Sentences with phrase «latest leadership election»

That's even before the huge influx of members after the latest leadership election was announced.

Not exact matches

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

Immediately before entering elected politics, he served as executive assistant to cabinet minister Hugh Horner (father of current PC leadership candidate Doug Horner), who he later replaced as MLA for Barrhead in a closely fought 1979 by - election.

Of course, it got worse later, notably after the 2001 general election when Brown became impatient for the leadership.

Even, improbably, Jeremy Corbyn has used it, telling his delirious fans in his leadership acceptance speech, «I want us to stand up and say «we want to live in a society where we don't pass by on the other side of those people rejected by an unfair welfare system»,» and motivating them again 18 months later at the start of the 2017 Election campaign by claiming, «we know that the people of Britain don't pass by on the other side.»

The Labour leadership election captured people's attention when a YouGov poll in late - July put Jeremy Corbyn in the lead.

The latest opinion polls indicate that a new party under her leadership would garner some 10 Knesset seats in the January 22 elections.

This was a reference to the events of late July and early August 2008 which followed Labour's defeat to the Scottish National Party in the Glasgow East by - election when, with a demoralised Gordon Brown on holiday in Suffolk, with Labour as many as 25 points behind in the polls, and with MPs insurgent and openly discussing a leadership challenge, Miliband made his move.

The former leader has endured a rapid fall from the grace in the party after he lost his seat in May's European election and proceeded to lose a leadership contest two months later.

However, 18 days later she resigned the leadership, leading to the November 2016 leadership election.

With his help, she won the Conservative Party leadership, the 1979 general election and left Downing Street 11 years later no longer the Milk Snatcher, but the Iron Lady.

Notably, he received fewer votes in this latest leadership contest than his rival, Chris Huhne, polled in the last Liberal Democrat election in March 2006.

If a general election is called later this year, which is a very real prospect, we believe that under Jeremy's leadership we could be looking at political oblivion.

With the results of the Scottish Conservative party leadership elections expected later today, David Cameron has paid tribute to outgoing leader Annabel Goldie, and her contributions to both Scotland and the party.

Ed Miliband was given a «brutal» dressing down by Alastair Campbell in a rehearsal for a leadership debate, according to the latest inside account of Labour's election campaign.

Boris Johnson was given a gong for «comeback of the year» after crashing out of the Tory leadership election but returning as Foreign Secretary two weeks later.

Writing about the latest election campaign on the Labour Home website, John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister commented: «I've just discovered tonight that over the last few weeks, James Purnell was not planning for these crucial Local and European elections - he was planning for his own leadership election...

«After months of concealing their financial operations from the (Federal Elections) Commission and the public, Representative Bishop and his leadership PAC must be held accountable for these late and misleading reports,» she said.

The breakdown of Labour's latest figures shows two surges last year, one partly in response to the election result and Corbyn's entry into the leadership campaign and another after he became leader.

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Later that year he was defeated in the leadership election to succeed Kinnock after the general election, which Labour lost to the Conservative Party for the fourth election in succession.

It would take 50 Republican House members to force leadership elections when the House reconvenes later this month — a move that would likely end DeLay's chances of reclaiming the post as majority leader.

Voting gets under way in the Labour leadership election, as David Miliband becomes the latest senior Labour figure to warn of the dangers of electing as leader the left - wing backbencher, Jeremy Corbyn.

Mr Johnson angered the Tory leadership when he made a similar proposal during the mayoral election campaign earlier this year and the party was quick to distance itself from the latest comments.

Our latest YouGov / Sunday Times poll of Labour's leadership election college shows the race is neck and neck.

Jones pays particular attention to Cameron's years working for Norman Lamont and Michael Howard in the 1990s (when he was covering those politicians» activities for the BBC on a daily basis) and later in the book - after dealing with the 2005 Tory leadership election, Brown replacing Blair, the political attitudes of the Murdoch press and Expenses-gate - he devotes whole chapters to both the TV debates and the role of the leaders» wives in a modern British election campaign.

The party's latest secretary is Matteo Renzi, who was first elected in the 2013 leadership election and re-elected in the 2017 leadership election.

And in NYC, the results of the latest United Federation of Teachers (UFT) leadership election - the largest AFT local - tell an important story.