Sentences with phrase «summer leadership contest»
Labour was expecting to mount a long summer leadership contest alongside a Tory battle for Number 10.
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Labour staged its second leadership contest in a year this summer and elected the same leader.
It's almost as if he misses having a leadership contest to keep him busy having spent the last two summers winning then defending his position.
The first two leadership contests of the summer have set a high bar — but the Ukip contest, which gets underway tomorrow, could still prove to be the most entertaining of them all.
In her speech during the Conservative leadership contest in the summer May also sounded even more radical than Labour's 2015 manifesto when she pledged: «We're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but employees as well.»
Two stories have dominated the British news agenda this summer — the migration crisis in Europe and the Labour leadership contest.
Affiliated supporters will be able to vote in leadership elections and in the London mayoral primary next summer, but not in parliamentary selection contests.
The Streatham MP withdrew from the Labour leadership contest last summer, citing extreme pressure on his private life, including a reporter doorstepping his fiancee's grandmother.
Diane Abbott has warned Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are not a «phantom army» that will «melt away» if Owen Smith wins this summer's Labour leadership contest.
Most of her premiership so far has consisted of the summer holidays when not much political news happens and she's had the additional benefit of her opposition being busy with their own leadership contest.
The London Labour selection this summer, as with the leadership contest, is decided by an «alternative vote» ballot, where you rank candidates in order of preference.
People didn't pay much attention to the Labour leadership contest in the summer, it was so tedious and arcane.
Harriet Harman has taken over as acting Labour leader - as she did in 2010 after Gordon Brown's resignation - ahead of a leadership contest likely to take place later this summer.