Sentences with phrase «resigned as leader of his party»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the South African opposition Democratic Alliance party — and an ally of the fractious MDC — called for Mugabe to resign immediately, and for «fresh elections to be held in Zimbabwe as soon as practically possible.»

Redford resigns — Pressure from her caucus and party results in Ms. Redford resigning as Premier of Alberta and leader of the PC Pparty results in Ms. Redford resigning as Premier of Alberta and leader of the PC PartyParty.

John, I like your explanation of Jim Prentice's departure but I think Jerrymacgp is right, resigning as party leader made perfect sense.

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, Party at the party's upcoming annual general meeting on November 18, party's upcoming annual general meeting on November 18, 2017.

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

Iain Duncan Smith I resigned from the Conservative Party when he became leader because someone rightly characterised by John Major as a bastard didn't strike me as a worthy leader of the pParty when he became leader because someone rightly characterised by John Major as a bastard didn't strike me as a worthy leader of the partyparty.

The week ended with a call by Matthew Oakeshott, that most troublesome of Lib Dem peers, for Nick Clegg to resign as party leader.

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Upon defeat, Brown resigned as party leader and Harman became Acting Leader and Leader of the Opposition until Ed Miliband was elected lleader and Harman became Acting Leader and Leader of the Opposition until Ed Miliband was elected lLeader and Leader of the Opposition until Ed Miliband was elected lLeader of the Opposition until Ed Miliband was elected leaderleader.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constitueparty, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constitueParty in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

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.

His sister, Wendy Alexander, was also involved in politics as an MSP until 2011 and briefly as the Leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament until she resigned in 2008.

Here's how it could work... Clegg announces that he will resign as party leader but continue as Deputy Prime Minister: «I have a duty, on behalf of my party and my country, to see through the job that I signed up to,» he would nobly say.

Left to his own devices, as he makes clear in his diary entry for 12 October 1980, he would have stood for the leadership in October that year when Callaghan resigned in a deliberate attempt to pre-empt the decision of Labour's party conference to have the wider franchise for electing the Leader that all major parties now take for granted.

And if the commitment isn't made, then we're stuck at the end of your second paragraph: Brown resigns as Prime Minister, and probably as leader of the Labour Party, too, and there's no Prime Minister or PM - designate at all — which is the outcome all of this constitutional stuff is supposed to avoid.

Following the General Election, and after failing to persuade the Lib Dems to form a coalition government with Labour, Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the party on 11th May 2010.

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.

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 pParty and Arthur Henderson became the main figure of authority within the partyparty.

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

It urges Corbynites: «Make your voice heard against the Blairites and keep Jeremy as rightful leader of the Labour party... People don't want him to resign despite how they voted in the referendum.»

Having resigned on two occasions during Tony Blair's first term of office, his third resignation only weeks before the April 2010 general election plunged the Labour Party into two decades of infighting, from which it only recently recovered fifteen years later with the election of teenage glamour model Princess Tiaamii Andre - Price as leader.

The PDP leader pointed out that, in spite of his commitment to stabilising the party and its leadership and to ensure post-election peace, he was pressurized to resign as BoT chair on trumped - up charges of anti-party activities and alleged overbearing influence.

A former senior colleague of Tim Farron has insisted that he was right to resign as Liberal Democrat leader after undermining the party's election campaign with his «outdated and frankly offensive religious views».

Ironically, the book's introduction opens with Tim Farron, a figure who, in Spencer's words, is «rather unlikely to get anywhere near the levers of power», a fate he himself sealed after resigning as party leader (after the book's publication) on the grounds that doing God while doing Lib Dem leadership was «impossible».

Angela Eagle is the Labour MP for Wallasey, and was Shadow Business Secretary until she resigned in a bid to unseat Corbyn as leader of the party.

Years earlier he had to resign as remained the party's Edgbaston candidate for despite using a website to make critical remarks of then Tory leader, William Hague.

Ed Miliband, who has resigned as UK Labour leader in the wake of the loss, said his party had been «overwhelmed» by a «surge of nationalism» in Scotland.

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.

A motion of no confidence in his performance as leader was also backed by more than three - quarters of Labour MPs, while a string of party grandees have called on him to resign.

The MP for Sheffield Hallam resigned as Lib Dem leader the morning after the general election, when it emerged his party had lost 48 of its 56 MPs and two - thirds of its voters.

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.

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

Labour's abysmal result saw the leader of the party and current Tanaiste (deputy Prime Minister) Eamonn Gilmore, resign as Labour leader.

Derek Wyatt MP told the same programme that he hoped Mr Prescott would «see sense» and resign as deputy prime minister - although he did not call for him to quit his job as deputy leader of the Labour party, an elected post.

Asked whether she would consider resigning as Scottish Labour leader in similar circumstances, Dugdale said: «There is a collective responsibility across the whole of the Labour party to heal the divisions and disunity of the past.

[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 leParty and instructed the party to initiate the election of a new leparty to initiate the election of a new leader.

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

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

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.

His sister, Wendy Alexander, was also involved in politics as an MSP until 2011 and briefly as the leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament until she resigned in 2008.

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

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.

But when the scale of Labour's election defeat became clear on the morning of 8 May, Mr Miliband resigned as party leader, saying he took «absolute and total responsibility» for the party's defeat.

Paddy Ashdown last night stunned Liberal Democrats when he announced that he will resign as party leader after this spring's crucial local and Euro - elections - just as he gets closer to the reins of power than any predecessor since Lloyd George.

Susan Gaszczak, a member of the federal conference committee, warned Nick Clegg, the party leader, that the peer and former election guru was «destroying» the party, as she resigned along with members of her family after 28 years of activism.

Once a source of national leaders of both political parties, New York state has descended into a bizarre, riveting spectacle of corruption and political debasement, with its governor facing calls to resign as well as new charges of accepting illicit perks and lying under oath, the dean of its congressional delegation giving up his gavel over corruption charges and another House member announcing he won't run again amid allegations of sexual harassment.

Word is that Stephane Dion is going to hold a press conference on Monday and resign as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.