Sentences with phrase «leadership bid on»

In the primary the strongest challenge to Bersani was posed by a fellow Democrat, the 37 - year - old mayor of Florence Matteo Renzi, a liberal moderniser, who had officially launched his leadership bid on 13 September 2012 in Verona, Veneto.

Ms Evans announced her leadership bid on The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, warning that Mr Kassam would take the party too far to the right.

When announcing his leadership bid on Wednesday, Ed Balls mentioned the «I» word endlessly, and praised a politician whose sour countenance and self - styled toughness have long embodied the most dried - up school of Labour politics: Phil Woolas, this week heard bemoaning the fact that Labour failed to make more of the policy whereby benefits are refused to those seeking indefinite leave to remain (which would have made for very uplifting posters).

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Not exact matches

Trudeau is six months into his bid for the party leadership, and it shows as he briskly shakes every available hand in the room before alighting on his throne to expound on the Conservative government's fickle relationship with China.

The Peterborough Examiner - Federal Liberal leadership contender Alex Burton searches for support in smaller centres B.C. lawyer Alex Burton stopped in Peterborough on Monday on the 10th day of a 40 - day cross-country tour in his bid to become the new... Read More

Next month, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will celebrate the first anniversary of his successful bid to succeed Stephen Harper in the probable knowledge that some of his former rivals — as well as other ambitious Conservatives — are holding a bit of a deathwatch on his leadership.

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.

Gannett and Tribune Publishing leadership met in Chicago Thursday, but no progress was made on an unsolicited bid to buy the Chicago - based newspaper chain, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.The meeting, held at the suggestion of...

He wouldn't say if he will launch a leadership bid this time around, but said he is weighing options on «re-engaging» in politics.

At the same retreat, Cantor and the House Republican leadership demonstrated that, while they are trying to learn to talk about the concerns of employees, they are practically focused on doing the bidding of the Washington business lobbies.

She doesn't have the support of the GOP leadership for her bid, and Hanna has a jump start on fundraising.

But Boles was notably reluctant to say anything else on the subject of Gove's doomed leadership bid..

The range of events now in the spotlight of international relations — such as the Arab Spring — has further emphasized that the bid for leadership change, be it highly authoritarian, might in fact be premised on a quest for something more wholesome than just political freedom.

Diane James kept her leadership bid secret until forced to declare her hand yesterday, watching and waiting while other candidates imploded or had their consiglieres turn fire on each other.

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.

On launching his leadership bid, McDonnell, who vehemently opposed the Iraq War and was an ardent critic of the new Labour government, called for «a challenge to the present political consensus».

«The full scale of the backlash against two former cabinet ministers» failed bid to initiate a secret ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership started to emerge today.

The by - election consolidated Nick Clegg's hold on power, sparked new rumours of leadership bids against David Cameron, saw a surge in support for Ukip and raised questions about Ed Miliband's ability to win votes in the south - east.

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.

Given that the city region is a traditional Labour stronghold, Street's victory with a 50.6 per cent share of the vote (after the second round) was testament to the strength of his campaign, and to the strong emphasis the Conservative national leadership placed on supporting his 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.

Heseltine remained on the backbenches until, in 1990, with Thatcher apparently losing popularity among the public and her own party, he launched a leadership bid.

He revealed that the leadership bid had employed a campaigning system modelled on that employed by the Labour party, but given more freedom to its activists.

The Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has called on the party to root out people voting for him in a bid to to skew the election result.

The comedian Eddie Izzard, who lost his bid for a place on the NEC on Monday, urged the party's leadership and newly elected committee members not to create new divisions.

Boris Johnson's recent 4,000 word article on Brexit, which read like a leadership bid, earned him a stiff rebuke from various quarters.

She said her leadership bid had been based on the need for «strong, proven leadership», the ability to unite both party and country and a «positive vision» for Britain's future.

Boris Johnson appears to have set out his stall for a future leadership bid based on him being the...

David Lammy has confirmed that he will not be standing for the Labour leadership position, citing the fact that he wants to focus on his bid to become London mayor instead.

«Throughout the campaign I was also very vocal about my support for restrictions on lobbying activity, or bidding on state contracts, reform to restrictions on outside income, and term limits for our bodies» leaders, which is what we had voted on in our rules, that was the first thing that we did - eight years that we wanted for committee chairs and for leadership,» Serino says.

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.

Ms Eagle - who quit as Shadow Business Secretary on Monday - had been expected to declare her leadership bid as early as today.

Corbyn wins bid to fight legal action aimed at stopping him getting on Labour leadership ballot

Blunt became a party whip under Howard, but on 9 June 2005 he took leave of absence from that role to support the expected leadership bid of Sir Malcolm Rifkind.

Launching his leadership bid, Mr Brown said he intended to strike a different note to Tony Blair on many key issues, including a greater safeguard on civil liberties.

On 11 May 2007, after months of speculation, Gordon Brown formally announced his bid for the Labour leadership and replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister on 27 June 200On 11 May 2007, after months of speculation, Gordon Brown formally announced his bid for the Labour leadership and replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister on 27 June 200on 27 June 2007.

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.

Clinton's campaign said the leadership group will help build a «grassroots - driven volunteer team» to support her bid for the Democratic nomination in the New York presidential primary on April 19.

JEREMY Corbyn has won his bid to personally fight a legal action aimed at overturning the Labour Party's decision to guarantee him a place on the leadership ballot.

Owen Smith MP has cancelled the launch of his Labour leadership bid in the light of Thursday's deadly attack on Nice.

If it had not been for the lavish praise he showered on Nick Clegg, journalists would be writing it up tonight as a leadership bid.

Allies of Jeremy Corbyn say he they are nervous about him using his platform to launch a future leadership bid, and he is being accompanied by other members of the shadow cabinet on visits to keep an eye on him.

Angela Eagle has said she will announce a bid for the leadership of the Labour Party on Monday morning.

Ed Balls has told Peston on Sunday that Angela Eagle's leadership bid is «essential» as Jeremy Corbyn «can't do the job».

A top operative of the commission said on Friday that the leadership of the commission had initiated a discreet probe of the former First Lady in a bid to assemble evidence against her in the event of her prosecution as a fallout of the commission's decision to freeze $ 20m traced to her.

Theresa May appointed him as her Chief Whip on becoming Prime Minister in 2016 as a reward for helping her see off Boris Johnson's bid for the Tory leadership.

[87] Many of the parliamentarians who nominated Dugdale for deputy leader also endorsed Murphy's leadership bid, but she ruled out standing with Murphy on a joint ticket.

Other senior Republicans who could contend for the chair include Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R — CA), who has served on the panel for more than 3 decades and ran against Smith for its leadership slot in 2012, and Representative Mo Brooks (R — AL), who recently lost a bid for a Senate seat in Alabama.