Sentences with phrase «party figurehead»
Penn Schoen Berland and Burson - Marsteller found that 69 % of people plan to base their vote on the party figureheads.
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And on December 8th, these skills will be tested to the limit when MPs and peers from Qureshi's all - party group will pit themselves against Garry Kasparov, the Russian opposition figurehead and Chess Grandmaster.
As the new figurehead of the Democratic Party, Schumer has been busy in Washington, D.C. with news coming out of the White House seemingly every day.
Not only would it lose its ideological figurehead, it would sacrifice the post-Corbyn leadership of the party.
The political shifts which destroyed Scottish Labour were clear to everybody apart from the party's figureheads, who remained oblivious to the changing landscape post last year's independence referendum.
And so, in a matter of days Wood emerged both as her party's heroine — after dramatically clinching a Welsh assembly seat in Rhondda from Labour — and as a controversial figurehead, following this nomination for the top job.
Prosecutors allege that Tabone, despite his title, ran the party's operations in Queens, and Ragusa was no more than a figurehead.
The primary figurehead for this leftist trend was Tony Benn, who narrowly missed being elected deputy leader of Labour in September 1981, under new party leader Michael Foot.
Cameron himself as a figurehead lacks a strong connection with his public, which some politicians envy in Obama as a leader, and so contributes to his party's rather nebulous image.
The former GP ran against David Cameron for the leadership of the party and some analysts believe he could become a figurehead for right - wing backbenchers» disillusion with the coalition.
Patrick O'Flynn was seen as a figurehead for the «red Ukip» faction in the party, not least because he once proposed a tax on luxury goods.
Nick Clegg is apparently setting up a system of «policy figureheads to speak up for the party's interests»;
A rebellion is brewing with Katniss as its unwitting figurehead, and the president of Panem (Donald Sutherland), is just worried enough about it to personally visit Katniss and silkily threaten her with amorphous, but dire, consequences if she doesn't toe the party line.
The conservatives» Presidential candidate is the wacko, egomaniacal figurehead for a party bent on feeding the bloodlust of its citizenry to protect their own wealth while thinning the herd of those Americans it deems unworthy.