Sentences with phrase «to stand for leader»

There is a grassroots digital campaign calling on him to stand for leader of the conservative party.

Ed's a tough cookie - he wouldn't have stood for leader if he wasn't - and he will ride this out.

Candidates standing for Leader or Deputy Leader would then need the support of 20 % of CLPs to be on the ballot.

And this year, by standing for leader of the Labour Party, has followed his brother again.

He said: «For propaganda purposes people are calling it the McDonnell amendment, but I've distanced myself from it all along: one, I'm never standing for leader of the Labour party, and two, it wasn't my idea in the first place.

Would he consider standing for leader?

It has been a huge honour for me to stand for leader of our great party and I am also deeply grateful to my Parliamentary colleagues for nominating me.

Agreeing to reduce MP nominations needed in future to stand for leader, cutting it to 10 % from 15 %, was backed by Watson and it's undoubtedly smart politics to sort the change ahead of Brighton to avoid a row.

«If it turns out when Nick Clegg hangs up his clogs as leader... whether that's directly after the next election — I doubt it — or in a few years» time — more likely — when he does that, of course there will be colleagues like myself and others, who will think about whether they want to stand for leader,» Davey speculated on LBC.

Gove also raised eyebrows — and prompted incredulity and derision from allies of Boris Johnson — when he said was not ambitious and claimed that he did everything he could to avoid having to stand for leader.

It is great that Jeremy Corbyn decided to stand for leader.

Under normal circumstances, Deputy Leader Kezia Dugdale would become acting leader, but former Leader Iain Gray was appointed Acting Leader whilst a leadership and a deputy leadership election are being simultaneously held on account of Dugdale resigning as Deputy Leader to stand for Leader.

Mr Gove, the justice secretary, made the same point in an interview in which he also responded to anger at last week's dramatic U-turn in turning on Boris Johnson and announcing he would stand for leader himself.

The day after Gordon Brown lost us the last election I left a message on Andy Burnham's mobile phone urging him to stand for leader.

If there were an «L» after our Simon's names, it would stand for leader, not Legree.