Sentences with phrase «leadership rival huhne»

Canadian Prime Minister Harper is no doubt pissed that his potential leadership rival has gone off message on such an important issue of spin.

GEORGE Osborne has had to suffer the ridicule of moving into his former leadership rival Boris Johnson's old shabby office after being sacked from Cabinet.

Attention will now turn to who serves in Corbyn's top team, with MPs such as John McDonnell, Angela Eagle, Sadiq Khan, Ken Livingstone and possibly leadership rival Burnham tipped for key roles.

BORIS Johnson is at the centre of a vicious sex smear being spread by a key ally of Tory leadership rival David Davis.

In a video message, Burnham also appeared to take a swipe at potential leadership rival Tristram Hunt, who has spoken of the need for the party to appeal to the «John Lewis couple» who shop in smart department stores, as well as its more traditional supporters.

Meanwhile some 55 % of respondents said incoming Prime Minister Theresa May had what it takes to lead the country well — way ahead of her former leadership rival Andrea Leadsom.

Andy Burnham has said he is disappointed that his Labour leadership rival, Yvette Cooper, suggested he step aside.

Other appointments Miliband's leadership rival, Ed Balls, moves in to replace Johnson in the Home Office brief, while his wife Yvette Cooper — who was widely tipped to take over the Shadow Chancellor role after getting the most votes in the Shadow Cabinet election — takes over from David Miliband as Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Just behind Chuka, Caroline Flint and his potential leadership rival Yvette Cooper had contrasting months.

Former leadership rival Angela Eagle, who pulled out of the contest, was among the 162 MPs who backed the former shadow work and pensions secretary.

The hard - left leader has been blasted by his own side for his poor performance, with leadership rival Owen Smith saying he is «just not up to the job».

Rudd had been deemed a potential leadership rival.

The Energy Minister apologised to her Tory leadership rival by text - but still blames the media for the row over her comments on motherhood

But despite his party's poor showing, a separate YouGov poll for The Times today gave Jeremy Corbyn a 24 - point lead over his leadership rival Owen Smith.

May's former leadership rival added: «I'm sure if it felt that would be helpful then she would do that».

In a thinly - veiled swipe at Eton - educated David Cameron, the one - time leadership rival told a meeting on grammer schools the only winners from the death of the selective education system were the public school boys who now «dominate» Britain.

Burnham was not among the almost 50 Labour MPs who voted against the bill last night, including his leadership rival Jeremy Corbyn.

Cameron's 2005 leadership rival David Davis was equally outraged, saying: «As the argument slips away from the Remain campaign they are forced to rely on desperate scaremongering.»

The Prime Minister appointed her former leadership rival as Environment Secretary as she confirms her new top team.

Pritchard was one of the most vocal supporters of Cameron's leadership rival, David Davis MP.

Last week, Yvette Cooper — a seasoned Labour hand who has had government experience both as work and pensions secretary and as chief secretary to the Treasury, and is perhaps Burnham's greatest leadership rival — suggested she agreed with Miliband's refusal to accept blame.

Andrea Leadsom, Ms May's leadership rival, replaces Ms Truss at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

In addition, former chancellor Ken Clarke, another leadership rival, was named chairman of the new democracy task force.

In his speech, Corbyn did not acknowledge his leadership rival, suggesting either that he is highly complacent or that he does not see Smith as a serious threat.

David Cameron today warned his Conservative leadership rival of the «tone» he adopts in talking about anti-social behaviour, suggesting it was giving the party a bad name.

His one - time leadership rival, Chris Huhne, is one of a number of coalition government ministers busily creating a packed legislative timetable.

Mr Cameron opted to keep leadership rival David Davis in his current post as shadow home secretary, with another former candidate, Liam Fox, moved to defence, and Mr Hague made shadow foreign secretary.

Corbyn's campaign team did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but leadership rival Owen Smith was quick to tweet that his own campaign «remains on track».

The Chancellor got plenty of laughs as he revealed his disappointment at learning his leadership rival wouldn't be executed by George W Bush.

Because it's not the EU that is leading the country into an economic mess it's his leadership rival, George Osborne.

Meanwhile the stock of Balls's somewhat reluctant future leadership rival Ed Miliband, who also warned Brown about McBride after last autumn's party conference, remains high.

Corbyn's leadership rival Owen Smith may have accused him of failing to do enough to stamp out misogyny within the party, but a number of female Labour members do not seem to agree with that.

This battle with his back benchers plays right into the hands of his main leadership rival, Boris Johnson.

Justin Trudeau's Liberal leadership rival Burton says «Just watch me» Another candidate for the federal Liberal leadership rode his motor home through the streets of Toronto this morning.

Alberta NDP leadership rivals Rachel Notley and David Eggen (photo from Ms. Notley's Facebook page).

Such a strategy would have marked the end of the post-referendum descent into jingoistic insanity, and heralded a new period of responsible policy - making and practical compromise, unshackled from the cakeist, hormone - drenched neo-imperialism of her vanquished leadership rivals.

Labour leadership rivals Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn clashed over Isis and Brexit as they went...

But he was criticised by his leadership rivals Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham, while then women's minister Nicky Morgan said it smacked of «segregation».

Today, he said that Leadsom was more like his old boss than any of her Tory leadership rivals — but he also stressed that she was «not the second coming».

The then chancellor's freebie was paid for by property firm Countywide Developments and was said by the Guido Fawkes website to have «bemused Tory MPs and amused leadership rivals».

Policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party, Jeremy Corbyn has said in a debate with his three leadership rivals organised by the Guardian.

The issue was thrust on to the agenda this weekend after two leadership rivals used separate interviews to criticise the decision to go to war, citing the impact it had had on the Labour Party.

George Osborne has bemused Tory MPs and amused leadership rivals by travelling to schmooze local Conservative associations... by helicopter.

With less than a month to go until voting closes, the latest polling shows Corbyn's leadership rivals falling dramatically behind him.

Does David Cameron have any genuine leadership rivals these days?

And his reversal of his planned police cuts has handed a big win to his leadership rivals in City Hall and the Home Office.

Jeremy Corbyn is proving difficult to shift, nobody cares who leads the Liberal Democrats and UKIP's Nigel Farage just suspends or sacks his leadership rivals when they emerge.

Mr Corbyn also narrowly trailed leadership rivals Owen Smith and Angela Eagle on who was more likely to win a general election.

Michael Gove hits the right notes with Oasis song as Tory leadership rivals battle it out in karaoke

Which is more than can be said, Burnham clearly implies, for the coddled and over-promoted princelings who are his leadership rivals.