Sentences with phrase «leadership by a landslide»

Within twelve hours a new opinion poll of members was released suggesting Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership by a landslide, with none of his rivals even coming close.

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According to the Financial Times: «his views — higher taxes, mass nationalisation, more welfare, more borrowing — are seen as toxic by New Labour veterans, who prophesy a repeat of Michael Foot's disastrous leadership in the early 1980s that led to a landslide 1983 election victory for Margaret Thatcher».

Its Wednesday article, which was bylined «Telegraph Comment Desk», read: «A lot of people, both in the Labour Party and outside it, think [Corbyn's leadership] would be dreadful for Labour, the sort of political disaster the party last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot's Left - wing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour leadership election by a landslide, easily taking more than the other three candidates put together.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

Long - term Labour members chose Owen Smith by a landslide in the party's leadership election, an exit poll has said.

TR's speed of thought and action, and his total command of all aspects of presidential leadership, from bureaucratic subterfuge to manipulation of the press, make him all but invincible in 1904, when he wins a second term by a historic landslide.