Sentences with phrase «replaced as party leader»

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Senate Republican leaders on Thursday unveiled a reworked version of their health care bill, following party infighting that threatened to torpedo their effort to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

Before the 2012 election Calgary - Greenway was known as Calgary - Montrose, and the MLA this by - election is being held to replace, Manmeet Bhullar, was appointed by the party leader as a candidate.

Liberal Party President Erick Ambtman edged out Calgary - Buffalo MLA Kent Hehr in the latest blog poll asking readers of this blog who they thought should replace Calgary - Mountain View MLA David Swann as leader of his pParty President Erick Ambtman edged out Calgary - Buffalo MLA Kent Hehr in the latest blog poll asking readers of this blog who they thought should replace Calgary - Mountain View MLA David Swann as leader of his partyparty.

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

On July 13, 2004 Mason replaced Raj Pannu as the Interim Leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party.

Five candidates remain in contention to replace David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party and each one of them has previously spoken openly about their Christian faith.

Five candidates remain in contention to replace David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party and each one of them has previously spoken... More

Sir Vince, who is widely expected to replace Mr Farron as leader said he had done «a great job» in helping the Lib Dems recover from the 2015 election and rebuild its party membership.

As the three candidates vying to replace Angus Robertson as Scottish National party deputy leader appear at crowded hustings events across the country, one question is dominating the debate: when should the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, call another independence referenduAs the three candidates vying to replace Angus Robertson as Scottish National party deputy leader appear at crowded hustings events across the country, one question is dominating the debate: when should the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, call another independence referenduas Scottish National party deputy leader appear at crowded hustings events across the country, one question is dominating the debate: when should the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, call another independence referendum?

After the Labour Party was defeated at the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party; in September 2010, Miliband was elected to replace him.

Gov. David Paterson today declined to pick a favorite from among the five Democrats vying to replace Andrew Cuomo as attorney general, saying it would be inappropriate for him to do so «as the leader of the party.»

Whether Osborne is now officially the Tory backbenchers» favourite to replace David Cameron as party leader, as the report suggests, I don't know — but his position is certainly far less vulnerable than it was last summer, when I wrote about it for the Times (#).

George Osborne's hopes of replacing David Cameron as Conservative party leader took a setback today after a surprisingly poor performance filling in for David Cameron at prime minister's questions.

As a result, Working Families Party leaders are expected to nominate a «placeholder» candidate — someone not widely known statewide — to appear on the ballot through the primary, and replace the person in September.

There is «apparently no credible plan» as to how to replace the 490,000 public - sector jobs set to be lost, he said at Monday's CBI conference, in his first speech to business leaders since he was elected as party leader last month.

Lavery, a former miner who replaced the deputy leader, Tom Watson, as party chair after the election, said he did not have «the divine right to be an MP for Wansbeck... I've got to work very hard on behalf of every single member of that constituency.

He was promptly replaced as leader by his deputy, Clement Attlee, who would lead the party for two decades.

Joseph Mondello, chairman of the powerful Nassau Republican Committee for a record 35 years, will retire May 24 and is recommending that party vice chairman Joseph Cairo replace him as GOP leader.

Replacing Howard with a leader who is seen as less extreme should help the Conservatives move people's perception of them closer to the centre ground, and once Labour's leader is a figure who is percieved as being on the other side of the psychological left - right divide they may be in a better position to win support back from Labour amongst right - of - centre voters, but either way you cut it they are still as by far the most extreme of the three main parties.

After serving as a Queens district leader for 15 years, Beltrani was elected to replace Tabone after his arrest in 2013, and took over the Queens Republican Party after the death of Phil Ragusa in June 2014.

We have not replaced branch executives, and as a leader of the party in the constituency, I shall reward loyalty and hard work to ensure the NDC secures enough vote for the party in the coming elections in 2020.»

George Osborne must balance four competing priorities if he is to replace David Cameron as Conservative party leader, according to Ed Balls» former policy chief.

As above but Brown does agree to resign, being replaced under a little - known Labour party rule by either a caretaker, such as Alan Johnson, or a new leader such as David MilibanAs above but Brown does agree to resign, being replaced under a little - known Labour party rule by either a caretaker, such as Alan Johnson, or a new leader such as David Milibanas Alan Johnson, or a new leader such as David Milibanas David Miliband.

More Labour MPs have been «testing the waters» and «consulting colleagues» over their chances of replacing Ed Miliband as party leader.

Andy Burnham adds his name to the list of those vying to replace Ed Miliband as Labour leader, saying the party must rediscover «the beating heart of Labour».

I've reflected deeply on the situation since Saturday, and have concluded, with great regret (takes out onion) that the interests of our great Party are best served by my standing down as leader - and supporting someone else to replace me.

[157] Heath was widely seen as ineffective against Wilson, and as the 1970 general election approached there was concern within the party that he would lose, and that Powell would seek to replace him as leader.

Lord Ashdown says replacing Nick Clegg as the Liberal Democrat leader «would damage the party forever».

In the previous cycle, more than a quarter of REBNY members» donations to state senate candidates and parties went to Todd Kaminsky, the Long Island Democrat who replaced disgraced Dean Skelos as Majority Leader in April.

The Liberal Democrat leader will be extremely reluctant to do any such deal, and may instead focus on trying to replace Labour as the chief party of opposition at the next election.

Some anti-Corbyn MPs are now warning that he will have to be replaced as leader if the party fails to make headway in May.

Replacing Nick Clegg as the Liberal Democrat leader was «just about the silliest idea I have heard in my political career» and «would damage the party forever», said Lord Ashdown.

Labour's National Executive Committee is to meet to draw up a timetable for the race to replace Ed Miliband as party leader.

Whatever happens, Labour is stuck with Gordon Brown, the Liberal Democrats have ditched 2 leaders since the General Election and have never really recovered from it and this would be even more the case for the Labour government, replacing one leader who had been in place for 10 years is one thing, but replacing the one that replaced him would be seen as incompetence and would be the one thing that could cause a total meltdown with Labour being reduced to being the third party.

The former deputy leader of the party, below, described the Leave vote as a revolution that «will fade» when it «ushers in a regime that is more authoritarian than that which it replaced, and one less able to deliver prosperity and security».

Polls like this can only either be hypothetical, so we'll never know what will really happen until Blair is replaced, but what would give us the best idea is a normal voting intention question prompting with party leader names, and then another voting intention question but with Gordon Brown as the Labour leader (and then possibly, just to put the cat among the pigeons, some with Alan Johnson, John Reid, Hilary Benn, etc, etc...)

Sir Reg, who replaced David Trimble as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and is a minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, will be the last Conservative candidate to have been selected for this general election.

Their objective is to establish a new political order in the south - west which is beholden to them alone, to replace Tinubu as the National Leader of the party and to utterly demystify and crush him in order to prepare the ground for the emergence of a new and more compliant Yoruba running mate for either Buhari himself or el - Rufai in 2019.

There was more than one puzzled face in the audience when the UK Independence Party campaign to replace Nigel Farage as leader arrived for its only event in Yorkshire.

Angela Eagle has formally launched her bid to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, describing herself as «a strong Labour woman» who could heal divisions in the party and lead it to election victory.

The Liberal Democrat Treasury minister Danny Alexander has called on his party to «cut out all this nonsense» about whether to replace Nick Clegg, as he attacked a «malicious» attempt to unseat the leader by a close friend of Vince Cable.

Suzanne Evans, Ukip's deputy chair and the author of the party's 2015 manifesto, has seen her national profile rise and is likely to be regarded as a realistic potential candidate to replace Nigel Farage should he step down in future as leader.

[41] The BBC reported that he had made several «gaffes» in his role as Shadow Chancellor and «in an interview he appeared not to know the rate of National Insurance paid by employers, and he was also reported to have clashed with his party leader over the policy of introducing a graduate tax to replace university tuition fees.

In the same way that the Labour party must be assessing Ed Miliband's ability as leader, considering whether to bloody him in an election or replace him, the same can be said of Livingstone.

«[F] ormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 dismissed climate change as «absolute crap,» had been keen to support an Australian Consensus Centre,» Dayton wrote, but «Malcolm Turnbull replaced Abbott as leader of the Liberal Party on 15 September.

The party wants to replace the inspectorate with a «reformed independent schools inspectorate system» that would assess teacher and pupil wellbeing, and the ability of school leaders to deliver future improvement, as well as results.

(Home secretary Theresa May came forward Monday as the only candidate to replace Prime Minister David Cameron as the leader of the Conservative party.