Sentences with phrase «takes over the party leadership»

Not only is he seen as untrustworthy on Europe, for example by reneging on his promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, his whole modernisation strategy since taking over the party leadership in 2005 has been seen by some as an essential betrayal of the party's core, conservative values.

UKIP's Paul Nuttall takes over the party leadership at a critical point in time.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has been driving a sweeping crackdown on deep - rooted graft since taking over the party's leadership in late 2012.

Rod Sykes (Social Credit leader, 1980 to 1982): After serving two terms as the Mayor of Calgary (1969 - 1977), Mayor Sykes took over the leadership of the Social Credit Party.

Xi Jinping has taken over the helm of China's state apparatus as well as the Party, but where the new leadership will take the country remains uncertain.

Mr Corbyn said the suspension of local party meetings for the duration of the leadership race over fears of intimidation was a «mistake», saying he has not stopped discussions from taking place in his Islington North constituency.

It is likely that the new leader will be from the next generation, which will mean an almost total generational shift in leadership in Britain, with baby Boomers out and Generation Jones (the formerly «lost» generation between the Boomers and Xers) taking over in Parliament and party leadership (Cameron and Clegg also come from this generation).

In a separate legal action, it has also emerged that a group of Labour members is taking the party to court over its decision to bar 130,000 people from voting in its upcoming leadership election.

Graham Brady, the frontbencher who resigned over grammar schools, is the angry Right's choice to take over the post, instead of Nicholas Soames, a leadership favourite who would run as a unifier of both wings of the party.

These two facts suggest that a new factor has been added to those which have destabilised the Party over the past 25 years or so (namely, the failure to win an election since 1992, divisions over the EU, and leadership election rules that encourage secrecy and cowardice: no wonder these have taken place at a rate of one every three years or so).

As the prime minister weighs up an undoubted personal loss after forcing a close friend to resign over pornography claims, MPs said she should take comfort in winning over a section of her party who want to see decisive leadership.

He equally declared that if Daniel is elected and chosen as the next Chairman of the party, regarded as the largest in Africa, then it would be easy for it to take over the mantle of leadership in the country in 2019 and restore the hope of teeming Nigerians, who he said were tired of the maladministration of the All Progressives Congress - led Federal Government.

The newly elected CNPP chairman who is also the current state chairman of KOWA Party, will take over the mantle of leadership from his predecessor, Hon Abubakar Ibrahim Abdani.

He was taking over, because the party's leadership had refused to appoint a substantive chairman following the Abuja High Court ruling of December 2015.

Tony Blair took over leadership of the party and became prime minister; he'd never been in government.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville, one of Tony Blair's biggest champions and a major donor to the Labour party until Miliband took over the leadership reins, is the biggest funder to the thinktank since Progress was set up in 1996.

While the party membership has been convulsed by the burgeoning civil war over the Corbyn leadership phenomenon, policy has — understandably — taken something of a back seat.

The formation of the SDP wasn't a Sudden thing, at the last stages of talks, Roy Jenkins had approached David Steel, to see if he could join the Liberal party, both had come to the conclusion if Michael Foot did win the leadership, for there to be a breakaway party, and Jenkins would be in more of a position to take one tenth of the CLP with him, and form an electoral pact, followed by a merger years later, of which would really be a take over.

TV3 takes a look at the NPP and the ethnical composition of the party's contenders for this year's delegate's conference as well as the overall assessment of the party's leadership over the years of its existence.

Joseph Cairo, who is slated to take over leadership of the Nassau Republican Party once longtime chairman Joseph Mondello departs to assume a U.S. ambassadorship, also came up in Singh's testimony Thursday.

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is planning to take over states which the PDP won...

Onondaga County Republican Party Chairman Tom Dadey is considering a challenge to take over leadership of the New York State Republican Committee, the NY Daily News reported this morning.

Kendall, a former Labour leadership candidate who is well regarded by the party's right wing, has a majority of just over 7,000 in her Leicester West constituency, but local Tories say they are hopeful of taking the seat.

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.

A group of Labour members is taking the party to court over its decision to bar 130,000 people from voting in its upcoming leadership election.

Meanwhile, women experience a negative effect on job satisfaction for up to three years after a change in leadership — but this is regardless of whether or not the party of their choice has taken over.