearly 40 years later that decision appears to have been vindicated by science - as well as her three
general election victories, of course.
Another would be
a general election victory by a party with a clear and trumpeted manifesto commitment to EU membership.
He compared it to the so - called «winter of discontent» which paved the way for Margaret Thatcher's
general election victory of 1979 and Conservative rule.
At 6 am on the morning after Labour's 1997
General Election victory, Peter Mandelson called an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with the unexpectedly large number of Labour MPs who had been elected.
The last Conservative gain from Labour at a by - election before their 1979
general election victory was in Ilford North (1978).
She lost in the primary to Rep. Chris Van Hollen, now the senator - elect after
his general election victory Tuesday night.
Although fifty to sixty Tory MPs are likely to be women in the event of
a General Election victory, 85 % of the last six months of selections have been of men.
«The Tories have spent # 6m over two years in the parliamentary seats that hold the key to
general election victory... A drive for votes masterminded, and largely funded, by the Conservative deputy chairman, Lord Ashcroft, has seen party headquarters pump more than # 1.1 m into the coffers of constituency parties in Britain's most marginal seats.
«Now his reputation as a master strategist is restored, partly thanks to the Conservatives»
general election victory in May, for which he can claim much of the credit, and now thanks to a bold and shamelessly political Budget within weeks of the election victory.»
Could I lead Labour to win
a general election victory?
BBC economics editor Robert Peston noted: «To state the obvious, investors love the Tories»
general election victory.
We disagree — and not simply because it would be foolish to think Labour has nothing positive to learn from a politics which delivered the party three historic
general election victories, record investment in, and the renewal of, our public services, and a decade of economic growth and prosperity.
Following the incumbent Labour Party's 2005
general election victory, Reid was appointed Secretary of State for Defence.
David Cameron accused Jeremy Corbyn of having a «security - threatening, terrorist - sympathising, Britain - hating ideology» as he addressed the Conservative party conference for the first time since the party's
General Election victory.