Sentences with phrase «there is a leadership election»

«The condition they laid was that Gordon [Brown] had to go and we all knew that anyway... I thought, well, if there's a leadership election in these circumstances I'll stand.»

In a challenge to his internal critics, a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said today: «Our view is that the leader of the Labour party is on the ballot paper if there's a leadership election.»

«The time for setting out one's stall for the future will be when actually there is a leadership election.

However, Corbyn's aides have insisted he will automatically be on the ballot paper if there is another leadership election, virtually guaranteeing him victory given his continued popularity with the party rank - and - file.

Occasionally, when there's a leadership election brewing, putative leaders do «listen» to MPs.

However, Mr Corbyn's aides have insisted he will automatically be on the ballot paper if there is another leadership election, virtually guaranteeing him victory given his continued popularity with the party rank - and - file.

Not exact matches

There's no election for leadership of the «liberal world order» — the U.S. - constructed system of laws and values underpinning American prosperity since World War II.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

His campaign had previously suggested there were «thousands» of Tories who had infiltrated the leadership election and suggested he could mount a legal challenge against a Corbyn win.

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Now that we have been rushed into a leadership contest, there is an urgent need for those MPs who see themselves as democratic socialists (of whatever hue) to get together at a meeting in the Commons to agree on a candidate for the leadership election.

There will potentially be calls for a leadership change if Republicans lose their majority in the 2018 elections, but for now that's a long way away, and Flanagan isn't stepping aside anytime soon.

That means that even if we see the Tories continue, which would be the path of least change, there needs to be a leadership election.

There will, for a start, be a leadership election: the Whips and the NEC will forbid another coronation.

Election years tend to chill swift movement on appropriations bills — especially when there's potential turnover in leadership of one or both chambers.

Already at this time there were signs that Labour might win the next election, much aided by the ERM crisis but not yet by Blair's leadership.

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.

If there were a Conservative leadership election tomorrow, it's very hard to predict who would win.

But discontent remains, with dozens of local parties holding meetings to vote on whether there should be a leadership election.

Since the Republicans all but washed out on Election Day at the state level, losing every statewide contest and nearly deadlocking the Senate (although things are looking up for them there), Cox has been focusing on the House successes whenever anyone criticizes his leadership and suggests he should resign.

[xiii] There is some sketchy evidence of hasty reorganisations of leadership in the police and internal security in the closing stages of President Kibaki's term [xiv] and these do not exude confidence in the police's ability to arbitrate independently if Kenyatta were to claim (however spuriously) that groups connected with CORD a threat to the peace of election day.

Having seen them deliver a leadership election for him, there are only so many times Ed Miliband can carry his pail to the trade union well.

This category creates the possibility of a primary election for the party leadership, but there is no indication of how appealing that would be to non-party members.

Whilst there is a lack of clarity in Labour's leadership election rules this committee has a very important role to play.

There are also rumours critics are prepared to trigger a no - confidence vote in Cameron's leadership if the Tories» poll rating does not improve by summer 2014 — a year before the general election.

There is a very simple reason why Cameron is rushing up the aisle with such great enthusiasm: he has been weakened by his failure to win the election and simply must make it to No 10 if his leadership is to be safe.

Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan, a former Labour MP, said: «If we had a situation next June after the European elections that Labour was outed... I suspect that there would be a change of leadership then.»

There are concerns that failure of MPs to back the leadership in May's elections could leave them being blamed for any failure afterwards.

There were already grumblings of growing intensity from Lib Dem members about the leadership of Nick Clegg after the local and European elections.

«There are times when I begin to wish David Davies had won the leadership election...» Aye.

However, there was to be no leadership election that autumn.

There has never been any convincing explanation about why the leadership signed up to it, having campaigned for an alternative approach just weeks before, during the 2010 General Election.

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In such circumstances there may not even have been an internal party leadership election, as the new leader may be chosen by acclaim, having no electoral rival (as in the case of both Brown and May).

There has been speculation that Labour centrists could mount a leadership coup in the event of a bad showing in May's council and assembly elections.

As it happens, I believe Labour can win a general election by adopting a different approach, but as there's a campaign on and it requires a thorough critique of Jeremy's leadership, that's something you can look forward to reading after the polls have closed.

David Blunkett voiced his unwavering support: there will be no leadership challenge, he said, because Ed is the leader and he will win the next general election.

Despite disastrous election results and an attempted leadership coup, there's still hope for the Lib Dems 28 May 2014

One of the first things May ever said as a Tory leadership candidate was that there would be no election until 2020.

And then there is this, after seven years of elections and corruption scandals that remade the leadership of both chambers: The Legislature is a different place than when Cuomo was first elected.

There seems to be little appetite to upend the leadership structure within the Senate Democratic conference after Republicans gained an outright majority in last month's elections.

Starmer did not talk about his own prospects but expressed some fears about the direction of Corbyn's leadership, declaring that «if things don't improve there is no prospect of us winning a general election».

BBC journalist Nick Robinson brought up the idea that there could be tensions between David Cameron and David Davis over the leadership election and the future of the party and who couldn't forgive David Davis for feeling emotion over losing his leadership bid?

Schaefer argued that ---- given GENDA's strong polling and the progress made this year on educating senators ---- if Senate leadership were willing to step up, there is no reason GENDA could not win approval next year, despite the customary assumption that tough votes are best avoided during an election year.

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.

Speaking following the resignation of Labour leader Ed Miliband the politician ruled out taking on the leadership role himself but said there was a need for the party to think about how they appeal to the public in the wake of Thursday's election night defeat.

«The rules by which the Labour Party is governed are unambiguous: the leader does not require any signatures to be nominated in a leadership election where there is a potential challenger to the leadership,» the letter states.

Even if there weren't a leadership election, the left should be doing this anyway.

He warned: «Let us remember one thing if there is a debate, if there is a leadership contest, if there is a change of leader is the British public really going to wear the Labour party carrying on in office, is it not going to ask for an immediate general election.

«First, if anyone is undemocratic enough to think that there can be a new leadership election with the existing leader kept off the ballot, then they are setting the Labour party on course for a split.