Sentences with phrase «one's election as leader»

He emerged from two general elections as leader of the party with the most seats in a minority parliament.

But FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said the party «had changed for the better» since Jeremy Corbyn's spectacular election as leader in September this year.

Chuka Umunna was the second candidate to declare he would stand for election as leader of the Labour Party.

Once you have fought two general elections as leader of the third party then I think you begin to wonder.»

This in turn should rid him of the «Red Ed» label which came with the union - orchestrated election as leader.

David Cameron's election as leader attracted colossal media attention, as did that of Tony Blair and indeed John Smith after Neil Kinnock's 1992 election upset.

When Neil Kinnock reacted to Ed Miliband's election as leader by saying, «we've got our party back», we might presume that Blair was the primary kidnapper.

Acting leader between the resignation of Charles Kennedy on 7 January 2006 and his own election as leader on 2 March 2006.

Although Straw was subsequently cleared of misconduct by the parliamentary standards watchdog, his chances of a seat in the Lords are said to have disappeared after Corbyn's election as leader in September.

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

Given this is his last general election as leader — «not according to your last question,» he interjects, laughing — which three key seats on the night of 7 May would he be looking out for as proof that he was heading back to Number 10?

They pre-date Scheer's election as leader.

She frequently claimed, from the moment of her election as leader of the Conservatives in February 1975, to have «changed everything.»

Flanagan's election as leader has been met with skepticism by upstate Republicans, who have pointed to his vote in 2013 in favor of the SAFE Act.

Some indications as to just how seismic Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader of the Labour Party really is may be found by measuring it against the party's historical Richter scale.

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Following Ed Miliband's election as leader, she returned to her role as Deputy Leader, shadowing Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and with the title of Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

David Cameron, Tony Blair and John Smith's election as leader all resulted in a noticeable boost to their respective parties.

In addition, Johann Lamont appears to be making progress since her election as leader in December 2011.

Articulations of class division in cultural terms have become stronger in Labour since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader.

The problem, as described by Lewis Minkin in The Blair Supremacy (Labour First «s secretary Luke Akehurst's «book of the year» in 2014), was that «Blair, despite a huge victory in his election as leader, had in practice only a narrow base of committed supporters of his full political project» [p663].

«Let's stop these childish attacks» on a Labour faction that has done nothing but undermine Ed since his election as Leader... why?

One weakness of Cameron at 10 is that we really only assess him as Prime Minister after 2010 and only have glimpses of his background, education, family, decision to enter politics and his election as leader - something which, although attracting controversy, can be found in Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott Call me Dave.

Lloyd George only won the 1918 election with the Conservative majority and the «coupons» whilst Churchill fought three elections as leader — 1945, 1950 and 1957, and only won the last narrowly.

Speaking at a media conference after the national executive meeting, he said: «It is clear that a small minority who didn't accept my election as leader of the Scottish Labour Party just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the party.

Ever since his election as leader in 2010 he has consistently failed to convince the public that he is a prime minister - in - waiting.

Following Jeremy Corbyn's election as Leader of the Labour Party, Green was promoted again to the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet serving as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.

Jowell had been elected to the Commons as MP for Dulwich (later Dulwich and West Norwood), in 1992, only two years before Blair's election as leader, but she had previously acquired 15 years of political expertise as a Labour councillor.

But speaking to the Times, Mandelson said anyone who tried to take Labour back to the era before Blair's election as leader in 1994 would wreck the party's chances of a swift return to power.

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

There is, however, a more useful lesson to learn from how Labour came up short in the aftermath of David Cameron's election as leader of his party.

While largely ignoring the moves against him, he did make several references to his election as leader to highlight his overwhelming mandate from Labour members.

Coming from the result of Corbyn's election as leader of the Labour Party, it is hard to compare it to Militant Tendency or the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy.

Butler, by contrast, was seen as on the liberal wing of the Conservatives, and his election as leader might split the party.

People also agree that it was Clegg's election as leader of the party that helped move the Lib Dems to a more economically liberal centre ground.

The number of constituencies represented this year at the conference at which Ed Milliband's election as leader was announced was the lowest in living memory — 412 meaning more than one in three -LSB-...]

The number of constituencies represented this year at the conference at which Ed Milliband's election as leader was announced was the lowest in living memory — 412 meaning more than one in three parties was unrepresented.

Following two narrow defeats for the Conservatives at the polls, in February and October 1974, significant disquiet in the party had developed over the leadership of Edward Heath, who had lost three elections as leader.

He was a respected incumbent in the post but, after Tony Blair's election as leader, his days were numbered, not least when he delayed the announcement of a frontbench reshuffle by five days because of his opposition to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as a junior opposition whip.

Of the 75 polls between Corbyn's election as leader and the tabling of of a motion of no confidence in him the day after the EU referendum, only 15 showed Labour within three points of the Conservatives, and only three showed Labour ahead, by one, three and three points.

Whatever Corbyn's shortcomings his election as leader would take us into uncharted territory and the confusion it would generate would open up space for some creative thinking (again, a phrase Labour politics rarely brings to mind).

He further suggested that those on the right of the party had resented her election as leader and ignored her, treating her as a «wee lassie».

Whatever the ofther effects of Corbyn's election as Leader of the Opposition, it has killed off Blairism / In this constituency, Labour needs to look for a candidate who can stand up for the consitutency and seek radicasl change rather than use the seat to be a Blairista.

Following his election as the leader of the federal Conservative Party, a National Post columnist encouraged Andrew Scheer to revive a pre-election promise made by his predecessor, Stephen Harper, more than a decade ago, to create equal shared parenting legislation.