Sentences with phrase «leadership contest looks»

Following the turbulence which has hit the Labour Party in the weeks since the EU referendum, a leadership contest looks set to take place, but how do they actually work and what are they?

A Labour leadership contest looks increasingly likely as Gordon Brown returns to London to meet with senior cabinet members, reports Sarah Smith.

Not exact matches

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

The shadow chancellor said that Owen Smith was a «friend» said that, as a «democrat» he would unite behind whoever wins the leadership contest, not look to split the party.

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.

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

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

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».

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.

Labour MPs are now consumed by an inward - looking 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.

This quiet campaign, obscured from view by the leadership contest, looks to have been the most successful.

«Pressure is mounting for a relaxation of Labour rules to allow a wider leadership contest than looks likely if the nomination thresholds are retained.

Despite attempts during conference to smear as traitors those who, like Siobhain McDonagh and Joan Ryan, called publicly for a leadership contest, the two women ended up looking more like conscientious objectors.