Sentences with phrase «party leadership contest»

Though ultimately brief, the Conservative Party leadership contest offered fascinating insights into the nature of British politics today.

The emergence of ageing left - winger Jeremy Corbyn as the unlikely frontrunner in the Labour Party leadership contest signals that many British voters reject what politics has become.

Draft Chima He says that he is not interested, but that is not stopping his supporters from trying to convince Chima Nkemdirim to join the Alberta Party leadership contest.

You might be forgiven if you have not paid much attention to the Alberta Liberal Party leadership contest, which is currently under way.

It's useful to look at the Labour leadership race in the context of research on party leadership contests.

For example, Indira Gandhi didn't enter the Indian National Congress party leadership contest until two years after her father's death and we are yet to read it anywhere that Rajiv, his son, was involved in any «Deception Campaigns» before he was appointed as Prime Minister on October 31, 1984, following his mother's assassination earlier in the day.

During the subsequent Party leadership contest he was urged by Airey Neave to vote for Margaret Thatcher but he is thought to have favoured Willie Whitelaw.

The Labour chief recorded a 30 - second video urging «Corbynistas» to stump up the fee so they can vote in the upcoming party leadership contest.

Did Boris Johnson today make one of the first moves, however prematurely, to prepare for the next Conservative Party leadership contest?

He is surrounded by a Parliamentary Labour Party that largely doesn't support him or his policies, yet he received a massive mandate from those voting in the Labour Party leadership contest.

Nothing so bad greeted Mr Osborne; but just as local elections, a tricky EU referendum and a party leadership contest all loom, he certainly comes away with his once - formidable reputation badly dented.

Jeremy Corbyn's unexpected victory in the party leadership contest last year moved Labour to the left, and the rejection of austerity that came with it has helped to stop the «Tory - lite» and «they're all the same» accusations being levelled at the party.

• Loud cheers to reports that the Labour party will be checking internal canvass data of suspect applicants trying to take part in our party leadership contest.

Responding, David Cameron accused the chancellor of cynically announcing the tax cut to escape a «deep hole», remarking it was the move of a chancellor heading towards a general election, not a party leadership contest.

· Nick Clegg MP is the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman and a candidate in the party leadership contest

A party leadership contest involving two siblings is unprecedented in British political history.

However, when Rifkind was knocked out of the party leadership contest, Blunt returned to the Whips» office and wrote to all Party members in his constituency asking them to rank the remaining contenders in order of preference so he could best represent his constituents.

JUNE 30, 2016: Announces he will not run in the Conservative Party leadership contest.