Sentences with phrase «party leadership debate»

The Labour leader has opened his campaign vowing to fight inequality, but the party leadership debate is only partly about policies.

The BBC will host a seven - party leadership debate, in which three of the leaders will be women.

Not exact matches

Who won the United Conservative Party's leadership debate in Calgary Wednesday?

(I was economic advisor to Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, whom the Democratic Party leadership blocked from even discussing a public option in the Congressional debate.)

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

We will also move beyond party manifestos, - admittedly the least emotional collection of texts -, and analyse public debates, leadership speeches, media content, and public documents.

The executive summary of the article concludes: «In preparing for a second election the Tory leadership needs to negotiate for the debates to take place earlier in the campaign; put more money into its ground war; build better relations with the whole of the party and Conservative movement; trust professional polling to test messages; and develop clearer decision - making structures.»

The Scottish Tories will then have a leadership contest that should be an opportunity for a wider debate about the party's position in Scotland.

Better precedents would be James Callaghan, the former Labour prime minister, and the ex-Conservative leader, Michael Howard, who both stayed on temporarily while their parties debated changing leadership selection rules.

BBC Parliament would be a good choice, if it wasn't for that annoying balance requirement (how about arguing the other parties can also have their leadership election debates televised, they just have to hold a leadership competition...)

You could not have a TV debate onthe labour party election leadership, because no one would watch, and advert space would not pay, just like labour, a dead loss.

When the federal marriage amendment was being debated in 2004, John McCain broke from his party's leadership and took to the Senate floor to denounce it in notably stark language.

The Liberal Democrat leadership should listen to the words of those who spoke during the passionate debate on the bedroom tax during the party conference.

** September 15th UPDATE ** The SLF's amendments to tomorrow's economic policy debate have rightly attracted attention from party members, the leadership and the media.

The opposition parties claimed the appeal revealed Labour's unease at Brown's weak performances in the leadership debates.

Professor Jane Green, Co-Investigator on the British Election Study, was interviewed by Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast News following the second leadership debate between Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage.

It was then debated this morning, but anti-NHS reform campaigners managed to reject its central demand, thereby triggering a crisis for the party leadership.

The majority owner of ConservativeHome, former Tory Treasurer and mastermind of the party's marginal seats campaign will use a review of the general election campaign to criticise the party leadership's decision to agree to election debates and to campaign on the big society theme.

-LSB-...] Social Liberal Forum has called on the party leadership to do this since long before the tuition fees debate.

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.

Of course people can express their dissent and we can have that policy debate and then we'll arrive at a democratic decision and then we expect people to unite in the interests of the party and the country overall what to what we don't expect is people going to the media two days before polling to say there is going to be a coup against the leadership.

The problem is that underlying the debate over Syria is a deepening, intensifying and ever more acrimonious fissure between the Corbyn leadership and the bulk of the parliamentary party.

The shadow chancellor dismissed suggestions the party's leadership was trying to quash debate on the issue, after pro-EU MPs, who are pushing leader Jeremy Corbyn to commit to permanent membership of the single market, failed in an attempt to stage a vote.

Policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party, Jeremy Corbyn has said in a debate with his three leadership rivals organised by the Guardian.

In August, he told the Guardian that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary party to see the leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of debate.

THIS is the moment Tory party leadership front runner Theresa May appears to nod off during a House of Commons debate on the Chilcot report.

He added that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary party to see the leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of debate.

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.

While the Labour leadership debated the economy today, the Conservative party continued to push English MPs voting on English laws.

For his part, Mr Davis - who had led the seven - month race until the party conference in Blackpool - said he looked at the debates between them as «not just a contest for the leadership, but a preamble to us winning the next general election».

«I wanted the Conservative party to have a debate about the way forward before we got into a leadership contest.

«It is my understanding that both campaigns were clearly informed by the General Secretary of the Labour party that broadcast debates would form part of the official leadership election timetable.

Jeremy Corbyn insisted he would put nuclear disarmament at the heart of his leadership re-election campaign as he promised to vote against the renewal of Trident in a Commons debate that will expose deep divisions within the Labour party.

But whether this is more about asserting his standing within the party, in advance both of an anticipated reshuffle and a potential leadership election at some stage, than the national leadership Darling sought can be debated.

«I stood for the Labour leadership as the candidate of the Left and trade union movement so that there could be a proper debate about Labour's future in which all the wings of the party were fully represented.

«We had television debates for the leadership of the Conservative 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.

[35][36] Seven parties (Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, UKIP, SNP, PC and Green) participated in the election leadership debates.

Lord Mandelson today hit back at criticism over his decision to publish his memoirs during the Labour leadership election, claiming his analysis of New Labour was at its «most relevant» as the party debates its future.

He warned: «Let us remember one thing if there is a debate, if there is a leadership contest, if there is a change of leader is the British public really going to wear the Labour party carrying on in office, is it not going to ask for an immediate general election.

In the roughly hour - long debate at Peconic Landing, Democratic candidate and town building department employee Damon Rallis peppered incumbent Republican Supervisor Scott Russell with frequent attacks on his leadership and management skills, and accused Mr. Russell's administration of playing favorites based on political party.

Ahead of a leadership hustings debate at the Local Government Association conference this week, Mr Miliband even pledged to invite Labour's local government leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected party leader.

Mr Clarke said although the debate about the leadership of the party and the future direction of the party were linked, they were «not the same».

Of the other leadership candidates, Yvette Cooper was first out of the traps to welcome the news, with a spokesman saying she «has always said she wanted to see the widest possible debate about future of the party in this contest».

Corbyn initially stood in the British Labour leadership contest to give the party's left wing a voice in the debate on how to move on from its crushing defeat in May's general election.

Tim Congdon, who ran against Farage for the party's leadership in 2010 and led the internal referendum campaign opposed to forming a Pepp, said: «In 2011 Ukip held a big internal debate on the issue.

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?»

Angela Eagle, candidate for Deputy Leader, weighed in on the leadership debate yesterday attacking those who have said they would not work with Jeremy Corbyn, and calling for the party's elite to respect the membership's decision if they elect him.

In 2012 the budget debate pitted the Conservative leadership (for the budget settlement) against the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative party and Labour who opposed it.

Right now, most of the contributions to the Labour debate are coming from the part of the party that lost the leadership election.