Sentences with phrase «leadership contest with»

And it left the party facing the nightmare scenario of a three - way leadership contest with the result announced on September 24.

Labour is staging a leadership contest with «rules that challenge the purpose of a party in modern politics», writes Steve Richards.

Labour is staging a leadership contest with «rules that challenge the purpose of a party in modern...

Kinnock and his colleagues on the soft left had themselves been branded traitors for failing to back Tony Benn in his 1981 deputy leadership contest with Denis Healey.

I have followed the Labour leadership contest with great interest.

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.

Raheem Kassam has announced that he is pulling out of the Ukip leadership contest with a moan about...

Former cabinet minister Gary Mar entered the PC leadership contest with a slick campaign speech, his own Twitter hashtag — #GOGARY, and an endorsement from cabinet minister Iris Evans.

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.

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.

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.

Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

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.

Jim Prentice becomes Premier After a first - ballot victory in a lack - lustre and uninspiring leadership contest, Jim Prentice started his time in office with a bang.

He became one of Mr. Prentice's campaign co-chairs during his party's 2014 PC leadership contest and was rewarded with an appointment as Minister of Infrastructure, a position he held until the 2015 re-election.

The winner of the Conservative contest therefore needs to be not only a brilliant negotiator, but also a genius that can deal with the gradual realisation of some in the «Out» camp that the deal available from the EU will be nowhere near as dreamlike as the one floated in the leadership contest.

With the (arguable) exception of football and the Grand National, I tend to make predictions where I think I have better information than other people opining on them (political events; leadership contests, etc).

The Labour leadership contest has entered into a period of calm, with the ballots closed and the result not set to be announced until Saturday.

The former Lib Dem frontbencher had to resign from the party's leadership contest in 2006 after admitting a relationship with a male prostitute.

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».

Such a commitment does not exclude forming internal groups with different ideological objectives, or from seeking to attract members for another leadership contest in the future.

Owen Smith launched a new vision for workers» rights today with a spring in his step — after new sampling from the Labour leadership contest showed he has a sliver of a chance of winning.

According to him, though he knew many National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters were disenchanted with the party's leadership, he chose to endorse Mr Mahama because the former president reached out to console him after the Electoral Commission disqualified him from contesting the elections.

With left - wing Corbynite MSP Neil Findlay having ruled out a leadership bid, the contest to come is likely to be between Rowley and the moderate MSP Anas Sarwar.

It is entirely legitimate for her to stay on while she tries to sort out a deal with the DUP, asks for a delay in talks, then presides over a leadership contest.

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).

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.

But the 2015 leadership contest, conducted under the new rules and with a clearly emerging shift to the left, exhibited a different pattern.

With its ongoing leadership contest, the party's direction is unclear.

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.

And yes, there have been some signs of jockeying for position — Danny Alexander in particular seems to be on manoeuvres — but this is with a view to a post-2015 leadership contest, not a direct challenge to Clegg's authority.

Had he won then the Labour leadership contest as we know it could have been over, with Owen Smith poised to take the crown.

Tory MPs have put rocket boosters on their leadership contest, with nominations for David Cameron's...

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 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.

Whilst David Cameron was prime minister, Osborne was widely viewed as a potential future leader of the Conservatives were Cameron to stand down and trigger a leadership contest, despite being seen as a relatively unpopular figure with the general public.

Nothing so bad greeted Mr Osborne; but just as local elections, a tricky EU referendum and a party leadership contest all loom, he certainly comes away with his once - formidable reputation badly dented.

David Miliband has again refused to serve with his brother Ed, over two years since he lost to him in a leadership contest.

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.

YouGov said: «With the ballot papers out for the Labour leadership contest, Labour members will be dismayed to see the party's rating in the polls dipping below the 30 % mark once again.»

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.

She told ITV's Peston on Sunday: «He will have to find nominations, I am ready to have a leadership contest and a debate with whoever's on the ballot.»

If they opt in to this they will be attached to a constituency party, with the right to vote in leadership contests.

In an interview with the Guardian, the West Bromwich MP argued the contest had been overdramatised, and said all four leadership candidates had more in common than their portrayal in the heat of debate.

Charles Kennedy's Liberal Democrat leadership campaign gathered more momentum yesterday after Don Foster, the only other candidate in favour of the party's continued cooperation with Labour, stood down from the contest.

After the event, Stringer told TP he was not the only Labour MP with such thoughts about the leadership contest.

«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,

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Tory MPs have put rocket boosters on their leadership contest, with nominations for David Cameron's successor set to close this week.

The bookies also seem to think that a Corbyn victory is a done deal, with William Hill today making him the 1/2 favourite to win the leadership contest while Liz Kendall is the 100/1 rank outsider.