Sentences with phrase «main leadership rival»
This battle with his back benchers plays right into the hands of his main leadership rival, Boris Johnson.
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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.
It will recount how May became the front runner in the Tory leadership race when her main rival Boris Johnson dramatically dropped out after being knifed by his ally Michael Gove.
David Miliband attempted to shift the focus of the Labour leadership debate away from the Iraq conflict yesterday, after two of his main rivals criticised the decision to go to war in 2003.
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.
Latest opinion polls show labour leadership candidate overtaking his main rival Jeremy Corbyn.
Meanwhile, in the Labour Scotland leadership, Unite is now publicly backing the main rival to the Westminster - facing & Blairite stooge Murphy — saying that whatever happens he must not be allowed to be leader.