Sentences with phrase «leadership contenders for»

In this episode, we welcomed Martha Hall Findlay, former MP and leadership contender for the federal Liberals, to discuss the stories and the problems they expose.

You can't be a perennial Conservative leadership contender for a decade without having had quite a few polling questions asked about you, so what do the polls say about Ken Clarke?

Not exact matches

Rempel is now being talked about as a contender for the Conservative leadership, a prospect she addressed in a series of sardonic tweets last year, including, «All your DMs with DO IT aren't helping.

The former party chief of southwestern Chongqing was previously considered a contender for top leadership until he was unseated in July by a Xi loyalist as part of Xi's anti-corruption drive.

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And the politics of a bitter conservative establishment festered as aspiring leadership contenders jockeyed for power.

Federal Liberal leadership contender Martha Hall Findlay says she has encountered many people who have been inundated by robocalls asking for donations to the provincial leadership campaigns.

Contenders for the party leadership include Jason Kenney, Richard Starke, Donna Kennedy - Glans, and Byron Nelson

The two contenders to take on Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership are said to be neck and neck...

The two contenders to take on Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership are said to be neck and neck after Angela Eagle and Owen Smith addressed MPs and peers today.

The appointment marks a dramatic comeback for the former contender against Mrs May in last year's battle for the party leadership.

As polls closed, Andy Burnham, one of the 2015 leadership contenders, appeared to declare that he would be standing for the post of Manchester mayor in 2017.

Former Labour leadership contender Owen Smith - who was sacked from Mr Corbyn's frontbench after breaking from party policy to call for a second referendum - seized on the apparent slip of the tongue by Ms Thornberry, saying it was the latest in a string of inconsistencies on Brexit from Labour frontbenchers.

Yvette Cooper positioned herself as the only leadership contender prepared to stand up for the last Labour government's financial management.

Scottish National party and WEP activists are also involved in the new movement, which has been endorsed by Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, and the Norwich South MP and possible Labour leadership contender, Clive Lewis.

Not so for Simon Hughes, another leadership contender, who was outed by the Sun just four days later.

Failed leadership contender Liz Kendall lashed out at «new party members who have been in our party for a couple of months and think they can tell us what to do».

Andy Burnham is the Labour leadership contender most likely to improve the party's chances at the next general election, according to a survey of 2,000 people for The Independent by ORB.

A committee of Labour's ruling body set a cap of # 156,000 for each leadership contender — equivalent to # 1 for each party member registered at the time the contest began.

Creasy admitted that some of the messages may have been provoked by the deluge of emails people have received over the past few months from contenders not only in the deputy leadership contest, but also the campaigns for leader and London mayoral candidate.

She also made a calculated attempt to seize and redefine a term that's being argued about by Labour leadership contenders, although amongst them «aspiration» is often code for a return to the kind of politics seen under Tony Blair.

Reed is threatening to run for the leadership unless a Blue Labour tinged theme is absorbed by contenders.

Whilst the existence of the document itself is cause for much cheer, it appears as if the leadership contenders are coming to the wider debate about the future of the Labour party with their direction already established.

No would - be contender for the leadership surfaced in public as MPs digested a shock so unexpected that William Hill declined to make a book until later today.

Mr Rees - Mogg is more than a possible leadership contender: he and his claques are in contention for the soul...

Tom Clark speaks to leadership contender Norman Lamb about his bid for the leadership and of course his own memories of Charles Kennedy.

Building the kind of local base from which Ashdown himself and most of the current contenders for the leadership sprang is a slow and painstaking business, the practice of which some senior figures in the party are beginning to fear might undermine true Liberal Democrat values.

Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has praised Welsh Labour's record and calls for closer links with the UK party.

Andrew Lanza of Staten Island and John Flanagan of Long Island — who has been floated as a contender for the leadership position — referred all questions to LaValle.

Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn praises Welsh Labour's record and calls for closer links with the UK party.

The shadow home secretary and Labour leadership contender called for the UK to be true to its values and history by taking in more refugees.

For a leadership contender whose basic pitch to party members is that he is a more competent and less controversial version of Jeremy Corbyn, this has not been a great start to his campaign.

Labour deputy leadership contender Jon Cruddas has said that «the time has come» for Tony Blair's departure from Downing Street.

Liberal Democrat leadership contender Norman Lamb has attacked current UK drug laws as «pathetic» and called for a more liberal approach.

In a damning assessment of the party's predicament in the Guardian, the former leadership contender said Clegg should ditch the «centrist fallacy that people want a colourless mush», branding it a «recipe for destroying the Lib Dem vote».

Warning that Labour is «headed downwards», Mandelson suggests none of the current leadership contenders has fully grasped the challenge the party faces because they are all putting too much emphasis on the need for unity.

Writing in an article for The Observer today Umunna, who has been tipped as a potential contender for Labour's newly vacant leadership post said his party had «allowed the impression to arise that we were not on the side of those who are doing well.»

As this is a thread about the Labour leadership contenders it seemed reasonable to give my opinion of them — for the first time on this thread I may say.

Though «naturally onside» for the modernisers» agenda, Mr Clarke, still a leadership contender in waiting, said he would not vote for either as a symbol of reform.

Former Labour Foreign Secretary and leadership contender David Miliband explains why he «grieves» for the state of the Labour Party.

«Labour leadership contender Diane Abbott said Mr Hutton would be the Government's «pensions - slasher - in - chief `, while Left - wing Labour MP Paul Flynn said «collaborator» was «too nice a word» for him.»

Earlier on Monday, Lamb announced cross-party support for a commission into the NHS funding crisis, backed by Labour MP and former leadership contender Liz Kendall, and Tory MP Dan Poulter, a former gynaecologist.

Q. John McDonnell has written to all the leadership contenders today saying after you've got your nominations please can I have some for the sake of diversity and plurality.

Angela Eagle, who so far is the only declared contender for the leadership battle, accused Mr McCluskey of being «dramatic» with his criticism of anti-Corbyn MPs.

Mr McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor who is also chairing Mr Corbyn's re-election campaign, today challenged Mr Smith to disown the comments and suggested the leadership contender was giving «tacit support» to the calls for a split.

Today's Times splashes on the attacks on Lord Mandelson by three of the contenders for the Labour leadership.

Former home secretary Alan Johnson has ruled himself out as a contender for the Labour leadership, announcing he will back David Miliband in the upcoming contest to succeed Gordon Brown.

And three years on, his name is being mentioned as a possible contender for the leadership.

Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion and leadership contender said: «It is unacceptable that the next person to hold the top job in British politics is appointed by 60 % of Tory MPs.