Sentences with phrase «night as the party leader»

A succession row broke out among Lib Dems last night as the party leader's closest ally, Norman Lamb, hinted he'd like the top job.

Not exact matches

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak, right, announces next to his wife Deb Hutton that he will be stepping down as party leader after being defeated his election night campaign head quarters in Grimsby, Ont., on June 12, 2014.

One of Mr. Jean's first acts as leader was to dismiss Calgary - South East candidate Bill Jarvis, whose comments about «brown people» embarrassed the party on the night of its leadership announcement.

That PASOK would choose last night to strike such a ridiculous pose is a bad sign for how long the coalition will hang together as the leaders of both coalition parties constantly put their own party's short - term interests over the public interest.

Speaking to Premier as the other party leaders prepared for Wednesday night's TV debate ahead of next week's vote, Theresa May once again outlined the role her Christian faith plays in her life, saying it is the same today as it was growing up in the vicarage where her father served.

As a rule, they had a bad night: BNP leader Nick Griffin actually managed to decrease his party's share of the vote in Barking, while Esther Rantzen proved little more than a sideshow in the Luton South Labour - Tory struggle.

Now, despite the skepticism many Republicans expressed as the election results came in Tuesday night — one Republican official told CNN the Republican party would be slow to give any money to O'Donnnell — she is enjoying an influx of support from prominent Republican leaders.

As the night grew louder and more heated, Cuomo and de Blasio managed to convince the key union leaders who backed the party financially to grant Cuomo the WFP endorsement.

The Greens should be included in TV debates to make it 5,» he tweeted last night, adding «Dear @BBCScotland & @WeAreSTV it's great you're organising Scottish party leaders election debates but why not invite Scottish Greens as well,» this morning.

In his first major interview since quitting as party leader, Clegg said he initially did not believe the election night exit poll which suggested his party would be cut to 10 MPs.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

But there were already signs of tension last night as Kennedy aides suggested that the new leader would proceed as he sees fit in dealing with Labour - and Hughes aides said he could not act «without agreement of the party».

Mr Corbyn vowed to continue last night despite his own MPs voting by 172 to 40 in favour of a motion stating they have «no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the parliamentary Labour party».

BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Yom Kippur controversy mars Conservative Party convention; Longo's team and others accuse Lettre and Loeffler of anti-Semitism for holding convention on same date as Yom Kippur; derelict leaders of the Conservative Party refuse to allow press at their convention There was no floor fight at last night's Conservative Party convention, not that -LSB-...]

Local Republican leaders brokered a deal last night that assured Tom Dadey keeps his seat as party chairman.

The New York Senate Democrats last night came to an agreement last night placing Malcolm Smith as majority leader and giving the party control of the chamber for the first time in 43 years.

While he held on to his Sheffield Hallam seat, the Lib Dem leader had to watch as some of his most senior colleagues lost their constituencies in a remarkable night that reduced the party to rump.

On the same night as the GOP Bronx powwow, State Senator Pedro Espada will be throwing a $ 1,000 - a-head birthday party for himself in Manhattan to honor his «historic ascension» to the position of majority leader Bronxites from Guinea react to the horrific violence in their homeland.

Paddy Ashdown last night stunned Liberal Democrats when he announced that he will resign as party leader after this spring's crucial local and Euro - elections - just as he gets closer to the reins of power than any predecessor since Lloyd George.

On Tuesday night, Labour leader Ed Miliband said Cameron's speech would «define him as a weak prime minister, being driven by his party, not by the national economic interest».

Labour leader Ed Miliband said the Conservative Party lost a seat «in their own backyard» last night as Douglas Carswell took Clacton for Ukip.

This quirk has given the party establishment here (loathed by supporters of Donald Trump) a boost of relevance as all three major party candidates are expected for a fundraising dinner Thursday night for the Republican State Committee, whose members, and leaders, will select the delegates.

The Liberal Democrat president, Simon Hughes, and the deputy leader, Vince Cable, announce Sir Menzies Campbell's departure as party leader last night.