Sentences with phrase «party divisions»

He said party division has never played as prominent a role as it has so far this year.

His replacement, Hugh Gaitskell, associated with the right wing of the party, struggled in dealing with internal party divisions in the late 1950s and early 1960s (particularly over Clause IV of the Labour Party Constitution, which was viewed as Labour's commitment to nationalisation and Gaitskell wanted scrapped [50][51]-RRB-.

This sought to give a more sophisticated account of internal party divisions, and indeed included chapters from Orange Book - ers such as Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne.

The two - party division of the list vote was Labour 51 % - Conservative 49 %.

Michael Dawidziak, a veteran Long Island political consultant who works largely with Republicans, said the new progressive groups that helped Pellegrino mount and fund her campaign did an impressive job in a low - turnout special election with party divisions on the Republican and Conservative side.

Even the best - sourced experts can't discern how policy preferences and objectives shape political coalitions or élite Party divisions, and we lack critical diagnostic information that would be necessary to confirm or refute competing hypotheses about major political questions.

Texas Democrats surged to the polls yesterday in the first primary of 2018, demonstrating a wave of Trump - inspired energy, but also showcasing party divisions that have emerged at the outset of an otherwise promising midterm campaign.

Throughout Miliband's leadership, countless stories about party divisions, about his shortcomings as a leader, and several plot attempts to oust him, were published in the main news outlets, contributing to construct the image of a weak leader.

The Corbyn leadership is exploiting the government's weakness and Tory party division.

To Tory jeers, Gordon Brown told MPs: «We have shown today we can cross party divisions in our choice of Speaker.»

November 4, 2017 • From the legal «shock and awe» of Trump campaign officials» indictments by DOJ special counsel Robert Mueller to party divisions laid bare, what a week.

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National Democratic Party divisions were on glaring display yesterday as a special election loss in a wildly expensive Georgia House race left bitter lawmakers turning their anger on their own leaders — especially House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

First Past the Post makes fundamental redistributions of political party formations difficult — but in the context of economic crisis and fundamental internal party division, not by any means impossible — just look at Greece.

It seems a foolish proposition to involve one self in a Dem primary when the seat is a solid D seat in November and you have these divisions and factions in your party

Of course there's a danger that internal party divisions are played out in the media, but Lib Dems committed to open democracy believe this is a price worth paying.

To be sure, party divisions can work to a leader's advantage.