Sentences with phrase «previous leadership elections»

I actually voted for Balls in the previous leadership election in 2010, largely on the basis of his original stance on Labour's fiscal and economic record in Government.

I voted for Corbyn in the previous leadership election, but tonight, Owen Smith made a greater impression on me than Corbyn.

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In its official response to the Ukip leadership election, Labour opted to focus on Nuttall's previous comments about the NHS.

The trade unions have less impact under the new leadership rules than they had in previous elections.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

Simon Hughes had been the previous standard bearer in the leadership elections in 1999 and 2006.

In a move that surprised most political analysts, Gove withdrew his support for Johnson on 30 June 2016, hours before the deadline, without any previous notice to Johnson and announced his own candidacy in the Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2016.

Previous election campaigns have been marked by interventions from business leaders and under the leaderships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Labour regularly received the backing of Britain's biggest companies.

A figure on the left of the party, he ran in the previous deputy leadership election, finishing fourth.