Sentences with phrase «leadership rival as»

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

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Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

Next month, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will celebrate the first anniversary of his successful bid to succeed Stephen Harper in the probable knowledge that some of his former rivals — as well as other ambitious Conservatives — are holding a bit of a deathwatch on his leadership.

The alienation usually required, as well, an academic administrator whose determination to transfigure the institution and whose ego (if these be not synonymous) inclined him to neutralize all potential rivals to his leadership.

And so it is no surprise that he is at his wiliest in wiggling around Gordon Brown to assume leadership of New Labour, depicting Brown as intellectually brilliant and skillful, but also an overcautious and unfailingly strange rival wedded to traditional, Crosland - inspired Labour.

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

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

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.

The ballots for the Conservative party leadership close today, with David Cameron set to beat rival David Davis by as much as two votes to one.

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.

As rival leadership campaign activists settle back into normal routine and the commentariat gets back into the groove of marking PMQs performances, Ed Miliband faces the job of leading Labour.

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.

In such circumstances there may not even have been an internal party leadership election, as the new leader may be chosen by acclaim, having no electoral rival (as in the case of both Brown and May).

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.»

Theresa May's leadership campaign will go down as one of the most successful of all time — not only did it achieve its aims long ahead of schedule, it also raised a six - figure sum while rivals failed to secure a penny.

Cable is among those seen as a possible rival to Farron for the party leadership, with Ed Davey, Norman Lamb and Jo Swinson also rumoured to be contenders.

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.

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

He knows he has many disparagers - both from among the supporters of his main rival for the Labour leadership, his elder brother, David Miliband, and from the professional commentariat, who caricature him as an unreconstructed Brownite statist with limited appeal to the wider electorate, especially in England.

During one of a series of interviews and public appearances Wednesday, the governor even said two de Blasio rivals — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn and Scott Stringer, the city's comptroller — «showed real leadership» as they backed Uber against City Hall.

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.

May's erstwhile rival for the Tory leadership is another Brexiter being given the difficult task of untangling the UK from the European Union, in her case farming subsidies as the new environment secretary.

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.

He can't as Calamity Clegg, as the rival Chris Huhne leadership campaign once tried to label him.

I also do not believe it will be at all easy to change the leadership of Labour so soon after electing a new leader in such a short space of time - It shouldn't be discounted also that Corbyn could do very well as party leader in the next few years and stop dead in their tracks any attempts by his rivals within the party to challenge his authority.

These changes bring Labour very close to being an individual membership party (as most of its rival parties already are, at least for leadership election purposes) while preserving in a much changed form the historic relationship with organised labour that Mr Miliband rightly cherishes.

Vee emerges as an alpha female to rival even Red, and from the first moment Toussaint is everything in this role: malicious, serpentine and deadly, coldly out for herself while also projecting an image of protection and leadership that leads to her assuming the same kind of fucked - up surrogate mother role she had on the outside.

On the surface, Black Panther centers on the title character, prince - turned - king T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), as he ascends to the throne of the fictional Wakanda, a super-advanced, secretive, eastern African country, and confronts the challenges with leadership, including rivals to the throne and Wakanda's deliberately isolationist way of life.

The two were portrayed as unhappy rivals earlier this year after Mr. Alexander criticized the Democratic Governor's leadership during the legislative session...

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Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, who has been touted as a potential rival to Osborne for the Conservative leadership when the prime minister steps down, is expected to give more details of the plan for the education shakeup when she opens the House of Commons debate on the budget on Thursday.

For months, investors have clamored for a significant strategic overhaul, fresh leadership or a sale of the company as the BlackBerry maker struggled to stay competitive with rivals Apple Inc. and Google Inc. amid operational blunders and a tumbling share price.