Sentences with phrase «leadership rival told»

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.

Not exact matches

Instead, Garlow told his followers he would be endorsing DeMaio's rival, Democratic incumbent Scott Peters, representative for California's 52nd District, to send a scathing message to Republican leadership that candidates who back abortion and gay rights are unacceptable to the party's Christian base.

Coming so fast on Boris» speech to the Tory party conference, when he raised eyebrows by telling an audience of right - wingers they ought to pull themselves together on immigration, Dave will be getting much more relaxed about the leadership threat from his floppy - haired Bullingdon rival.

Smith also told his rival he would not take a shadow cabinet post under his leadership because it would be «futile» with nobody listening to Labour.

Andrea Leadsom tells Times journalist Rachel Sylvester that being a mother gives her the edge over Theresa May, her rival in the race in the Conservative leadership contest.

LABOUR leadership hopeful Owen Smith will today tell veteran rival Angela Eagle to get out of the way and let him challenge Jeremy Corbyn.

David Davis, his rival when he went for the leadership, added to the row over Andrew Mitchell last night when he told House magazine the Tory chief whip would find it «very, very hard» to control the Tory party in his new role.