Sentences with phrase «own leadership ambitions»

Many shun working on the environment because they think it will distract from their career and leadership ambitions.

Ramming through the Redford government's cuts to post-secondary education, the powerful Mr. Lukaszuk frequently speaks as if he leads the government, leading some conservatives to suggest he has leadership ambitions of his own.

But before supporters of either Boris Johnson or Amber Rudd get too carried away with leadership ambitions, they ought to reflect on how Theresa May has made something of a political comeback since the Mansion House speech that Boris said he was disappointed to miss.

Ex-special forces soldier Dan Jarvis, a relative newcomer, to politics is known to harbour leadership ambitions.

Mr Cable said it was «very clear» Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg will retain his seat in Sheffield Hallam, as he refused to be drawn on his own leadership ambitions.

The shadow education secretary may also discuss his own leadership ambitions as speculation over Ed Miliband's potential successor continues.

His leadership ambitions were thwarted by his outspoken support of the EU, but he has been, nevertheless, a great beast in government.

Still, that does you no harm if you have leadership ambitions.

The energy secretary prompted a bitter argument in Cabinet earlier this week when he repeatedly tried to get David Cameron and George Osborne to disassociate themselves from «no» camp tactics, prompting a flurry of speculation about his leadership ambitions.

Any leadership ambitions they harbour are surely mothballed until after the election.

Asked about his leadership ambitions, he refused to comment, insisting that the party had to throw itself into the May elections and June referendum.

I'm surprised really because Boris Johnson in the past has written a lot about the importance of staying in the European Union and if he is actually thinking about putting his personal leadership ambitions above the national interest I don't think it's going to do him any good.

At a Vote Leave press conference on Friday morning, he did not take questions and made no comment about his leadership ambitions.

And yet Rosa Prince documents how she had leadership ambitions and relied upon a very small group of supporters, including her Spads Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill who are ruthlessly proactively protective.

Downing Street has always been wary of Mr Johnson, whom some senior Tories believe harbours leadership ambitions.

And in this spirit, every time he asked for extra chocolate on his cappuccino, the press were speculating about what this meant for his potential leadership ambitions.

Having seen off the leadership ambitions of Herbert Morrison among others, Attlee won the 1950 general election with a reduced majority.

Meanwhile, the former shadow business secretary used similar wording when pressed on speculation about his leadership ambitions.

As George Osborne's leadership ambitions come under the microscope, is even David Cameron losing...

Those commentators (I only mention this because I was not one of them) who constantly prattled on about her leadership ambition must be feeling rather red - faced.

After his speech last month, Jarvis sidestepped questions about his leadership ambitions, stating:

«She is sacrificing Britain's 68 year old commitment to human rights for her own miserable Tory leadership ambitions.»

The London mayor also took a top journalist to task for daring to ask about his leadership ambitions.

On the subject of her leadership ambitions, Eagle issued what is known in the trade as a non-denial denial.

The remarks by Blears, who takes pride in delivering uncomfortable truths to the Labour party, marks the most significant intervention by a member of the cabinet following private briefings about the leadership ambitions of some ministers.

Asked if the result marked the end of his own leadership ambitions, the Lib Dem president told BBC News 24: «It is never the end of Simon Hughes».

«You have to be ready for anything,» Dan Jarvis told the BBC when they recently asked about his Labour leadership ambitions.

If the Tories lose expect all that Olympic chatter about Boris Johnson's leadership ambitions to reach deafening levels.

[185] One of his main reasons for staying on as leader was to frustrate the leadership ambitions of Herbert Morrison, whom Attlee disliked for both political and personal reasons.

His failure either to swiftly back Brown or join the coup has earned him the soubriquet of «serial bottler» and seriously damaged his future leadership ambitions, writes John Kampfner in the Daily Mail:

But Huhne has gone and Farron, who two years ago spent the entire conference fielding questions about his leadership ambitions, is keeping his head down and loyally backing the Clegg election strategy.

He gave Total Politics magazine a hardly - unequivocal denial of his leadership ambitions: «I'm not pretending that I'm keeping my leadership bid quiet just for the right moment.

«Angry Labour rebels last night declared David Miliband's leadership ambitions dead after his failure to join the latest botched attempt to oust Gordon Brown.

As George Osborne's leadership ambitions come under the microscope, is even David Cameron losing patience with his old pal?

With the tight result of the leadership election between Clegg and Huhne I have no doubt that Chris Huhne still regards his leadership ambitions as very much «in play».

The one time frontrunner for Prime Minister briefly entered the political wilderness for all of one week after his one time ally Michael Gove scuppered his leadership ambitions.

10.25 am: More on Tim Farron and his leadership ambitions.

The Mayor of London's leadership ambitions are haunted by what Donald Rumsfeld would call a Known Known and a Known UnKnown.

Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary with leadership ambitions, is seen as Labour's best hope by quite a few people on Mandelson's wing of the party.

There was support for his leadership ambitions, as well as his local ones, at Uxbridge's Conservative Association.

Labour's Falconer accused May of «sacrificing Britain's 68 - year - old commitment to human rights for her own miserable Tory leadership ambitions».

For the sake of David Miliband's own leadership ambitions, his followers should demand a lot more.

He could well outlast any leadership ambitions Brake might have, which I'm sceptical of the existence of anyway.

Simpson said Gordon Brown should tell those who back Miliband's leadership ambitions, including Charles Clarke, who argued last week that Brown should consider stepping down «with honour», to «sod off».

Last night a group of about twenty socially conservative MPs interviewed David Cameron, David Davis and Liam Fox about their leadership ambitions.

The happy news will do no harm to the leadership ambitions of the minister, who is in charge of Labour's manifesto and election strategy.

Tricia Hobson, who next month will become Norton Rose's first female global chair, sets out her leadership ambitions

You may have leadership ambitions — Perm is a growth area here, so we will need responsible recruiters to lead and guide colleagues.

Not exact matches

«It's a fundamental issue for Canada — not to move beyond our resource economy, but to support it internationally,» says Duchesne «At the core of this is ambition and leadership, getting into that global mindset and thinking forward.

The event, called Find your Fearless: Women, Ambition & Leadership, was organized by trade magazine PRWeek and communications agency Zeno Group and included a panel discussion on women's leadership, on which I participated.