Sentences with phrase «resigned as leader»

Nick Clegg has resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats after his party was reduced from 57 to eight MPs in the general election.

In March 2003, Robin Cook resigned as Leader of the House of Commons due to his objections to the legality of Britain's involvement in the Iraq war.

In 2001, Veltroni resigned as leader of the party after being elected Mayor of Rome.

David Cameron today lost one of his most experienced Cabinet members, as Lord Strathclyde resigned as Leader of the House of Lords.

[12] Diane James was elected to succeed him, but she resigned as leader after just 18 days and Farage became interim leader on 5 October 2016.

On 16 May 2015, Jim Murphy resigned as leader effective 13 June 2015.

[165] He also resigned as leader of the Labour Party with immediate effect.

On 29 August 2017, Kezia Dugdale resigned as leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

On 24 October 2014, Johann Lamont announced her resigned as leader.

The contest was triggered after Diane James resigned as leader just 18 days into the job following her victory at the last race in September.

Sen. Dean Skelos resigned as leader earlier in May after the accusations against him were announced by the U.S. attorney.

After Britain voted to leave the EU, David Cameron resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister which caused the leadership election.

George Lansbury, a committed pacifist, resigned as the Leader of the Labour Party at the 1935 Party Conference on 8 October, after delegates voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

And by 4 pm he had also resigned as Leader of Essex County Council.

Kinnock then resigned as leader and was replaced by John Smith.

Ramsay MacDonald, a notable anti-war campaigner, resigned as leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party and Arthur Henderson became the main figure of authority within the party.

That's because Republican Dean Skelos of Long Island resigned as leader of the state senate on Monday after being brought up on federal corruption charges.

In November 1990 following a contested leadership election, Margaret Thatcher resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and was succeeded as leader and Prime Minister by John Major.

Lansbury resigned as leader in 1935 after public disagreements over foreign policy.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage has resigned as leader of his party after failing to be elected as an MP but says Ukip now has its sights set on doing well at the Welsh Assembly elections in 2016.

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.

After the 2015 general election, in which Labour lost to the Conservative Party, Miliband resigned as leader.

The day after the referendum, Jacques Parizeau resigned as the leader of the Parti Québécois, as he had said he would do in an interview with TVA taped days before the referendum but not made public until after the vote.

Farron resigned as leader of the Lib Dems after the General Election this year, following a difficult season of questions about his views on homosexuality.

Less than two months later, Tim Farron resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats, saying he felt «torn» between his faith and job; he also admitted failings in his handling of the interest in him.

Tim Farron resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats in June 2017, saying he felt «torn» between his faith and job; he also admitted failings in his handling of the interest in him.

Under pressure to resign as leader of a country ravaged by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, Naoto Kan's last act in August 2011 was to transform Japan's energy policy.

In the latest shakeup in Alberta politics, Greg Clark announced last Friday that he would resign as leader of the Alberta Party at the party's upcoming annual general meeting on November 18, 2017.

Rome (CNN)- Benedict XVI's time as pope came to a historic end Thursday, as he became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign as leader of the world's Roman Catholics, who now number 1.2 billion.

After vowing to stay on, Barnaby Joyce has announced he is resigning as leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister.

Klein on Wednesday in a conference call with reporters said he would not resign as the leader of the IDC, which was founded in 2011.

May could resign as leader and fight a leadership election.

The Blairite right wing can hardly contain itself at the glee it feels at Ed Miliband losing the election and resigning as leader.

The co-ordinated string of resignations from the shadow cabinet that followed the Brexit vote was designed to pressure Corbyn to resign as leader of the party.

At least five Republicans in the Senate have publicly called on Skelos to resign as leader.

Mr Corbyn has refused to resign as leader despite more than 60 Labour MPs resigning their frontbench positions in an attempt to force him out and an overwhelming vote of no confidence.

A senior Labour MSP says the party is heading for «disappearance» in Scotland unless Jim Murphy resigns as leader.

No one is quite sure whether Skelos plans to resign as leader of the Senate Republicans.

Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage resign as leaders of Labour, the Liberal Democrats and UKIP respectively

30 January 2003: There is speculation that Robin Cook could resign as the leader of the Commons, following the prime minister's open support for a wholly appointed House of Lords.

In a worse case scenario, he might have to resign as leader of the Tory party (and hence PM) if the current police investigations find widespread election fraud across the Tory party and elections of 30 MPs are invalidated.

It's not about demanding that Clegg resign as leader, as a couple of others in his position have done.

Calls for Skelos to step aside have grown in the last two days: At least four Republicans in the Senate have call for him to resign as leader, as have several county chairs, including John Jay LaValle of Suffolk County.

[161][162] On 10 May, Brown announced his intention to resign as leader of the Labour Party and instructed the party to initiate the election of a new leader.

So far, at least four Republicans in the Senate have asked Skelos to resign as leader.

The Ukip leader, who reiterated throughout the campaign his commitment to resign as leader if he failed once more to become an MP, received 16,026 votes in the Kent constituency, 2822 votes behind Tory candidate Craig Mackinlay.

In an interview published in the Daily Record, Lamont says she is resigning as leader «so the debate our country demands can take place.

Labour's Ed Miliband, the Liberal Democrat's Nick Clegg, and Nigel Farage of UKIP have all resigned as leaders of their respective parties in the wake of the results.

For that I must take responsibility and therefore I announce that I will be resigning as leader of the Liberal Democrats.

David Cameron is heading back to Downing Street as prime minister after the Conservatives win a majority - but Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage all resign as leaders of his rival parties.