Sentences with phrase «leadership campaign last»

Aside from a commitment to oppose the expansion of selection in English schools, the Labour conference has been light on education policy, and although Corbyn has renewed a commitment to the idea of a national education service, there have been few details about the policy first mooted during his leadership campaign last year.

Harriet Harman has avoided a police investigation over her late reporting of donations for her Labour deputy leadership campaign last year.

The whole economic debate has moved very much towards the left because of the work of those that supported our leadership campaign last year,» he said.

The Liberal Democrat leadership campaign last night moved into overdrive as frontrunners in the scramble to succeed Paddy Ashdown discreetly accused each other of fabricating claims to be edging into the lead in the final lap.

He made the pledge during his leadership campaign last year but changed his mind after asking the former director of Liberty to chair an inquiry into anti-Semitism within Labour, which reported back earlier this summer.

Not exact matches

Improving economic conditions for Canadian middle class families was the first and last item on the agenda of Trudeau's leadership campaign.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Ahead of a Bank of Japan leadership change, central bankers are considering the possibility of shifting policy closer to the quantitative easing campaign of the last decade, hoping it will give policy the kick demanded by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Below you'll find Google Trends charts for the 100 days before the campaign's last month for both the Conservative and Liberal leadership contests, along with explanations for some of the biggest spikes in search volume during that time.

Clark supporters from beginning to end, the Holborn Group gave $ 5000 to her leadership campaign — and on the day of the last provincial election, wrote another cheque for $ 5000.

Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

During the UPC leadership campaign, and in his victory speech last weekend, Jason Kenney repeatedly described the NDP as â $ œthis deceptive, divisive, debt - quadrupling, tax - hiking, job - killing, acciden...

Last year the National Council of Churches (NCC) got a broad array of religious leadership types to sign on with a «Campaign to Take Commercialism Out of Christmas.»

In the last analysis, Lubavitch's menorah campaign is an expression of that organization's impatient mode of Jewish messianism and its triumphalist agenda and goal of seizing the mantle of religious leadership in the Jewish world today.

Carter is just one of many players who'll have to flourish for San Francisco to improve on last year's 7 - 9 campaign, one in which Owens publicly questioned the leadership and arm strength of his starting quarterback.

At 24, he has already shown strong leadership skills and was picked up by Gladbach this season after a difficult campaign with Werder Bremen last year.

In fact, during the last leadership election for Jeremy Corbyn, and at many of his rallies in this campaign, I was repeatedly taken by how many teachers and nurses and fire - fighters and doctors I came across.

The party's current success comes against a backdrop of winning only 6 MPs in 2010, having as little popularity as the widely - loathed Scottish Conservatives as recently as 2013 and, in September of last year, leading a losing referendum campaign that forced a change in party leadership.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.

We reached out to Yes voters within Scottish Labour in last year's leadership campaigns, should we not reach out beyond the party in this years UK leadership election?

Following her vigorous campaigning against payday loans companies and an impressive performance in the deputy leadership election last year, Stella Creasy is seen by many Labour moderates as one of their brightest stars.

And since last month's vote, for which he campaigned vigorously, Johnson had suffered widespread criticism and ridicule for failing to present a clear Brexit plan and swiftly dropping out of the leadership race.

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.

They stuck by him during his nadir last summer, when his leadership of the party seemed doomed - indeed, the organisational, campaigning and social media nous of the pro-migrant radical left probably saved him, and certainly boosted his general election performance.

Mr Hain, who is also secretary of state for Wales, confirmed last week that he had failed to declare # 103,000 in donations to his deputy leadership campaign.

Mr Hain, who resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary last year over allegations about the funding of his deputy leadership campaign which were later dismissed, also suggested Labour had been too «caught up» in the success of the City to hold the financial system to account.

During the last leadership campaign, I had six votes: one from my membership, one from my unions and four from socialist societies of which I am a member.

Mr Rowley is a former general secretary of the Labour Party in Scotland and ran Neil Findlay's campaign for the leadership against Mr Murphy last year.

A 58 - year - old Labour veteran who joined the party in 1974 and went on to work for that revered radical icon Tony Benn, Lansman spent last summer serving as director of operations for Corbyn's leadership campaign.

She's also strongly supported GOP leadership, giving to the campaigns of Speaker John A. Boehner and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, as well as to the Congressional Leadership Fund in the last cycle.

The ever - present discontented murmuring about Sampson's leadership seemed to crescendo toward the end of the last session, and several other Democrats, including Mike Gianaris, who masterminded this last campaign, now say a leader will be determined by the conference in some future process.

The only concrete policy from his leadership campaign - to pull the party out of the EPP - is looking increasingly misguided, while most other positioning seems to revolve around finding something the Tories backed at the last election and opposing it.

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.

Andy Burnham's campaign chief Michael Dugher was on good form at the Westminster Arms last night as he insisted his man could still win the Labour leadership contest.

The party postponed the forum last week after consultation with the leadership of the NDC's national campaign team.

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

They are not the numerical bulk of his support, but they were his most passionate supporters when his leadership was at its lowest ebb last year, and they also bring plenty of the organisational and social media nous that were crucial in Labour's election campaign.

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.

He helped organise and edit the online publication «21 Poems, 21 Reasons To Choose Jeremy Corbyn «as part of last summer's leadership election campaign, which included poems by a number of prominent UK & Irish poets.

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...

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.

She's ascended the House leadership ladder, taking a prominent role as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's recruitment chairwoman last cycle.

Former President Rawlings, who was speaking at a meeting with the National Road Safety Commission last Friday, called on leadership at all levels to also lead the campaign against indiscipline on the roads.

James Purnell, Alan Milburn, David Miliband — who Murphy backed in 2010's leadership campaign — have all left the stage, leaving their former colleague as one of the last remaining links to that generation.

The Smirking Gun, as I secretly call Balls, had spent much of last summer trying to pick off Miliband during the Labour leadership campaign.

Then maybe Yvette would have won, as Andy's campaign was so bad, she would have won it on merit The deputy leadership, saw two centre right, female candidates in the last three, both had the anyone but Watson tag, considering one of the male candidates Ben Bradshaw had this Tom Watson partly win, due to transfers from Bradshaw, was it sexist that he won, no, had he not win on the third round, could one of the females beat him, due to their combined vote, who knows but it wouldn't have been on gender, but their voters dislike of Watson

«They never tapped into the experience of last year's leadership campaign.

Mr Murphy, who stood down earlier this year, said Mr Corbyn's leadership campaign policies from last year had been cast aside when he took office.

How much each candidate raised — both into a personal campaign committee and any affiliated leadership political action committee — was the major factor in making these determinations, but The Fix also took into account the expectations game and how money much each candidate passed on to other candidates over the last year.

Michael Portillo yesterday joined Baroness Thatcher and Norman Lamont in the last push behind Mr Hague's campaign to stop Mr Clarke winning the leadership.