Sentences with phrase «test as party leader»

If he does win tomorrow, Mr Cameron has less than 24 hours before his first major test as party leader - prime minister's questions in the Commons, where he will face Tony Blair over the dispatch box.

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Yesterday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she doesn't think the Democratic Party should consider support for abortion rights as a litmus test for its candidates.

YouGov did the fieldwork for two academic election surveys (the British Election Study and the SCMS) as well as their daily polling, and all three used different question ordering (daily polling asked voting intention first, SCMS after a couple of questions, the BES after a bank of questions on important issues, which party is more trusted and party leaders) so will allow testing of the effect of «priming questions».

More Labour MPs have been «testing the waters» and «consulting colleagues» over their chances of replacing Ed Miliband as party leader.

The upstart left - leaning third party had likely provided the margin of victory in the primary with an aggressive door - to - door campaign that party member and Ward 5 Alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes said was meant by state party leaders as a test of the WFP's ability to take on a Democratic Party machine andparty had likely provided the margin of victory in the primary with an aggressive door - to - door campaign that party member and Ward 5 Alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes said was meant by state party leaders as a test of the WFP's ability to take on a Democratic Party machine andparty member and Ward 5 Alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes said was meant by state party leaders as a test of the WFP's ability to take on a Democratic Party machine andparty leaders as a test of the WFP's ability to take on a Democratic Party machine andParty machine and win.

Ed Miliband, you'll remember, said last week that the current set - up, by which wealthy pensioners receive benefits such as Winter Fuel Allowance and free TV licences, «needs to be looked at» — before his party's spokespeople swarmed out to reassure folk that no decisions had yet been made, that their leader didn't like the idea of means - testing, etc, etc..

As such, the contest could offer a test of the debate by Republican leaders over whether the party needs to adjust ideologically to expand its appeal to places like New York.