Sentences with phrase «party leadership vote»

In September 2010, Ed Miliband won a Labour Party leadership vote to succeed Gordon Brown as permanent Leader of the Opposition.

Not exact matches

But a vote to Leave would almost certainly force a change of leadership in the Conservative Party and a new Prime Minister, given Cameron's leading of the Remain campaign.

In short, it's a meeting to vote on the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

Having won the leadership with the help of social and religious conservatives, how much does he have to curry favour with a voter segment with no other party to vote for?

After leading her party to re-election, winning 61 of 87 seats, it is likely that her leadership will be strongly affirmed in the vote.

It is expected that PC Premier Alison Redford will face a leadership affirmation vote at her party's annual convention next year.

Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

Unlike previous PC leadership races, according to recently changed party rules, if no candidate earns a majority of votes on the first ballot, only the first and second candidate move to the second ballot vote.

UPDATE: Dave Hancock is the new Premier of Alberta until the PC Party is able to hold a leadership vote.

The vacuum in the Liberal leadership is good news for the PC Party, Rachel Notley «s New Democrats and the Alberta Party, who will try to offer Liberal voters a new home to park their votes.

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.

What does that say about his leadership skills when the Congressmen and women in his own party voted 80 % to censure their leader.

Good for the Republican leadership, a political party that profits from stupidity will never lack for votes!

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

The link between Labour and many of its traditional voters — who defied the party leadership to vote Leave — was also fractured, perhaps permanently.

The party's national executive committee meets today and is expected to vote down moves to change the leadership rules and discuss a review of the general election campaign.

The YouGov survey of 800 Tory members showed nearly one in five were seriously considering voting for the eurosceptic party, while 53 % said they did not feel respected by the Conservative leadership.

That is, voting for leadership of a party (not a party's nominee) is restricted to party members.

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Party members voted by 90 per cent to back the Sinn Fein leadership's motion to support the PSNI and the rule of law, and encourage the nationalist community to cooperate with the criminal justice system.

«I have a live and current understanding and experience of the changes in the party, both from the two leadership elections and the general election where I was out on the doorstep with all of these new members,» says McKeever, who missed out on the Commons by just 1159 votes.

The measure would presumably end arguments over whether a certain bill would pass in an up - or - down vote in the chamber, but is being bottled up on the legislative calender by the chamber's majority party leadership.

London's former mayor, Boris Johnson, a Conservative figure, is advocating Vote Leave, going against the party leadership and the government.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

There's certainly much more to be said about the economic repercussions of the Leave vote, which, alongside changes in party leadership is a genuine «leap in the dark,» but it is important to address directly and forcefully the question of popular anger that led to the success of Leave.

For example, major parties in the United Kingdom involve their members in leadership votes.

Dozens of opposition leaders, including influential members of parliament were imprisoned before the bill that underlies and enables this referendum was introduced, and thus unable to vote or take part in the discussion; for example a dozen MPs from the HDP, including the entire party leadership are currently in prison.

He wafted in later, as all good gurus do, to cast his vote along with the party leadership on the economy, looking constantly pained.

There are discussions before a bill passes through parliament, where the leadership and parliamentary party thrash out compromises, and the vote itself.

Trump probably believes they'll try to avoid sending the impression that they can't govern, as a majority party, and will have at least some members voting with him, with the leadership then falling in line to make it look like they were involved in making the results happen.

Each party elects its own leaders (with all the Democratic Assemblymembers or Senators voting for their Assembly leadership or Senate leadership, respectively).

Despite a vote of no confidence, Corbyn has insisted he won't resign, citing the large mandate he won in the 2015 leadership election, when he finished 40 percentage points ahead of his nearest challenger in a vote of party members.

The group did not support Cameron's plans for English - only votes on English laws, but Bradshaw said the party leadership was not speaking «clearly or loudly enough» on devolving power to England, adding that the party had to be «clear we are fighting for England».

Sir Vince, himself a former party deputy, said the party had to get prepared for another national vote as he announced his leadership challenge on party forum site Lib Dem Voice.

The party's September conference will vote on a proposed measure to reduce the threshold to 5 % and in theory, make it easier for figures on the left of the party to run for the leadership.

Harman says unions will not dictate leadership vote, while frontrunners to succeed Miliband urge party to re-emphasise aspiration and fiscal discipline

This forces MPs into difficult choices as either parliamentarians who want to defend and extend our democracy or party representatives made to vote for leaderships that see only Whitehall power.

But discontent remains, with dozens of local parties holding meetings to vote on whether there should be a leadership election.

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Hickinbottom stated: «At the time each of the claimants joined the party, it was the common understanding as reflected in the rule book that, if they joined the party prior to the election process commencing, as new members they would be entitled to vote in any leadership contest.

Parliamentary Labour party chairman Tony Lloyd condemns Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt's attempt to secure a vote on Gordon Brown's leadership:

The vote is likely to trigger a leadership contest — but whether Corbyn will automatically get a place on the ballot is unclear as nobody knows for sure what they party rules are.

When, last October, the party conference voted to reject a leadership - backed motion allowing for the expansion of Gatwick airport if it's recommended by the Davies commission, Clegg pointedly remarked, «it will need to be discussed again because, how can I put it, I've seen the perils of the past of putting something which you know in your heart of hearts is not necessarily deliverable.»

The ballots for the Conservative party leadership close today, with David Cameron set to beat rival David Davis by as much as two votes to one.

First, our research shows that voters regard a government's choice to time the election strategically and for partisan benefit as significantly less important to their vote choice than the incumbent's policy performance and party leadership.

According to YouGov, 71 per cent of those who voted for Corbyn in the leadership contest believed parties should put forward policies «irrespective of whether they help to win elections».

As an ageing so - called Bennite I joined the Party at the time of the leadership election but not, as it happens, to vote for our Jezza.

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.

The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.

Corbyn, who has rebelled against his party more than 500 times in his career, said MPs would not be «corralled» by whips into voting the same way as the leadership under a more consensual style of management.

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.