Sentences with phrase «if only the party leaders»

Astorino is also apparently not buying Donald Trump's pledge that he will run for governor and unite the Republican and Conservative parties if only the party leaders unite behind him and promise he will not have to fight for the nomination.

Not exact matches

Wildrose leader Danielle Smith said in 2012 that, if elected, she would only serve two - terms as Premier (her party constitution had it enshrined until it was removed in 2013).

If there were only two parties on the ballot: reasoned leaders and blithering christians, then it would be much easier to vote.

In his only direct reference to issue, Mr Reid noted in his speech this morning that former party deputy leader Roy Hattersley had said he would shoot himself if the home secretary succeeded Tony Blair.

Passion and feeling are desired qualities in the next Labour leader, but the party will only regain office if it fuses these attributes with smart policy shaped in co-operation with external voices.

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.

«If they didn't do any background checks, and only picked him because he's the party leader, the public should know that,» Horner said.

Outsiders can run in a party primary, but only if party leaders approve letting any particular non-member candidate run in that party's primary.

The Lib Dem leader's central message is that the coalition can only work if his own party accepts it is a full and willing participant that jointly «owns the government».

«If PMQs was the only political test in this country William Hague would still be leader of the Conservative party.»

The Hansard Society say the incumbent «caretaker» prime minister has first call on forming an administration: «Only if the incumbent prime minister fails to put together a deal with one or more of the other parties, or, after having chosen to «meet» parliament, he loses a confidence motion, will the leader of the opposition party be invited to form a government.»

Roy Jenkins told me when I was considering joining Labour after Tony Blair became Labour leader: «The only real difference is that Labour is now the larger party of social democrats, the Lib Dems are the smaller; and in our political system, it is generally wise to support the larger party if they are on the same page.»

I know that those who carelessly condemn him in public, clandestinely go back to heal wounds knowing what the man represents, his affability, readiness to listen and reluctance to get emotional easily no wonder after years of intense condemnation, Prof Martey openly praised him for his humility and assured him of his constant prayers to succeed.In our bid to get our parties to office, we must also consider the safety of our nation and the cohesion we've enjoyed so far.I don't think the Npp in its current state can manage its internal issues if elected into office let alone manage the nation.Our democracy shouldn't be toyed with in the name of political extremism and unworkable promises.We don't need a leader who will establish himself by intimidation and force, who will choose henchmen around himself, create secret police and abandoned all pretence of consulting the wishes of the masses but will only expect regimented YES from us on all national issues like we seeing in the Npp today.

If only she'd been elected Leader of the Labour Party, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now.

I'm all in favour of getting party leaders to give evidence to select committees, but these hearings only work if the MPs get a chance to probe and cross-examine, using follow - up questions.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Mohammed Lawal, says a national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will only leave the party if President Muhammadu Buhari quits the ruling party.

Despite his removal, the former Borno State governor has continued to insist that he remains the leader of the opposition party, stressing that he will only vacate his office if allowed to select his successor and to organise a new National Convention for the party.

If you can only support a Labour Party with Tony Blair or David Miliband as its leader, f *** off and join the Tories, you'd make a better fit.

«But if the British public vote to leave the EU, we will only have ourselves to blame — and many will naturally ask whether leaders of our main political parties did enough to pull their weight.

A Corbyn - supporting MP said that would only work if the party accepted the leader's «broad anti-austerity political and economic programme».

There are about 200,000 Labour Party members and 2.7 m trade unionists and it was put to Ms Harman on the Andrew Marr Show that the change would mean - even if only one in 10 took up the # 3 option - union members having a greater say on choice of leader than full members.

Sir Menzies» predecessor, Charles Kennedy, is understood to be considering what would be a remarkable comeback as party leader, but is being advised by senior Liberal Democrats that he would only damage himself further if he made a doomed effort to regain his job.

Underlying party support in Britain is pretty stable — if you graph opinion polls over the last couple of years it's clear that the only events that have actually shifted political support have been David Cameron's election as Conservative leader, which moved the Labour and Conservative parties pretty much neck and neck, and the week prior to the local elections when Labour was hit by both John Prescott's affair and the foreign prisoner release scandal, since when the Conservatives have had a consistent lead.

Also it'd be cool if a koopaling were in this, but then you'd have to only pick one or two from 7 which would be hard (I guess Larry or Lemmy would work for being the leader and the most likely to party respectively)