Sentences with phrase «leadership bid last»

Campbell's leadership bid last spring was so ineptly run that Chris Huhne came in from a 200 - 1 shot to nearly win.

After significant electoral defeats at the hands of the SNP in 2015 and 2016, and splits over Corbyn's leadership bid last year, senior figures in both wings of the Scottish party say they are keen to preserve unity during the leadership election.

Boles was campaign manager for the unsuccessful Michael Gove leadership bid last year.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives bought radio ads last year accusing NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who backed cap and trade during his leadership bid, of a «carbon tax» plan that «would make everything you need cost more.»

Calgary lawyer Doug Schweitzer, who pulled the plug on his bid to leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party last September and backed Jason Kenney instead, has announced his plans to run for the currently non-existent United Conservative Party.

And Balls could lift the lid on his failed 2010 Labour leadership bid and the role he played in his wife Yvette Cooper's failed bid last year.

He reacted angrily last year when May made a speech on free schools without notifying him — a move widely seen as preparing the ground for a future leadership bid.

The Senate's leadership coalition, uneasy with the direction of the commission, fired a shot last week when Senator Andrew Lanza of Staten Island introduced a measure that would require increased disclosure for anyone contributing to an executive branch official if they were also bidding on state contracts.

In a statement issued last night Mr Hain said: «As I said in December, as a result of administrative failings within my campaign there were donations to my deputy leadership bid which were not registered within the normal time to the Electoral Commission.

In a federal lawsuit filed today, the party claimed that Rob Astorino, the Republican Westchester county executive and candidate for governor, threatened to «decapitate» party leadership in a bid to win the Independence Party's support as he ran for re-election in Westchester last year.

Mr Johnson, who launched his bid for the deputy leadership last November, told the magazine that if he won he would overhaul the Labour party structure.

Not only did the two team up in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, with Cuomo praising Mangano for his leadership during the storm, but the governor also said nothing when the county executive ran a TV ad during last year's campaign that seemed to indicate he had Cuomo's endorsement for his re-election bid.

The Westchester County Independence Party said in a federal lawsuit that Astorino threatened to «decapitate» its leadership in a bid to win its support as he ran for re-election last year.

Last summer he donated # 75,000 to the Yvette Cooper campaign for the leadership and # 20,000 to support Rushanara Ali's doomed deputy leadership bid.

At Westminster there is anticipation that Ed Miliband, climate change secretary under the last Labour administration, will announce his own leadership bid shortly.

He has already worked on Jon Cruddas's bid in 2006 - 07 for the deputy leadership of the Labour party and Ken Livingstone's unsuccessful re-election bid last year for London mayor, managing to raise more money in eight weeks than the Labour party normally does in a year online.

Speaking on the Capitol Pressroom radio show, Ms. Stewart - Cousins praised her former colleague Cecelia Tkaczyk — an upstate Democrat who lost her bid for re-election to the State Senate last year — and indicated she sympathized the ex-legislator's efforts to become chairwoman of the party and remove the leadership the governor helped install.

The result indicates a divide as Mr Corbyn bids to reunite his party after winning a landslide 62 % in the overall leadership election - a bigger mandate than last year.

At a meeting of the parliamentary party at the end of last week, voices who last had their chance when Hazel Blears made her doomed bid for the deputy leadership reportedly piped up, talking about benefit claimants getting «something for nothing» and the need to sound strong notes on immigration controls.

John Lehal is a well respected party insider and was Andy Burnham's campaign director last year for his leadership bid.

At the same time, even though former House Majority Leader Tom (the Hammer) DeLay got hammered and officially ended his bid to regain his leadership post last week, the Texas and Washington parts of the DeLay corruption scandal are likely only to grow and spread.

Foster, who has repeatedly criticised Mr Corbyn's tenure as party leader, launched a failed legal bid to block him from the leadership ballot triggered by a shadow cabinet revolt last summer.

Asked if his victory speech last night was a bid for leadership, Carswell said, «I am not the leader of the UK Independence Party, I never will be the leader of the UK Independence Party».