Sentences with phrase «leadership contest at»

The shadow care minister delivered what was billed as a «concession speech» — just before voting closed in the Labour leadership contest at midday today.

Not exact matches

Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

But such a scenario, which seems unrealistic on its face, is at best a long way off given the near - certainty of another divisive Liberal leadership contest.

The main candidates in the Tory leadership contest are fully formed politicians, tested by politics at the highest level for many years.

Now that we have been rushed into a leadership contest, there is an urgent need for those MPs who see themselves as democratic socialists (of whatever hue) to get together at a meeting in the Commons to agree on a candidate for the leadership election.

And crucially, for now at least, the feverish talk of leadership contests seems to have gone quiet.

For many Conservative MPs and cabinet ministers, that might be better than an uncertain leadership contest that could hand the prize to someone detested by at least one side of the Brexit divide.

If he wins the leadership contest, he will have to argue against austerity at a time when it is generally believed that there is no money.

It's useful to look at the Labour leadership race in the context of research on party leadership contests.

If he makes it into the Commons and there is no immediate leadership contest because Cameron remains PM, then Boris will be given a job to do — one that will either give him a real chance to show he can actually perform at the highest level or else will give him more than enough rope to hang himself.

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Hickinbottom stated: «At the time each of the claimants joined the party, it was the common understanding as reflected in the rule book that, if they joined the party prior to the election process commencing, as new members they would be entitled to vote in any leadership contest.

Since the Republicans all but washed out on Election Day at the state level, losing every statewide contest and nearly deadlocking the Senate (although things are looking up for them there), Cox has been focusing on the House successes whenever anyone criticizes his leadership and suggests he should resign.

As the Tory leadership contest hots up, we take a look at the members responsible for choosing Britain's next leader

At the time of the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, David Davis was Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department.

Corbyn can clearly win any democratic leadership contest within Labour, so another coup attempt along similar lines to the 2016 leadership election would not succeed at present.

That seems to be the message from Blairite veterans at how the nascent Labour leadership contest is shaping up.

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.

The leadership contest was triggered after Tim Farron said he would step down following the party's failure to make as much progress as he had hoped at the general election, and a series of punishing interviews about his personal views on issues including homosexuality.

A total of 11 % of respondents - who were chosen at random within those marginals - said they were undecided on the leadership contest.

The result of the Labour leadership contest will be announced at a special conference on Saturday 24 September.

In this issue, at the midway stage of the contest, we interview all five leadership contenders.

At last, the curtain falls on the Labour leadership contest.

According to him, the PDP leadership at its meeting today observed that there has been unprecedented enthusiasm shown by Party members across all the geopolitical zones to contest for elective offices at the National Convention.

Announcing her decision to pull out of the contest, Mrs Leadsom — who was a leading light of the Brexit campaign — said a nine - week leadership campaign at such a «critical time» for the UK would be «highly undesirable» — and she gave her backing to Mrs May.

The Tory grandee's latest remarks come a week after Lord Howard — who employed Cameron as a special adviser at the Home Office in the 1990s and also supported him in the 2005 Tory leadership contest — also urged voters to back Brexit.

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.

For his part, Mr Davis - who had led the seven - month race until the party conference in Blackpool - said he looked at the debates between them as «not just a contest for the leadership, but a preamble to us winning the next general election».

At the start of the leadership contest, no credible commentator considered that he might actually win the damn thing.

A leadership contest would take at least two months, and Labour has to go to the polls in early June.

The Shadow Health Secretary, a close ally of the Labour leader, also argued party members would look unfavourably at Owen Smith's previous employment at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in the upcoming leadership contest.

Allowing Jeremy Corbyn to stand in a new Labour leadership contest without the backing of at least one - fifth of the party's MPs and MEPs would be «remarkable», according to legal advice seen by PoliticsHome.

In possibly the quote of the decade, John Major's press secretary, Tim Collins, described John Redwood's supporters in the 1995 Tory leadership contest as the «swivel - eyed barmy army, from ward eight at Broadmoor.»

In a farewell open letter in the Guardian after 11 years at the Liberal Democrat helm, Mr Ashdown tells whoever wins the coming leadership contest that, while «socialism is dead and conservatism is dying», they will have to take risks to ensure the triumph of the new liberal, international agenda.

Talks are taking place behind the scenes aimed at persuading Mr Corbyn to resign and allow a leadership contest to take place without him.

The result of the Labour leadership contest between Corbyn and his challenger, Owen Smith, is expected at 11.45 am on Saturday, with insiders suggesting Corbyn could secure 65 % of the vote.

Both leaders faced leadership contests while in office (worst of all for Cameron both elections were also, at least partially, triggered by Europe).

Ed Balls was in good form at last night's Labour leadership hustings at the TUC conference, producing a string of jokes which rather suggested that he thinks the contest is all over as far as he's concerned.

Jeremy Corbyn will take aim at Tom Watson and other party bigwigs as he tightens his grip on power after the Labour leadership contest.

Labour have shown that they are unable to govern in Wales - just look at their poor outcomes after seventeen years of leading the Government - and this leadership contest has demonstrated how they are unable to act as a united and strong opposition in Westminster.

Because that is what most deputy leadership contests are about, if they're about anything at all.

The Labour leadership contest had just begun and the government's welfare bill was coming up for a vote at second reading.

The early decision was to draft a constitution providing for democratic club rule and an extremely anti-patronage policy, with the intention of contesting the party leadership in a race for district leader against incumbant DeSapio — easily the most important Democrat at that time in the state — in the 1957 party primary.

Former leader Ed Miliband stood down after the party suffered a hammering defeat at last week's general election, opening discussion over a leadership contest.

I took conscious political efforts in my university days at Nsukka and Ife contesting and winning elections serving the students and the university communities and cutting my teeth in leadership training.

I'm sure that Farron will contest the Lib Dem leadership at some point in the future, but that's for another day.

A spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn has said voting is about to begin at the National Executive Committee on whether he needs the nominations of 51 MPs and MEPs to stand in the leadership contest.

The Labour leadership contest began in earnest with the New Statesman debate at Church House in Westminster on 9 June.

The first round of the Tory leadership contest is on Tuesday and the last few days have been dominated by questions about David Cameron's past — specifically whether or not he ever used drugs at university.

«If Jeremy wins a leadership contest again, if I'm selected to be a candidate at the 2020 election or whenever that election comes, I find it hard to see how people like me would stand on Jeremy's manifesto.

Despite that, she did not swing behind fellow Brexiter Andrea Leadsom in the Tory leadership contest, instead backing May at the last minute.