Sentences with phrase «own leadership bids»

The Conservatives bought radio ads last year accusing NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who backed cap and trade during his leadership bid, of a «carbon tax» plan that «would make everything you need cost more.»

Misplaced or not, it's a key plank of Kenney's leadership bid.

Jason Kenney has announced he will be returning from Ottawa to make a leadership bid for the PCs.

But two unite - the - right groups could provide him with a base with which to organize his PC leadership bid.

He wouldn't say if he will launch a leadership bid this time around, but said he is weighing options on «re-engaging» in politics.

How to win press backing for your leadership bid: ensure there are not enough seats for all the hacks you invite then make them wait 30 mins.

That's about as explicit a leadership bid as you could ask for.

Unlike MPs elected more recently Watson and McDonnell, very different politicians, have decades of experience, years of mistakes to learn from, battles fought and lost, leadership crises, leadership bids, policies framed and re-framed.

But Boles was notably reluctant to say anything else on the subject of Gove's doomed leadership bid..

«If David Miliband has positioned himself as a radical moderate, Ed Miliband positioned himself as a moderate radical in announcing his leadership bid» is an interestingly nuanced distinction!

Diane James kept her leadership bid secret until forced to declare her hand yesterday, watching and waiting while other candidates imploded or had their consiglieres turn fire on each other.

And Balls could lift the lid on his failed 2010 Labour leadership bid and the role he played in his wife Yvette Cooper's failed bid last year.

Nick Boles was the campaign manager for Michael Gove's surprise Tory leadership bid in the summer.

Support for Smith is understood to be growing among Labour MPs, with some who had nominated Eagle's leadership bid already switching sides to back her rival.

On launching his leadership bid, McDonnell, who vehemently opposed the Iraq War and was an ardent critic of the new Labour government, called for «a challenge to the present political consensus».

In 7 - 9 years from now, he makes the leadership bid.

The pair appeared in Manchester today nearly 10 years after McDonnell tried to scupper Brown's leadership bid

This week, the commentariat got very excited about Dan Jarvis's non leadership bid speech at Demos...

With left - wing Corbynite MSP Neil Findlay having ruled out a leadership bid, the contest to come is likely to be between Rowley and the moderate MSP Anas Sarwar.

Boris Johnson could be in a position to return to parliament as early as next year in preparation for a leadership bid, Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries has said.

In his 2015 leadership bid, Burnham pledged to commit Labour to «a policy of progressive renationalisation of the railway system».

It is caught between a leader who is unpopular among the party's MPs and the broader electorate, but hugely popular with the large influx of members and supporters that joined the party in 2015 to back his leadership bid.

29 July 2008 Writes an article for the Guardian which sparks speculation he is planning a Labour leadership bid, which he later denies

[66] He has advocated a «National Care Service», integrating care services into the National Health Service [67] Burnham's key economic policies in his leadership bid included a new levy to fund social care, extending the higher minimum wage to all ages (it currently only applies to those over 25), and banning zero - hour contracts.

He was welcomed back by Boris Johnson - whose previous leadership bid he had scuppered by withdrawing support and announcing his own candidacy at the eleventh hour.

The by - election consolidated Nick Clegg's hold on power, sparked new rumours of leadership bids against David Cameron, saw a surge in support for Ukip and raised questions about Ed Miliband's ability to win votes in the south - east.

He reacted angrily last year when May made a speech on free schools without notifying him — a move widely seen as preparing the ground for a future leadership bid.

It sparked fury among Conservative colleagues, with claims she was trying to conduct her own «freelance foreign policy» or seek support for a possible leadership bid.

RT @libcon: Exclusive — Ed Miliband to launch Labour leadership bid on Monday http://bit.ly/bhOqlt

12th July 2016, The Guardian: Angela Eagle's constituency office vandalised after leadership bid launch

A fascinating email accidentally sent out by Michael Gove's wife suggests that the justice secretary may not be 100 % behind Boris Johnson's Tory leadership bid.

In a statement issued last night Mr Hain said: «As I said in December, as a result of administrative failings within my campaign there were donations to my deputy leadership bid which were not registered within the normal time to the Electoral Commission.

Not just the journalists who viewed the entire project as a cynical publicity exercise to cement a future leadership bid, but those who took a long hard look at Mr Davis» voting record and didn't like what they found.

Scenes include May at a hustings event during her leadership bid and Johnson holding a curry night with his supporters.

I believed then, and still do, that Tony Benn's deputy leadership bid was a destructive and unprincipled act.

PoliticsHome has learned that support for Mr Smith is growing among Labour MPs, with some who had nominated Ms Eagle's leadership bid already switching sides to back her rival.

«If Jeremy Corbyn wins, that would change everything... We wouldn't rush into affiliating but would want to work very closely to develop policy together — and if that goes well then let's see where we end up,» he told the FT after Corbyn's leadership bid was announced.

Sometimes over the years the deputy leadership was a consolation prize for a failed leadership bid.

Heseltine remained on the backbenches until, in 1990, with Thatcher apparently losing popularity among the public and her own party, he launched a leadership bid.

He revealed that the leadership bid had employed a campaigning system modelled on that employed by the Labour party, but given more freedom to its activists.

He added that the Telegraph's article was not designed to help the longserving Labour MP for Islington North's leadership bid, but to damage it.

He was, as Danny writes, the first shadow cabinet minister to back David Cameron's leadership bid.

Earlier this year it was reported that senior New Labour figures Lord Mandelson and Alistair Campbell approached Mr Johnson over a leadership bid, although all three later distanced themselves from the story.

She told BBC News Labour needs «to be in the centre ground to win a general election» but ruled herself out of a leadership bid.

And Nicky Morgan, who took over from Mr Gove at the Department for Education and supported his short - lived leadership bid, has also confirmed that she has left her role as Education Secretary and Women and Equalities Minister.

DAVID Cameron sent a brutal text message to Boris Johnson after his Tory leadership bid was destroyed by Michael Gove, it has been revealed.

He was given a gong for «comeback of the year» after his failed leadership bid propelled him into King Charles Street.

Abbott claimed today that Miliband had in fact «# 400,000 in cold cash» to drive through his leadership bid.

WATCH VIDEO: «Cobblers»: Boris Johnson responds to claims his support of Brexit is about Tory leadership bid

The Sunday Times suggested that Andrea Leadsom could be sacked as leader of the House of Commons, and it also named Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, who ran May's leadership bid.