Sentences with phrase «past leadership elections»

Not exact matches

There are past instances of parties winning elections with the least - popular leader, or without a perceived handle on all things economic, but there's no obvious precedent for a party to win an election when it is behind on both leadership and matters fiscal.

I am not happy to disinter the leadership election which his long past.»

Ethics reform was a major topic at the end of last year's session and during this past election, but as leadership turned their attention to the budget at the beginning of this year, some legislators were worried the momentum had stalled.

Under first past the post William Hague would have also lost the Conservative Party leadership election in 1997.

And whereas in the past, a leadership election would have passed many of these people by, in the age of social media, they can engage with it much more readily.

Under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership the Labour Party has consistently polled over 40 per cent for the past nine months since the general election, and held a narrow lead over the Tories.

[19][20] He has tweeted in the past that Suzanne Evans, a candidate in the second 2016 leadership election, should «fuck off for good», [21] and questioned whether Labour MP Angela Eagle attended a «special needs class».

These two facts suggest that a new factor has been added to those which have destabilised the Party over the past 25 years or so (namely, the failure to win an election since 1992, divisions over the EU, and leadership election rules that encourage secrecy and cowardice: no wonder these have taken place at a rate of one every three years or so).

It should have agreed on an experienced interim leader who commands general confidence to take the party past the Scottish elections and the European referendum and into 2017, while preparing Labour — and its electoral system — for a proper contest between its next generation of leadership candidates in time for 2020.

Mr Miliband's faltering position in the polls has triggered a near - panic in some putative leadership campaign camps in the past month, and now the election is just over 100 days away positions are hardening, says one Labour source.

In covering past Tory leadership elections, I have always been able to assess the different approaches and political philosophies of each candidate, but have struggled to do this with the Labour hopefuls.

This is notable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Katko's district, NY - 24, is fairly closely divided and has changed hands between the major parties over the past several election cycles, which means whoever the incumbent is needs NOT to hew too closely to the party leadership and orthodoxy.

It is just some weeks gone past the last election and as a party, the national leadership has just put in place a 13 - member committee to look into all that led to that abysmal performance of our party in terms of the results of the 2016 election.»

DAILY POST recalls that before Mimiko's election, the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, led the group that emerged after the leadership crisis that engulfed the Nigeria Governors Forum over who won election as its chairman between former Governors, Jonah Jang and Rotimi Ameachi.

As a consequence, their voice was not really heard in the leadership election, and the views of my generation were easily and cynically dismissed as voices of the past.

Malcolm Dunn, interesting about past posters... I seem to vaguely recall «Barbara Villiers» claiming to be posting under a false name yet saying that after the leadership election was over we would be stunned when she disclosed her real identity.

The Labour leadership contest provides our party with an exciting opportunity to debate the future as well learn from the past and reflect on the 2010 General Election result.

Boldly, Ed discredited the system by saying that it «should be a thing of the past for people to have more than one vote in the leadership election».