Sentences with phrase «leadership contest when»

Calling for a leadership contest when Mr Blair steps down, Mr Mandelson said the chancellor has leadership potential because he «is a modest man» with «real depth» who is able to «set a direction for the country».

Corbyn idolised Tony, remaining passionately supportive even after Tony had lost the 1981 deputy leadership contest when other ardent followers drifted away.

I saw an interesting graph of the polls and Labour for 12 months was level with, sometimes just ahead, and sometimes just behind the Tories before the Right Wing coup when unsurprisingly the polls have gone downhill and we have had to waste months on a leadership contest when we could have been hammering the Tories.

Not exact matches

Mr. Lukaszuk turned on Ms. Redford when her star was falling and ran in PC leadership contest as an outsider.

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.

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.

If and when he and his party wield power again will depend on whether the contest for its leadership really does begin Labour's renewal.

In her speech during the Conservative leadership contest in the summer May also sounded even more radical than Labour's 2015 manifesto when she pledged: «We're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but employees as well.»

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.

After the excitement of an unexpected leadership contest, a new leader, a surge in membership and fresh approach to PMQs, what can the party expect from its members and supporters when it comes to doing the less glamourous work of fighting a local election?

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

Mr McCluskey has been a vocal critic of Mr Murphy's leadership and opposed his appointment in December when Mr Murphy won the contest to replace Johann Lamont.

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

Umunna told me: «In this leadership contest, there are no free hits when you're voting.

When the Mail on Sunday asked Ben Wallace whether he was considering resigning to trigger a leadership contest against Theresa May, the security minister (and good pal of Boris Johnson), protested his loyalty to the prime minister.

It follows another day of dramatic developments in the political world, when Andrea Leadsom unexpectedly quit the two - way Conservative leadership contest, saying she did not have the support to build «a strong and stable government».

Gimson's piece states that Gove «foresees a day when Hinds might contest the Conservative Party leadership against Gavin Williamson, the defence secretary.

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.

Labour have a lot to be proud of when it comes to equalities, and it would give the wrong impression if its leadership contest was all male.

Most of her premiership so far has consisted of the summer holidays when not much political news happens and she's had the additional benefit of her opposition being busy with their own leadership contest.

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

Ms Abbott warned that Mr Smith's history as a lobbyist for US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer would count against him when it came to the ballot of party members which will decide the leadership contest.

Talking of «a fissure» since the 1994 leadership contest, when «Gordon thought that he could and should have been leader», Mr Mandelson said «he [Mr Brown] has never fully reconciled himself to not doing so».

The first big dividing lines of the Labour leadership contest opened up on Thursday when Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, refused to accept that Labour had spent too much prior to the 2007 banking crisis, making the economy more vulnerable when the crash came.

John Smith won the leadership contest, [5] but Gould resigned from Smith's Shadow Cabinet on 27 September 1992 when the Shadow Cabinet rejected a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty and in protest against Labour's support for the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

He argued when people joined they were told «very clearly» they would be able to vote in the leadership contest and «to deny them that democratic right flies against all the traditions of our party».

After 1997 the Conservatives elected the wrong leader twice when decent alternatives were available in leadership contests.

Sarwar won the deputy leadership contest very comfortably when he stood in 2011, winning 51 % of the vote against two other candidates.

All i'm saying is this: when Cameron loses the next General Election and there's a leadership contest lets not rush back to Hague.

The next challenges are: creating what Corbyn wanted in the original leadership contest (the labour party being a broad church), presenting a united front, creating trust in labour values (including when it comes to the economy) and winning in 2020.

When asked by Sky's Adam Boulton whether he thought it was his «biggest mistake» to think he had a chance of winning the Tory leadership contest, given there was more support for the now Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom, he said: «It was a mistake wasn't it.»

Ed Balls confirmed today that he was «fighting to win» the Labour leadership contest, as his campaign suffered a major blow when he failed to secure the backing of the Unite union.

He survived them all, as he did in January of this year when two former Cabinet ministers - Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon - called for a leadership contest to resolve his position once and for all.

«The Labour leadership contest came to life today when Ed Balls launched his strongest attack yet on Gordon Brown, his mentor and patron, and demanded a rethink of the founding principles of the EU to curb immigration.»

Cameron had infuriated Merkel and most other EU leaders when he caved in to pressure from his own right flank during the 2005 leadership contest and pledged to leave the centrist majority European People's Party (EPP).

Cameron declared during the 2005 leadership contest that the Tories would withdraw from the centre - right grouping in the European parliament, partly to attract the support of eurosceptic MPs, when he almost certainly would have won without making such a commitment.

Labour's national executive committee (NEC) will consider widening the franchise when it fixes the timetable for the leadership contest tomorrow.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell, chairman of his leadership campaign, said when people joined they were told «very clearly» they would be able to vote in the contest, and «to deny them that democratic right flies against all the traditions of our party».

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.

In contrast, there was much excitement when Labour staged a leadership contest in 1994 just as John Major's Conservative government was falling apart.

Oppositional unionism occurs when union members come together to contest the leadership of their union and transform the union's daily practices, priorities, and demands.