Sentences with phrase «party leadership contender»

A man has been arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill in an email to Labour party leadership contender Angela Eagle.

Senior figures including party leadership contender Liam Fox said he had no chance of getting Britain # 10.4 billion in the black within four years anyway.

Labour party leadership contender Andy Burnham has called for the promised referendum on Britain's membership of the EU to be brought forward, to avoid a prolonged period of uncertainty.

She's written to all ex-Labour Ministers - including the two Milibands, Ed Balls and Andy Burnham, four of the five Party leadership contenders - asking them to give up their severance pay as an apology for Labour's over-spending during the last government.

Not exact matches

Back home, Liberal party members were elated when he was recently touted as a possible leadership contender (a notion quickly quashed by the central bank).

The former party chief of southwestern Chongqing was previously considered a contender for top leadership until he was unseated in July by a Xi loyalist as part of Xi's anti-corruption drive.

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Following his election as party leader, Stelmach announced a new cabinet that included all of the leadership contenders who had supported him in the second round of voting.

Contenders for the party leadership include Jason Kenney, Richard Starke, Donna Kennedy - Glans, and Byron Nelson

Much of the party's leftwing moaned that the likely leadership contenders were members of the coalition.

The last - minute inclusion of Jeremy Corbyn as a contender to the leadership of the Labour Party was received with derision by mainstream media and party figParty was received with derision by mainstream media and party figparty figures.

The appointment marks a dramatic comeback for the former contender against Mrs May in last year's battle for the party leadership.

The Labour leadership contenders are spending more on their campaigns than the Green Party spent nationally in the general election.

The format of the televised debates is quite challenging, as the leadership contenders have to pitch both to the party and to a fragmented electorate.

Former Labour leadership contender Owen Smith - who was sacked from Mr Corbyn's frontbench after breaking from party policy to call for a second referendum - seized on the apparent slip of the tongue by Ms Thornberry, saying it was the latest in a string of inconsistencies on Brexit from Labour frontbenchers.

Scottish National party and WEP activists are also involved in the new movement, which has been endorsed by Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, and the Norwich South MP and possible Labour leadership contender, Clive Lewis.

[68] Shortly after the 2015 General Election, Liberal Democrat leadership contender Norman Lamb conceded that Clegg's broken pledge on university tuition had cost the party dear.

Failed leadership contender Liz Kendall lashed out at «new party members who have been in our party for a couple of months and think they can tell us what to do».

Asked about which possible Labour leadership contenders people felt warmest towards, Greenberg said David Miliband was the favourite, followed by his brother, Ed, the likely candidate from the left of the party Jon Cruddas, and then the former schools secretary Ed Balls.

Cruddas will take the leadership contenders up on their offer, saying: «I want to see a more democratic party with an actively involved membership, a conference that is strengthened and its agenda setting opened up.

Andy Burnham is the Labour leadership contender most likely to improve the party's chances at the next general election, according to a survey of 2,000 people for The Independent by ORB.

A committee of Labour's ruling body set a cap of # 156,000 for each leadership contender — equivalent to # 1 for each party member registered at the time the contest began.

Most leadership contenders have agreed with a suggestion mooted by David Miliband that the currently appointed position should be elected by party members as part of a package of reforms to make the party more sensitive to its activists.

Labour leadership contender Ed Balls has warned his party that it risked falling into David Cameron's «trap» by focusing its attack on the Liberal Democrats.

Whilst the existence of the document itself is cause for much cheer, it appears as if the leadership contenders are coming to the wider debate about the future of the Labour party with their direction already established.

Another leadership contender, Andy Burnham, accused Mandelson of self - indulgence yesterday.And former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott admitted that faction - fighting may have hurt the party the general election.

Other leadership contenders, inluding front runner Charles Kennedy, have doubts about Ashdown's policy of ever - greater co-operation with the Labour Party.

Building the kind of local base from which Ashdown himself and most of the current contenders for the leadership sprang is a slow and painstaking business, the practice of which some senior figures in the party are beginning to fear might undermine true Liberal Democrat values.

Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has praised Welsh Labour's record and calls for closer links with the UK party.

Ed Miliband, one of the five Labour leadership contenders, today urged the party to «move on» from the «factionalism and psychodramas» of the party's past.

Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn praises Welsh Labour's record and calls for closer links with the UK party.

Looking across to the Labour party and its various leadership contenders, Davies says that Liz Kendall is the best of the bunch.

Every Labour leadership contender apart from Diane Abbott had a ministerial position during the party's time in power.

For a leadership contender whose basic pitch to party members is that he is a more competent and less controversial version of Jeremy Corbyn, this has not been a great start to his campaign.

In a damning assessment of the party's predicament in the Guardian, the former leadership contender said Clegg should ditch the «centrist fallacy that people want a colourless mush», branding it a «recipe for destroying the Lib Dem vote».

Warning that Labour is «headed downwards», Mandelson suggests none of the current leadership contenders has fully grasped the challenge the party faces because they are all putting too much emphasis on the need for unity.

Failed Labour leadership contender Owen Smith urged his party to push to «give the British people the final say» by staging a second referendum

The Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham today urged the party to put an end to «factionalism and self - indulgence» and move on from the feuding of the Blair - Brown era.

Writing in an article for The Observer today Umunna, who has been tipped as a potential contender for Labour's newly vacant leadership post said his party had «allowed the impression to arise that we were not on the side of those who are doing well.»

Former Labour Foreign Secretary and leadership contender David Miliband explains why he «grieves» for the state of the Labour Party.

The BBC's Ben Brown takes a closer look at the contenders for the Labour Party leadership, who take part in a Newsnight debate in Nuneaton on Wednesday evening.

The shadow home secretary and former leadership contender told the Labour Party conference: «It is time for me to turn my full focus to Greater Manchester.

Cable is among those seen as a possible rival to Farron for the party leadership, with Ed Davey, Norman Lamb and Jo Swinson also rumoured to be contenders.

Two of the leading contenders for the party leadership - David and Ed Miliband - both made clear they would campaign for a «yes» vote if they were in charge.

The war of words came after David Miliband, the former 2010 leadership contender, urged party members not to select Corbyn as leader.

The last Labour leadership contest was dull, dull, dull: dominated by seemingly endless staid hustings where contenders took it in turns to answer one worthy question after another from audiences made up of loyal party members.

If in the TV debates at the next election the other parties» candidates turned on any of the current Labour leadership contenders and sneered «You're no John Kennedy», what answer would they have?»

The Strathclyde University politics professor also warned Labour's leadership contenders that they risk continuing to leave the party outflanked on the left by the Scottish National party by stressing the importance of appealing to aspirational voters.

The Labour leadership contender, who has pledged to rebuild the party, also welcomed further powers for the Scottish parliament.

The Scottish Labour leader revealed that he has urged the leadership contenders to give him a seat on the party's National Executive Committee (NEC).»