Sentences with phrase «second leadership election in»

He brushed aside questions about his leadership, pointing out that he won a second leadership election in September of last year.

Corbyn supporters might find themselves wondering, having secured a historic second leadership election in just over a year, why it is they who are being asked to «concede» and «compromise» with their defeated opponents?

«This poll will be alarming for a Labour party in the middle of their second leadership election in 12 months.

It is unclear whether Mr Corbyn would win a second leadership election in a one - on - one race, since his grip on the members appears to be waning.

Not exact matches

Following his election as party leader, Stelmach announced a new cabinet that included all of the leadership contenders who had supported him in the second round of voting.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

The executive summary of the article concludes: «In preparing for a second election the Tory leadership needs to negotiate for the debates to take place earlier in the campaign; put more money into its ground war; build better relations with the whole of the party and Conservative movement; trust professional polling to test messages; and develop clearer decision - making structures.&raquIn preparing for a second election the Tory leadership needs to negotiate for the debates to take place earlier in the campaign; put more money into its ground war; build better relations with the whole of the party and Conservative movement; trust professional polling to test messages; and develop clearer decision - making structures.&raquin the campaign; put more money into its ground war; build better relations with the whole of the party and Conservative movement; trust professional polling to test messages; and develop clearer decision - making structures.»

Thus even if he wins the second leadership election, Corbyn's movement is empty and the party in its entirety is left in disarray.

After two bruising leadership elections in less than two years, the second of which strengthened Corbyn's position, there's not much chance of anyone being willing to trigger a third attempt to remove Labour's increasingly embattled leader.

A second leadership election was held in November, which was won by Paul Nuttall.

Smith played down the idea of a split in the party if Corbyn won a second leadership election.

[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».

OWEN Smith is the man who went up against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election - and now he has been sacked over calling for a second Brexit vote.

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.

Yet Ed Miliband did much more to pursue every MP one - to - one in the Commons» bars and tearooms, winning the whole leadership election by the equivalent of six second preferences from MPs.

He faced a second attempt to launch a leadership challenge by former Cabinet colleagues Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt in January 2010, but the plot failed to gather momentum and Brown remained as both Labour leader and Prime Minister to lead his party into the 2010 General Election.

[13] A second leadership election was held in November, which was won by Paul Nuttall, who thus succeeded Farage.

If it isnt then kindly please do tell me how many of the second preferences of Ed and David Miliband supporters were counted in the Labour leadership election?

Former shadow home secretary Mr Davis came second to Mr Cameron in the Tory leadership election in 2005.

Mr McNicol was accused of trying to block Jeremy Corbyn from taking part in his second leadership election and of purging left wing members to stop them taking part in the vote.

Rafael Malek shares research from BritainThinks which shows that national level concerns, party «brand» and leadership all played their part in consigning Labour to a second consecutive election defeat.

His comments will be inflammatory at a time when Labour MPs have toned down their public opposition to Corbyn, after his second leadership election by a huge margin in the autumn.

We were here for the second leg of Labour frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn's four - city tour of Scotland, a place where he has much work to do if he wins the leadership election — and where Scottish Labour is about to announce its own new leader in a contest that has had much less attention than this one.

Sure, there have been outriders floating radical ideas about policy and party reform, yet despite the fears among MPs that there would be a period of blood - letting following Owen Smith's emphatic defeat in the second leadership election last summer, there has been no abuse of the party's internal processes by Corbyn, evidenced by the failure of his supporters to secure berths in the pre-election carve - up of safe seats.

In this scenario, they fear the party could be plunged into a destabilising leadership battle in the run - up to a second election that could take place as early as the autumIn this scenario, they fear the party could be plunged into a destabilising leadership battle in the run - up to a second election that could take place as early as the autumin the run - up to a second election that could take place as early as the autumn.

None the of the second preferences of the supporters of the two Milibands in the recent leadership election counted or mattered a damn.

It was the second boost of the day for Mr Corbyn, after a High Court ruling said more than 100,000 new party members should be allowed to vote in the leadership election.

It was the third Scottish Labour leadership election in four years, the first being caused by the resignation of Jack McConnell following the party's defeat in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, [2] and the second by Wendy Alexander's resignation.

It was the second Scottish Labour leadership election in as many years, the first being caused by the resignation of Jack McConnell, [2] following the Scottish National Party's victory over Labour in the Scottish Parliament election, 2007, however in this election, Alexander was unopposed, meaning that no ballot actually took place.