Sentences with phrase «leadership contest by»

The Islington South MP, who courted controversy after sneering at the White Van Man in 2014, said Labour's national executive committee has attempted to rig the leadership contest by attempting to stop Mr Corbyn from standing.

I began Labour's leadership contest by believing that Ed Miliband was the best of the candidates.

This could allow Johnson to burnish his Eurosceptic credentials before the Tory leadership contest by endorsing the out campaign while claiming that he is not calling for a definitive break with the EU.

Not exact matches

Butcher confirmed that the investigation found voting irregularities in the leadership contest that resulted in Clark defeating Kevin Falcon by 340 points on a regionally - weighted preferential ballot.

Prospa proved its influence and leadership by winning the headline Fintech Leader of the Year award, with Greg Moshal and Beau Bertoli crowned as joint winners in a tightly contested field.

It is pennies compared to the $ 1.8 million raised by Jim Prentice during the Progressive Conservative leadership race, but in the world of the Alberta NDP leadership contest, the money is flowing.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

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

Rudd has sought to turn Monday's leadership contest into an American style primary by asking the general public to contact their elected representatives in support of his comeback.

Jacob Rees - Mogg, who acts more and more like he is in a leadership contest, said «I profoundly disagree with the chancellor» and damned ministers for being «cowed by the EU».

Raheem Kassam has announced that he is pulling out of the Ukip leadership contest with a moan about the treatment dished out to him by the media.

The leadership contest meanwhile seems dominated by perceived slights — «working mum», «party first» — rather than matters of substance.

Ironically, some enforced soul searching caused by the Budget could do the leadership contest, and the Labour Party, a huge favour.

Whoever wins the leadership contest will be subject to sustained scrutiny and criticism from a Conservative press emboldened by their perceived successes in the general election.

The tragedy of Labour's leadership contest is that not one of the candidates - judging by their positions on political reform - is a true pluralist.

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.

One interesting issue in this scenario is whether Labour would seek to hasten a departure by Nick Clegg (as the Liberal Democrats did for Gordon Brown in 2010) and whether the context of being in government with Labour would affect the outcome of any Lib Dem leadership contest (for which Tim Farron is currently hotly tipped).

Labour's constitution stipulates that any challenger who wishes to contest the party leadership against an incumbent leader (as opposed to contesting a vacant post) must be nominated by 20 % of Labour MPs and MEPs, which would currently be 51 MPs / MEPs.

The leadership contest was won by Ed Miliband.

So what Labour has to lose by the idea of a further almost certainly futile round of leadership speculation is the chance to contest the election effectively.

This 2nd edition includes new material: a post-2015 election analysis by Adrian Pabst and a postscript by Maurice Glasman on Labour after the 2015 leadership contest.

Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, is seeking urgent talks with Corbyn in an attempt to broker a compromise that would prevent the party plunging into a snap leadership contest, as Angela Eagle prepares to launch a challenge by the end of the day.

The Labour leader responded to 12 departures from his shadow cabinet in 20 hours, by insisting that he would not resign and vowing to stand in any leadership contest.

Ed Miliband's union problems aren't eased by the endorsements he received during the leadership contest.

He is surrounded by a Parliamentary Labour Party that largely doesn't support him or his policies, yet he received a massive mandate from those voting in the Labour Party leadership contest.

As Owen Smith's odds of winning dropped from 6/1 to 7/1 with William Hill, the MP responded by calling for the leadership contest to be extended.

The party's leftward shift means that this year's leadership contest is being fought by two socialist candidates, albeit of different shades of red.

He had been written - off by most opinion formers and a hostile press, even as his victory in the recent leadership contest was confirmed.

Blogs do best when they cover subjects whose minutiae are ignored by the mainstream media, as was true on the right during the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, and more recently the coverage of selections for individual parliamentary seats.

It is only following such discussions by the membership of the Labour Party, its affiliated organisations, the Co-operative Party and the Parliamentary Labour Party that the leadership contest should be set in motion.

Contested Chairman Phil Ragusa won re-election with 417 votes to 174 against former Rep. Bob Turner, who was backed by Bart Haggerty and the Southern faction, and will maintain his leadership post within the Queens Republican Party, according to unofficial reports.

The embattled left - winger faces another leadership contest after he was challenged by former Labour frontbenchers Owen Smith and Angela Eagle.

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.

After a heated six - hour debate, the ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Mr Corbyn should automatically be a candidate in the leadership contest.

Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest after a legal challenge to force him to collect the backing of MPs was rejected by a High Court judge.

In November 1990 following a contested leadership election, Margaret Thatcher resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and was succeeded as leader and Prime Minister by John Major.

Labour's hotly - contested leadership election is underpinned by issues of class and poverty.

A senior Labour MP has called for its leadership contest to be «paused» over fears it has been infiltrated by supporters of other parties.

Not even the controversial decision by the NDC leadership to clear daughter of the Rawlingses, Dr Zanetor, to contest on the party's ticket in the Klottey Korle constituency as its parliamentary candidate, was enough to pacify the former first couple.

The daughter of former President John Jerry Rawlings was on Thursday cleared by the leadership of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to contest the party's upcoming parliamentary primaries.

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.

She was, on October 8, 2015, cleared by the leadership of the ruling NDC to contest the parliamentary primary.

Not least, the fact that Corbyn's sweeping first - round victory in the leadership contest was enabled, to a great extent, by three alternative candidates who utterly failed to inspire the selectorate.

The DNC leadership battle was the first serious contest to head the national organization in the past eight years, as the chair is usually selected by the president when the party holds the White House.

Meanwhile, Labour was hit by a fresh row today after its ruling NEC said union members will not be able to vote in the leadership contest unless they joined before January 12.

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.

During the 1980 deputy leadership contest Healey talks of «orchestrated attempts to howl me down by extremist mobs of Trotskyists and anarchists, whom Tony Benn did nothing to discourage or condemn.»

For the second, I suspect any data is fatally flawed by the public's low awareness of the candidates — right now, polls about the Labour leadership are little more than name recognition contests.

But, asked by Sky if he would stand again if a leadership contest was triggered, he said: «Yes, I'm here.

Falconer's call for a leadership contest was swiftly rejected by the newly promoted home secretary, Alan Johnson, who is widely regarded as the most likely successor to Brown if the prime minister is ousted.