Sentences with phrase «leadership election speech»

Corbyn's rhetoric in Liverpool suggests that he wants to heal the rift, stating explicitly in his leadership election speech that he wants to «wipe the slate clean».

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Gordon Brown has kick - started the campaign for next year's Scottish parliament elections with a speech in Edinburgh - but made no mention of the Labour leadership crisis.

His victory speech after winning the Clacton by - election last night was a leadership speech in all but name.

Even, improbably, Jeremy Corbyn has used it, telling his delirious fans in his leadership acceptance speech, «I want us to stand up and say «we want to live in a society where we don't pass by on the other side of those people rejected by an unfair welfare system»,» and motivating them again 18 months later at the start of the 2017 Election campaign by claiming, «we know that the people of Britain don't pass by on the other side.»

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.

In his speech of resignation on election night, 8 February 2005, he called for a leadership election in order to determine who should lead the party into the next election.

[36] During the speech launching her campaign, Sturgeon announced that she would resign as Depute Leader, triggering a concurrent depute leadership election; the MSPs Angela Constance and Keith Brown and the MP Stewart Hosie all nominated themselves to succeed Sturgeon as Depute Leader.

In a short speech, he confirmed he was standing down and said he would recommend Suzanne Evans to be acting leader ahead of a leadership election in the autumn.

In a speech setting out how Labour would move on from an election defeat that remained «very raw», Ms Harman stressed that the influence of the unions over the decision on leadership had been altered by the move to a «one person, one vote» electoral system.

Today's Guardian story about Ed Miliband's young people - centred speech today leads on his plans to involve non-party members in its leadership election.

Two years ago, he was losing the Conservative leadership election until he got on his feet and delivered a speech that changed his destiny.

«Ed Miliband has delivered the most personal speech of the Labour leadership election, coming clean about his early life and political inspirations.

Cameron is credited with coining the phrase «There is such a thing as society, it's just not the same thing as the state» (seen as a rejoinder to Margaret Thatcher's famous comment that there is «no such thing» as society), [27] which has been said several times by David Cameron, including in his victory speech following his victory in the Conservative party leadership election in 2005.

They believe that the party leader's failure in his speech to mention the issues that cost Labour the election — immigration and the deficit — show the new leadership has no idea of how to reach out to mainstream voters.

I too was suprised at the lack of coverage of this speech in the press.The journalists benches were packed at the meeting but most political coverage yesterday was concerned with Ruth Kelly, Kinnock and the Lib Dem leadership election (yawn).

His relationship with the New Labour establishment - most of whom backed David for the leadership - has been prickly at times, although Tony Blair buried the hatchet by giving a supportive speech during the general election campaign.

He observed that «challenges in democracy and competitive elections have been [the] abuse of freedom of speech on the continent,» adding that bad leadership and geopolitics have also played part.

As with so many of his policy speeches during the leadership election, Miliband's case is characterised by hastily assembled straw men that are then summarily burned.