Sentences with phrase «over the party leadership»

Not only is he seen as untrustworthy on Europe, for example by reneging on his promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, his whole modernisation strategy since taking over the party leadership in 2005 has been seen by some as an essential betrayal of the party's core, conservative values.

UKIP's Paul Nuttall takes over the party leadership at a critical point in time.

The former shadow business secretary is hoping to oust Jeremy Corbyn amid warnings the bitter rows over the party leadership could lead to a legal wrangle or lasting split

Not exact matches

Chinese President Xi Jinping has been driving a sweeping crackdown on deep - rooted graft since taking over the party's leadership in late 2012.

Intriguingly, he or his party boosters were not active in the federal leadership campaigns that began to crank up over the holidays.

Rod Sykes (Social Credit leader, 1980 to 1982): After serving two terms as the Mayor of Calgary (1969 - 1977), Mayor Sykes took over the leadership of the Social Credit Party.

Mahamudu Bawumia's claim that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has since 2009 amassed and spent 12 times the nominal resources that the NPP had over its eight years of leadership is «cleverly exaggerated», policy think tank IMANI has said in its commentary on the opposition New Patriotic Party's vice presidential nominee's lecture he delivered on Thursday September 8 at the National Theatre.

Hysteria and panic ensues as the new candidate is primed for BBC Fenland by the party leadership team — Cooper's long - suffering special adviser Claudia (Jessica Regan) being told to «shut up» and «go over there and be a camera.»

The New Labour era is over, Ed Miliband proclaimed as he seized the party leadership from the grasp of his elder brother.

«What I've seen from the Republican Party, certainly over the last few months, indicates to me that maybe we really ought to have leadership that brings us closer to our principles,» Ognibene said.

The measure would presumably end arguments over whether a certain bill would pass in an up - or - down vote in the chamber, but is being bottled up on the legislative calender by the chamber's majority party leadership.

Even though the NDC party has officially remained silent over the former President's latest attacks on its leadership and its late leader, many high profile individual party members are so vexed with the outbursts of the NDC founder; they are threatening to expose his hypocrisy and his selfish motives for his behavior.

Xi Jinping has taken over the helm of China's state apparatus as well as the Party, but where the new leadership will take the country remains uncertain.

There has been no change in the Republican leadership over the last year when they hand picked a candidate whose values were more in line with the Democrat party then their own.

In what initially appeared an in - house crisis has come to the fore as the leadership of the All Progressives Congress have started throwing up tantrums at each other over who should speak on behalf of the party.

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).

The European issue has been a reliable source of problems for the party leadership over the years.

«They are fighting a bitter proxy war over the leadership of their own party.

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

It would be a mistake for Labour to adopt this system in its purest form; it is both just and necessary for affiliated trade unions, as the founders of the party, to have a say over the leadership.

«As an expert on the history of our founders and the founding documents, Sen. Loudermilk understands that the only path to fundamentally restoring our constitutional republic is over the heads of leadership in both parties,» Madison Project President Drew Ryun said in a release.

By 9 June, the deadline for entry into the leadership election, Miliband had been nominated by just over 24 % of the Parliamentary Labour Party, double the threshold.

Carwyn Jones reveals growing concern over Corbyn's leadership as poll suggests party could lose century - long dominance in Wales

For over twenty years the Reform Party of the United States has been fighting for honest leadership and real solutions.

Majority of taxi of drivers interviewed by The aL - hAJJ in the capital city, Accra, on the leadership struggle in the opposition National Democratic Congress over who leads the party into the 2020 elections, endorsed Mr Mahama as the marks man to kick out the Akufo - Addo government.

However, for reasons which are still entirely unclear, the leadership of the Liberal Democrats has chosen to ignore hundreds of party members, ride roughshod over party policy, overlook reasoned argument, and rely instead on shoddy logic and misleading arguments to support this unfair, unnecessary and unbalanced Bill.

Chiefs in the Central region are demanding an apology from the leadership of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) over an...

There were numerous clashes at the party's Asylum Down headquarters in Accra over several thorny issues that came up as a result of the leadership of Mr Afoko and the two others.

The last Labour leadership election was beset by rows over attempts by Labour officials to strike off registered supporters who did not «share the values and aims of the Labour party».

3rd March 2017, Guardian: Labour party has lost nearly 26,000 members since mid-2016, report claims and Times: Thousands of Labour members quit over Corbyn leadership

Mr Corbyn said the suspension of local party meetings for the duration of the leadership race over fears of intimidation was a «mistake», saying he has not stopped discussions from taking place in his Islington North constituency.

The problem is that underlying the debate over Syria is a deepening, intensifying and ever more acrimonious fissure between the Corbyn leadership and the bulk of the parliamentary party.

Under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership the Labour Party has consistently polled over 40 per cent for the past nine months since the general election, and held a narrow lead over the Tories.

The German Green Party has never won over 11 percent of the national vote, yet for three decades has consistently won seats and promoted women's leadership by having a 50 - 50 rule for female / male candidates, prodding other major parties to nominate more women.

Reese is also angry over what he sees as the party leadership's continued opposition to fellow Democrats such as State Assemblyman Michael P. Kearns, who is running for Erie County clerk.

Over the next three years, the party recovered under Ashdown's leadership.

The second lesson of the Corbyn leadership project is that Labour needs to get over the intellectual defensiveness that has plagued the party since the late 1980s.

Arguing that the «uncertainty» over the Lib Dem position must be resolved, Mr Harper appealed to the party's leadership to meet with the Greens tomorrow to discuss a possible deal between the SNP, Greens and Lib Dems.

The row over party funding and concerns about voter fraud are largely down to a «lack of courage, competence and leadership» by the Electoral Commission, a new report warns.

Deputy Majority Whip in Parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim has called on the leadership of New Patriotic Party (NPP) to call their flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo to order over what he describes as his «empty promises».

The mayor pledged to leverage the city's budgetary power over the BOE and his own leadership position in the Democratic Party to make changes at the board.

But a new YouGov poll reported in The Times has found that Corbyn enjoys the support of 66 % of party members, a remarkable rise of seven points over the 59 % who supported him at the leadership vote.

It is likely that the new leader will be from the next generation, which will mean an almost total generational shift in leadership in Britain, with baby Boomers out and Generation Jones (the formerly «lost» generation between the Boomers and Xers) taking over in Parliament and party leadership (Cameron and Clegg also come from this generation).

The agenda for the party's annual conference in Liverpool reveals growing tensions between activists and the party leadership over the decision to form a coalition with the Conservatives.

The serious point is that he is on the way to successfully enshrining the points of his leadership campaign as policy, allowing him more control over the direction of the party.

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.

«People will have opinions this way and that, but it's incredibly important once that [leadership] election is complete that we really do come together — while Labour continues to tear themselves apart over the summer — and we can immediately hit the ground running after the summer break as a united party,» he said.

Those complaints could, of course, be dismissed as the negative briefings that accompany any dispute over the leadership of a political party.

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.

In a separate legal action, it has also emerged that a group of Labour members is taking the party to court over its decision to bar 130,000 people from voting in its upcoming leadership election.