Sentences with phrase «leadership bids as»

Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper have launched their Labour leadership bids as the race for the party's London mayoral nomination also hots up.

Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper have launched their Labour leadership bids as the race for the party...

That's about as explicit a leadership bid as you could ask for.

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

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.

Wall Street, big business start backing Mitt Romney's Senate bid as GOP establishment seeks stronger leadership in Congress

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.

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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.

It was widely believed that Mr. Prentice was using his job as premier to springboard into a future bid for the federal Conservative leadership.

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.

«If David Miliband has positioned himself as a radical moderate, Ed Miliband positioned himself as a moderate radical in announcing his leadership bid» is an interestingly nuanced distinction!

Pontypridd MP Owen Smith branded himself as the «radical and credible» alternative to Jeremy Corbyn as he launched his bid for the Labour leadership.

Boris Johnson could be in a position to return to parliament as early as next year in preparation for a leadership bid, Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries has said.

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.

To make such a promise at this stage can rightly be seen as anticipating Liam Fox's bid for leadership of the Conservative right — there are several more credible candidates - but it is also an appeal to Ukip, whose attitude to the EU he once described as «headbanging».

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 CommissioAs 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 Commissioas 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.

Not just the journalists who viewed the entire project as a cynical publicity exercise to cement a future leadership bid, but those who took a long hard look at Mr Davis» voting record and didn't like what they found.

Jeremy Corbyn has denounced a failed legal bid to have him kicked off the Labour leadership ballot as a «waste of time and resources».

He was, as Danny writes, the first shadow cabinet minister to back David Cameron's leadership bid.

If Corbyn does lose then I think this will be down to how much people dislike Corbyn's leadership and his public perception rather than the ideas in this manifesto, but do you think that the more right - leaning aspects of the party will use this to attempt to sweep away all the Corbyn policies that are proposed in this manifesto in a bid to be seen as «more electable» when the next election comes around?

And Nicky Morgan, who took over from Mr Gove at the Department for Education and supported his short - lived leadership bid, has also confirmed that she has left her role as Education Secretary and Women and Equalities Minister.

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.

The Sunday Times suggested that Andrea Leadsom could be sacked as leader of the House of Commons, and it also named Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, who ran May's leadership bid.

He is no Corbynista and opponents have tried to paint him as right of Labour's centre, partly because he backed Liz Kendall's leadership bid.

When endorsing Jeremy Corbyn's leadership bid yesterday, the CWU described the left - winger as the «antidote» to policies supported by the likes of Lord Mandelson.

It comes as Neil Kinnock, another losing Labour leader, is said to be about to throw his weight behind Andy Burnham's leadership bid.

And she paid tribute to Mrs Leadsom for her «dignity» in withdrawing her leadership bid, as well as to the three other candidates who ran in the contest.

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.

Pressed as to whether or not this meant he was considering a future bid for the leadership, Fox replied:

NJ Gov. Chris Christie is preparing to take his first concrete steps toward a presidential bid by setting up a leadership political action committee as early as this month that could help pay for travel and provide a fund - raising vehicle for would - be donors.

I know this will come as I surprise to many but I had always wondered whether it was all too soon for me to launch this leadership bid — I fear it was.

Diane Abbott appears to have compared Angela Eagle to murderous galaxy - conqueror Darth Vader as she mounts a bid for Labour leadership.

#Leadsom, Gove and Eagle have all made it onto Twitter's trending list, as the volumes of tweets about Mrs Leadsom's resignation statement, Michael Gove's backing of Mrs May and Angela Eagle officially launching her Labour leadership bid circulated.

Mr Cameron made a commitment to support marriage as one of the first acts of his Tory leadership bid.

Sir Malcolm's expectations of such a post were as unrealistic as his leadership bid.

The latter is said to be backing the shadow foreign secretary's leadership bid privately, as are other members of the Blair inner circle, including Alastair Campbell, Andrew Adonis and Peter Mandelson.

SUNY leadership immediately put SUNY Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Alexander Cartwright in place as interim officer - in - charge at the school, which has campuses in Albany and Utica, in a bid to ensure continuity for the approximately 3,000 students.

George Pataki, a Republican who served as Governor of New York from 1995 - 2006, launched his presidential bid this morning with a campaign announcement video touting (among other things) his leadership during the September 11 attacks.

[123] David Miliband was then forced to deny that he was plotting a leadership bid; in July, an article written by him for The Guardian was interpreted by the media as an attempt to undermine Brown.

John Odigie - OyegunThe national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed as «childish and laughable» yesterday's claim by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the governing party is persecuting its officials in order to prepare ground for President Muhammadu Buhari's second term bid in 2019.

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 2007.

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.

A number of Sunday papers reported that Boris Johnson was either being encouraged to make a leadership bid in an effort to oust Mrs May, or actually preparing one - a claim dismissed as «tripe» by the Foreign Secretary.

Critics believe it would make it easier for McDonnell to succeed his close ally Jeremy Corbyn as leader, after McDonnell was frustrated in his own leadership bids by lack of support among MPs in 2007 and 2010.

Alan Johnson, the health secretary, has joined a cabinet push for a major overhaul of the way Britain is governed, in what will be seen by MPs as the start of a leadership bid.

As a relatively new MP, Smith has the advantage of being untouched by the legacy of the Iraq War, an issue which may damage Eagle's leadership bid.

I watched him this morning as he officially launched his bid for the Labour leadership.

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.

David Miliband has warned Labour could be out of power for years as he made his bid for the party leadership at the final hustings before September's vote.