Sentences with phrase «leadership election before»

Under the present rules it takes 51 MPs and MEPs to trigger a leadership election before the party conference by nominating an alternative candidate.

[7] She was suspended from the party between March and September 2016 and was unable to run in its September 2016 leadership election before being re-appointed to the post of Deputy Chairman by Paul Nuttall.

What does he say to the rebel MPs, led by Charles Clarke, who called for a leadership election before conference?

As Dan Hodges (rightly, for once) has pointed out, a leadership election before 2015 is most unlikely - maybe because of cost.

Not exact matches

NDP's federal council met to review terms for leadership race, which will pick a new leader two years before next election

With less than 15 months until a potential election call, the urgency surrounding the leadership and the role of Alberta Together could be a reaction to signals from Premier Rachel Notley that the NDP government plans to tighten rules governing PACs before the next election.

Immediately before entering elected politics, he served as executive assistant to cabinet minister Hugh Horner (father of current PC leadership candidate Doug Horner), who he later replaced as MLA for Barrhead in a closely fought 1979 by - election.

The chances of a leadership struggle against Clegg before the next election have now markedly reduced.

And the ongoing row over a cut - off date for the leadership election led to McDonnell attacking the «small clique» on the National Executive Committee that was trying to restrict the vote to members who had signed up before 12 January.

A year before the election they create a big document with the various agreements from which the leadership can create policy.

Kwetey said: «Before the 2000 elections, virtually no day passed without Mensa Otabil talking about the leadership of Ghana being the problem and the need for a change in leadership.

His faults are obvious, reported around the clock and will could well prove fatal to his leadership before the 2020 election.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled before the election that the CFPB's leadership structure of a single agency appointee who could only be sacked for cause was unconstitutional and needed change.

I hope all of the candidates hoping to succeed David Cameron will appear before this caucus during the leadership election and be quizzed on their ideas for reforming capitalism, increasing housebuilding, bringing the «undeserved rich» down to size and harnessing tomorrow's technologies for popular rather than sectional gain.

Potential candidates for the Labour leadership were being discussed even before Miliband resigned on the morning after the election.

«The Euro elections in June give Labour voters their last say on the leadership before the general election,» Frank Field says.

«Now many more members will have the chance to vote in the leadership election, I am today calling for an extension of the timetable so that all members have the opportunity to engage with Jeremy and me before making their choice.»

Yussuf was believed to be a close associate of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the state before the two fell out after the outcome of the leadership election at the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

How Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the nationalists (who, in Wales, have run joint campaigns with the Greens before) react will be the test of the importance of this leadership election.

In order to find out, we compare these two groups: older members (pre-GE2015) and newer members (who joined after May 2015 but before January 2016 and were therefore eligible to vote in the leadership election).

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.

In fact, many of those members we surveyed in May 2015 were included in YouGov's poll of Labour members conducted just before the leadership election.

The second apologia is that the Lib Dem leadership concluded before the election that their policy on tuition fees was unsustainable.

Two nights before the Conservative Party leadership election in November 1990, he visited then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.

In far more detail Paul Mason has made a detailed analysis of the problems in which he describes Corbyn's leadership as «shambolic» before going on to propose a way forward and making clear that he is supporting Corbyn in the leadership election.

He wanted to sound that way to get the Tory leadership, and before the General Election, but now he won't follow through.

In May 2010, many voters and MPs believed that the talks between the Conservative and Lib Dem leaderships and the coalition agreement was a triumph of real - time diplomacy and spontaneous statesmanship, but as D'Ancona shows clearly, it owed everything to the strategic preparations undertaken by Cameron and Clegg before the election.

There are also rumours critics are prepared to trigger a no - confidence vote in Cameron's leadership if the Tories» poll rating does not improve by summer 2014 — a year before the general election.

Jeremy Corbyn will be hoping to disprove the polls and show Labour is making headway under his leadership in a key test one month before the general election.

He left Labour when he was 18, but rejoined before last year's leadership election.

Before British politics got swept up in a whirlwind of Brexit, leadership challenges and a change of cabinet, one of the biggest stories was the allegations surrounding Conservative general election spending in 2015.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Repudiated at the polls, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced Wednesday that he will resign his leadership post at the end of next month, clearing the way for a potentially disruptive Republican shake - up just before midterm elections with control of Congress at stake.

There has never been any convincing explanation about why the leadership signed up to it, having campaigned for an alternative approach just weeks before, during the 2010 General Election.

In 1983, former union leader Bob Hawke challenged Bill Hayden for the leadership of the Australian Labour Party just before the election.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

That's even before the huge influx of members after the latest leadership election was announced.

A source at Unite, which has 950,000 members who are eligible to vote in the leadership election, said: «The discussion before the vote was very much whether it should be Ed Miliband or Ed Balls.

Describing Mr Brown as «the right man for the times,» Mr Miliband said it was clear no leadership battle would take place before the next general election.

She adds that before the leadership election, the pair were planning to set up home in Lancaster, from where Soffa would run his own business.

Umunna's bitter clashes with George Osborne on the Treasury select committee won him appearances on the news but the Labour leadership had been watching him from well before the general election.

«When we are in power, we are allowed to hold the congress and select our leadership one year before the elections, when we are out of power, we do it within two years.

These figures accord with media reports that Labour had 200,000 members before the election, and that the leadership - electorate is around 300,000, with 50,000 having joined as full members and a further 50,000 registered via the trade union or # 3 route.

Which may just hold if, before the election, she both delivers some form of Brexit and stands aside to enable a leadership election in which the post-Brexit Tory future will be personified.

Asked why he did not raise this issue before the elections, he pointed out that the «party leadership knew better than I do».

The document adds: «The other third is made up of people that joined just before the deadline in August 2015 in order to take part in the leadership election and did not renew their membership in August 2016.»

It plunged the shellshocked Labour party into a leadership contest before it had time to absorb its general election defeat or to draw wise conclusions.

Former Cabinet minister Nicky Morgan said that May could not lead the Conservative Party into the next general election and called for a leadership election in the summer or in 2018 before the Brexit deal is finalised.

Phil wrote before the leadership election «Jim, for all his qualities is the wrong man at the wrong time».

[4] Among the candidates for the Conservative Party leadership election there were disagreements about when this should be: Theresa May said that the UK needed a clear negotiating position before triggering Article 50, and that she would not do so in 2016, while Andrea Leadsom said that she would trigger it as soon as possible.

Norman Lamb, the former health minister who was defeated by Farron in the leadership contest, reverts to his role before the 2010 election as health spokesman.