Sentences with phrase «in the leadership race»

In second place is the news that a Labour supporting blogger who had been critical of his local council has been banned from voting in the leadership race.

Would he be prepared to launch a legal challenge if he is deemed ineligible to stand in the leadership race?

Scottish Labour's health spokesperson appears to be one of the front - runners in the leadership race due to his experience within the party.

So now we pay the price in a leadership race that fails to get the hairs on anyone's neck standing.

Normally, the runner - up in a leadership race can expect to get the shadow chancellor's post.

I will not express a preference at this stage in the leadership race.

Without even a front - runner in the leadership race, it's too early to tell.

Of the 28 UCP MLAs represented in Alberta's Legislative Assembly, nineteen have endorsed candidates in this leadership race (I am including Jean, the only sitting MLA in the contest, who has obviously endorsed himself).

Mr Reid has yet to officially rule himself out of the subsequent leadership race and reacted cryptically to questions related to the clear frontrunner in the leadership race, the chancellor Gordon Brown.

The updates would continue until Theresa May prevailed over Gove in the leadership race on July 8th.

In turn, Labour Tomorrow has donated # 114,460 to Saving Labour, another group opposing Corbyn in the leadership race against Owen Smith, which will conclude on Saturday.

Nonetheless, it is difficult to see that these findings can be seen as at all encouraging for Owen Smith's apparently slim chances of victory in the leadership race.

If Lammy backed Abbott to support diversity in the leadership race, why not back King on the same grounds?

Only the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru are not currently embroiled in a leadership race — although, perhaps not wishing to be left out, the Lib Dems are electing a new leader of their group in the House of Lords in September.

The greatest surprise isn't Osborne's dream of succeeding Cameron in Downing Street is fading but the Prime Minister's chief lieutenant remains in the leadership race, stumbling without so far falling completely flat on his face when he remains a potential rival to Boris Johnson or Theresa May or, coming up on the outside, Michael Gove when Dave departs in the months or years after the momentous, epoch - defining decision the country takes on 23 June.

It is recognised that either Yvette Cooper or Andy Burnham are now best placed to beat Corbyn but many have been underwhelmed by their efforts in the leadership race.

So far the blairite Tory - lite wannabes in the leadership race are just giving a silly mixed message of «yes Labour spent too much, but that did not cause any significant problems».

But even though Liz Kendall attracted Blairite supporters by calling for the party to appeal to aspirational, middle - class voters, she finds herself in last place in the leadership race.

An early buzzword in this leadership race has been «aspiration», and it's worth noting that Burnham was talking about «aspirational socialism» back in 2010.

The last - minute dash for nominations was similar to that seen in the leadership race on Monday.

The move comes after the NEC ruled that only members who joined the party before 12 January will be able to cast a ballot in the leadership race.

Let me be clear, no - one in the leadership race inspires me to think they will be a future PM, and I am horribly convinced two things will happen

But of all the people who are involved in this leadership race, Liz is the only one saying it.

Team Burnham insist their man is still in with a chance of winning, but the candidate indicated he was now happy to embrace underdog status in the leadership race:

Abbott's clear appeal to the left of the party is struggling for space in a leadership race where Ed Miliband is considered the electable leftie in a crowded market.

Mr Corbyn, the front runner in the leadership race who fiercely opposed the 2003 invasion, said the party must say sorry for the «deception» in a statement to The Guardian.

Those havent changed, and no one is voting against them just because of some arm twisitng in a leadership race.

Angela Eagle has dramatically broken cover to publicly declare she is ready to challenge Jeremy Corbyn in a leadership race if he refuses to resign.

If the Milibands are the thinking voter's crumpet, Ed Balls is quite possibly the ham sandwich in this leadership race - with Andy Burnham the fresh green salad.

With more evidence yesterday that brother David has the edge in the leadership race, the man who wrote the manifesto for Gordon Brown's 2010 campaign has blasted the Liberal Democrat leader in an open letter to LibDem members in The Guardian:

Both the right and the left wings of the party need to move past the obsession with Blairism; whilst I appreciate that there are some individuals on the frontbench who we could still call Blairite because of their association with the Blair years, now we are seeing it used to describe people like Liz Kendall in the leadership race.

It comes after a new YouGov poll put Mr Corbyn miles ahead in the leadership race, winning an estimated 53 per cent of first preference votes — 32 points ahead of second placed Andy Burnham.

«In the leadership race there is a large hole where there should be a debate about the future of the British economy.

I understand his various texts in the leadership race, including one urging MPs to vote tactically against leadsom, went down like a lead balloon with both leadsom and may supporters.

The former GP came third in the leadership race, presenting himself as a candidate of the Right who wanted to mend Britain's «broken society».

I can remember, from a lunch party in Edinburgh in August 2005 when David Cameron looked like an also - ran in the leadership race, the mocking laughter that rose to greet his assertion that his man would make it to Downing Street.

If you're going to have a debate on party policy and on taking the party down a new path, you introduce a policy far in advance in a leadership race, where the merits of the policy can be debated.

The news follows the loss by McGrigors last week of two heavyweight partners to Eversheds — former managing partner Colin Gray, who finished his second term in March, and Colin McKay, who ran unsuccessfully against Masters in the leadership race.

Labour have been accused of «purging» critical voices from the party after a Labour - supporting blogger was banned from voting in the leadership race, after criticising his local council.

On Wednesday morning Corbyn ally Neil Findlay said he would not stand in the leadership race.

As far as the two female candidates in the leadership race are concerned — it's fair to say, once again, that their potency as politicians is undermined by a general coverage which links their perceived characteristics to their gender.

Ukip has provided the most entertainment this week after the frontrunner in its leadership race, Steven Woolfe, was barred from standing due to a late application.

Tomorrow they will cement their control of the Labour machine if, as expected, Mr Corbyn storms to victory in the leadership race.

John McDonnell, a left - winger, who is also standing in the leadership race, welcomed their «road to Damascus conversion» — but said it had come far too late.

Shortly afterwards former energy secretary Ed Miliband announced his intention to stand in the leadership race and under Labour's electoral college voting system was narrowly elected over his brother David in the fourth and final round of voting.

Q. Does it bother you that Harriet Harman has nominated you but reportedly won't vote for you in the leadership race?

A further 170,000 people paid # 25 to sign up as registered supporters to vote in the leadership race — though more than 40,000 have reportedly since been rejected by the party.

Jubilation among rebel Labour MPs on Tuesday evening at Angela Eagle dropping out to give Owen Smith a clear run against Corbyn was followed by what felt close to a wake on Wednesday night after news 184,000 registered supporters had paid # 25 each, a figure subsequently reduced to a still considerable 140,000 after duplications and the overtly hostile were stripped out, to buy a vote in the leadership race.

He has the advantage that in any leadership race the two other people most rated by party members - William Hague and Michael Gove - probably don't and won't seek the crown.