Sentences with phrase «new party leader»

«We particularly welcome the fact that the parties are turning to women to lead the way, with two new party leaders in Harriet Harman for Labour and Suzanne Evans for Ukip.

The primary figurehead for this leftist trend was Tony Benn, who narrowly missed being elected deputy leader of Labour in September 1981, under new party leader Michael Foot.

While his relationship with Mr Farage has been fractious for most of the time since he defected from the Tories in 2014, Mr Carswell praised new party leader Diane James.

I am confident you will elect new Party leaders who will build on the foundation we have created and maintain our high standards of excellence in service to the Democratic Party.

The picture does not get any better when you consider polling: an October poll showed that Corbyn is the most unpopular new party leader since records began.

The Liberal Party declined to run a candidate in order to not oppose the new party leader's entry into the House of Commons.

He will now lead the Cabinet until a new party leader and Prime Minister is selected before the October Conservative Party conference.

On first meeting the new party leader he described him as «very bright, very breezy, very confident».

The 1922 committee of Tory MPs has declared May the new party leader «with immediate effect».

Speaking to the BBC, however, Mr Kennedy insisted he supported the new party leader, saying he offered him «face - to - face advice» and stressing they spoke «as friends and colleagues as we have always done».

It means that the new party leader will be confirmed by 2 September.

Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has called for Labour to unite behind the new party leader in an apparent offer of reconciliation from the party's modernising wing to leadership favourite Jeremy Corbyn.

Ms Harman, who is steelier and tougher than she comes across on TV or at the Commons despatch box, says the new party leader will be handed an «unprecedented» opportunity to get back into government.

Labour's big guns last night lined up behind David Miliband to be the new Party leader — calling him the «special one».

Following the Conservative Party's defeat in 1997, Young was appointed Shadow Defence Secretary by the new party leader, William Hague.

Like aspects of the recent «non-victory tour» that the new party leader and Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon undertook last month, the SNP have borrowed from the American political system.

Together the statements suggest the Labour government's image is increasingly tarnished — it remains to be seen whether the appointment of a new party leader, presumably Gordon Brown when the time comes, can re-energise and redefine the party.

He was persuaded to stand as a candidate in the election of a new party leader in November 1980 by Michael Foot who thought he was the best - placed soft - left candidate to defeat Denis Healey.

Nominations for the new party leader will shut at noon on Thursday, and first vote to be held next Thursday

Some new party leaders, in the last generation, have increasingly had little experience when chosen but Long - Bailey would represent a new low.

Speaking after Andrea Leadsom resigned from the leadership contest, Mrs May said she was «honoured and humbled» to have been chosen as the new party leader and pledged that «together we will build a better Britain».

Less than 24 hours after their new party leader, Charles Kennedy, declared «I am not going to trim» in the battle to win the promised euro - referendum, disappointed activists at the Lib Dem conference in Harrogate admitted that the European parliament elections in June had been a success for the Eurosceptic campaign.

Maude managed Michael Portillo's unsuccessful bid for the Conservative leadership in 2001, after which he declined a front bench role under the new Party Leader Iain Duncan Smith.

Made an update to ensure that Party Leaders can assign a new Party Leader or Kick a player from their party.

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