Sentences with phrase «now be a leadership election»

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Regardless if these registered supporters actually vote in their leadership contest, their names are now entered into a database that will be useful for the Liberals in the next provincial election.

Now that we have been rushed into a leadership contest, there is an urgent need for those MPs who see themselves as democratic socialists (of whatever hue) to get together at a meeting in the Commons to agree on a candidate for the leadership election.

He made women's rights a hallmark of his campaign, even going so far as to create the Women's Equality Party, (which is now more or less defunct after a battle over its leadership, though don't be surprised to see it revived in advance of the 2018 election).

There will potentially be calls for a leadership change if Republicans lose their majority in the 2018 elections, but for now that's a long way away, and Flanagan isn't stepping aside anytime soon.

I read that, now, to mean «as long as it complies with Cameron's dictates» If, as is suggested, Mandleson pulls the rug from under Brown, prior to a general election, and the Labour Party get a new invigorated leadership then, sadly, Cameron will not have a chance.

«Now many more members will have the chance to vote in the leadership election, I am today calling for an extension of the timetable so that all members have the opportunity to engage with Jeremy and me before making their choice.»

What's different now is that the ennui, the flatness, the lack of passion which has afflicted Miliband's leadership is becoming replaced with a quickening of the pulse as the general election approaches.

Now that Governor Andrew Cuomo has included comprehensive election reform in his executive budget, the only obstacle that remains is the leadership in the Senate.

Although Labour's «vitriol, bile and insults» are now being aimed at him personally, he hoped the party would stop talking to itself after its leadership election, and he has no intention of returning the fire.

David Cameron made it very clear during the leadership election that economic stability would be prioritised over tax cuts and he was subsequently elected leader by a significant majority of the party membership, so I think anybody that expects him to abandon that position now is being a bit unreasonable to be honest.

«The reality the leadership of APC in Abuja must begin to face from now is that even if the entire treasury of the federal government is opened and deployed to Ekiti State from today till July 14, it won't save the party from losing the governorship election.»

Now, as a result of Labour's leadership election, we are in a position that other parties will eye enviously — more than 550,000 people will be able to help to choose our new leadership team, of which 120,000 are new supporters.

OWEN Smith is the man who went up against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election - and now he has been sacked over calling for a second Brexit vote.

Clegg's failure to fall on his sword after three poor election results in quick succession is now reinforcing the message that, far from being a party that listens, the leadership is now burying its head in the sand.

As I said yesterday, David Cameron made it perfectly clear during the leadership election that economic stability would be prioritised over unfunded tax cuts, and was subsequently elected by a significant majority of the party membership, so anybody getting their knickers in a twist about him sticking by that policy (the title of this thread is clearly wrong) now is being unreasonable.

Mr Miliband's faltering position in the polls has triggered a near - panic in some putative leadership campaign camps in the past month, and now the election is just over 100 days away positions are hardening, says one Labour source.

«If the party leadership does not do anything about it, then we will have a very tall order... if they do not do anything about it to have the problem resolved now, it will be very difficult for us to win [the 2020 election].»

It's clear from the leadership election that Labour is now a collection of disparate, occasionally overlapping and increasingly rancorous tribes.

We could now be entering a cycle of never - ending leadership campaigns in which Corbyn gets elected, the parliamentary Labour party passes a vote of no confidence in him and triggers another election.

• If those who have been working to destabilise Corbyn's leadership such as Tony Blair, Rupert Murdoch, Neil Kinnock, Peter Mandelson etc, and MPs such as Angela Eagle now succeed in their coup, then I predict a wholesale move of existing Labour supporters (myself included) to the Greens and electoral losses for the remaining «Labour party» that will eclipse even those suffered by the Lib Dems in the last general election.

Although viewed less warmly by the Blairites, Wood and Trickett have been established members of Milband's inner - circle since the leadership election, whilst Tom Watson now exists on an ethereal plain, far above the hum drum daily politicking of Westminster.

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than Tony Blair, and two more than Gordon Brown, was widely expected from the beginning of the contest, with Labour's self - styled «moderates» seemingly reliant on keeping Corbyn off the ballot paper, something they failed to do in July's NEC meeting.

He was endured mass resignations from his shadow cabinet with a leadership election now on the horizon.

Up to the very moment that the polls closed on election day, the Liberal Democrat position was to do the very opposite of what we're now lead to believe Danny Alexander and the rest of the leadership firmly believe must happen.

«The idea of a leadership election suddenly now would be a catastrophe,» former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has told the BBC.

The second difference between now and 1990 is that the nature of the Tory leadership election process has changed.

The first thing to remember is that the relatively few people eligible to vote in the Labour leadership election — 400,000 odd until a few weeks ago, now more like 600,000 — are not remotely representative of the rest of the country.

Right now, most of the contributions to the Labour debate are coming from the part of the party that lost the leadership election.

«This should be the challenge for the Labour leadership election: not an argument about which policies of the Labour government the contenders did or did not support, or even which policies they support now, but a real attempt to identify the basis for a contemporary centre - left political project.

In many ways as a parallel to what I'm doing now in this leadership election.

Assuming there will be a leadership election and assuming Corbyn wins (two large assumptions I appreciate because it is not in the interest of the plotters to run in an election they are likely to lose and anything might happen in the campaign if and when it comes) then the opportunity to renew the party is now there.

Self - evidently, Corbyn's opponents in the PLP — that is, nearly all of it — have not been able to really make any movement while the leadership election and the reshuffle have been going on, they now can.

«A few stout - hearted MPs and peers, and hundreds, maybe soon thousands, of candidates, councillors and Lib Dem members all over Britain are now fighting constituency by constituency for a leadership election,» Oakeshott said in a statement.

Gordon Brown's dismissal of Gillian Duffy as a «bigot» was one of the defining moments of the election campaign, and Labour leadership candidates are now queuing up to blame their electoral defeat on the party's failure to address immigration on the doorstep.

«We have a general election in November, I do have a Green Party opponent, I take nothing for granted but I've also made it clear that I'm seeking leadership of the council the next term so that effort really kicks into high gear now,» Levine said.

Given that it's now come to light that Diane James wrote on her filing papers for leadership (I can't work out if this is the ones that you fill in before or after the leadership election), the words «under duress» — in Latin!

«Now that the national convention is over, the new leadership should use the new spirit in the party to start the preparations for the next general election,» Beji added.

«Yes,» they will have exclaimed into their polenta and soil smoothies, «Now both candidates in the Labour leadership election are hard - line, proper, old - school socialists!»

Incidentally the Odds now show that the Parties will face leadership elections in the following order: UKIP, LibDem, SNP, Labour, Tory so the consensus now seems to be May will go after Brexit with a new Leader in place by the 2019 Tory Conference.

I rather suspect that Margaret Thatcher now regrets campaigning for membership of The Common Market and for agreeing to many of the extensions in the EU in the 1980s, if she had won the 1990 leadership election I would not have been surprised if she had turned volte face and saying that the EU was not what we had signed up for and that the UK was leaving.

Now that climate denial's bread and butter arguments are toast, November's US elections will be critical in determining whether the country continues along the path of climate leadership established by President Obama, or allows the oil industry's puppet party to continue peddling long - debunked myths in order to delay climate action and put future generations at risk.

Stamos says it's not a lack of empathy or understanding of the non-engineering elements to blame, though Facebook's idealistic leadership did certainly fail to anticipate how significantly its products could be abused to interfere with elections, hence all the reactive changes happening now.