Sentences with phrase «parliamentary leaders from»

The international media have reported that parliamentary leaders from Ghana and Tanzania visiting Israel to celebrate their collaboration as part of the «Power Africa» initiative expressed support for America's move to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital city.

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The night was marked by high drama, with reports of the prime minister jabbing his finger at Tory rebel leader Jesse Norman, who was then forced to leave the parliamentary estate following threats from his own party whips.

«It's very difficult to see how the current leadership could possibly unite the elements of the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party being a key part of the that,» he argues, before singling out the role of Momentum, the grass roots movement whose aim is «to build on the energy and enthusiasm from the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaign», for its part in creating the current civil strife.

He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party (as chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party) from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

Steve Hitchins, leader of Islington Council, complained to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir Philip Mawer, that Thornberry had «altered an electronic copy of an Electoral Commission news release by inserting a quotation from herself».

The extent of insults aimed at Miliband, emanating from No 10 on a matter as sensitive as response to the use of chemical weapons, suggests the prime minister has personally authorised a concerted counter-attack on the Labour leader as he seeks to divert blame before the new parliamentary term, which begins on Monday, and before a meeting of G20 leaders, including President Barack Obama, in Russia on Thursday.

Four (4) members from NDC parliamentary caucus (including Minority Leader)

As he now faced yet more attacks from the wider parliamentary party, one old hand waiting outside remarked that he had never sat outside so many PLP meetings, in all his time in Westminster, as he had since Corbyn became leader.

The Independence party leader, finance minister Bjarni Benediktsson, whose name also appeared in the leaked documents in connection with a Seychelles - based company of which he once owned a third, was holding talks with Grímsson, who flew back early from the US to sound out all of Iceland's parliamentary party representatives as the island's political crisis deepened on Tuesday.

And so either he is swapped out for another leader, one capable of uniting the parliamentary party, or else over 80 percent of Labour MPs must be replaced by Corbyn loyalists at the next election — an impracticable solution to say the least — and all future Labour MPs must also be drawn from the ranks of the Corbynistas.

The leaders in the House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament are the leaders of the federal party and the Scottish Party; the leaders in the other two chambers, and the officers of all parliamentary parties, are elected from their own number.

In 1991, as group leader, he led the Lib Dems to victory in the District Council elections and became the first ever Lib Dem leader of the Council, a post he held from 1991 to his parliamentary victory in 1997.

Margaret Hodge spoke out after weeks of Labour MPs resigning from Mr Corbyn's shadow ministerial team and the Labour leader losing the support of the vast majority of his parliamentary colleagues.

In theory this could be interpreted to support an argument that a parliamentary party ought to have the power to elect their party leader directly, and indeed, at least historically, parliamentary system parties» leadership electoral procedures usually called for the party's legislative caucus to fill a leadership vacancy by electing a new leader directly by and from amongst themselves, and for the whole succession process to be completed within as short a time frame as practical.

Howard Flight was Conservative Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 until 2005, when his parliamentary career was brought to an abrupt halt by the then party leader, Michael Howard, a few weeks before the general election.

From October 2010 to October 2011, Jones served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Harriet Harman MP, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, in her role as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.

Take this passage, from the aforementioned Gentian Violet: «The leaders of a modern political party require of their parliamentary candidates that they shall be biddable and either hold their tongues and vote as they are told or, if they speak, utter platitudes in support of the party line.

The Ugandan Parliamentary delegation, which was led by Madam Alum Santa Ogwang expressed their admiration for the peaceful nature of Ghana and its politics particularly the seamless handover of political power from one elected leader to another, which was first executed by former President Rawlings.

The Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affair, Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu, said the president chose Amidu over Philip Addison and Akoto Ampaw because of his desire to delink the office from political influence.

The Tory leader was forced to borrow a bicycle from his parliamentary aide, Desmond Swayne, this morning, after it went missing sometime after 07:10 BST.

The Labour MP - who quit as Shadow Treasury Secretary during the frontbench uprising against Jeremy Corbyn - complained to Commons Speaker Mr Bercow that an employee from Mr McDonnell's office and an aide to the party leader had gained «unauthorised entry» to her parliamentary office.

Denis McShane told the Parliamentary Labour Party meeting that Ed Miliband's was the shortest speech that he had ever heard from a Labour leader, whereupon the PLP chairman Tony Lloyd interjected and told the occasionally long - winded McShane:

Liberal Democrat peer and former Party Leader Lord David Steel said: «This is excellent cross-party support from parliamentary candidates, following the debates in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

Currently, the party leader is elected through an electoral college: one - third of the vote from the unions, one - third from the parliamentary party, and one - third from party members.

[9] Instead the leader of the second largest parliamentary opposition party at the time, Nigel Dodds of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), usually asked a single question later in the session followed by at least one MP from another smaller party such as the Scottish National Party or Plaid Cymru.

The Miliband brothers, the only contenders with a chance of becoming Labour leader, both think the party should start choosing Parliamentary candidates this autumn for the next election rather than wait for the new boundary changes, which won't be decided until 2013, more than three years from now.

[44] Her deputy, Alex Rowley, took over as acting leader until 15 November, when he was suspended from Scottish Labour's parliamentary party while a probe into his conduct took place.

Labour insiders believe the list emerged from a team of MPs loyal to Corbyn, who call themselves the «core group», and meet regularly — separately from the shadow cabinet — to discuss policy issues, and strategies for dealing with the divided state of the parliamentary party and shoring up the leader.

The former Lib Dem leader told Andrew Neil on the Sunday Politics that calls from two Parliamentary candidates for Nick Clegg to stand down was «just not serious politics».

The Shadow Cabinet comprises 25 members — the Leader, Deputy Leader (Harriet Harman), Chief Whip (Rosie Winterton), the PLP Chair (Tony Lloyd), 19 elected by the parliamentary party and 2 from the Lords.

Remained parliamentary leader after Jacques Parizeau became party leader from 19 March 1988 until Parizeau won a seat on 25 September 1989.

But I sat at the Regional Count with Glenis Willmott the Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, my friend, a fellow trade unionist from the East Midlands doing media duty for our Party.

In their eyes Labour's first leader was a romantic figure who never held power and regarded it as his job to improve the right of workers through parliamentary pressure from opposition.

A Labour Party spokesman said: «The NEC has agreed that as the incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn will go forward onto the ballot without requiring nominations from the Parliamentary Labour Party and the European Parliamentary Labour Party.

Duke reported that «before issues could start with regards to the consideration of the Bill, the Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu had requested that some of the transitional documents have to be made available to Parliament before the passage of the said bill but the response he got from the Speaker was that the ongoing process was a presidential transition and not a parliamentary transition.»

He is a leader who has sustained a relentless media onslaught and a revolt from almost the entire parliamentary party.

The report was handed to Corbyn's office and to senior figures in Labour HQ ahead of a parliamentary debate on proposals to tackle harassment from a cross-party group led by the Tory leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom.

The Labour leader's decision to sack Michael Dugher and Pat McFadden prompted an outcry from many within the parliamentary Labour party.

During his tenure, alongside newly elected Leader David Cameron, the Conservatives adopted the A-List of parliamentary candidates, with priority being given to women and people from ethnic minorities.

Most likely at the General Election - Labour and the Liberal Democrats will lose every single seat in the South of England outside London and Labour will pickup seats from the Liberal Democrats in the rest of England, and will probably mostly hold their position in Scotland and Wales leaving a Conservative parliamentary party in the House of Commons with a similar number of seats to those Labour had in 1987 and Labour with a similar majority to now, and Nick Clegg probably just hanging on as leader because there is no obvious replacement.

The Majority Leader of Parliament and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei - Mensah - Bonsu has bemoaned the quality of Members of Parliament in the house in recent times, including those from his side, the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Its signatories include leaders of parliamentary groups and members from all five major political groups in the PACE.

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)