Sentences with phrase «leadership election risks»

But this leadership election risks pushing the candidates to appeal to Labour's most sectarian side.

Not exact matches

So tomorrow, let the House of Commons vote for an early election, let everybody put forward their proposals for Brexit and their programme for government and let us remove the risk of uncertainty and instability and continue to give the country the strong and stable leadership it demands.»

The stakes could not be higher: a poor speech puts May at immediate risk of an internal leadership challenge; a solid speech means the assumed timetable of a two year premiership remains viable; a great speech means people might even start believing she's capable of leading the Party into the next election.

LABOUR risks its reputation for economic management if it is not «straightforward» on the need to make savings in the public sector, one of David Miliband's key allies warns today ahead of today's leadership election.

At the risk of sounding cynical, everything about this — including the perfect timing — suggests to me that it's being staged: 1) Labour is on course for a huge defeat 2) no - one wants to take on the leadership of the doomed party at the 11th hour 3) GB's popularity (such as it is) is at an all - time low Given that no - one else wants the job on the eve of such a crushing defeat, surely the only chance Labour have of gaining support and mounting any semblance of an election campaign is to first restore some faith in their battered leader.

Risk is not certainty, and my best guess is that there is only a 25 % per cent chance of a leadership ballot after the local elections, but is is impossible to make an accurate assessment.

Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.

Now that climate denial's bread and butter arguments are toast, November's US elections will be critical in determining whether the country continues along the path of climate leadership established by President Obama, or allows the oil industry's puppet party to continue peddling long - debunked myths in order to delay climate action and put future generations at risk.