Sentences with phrase «start as opposition leader»

Mr Miliband has made a confident start as Opposition leader, while Alan Johnson has confounded sceptics with a sure - footed debut as shadow Chancellor.

Not exact matches

Iwobi recked my head last night he was weak and misplaced many passes he cant seem to control the ball its always running away from him he should not be in the middle in the middle you need good ball controllers with good eyes for passes long and short on the ground and above the ground >> > waterford yesterday were on top of us with no space giving to our players and we were scattered all over the place with no vision or leader ship too goals in the space of 3 minuets ok the first goal was a fluke but come on the second one???? and thats all what it takes to loose a match many times this season we cant play when the opposition seats in our face we have no cohesion or understanding we crumble away we need to start the game together as a unit a compact unit

The logic goes that, once Jezza starts espousing radical left - wing policies as leader of Her Majesty's official opposition, the First Minister will have a proper fight on her hands.

For a newly - elected leader of the opposition, this was surely a great opportunity to get stuck into the counter-arguments and start as strongly as you mean to go on.

Opposition leaders with a low starting score have never managed to achieve the kind of mid-term cushion that enables them to withstand the recovery that governments and prime ministers normally enjoy as the following election approaches.

So we need a fresh start for Labour's frontbench, to put behind us the stand - off between Labour MPs and Leader and do our job as the Official Opposition.

But they have faced opposition from teachers» union leaders who criticised them as introducing an unnecessary set of tests for young children who had just started school.