Sentences with phrase «on leadership contest»

How exactly does this square with even having an option on the ballot paper for taking no position on a leadership contest it described in May as «an essential opportunity for the party» to think «long and hard about how it renews and transforms itself in the years ahead»?

«Every day we spend on a leadership contest is a day that would be better spent getting on with making the most of Britain's new future outside the EU.»

Tory MPs have put rocket boosters on their leadership contest, with nominations for David Cameron's successor set to close this week.

A total of 11 % of respondents - who were chosen at random within those marginals - said they were undecided on the leadership contest.

Tory MPs have put rocket boosters on their leadership contest, with nominations for David Cameron's...

I saw an interesting graph of the polls and Labour for 12 months was level with, sometimes just ahead, and sometimes just behind the Tories before the Right Wing coup when unsurprisingly the polls have gone downhill and we have had to waste months on a leadership contest when we could have been hammering the Tories.

Not exact matches

But such a scenario, which seems unrealistic on its face, is at best a long way off given the near - certainty of another divisive Liberal leadership contest.

Butcher confirmed that the investigation found voting irregularities in the leadership contest that resulted in Clark defeating Kevin Falcon by 340 points on a regionally - weighted preferential ballot.

Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

Both Minister Morton and Minister Lukaszuk supported Mr. Mar on the final ballot of the PC leadership contest.

In a recent op - ed in the Edmonton Journal, Public Interest Alberta «s Larry Booi called on the new NDP government to institute campaign spending limits, lower contribution limits to $ 1,200 per year, impose much stronger rules on disclosure of contributions and spending and extend the rules on contributions and spending to cover party leadership and constituency contests.

Both Mr. Horne and Mr. Liepert were strong supporters of Mr. Mar in the leadership contest and would have likely ended up in similar positions had he not been defeated on the third ballot vote on October 1.

Mr. Lukaszuk turned on Ms. Redford when her star was falling and ran in PC leadership contest as an outsider.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

Banff - Cochrane MLA Ron Casey was one of two MLAs to endorse Ken Hughes «short - lived leadership campaign and has remained quiet since he dropped out of the contest on May 12, 2014.

Kenney's plan has also raised questions on whether such a merger platform contravenes leadership contest rules, which forbid candidates from doing harm to the party or its brand.

It was lousy timing, primarily, that the Alberta Tory leadership contest suffered two high - profile departures on the same day Americans elected Donald Trump.

With the (arguable) exception of football and the Grand National, I tend to make predictions where I think I have better information than other people opining on them (political events; leadership contests, etc).

While that is certainly possible (I have a small bet on her) Labour has yet to ever pick a woman over a man in a leadership contest and there is little evidence that is about to change.

After a bitter referendum campaign which featured much blue - on - blue infighting, the Conservatives now face a leadership contest to choose the next Prime Minister.

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.

Referring to their one time rivalry, McDonnell quipped today: «Gordon and I were last on a platform together in 2007, when we were both contesting the Labour party leadership.

It is entirely legitimate for her to stay on while she tries to sort out a deal with the DUP, asks for a delay in talks, then presides over a leadership contest.

The tragedy of Labour's leadership contest is that not one of the candidates - judging by their positions on political reform - is a true pluralist.

It's useful to look at the Labour leadership race in the context of research on party leadership contests.

«Yvette is 100 % going for leader,» one ally of Cooper told friends this week, adding that the campaign message on why the MP for Pontefract and Castleford only came third in the 2015 leadership contest has already been put together.

In September 2015, he pledged to build on the enthusiasm generated among his supporters during a leadership contest that saw him start as rank outsider before sweeping to victory on a left - wing wave.

Most attention normally focuses on who can vote in leadership elections but the rules on entering a contest in the first place are just as important.

This 2nd edition includes new material: a post-2015 election analysis by Adrian Pabst and a postscript by Maurice Glasman on Labour after the 2015 leadership contest.

The first is that the Conservatives don't even end up as the largest party and Cameron is summarily ejected from Downing Street, in which case he would immediately resign, leaving the way clear for Boris to fight a leadership contest against, in all probability, George Osborne and Theresa May and possibly one or two other, darker horses — odds on Chris Grayling anyone?

If and when he and his party wield power again will depend on whether the contest for its leadership really does begin Labour's renewal.

Kinnock and his colleagues on the soft left had themselves been branded traitors for failing to back Tony Benn in his 1981 deputy leadership contest with Denis Healey.

The vote is likely to trigger a leadership contest — but whether Corbyn will automatically get a place on the ballot is unclear as nobody knows for sure what they party rules are.

And yes, there have been some signs of jockeying for position — Danny Alexander in particular seems to be on manoeuvres — but this is with a view to a post-2015 leadership contest, not a direct challenge to Clegg's authority.

Burke provides other arguments about the need for representatives to have the freedom to exercise personal judgement and suggests they are somehow more able to see the bigger picture but I'd be interested in hearing your opinion on whether there is any knoweldge, information or argument about the Labour leadership contest or candidates that is the preserve of MPs only?

Since the Republicans all but washed out on Election Day at the state level, losing every statewide contest and nearly deadlocking the Senate (although things are looking up for them there), Cox has been focusing on the House successes whenever anyone criticizes his leadership and suggests he should resign.

In her speech during the Conservative leadership contest in the summer May also sounded even more radical than Labour's 2015 manifesto when she pledged: «We're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but employees as well.»

Appearing on the BBC's Sunday Politics, Mr Corbyn said he would push for the NEC to amend the leadership contest guidelines in the coming days.

For many on the left, excluded from influence during the Blair years, a leadership contest is an opportunity to make their case.

Blogs do best when they cover subjects whose minutiae are ignored by the mainstream media, as was true on the right during the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, and more recently the coverage of selections for individual parliamentary seats.

For example, Indira Gandhi didn't enter the Indian National Congress party leadership contest until two years after her father's death and we are yet to read it anywhere that Rajiv, his son, was involved in any «Deception Campaigns» before he was appointed as Prime Minister on October 31, 1984, following his mother's assassination earlier in the day.

The discussions do not need to lead to a firm policy programme, but we need to find out what views on Labour's future direction exist within the Labour Movement so we can then have a meaningful leadership contest in which the candidates and those voting understand each other.

Jeremy Corbyn this morning suggested he might take legal action against Labour's National Executive Committee if he is denied a place on the ballot in the forthcoming leadership contest.

A huge row is being teed up between Mr Corbyn, his supporters and the rest of the party over whether he would automatically be on the ballot paper in a leadership contest.

Perhaps more importantly, there is a scramble now to sign people up to pay # 25 during a 48 - hour window starting on Monday to become registered supporters and have a say in the coming leadership contest.

The leadership contest was triggered after Tim Farron said he would step down following the party's failure to make as much progress as he had hoped at the general election, and a series of punishing interviews about his personal views on issues including homosexuality.

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

In August, he told the Guardian that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary party to see the leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of debate.

She told ITV's Peston on Sunday: «He will have to find nominations, I am ready to have a leadership contest and a debate with whoever's on the ballot.»

But a huge row is being teed up between Mr Corbyn, his supporters and the rest of the party over whether he would automatically be on the ballot paper in a leadership contest.