Sentences with phrase «leadership contest last»

During the Labour leadership contest last year, the authors say Mr Balls was furious when Mr Miliband got secret phone numbers of key union leaders and persuaded Unite to back him, not his rival.

Since being defeated in the leadership contest last year, David Miliband has made few public comments about Labour.

Since being defeated in a leadership contest last year, David Miliband has made few public comments about Labour under his brother.

The Streatham MP withdrew from the Labour leadership contest last summer, citing extreme pressure on his private life, including a reporter doorstepping his fiancee's grandmother.

Much has been written and spoken about Jeremy Corbyn since he secured a landslide victory in the Labour leadership contest last year.

Champion is one of the 35 MPs who nominated Corbyn for the leadership contest last year, saying she did so in order to «broaden the debate».

Not exact matches

As expected, Corbyn defeated Smith in comfortable fashion, winning with an even larger mandate than he received in last year's leadership contest.

It's also true that in the last leadership contest, Redford was the non-Tory party members» candidate.

These seats were last contested in 2012 and saw Labour make gains of over 500 councillors under the leadership of Ed Miliband.

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.

That last view in particular prompted anger from his elder brother David, who came a close second in the leadership contest.

In last year's leadership contest, Corbyn picked up 39 % of the nominations from 387 CLPs — but there were four candidates in that race.

Referring to their one time rivalry, McDonnell quipped today: «Gordon and I were last on a platform together in 2007, when we were both contesting the Labour party leadership.

It's almost as if he misses having a leadership contest to keep him busy having spent the last two summers winning then defending his position.

Last week she received 199 nominations in the second ballot of Tory MPs for the Conservative leadership race, and secured the top job after her rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the contest.

Another highly likely contender is Cruddas who performed very well in the last deputy leadership contest.

Beckett has already described herself as a «moron» for having nominated Corbyn in the last Labour leadership contest.

In the last parliament we had the Milibands, two brothers contesting a leadership contest and the younger one winning.

In the last parliament we had the Milibands, two brothers contesting a leadership contest and the...

While they should be celebrating the democratic revival within the party, for some reason a number of Labour MPs don't see it that way and have forced another leadership contest just 10 months after members last made their choice clear.

«I'm hoping there will be an understanding that it's simply not very fair to say to people that joined the party in the last six months that «sorry, your participation is no longer welcome because we're having a leadership contest».»

In last year's Labour leadership contest and after much shilly - shallying, my vote went to Yvette Cooper.

Notably, he received fewer votes in this latest leadership contest than his rival, Chris Huhne, polled in the last Liberal Democrat election in March 2006.

It is just a week into the Labour leadership contest and Andy Burnham, the frontrunner according to the bookies, admits that it already seems to have «lasted for ever».

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

Late last night, the embattled leader issued a statement warning that if the rebels wanted to depose him they would have to launch a formal leadership contest — and that he would stand again.

Suffolk's GOP leadership is leaning toward Randy Altschuler, who lost a close contest to Congressman Tim Bishop last year.

«In this leadership contest, Ukip's Tea Party tendency — people obsessed with US Republican conventions — are well represented on the ballot paper,» declared Evans last month,

NEW YORK — Bernie Sanders, the Vermont U.S. senator who stoked liberal passions nationwide as a Democratic candidate in last year's presidential contest, stepped into New York politics for a day on Monday, casting first - term Mayor Bill de Blasio as the antidote to the «un-American» leadership of President Trump.

During last year's leadership contest, Smith said Corbyn had turned Labour into «a laughing stock».

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.

As of Nick's last post on this subject, no vote had been scheduled for the leadership race, but he noted that the contest could pit a top Republican donor's family against one of the first African - American candidates the party has had run for elected citywide office in recent memory.

Michael Gove is widely believed to have stabbed Johnson in the back during last year's Tory leadership contest.

But the goodwill only goes so far - Baez was / is a close ally of former party boss Jose Rivera, whom Heastie defeated in what was a bitterly contested leadership fight late last year (and one that's still being played out in an appeals court).

This is the man who sulked when he lost the last leadership contest and refused to take a job in the shadow cabinet.

Labour are currently in the middle of their second leadership contest within the last twelve months.

It said around two - thirds of those had joined between June and August last year - in the run - up to the Labour leadership contest - and they «immediately cancelled their direct debits».

The party staged a whacky leadership contest that lasted only a few days.

In last year's leadership contest, Corbyn took the votes of nearly 60 per cent of members.

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.

In the last 20 years, since John Major's election in 1990, the trend has been even more pronounced - seven elections out of nine, including all four Conservative leadership contests.

But the predicament arose due to the surprising support for a — literally — last - minute entry in the leadership contest.

This last point nearly scuppered the whole deal as the contest for seats on Labour's ruling body is now almost entirely seen in terms of whether the new member will support or oppose Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

Those who signed up to the document included Cooper and the failed challenger to Corbyn in last year's leadership contest, Owen Smith.

The last Labour leadership contest was dull, dull, dull: dominated by seemingly endless staid hustings where contenders took it in turns to answer one worthy question after another from audiences made up of loyal party members.

Pamphlet editor Jon Cruddas was Tony Blair's link man between Downing Street and the unions in the late 1990s and a leftwing candidate in last year's deputy leadership contest, surprising many by coming third.

It was the only region that voted for Owen Smith, Corbyn's opponent in last year's leadership contest.

He criticises the party's election rules, suggesting union levy payers should automatically be registered as party supporters, describing the 9 % turnout in last year's leadership contest as paltry.

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.

«The family theme to Labour's leadership contest took a fresh twist last night as it emerged that Ed Miliband is to become a father for the second time later this year.»