Sentences with phrase «not leadership challenger»

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It's not out of the ordinary for a challenger to tie their potential opponent to the national party's leadership.

Felder already has a primary challenger in newcomer Blake Morris, but there doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm for him from party leadership.

Despite a vote of no confidence, Corbyn has insisted he won't resign, citing the large mandate he won in the 2015 leadership election, when he finished 40 percentage points ahead of his nearest challenger in a vote of party members.

If they don't get rid of Brown soon, Labor will be out of power for a generation — so any challenger to his leadership would be a good thing.

«The rules by which the Labour Party is governed are unambiguous: the leader does not require any signatures to be nominated in a leadership election where there is a potential challenger to the leadership,» the letter states.

«While we all support a unified, progressive Democratic majority in the state Senate under the leadership of Andrea Stewart - Cousins, your claims of unity can not undo the damage that you have done by blocking a single Democratic state senator in the room to advocate for common - sense progressive priorities,» the challengers wrote.

If the two sides could not work together in the state Senate, the state party said it would run primary challengers against IDC members and possibly change up the leadership among the mainline Democrats.

Elsewhere, fellow former leadership challenger Liz Kendall criticised the left wing of the party for not being enthusiastic enough about remaining in the bloc.

The Labour leadership election has been a case - in - point: the commonest piece of abuse thrown at Liz Kendall for daring to suggest, for instance, we should not be knee - jerk hostile to parents who want to improve the outcome of the state education system by setting up challenger schools, is that she is a Tory.