Sentences with phrase «to win the leadership»

«They're probably not saying that to boost my chances of winning this leadership election,» he says, with a laugh.

His reason for doing so was that he felt that her Conservative colleagues would not tell her straight that she could not win a leadership contest.

He started by winning the leadership of the party in the wrong way.

Whoever wins the leadership election, the debate on the party's future will continue.

Winning leadership debates will give a prime minister a greater self - importance.

He knows it is fifty years since anyone won the leadership of an incumbent party — and inherited Number Ten - without first serving as chancellor.

He also speaks of loving the party but he feels he's telling them a few more home truths and it's probably not worth winning the leadership if you don't.

This makes sense as it is senior politicians who will have the resources, the reputation and, most importantly, the support in the party to win a leadership election.

Members of the leader's office have already been quietly texting former shadow cabinet members to see if they are prepared to come back if Mr Corbyn wins the leadership contest.

But after winning the leadership contest by just 511 votes, it is unclear how much of a mandate the former home affairs spokesman can claim.

Senior Labour MPs tell the Daily Telegraph tens of shadow frontbench roles would be left empty if Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership race.

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He said it would make little difference whether Chris Huhne or Nick Clegg won the leadership battle because it is «very difficult to identify at this moment their actual purpose.»

But Kofi Adams reacting to the issue said on Okay FM's «Ade Akye Abia «Morning Show that the wife of the founding father of the ruling NDC left the party when she could not win the leadership role of the party in the Presidential race.

After winning the leadership last year, the shaven - headed Scouser blasted Labour as «more at home talking about the issues that swirl around the Islington dinner party than the issues that matter in working class communities».

Corbyn won the leadership by mobilising mass backing among an increased party membership (encouraged by internal party reforms).

Clegg won the leadership with a majority of 511 votes (1.2 %) over his opponent Chris Huhne, in a poll of party members.

Gibson was the only member of his slate who ultimately won a leadership post.

With the support of the five Labour members, the Lib Dems won the leadership vote by 21 votes to 20 at a full meeting of the council earlier.

They just can't accept that Davis didn't win the leadership election, and they bitterly dislike Cameron.

If Corbyn can rely on the unions and party members, he will feel confident of winning another leadership ballot.

The second coup is the one that supporters of Ed Balls and David Miliband have been working on, off and on, since Ed won the leadership four years ago.

Ladbrokes cut the odds on Ed Miliband winning the leadership battle from 7/4 to 6/4 after yesterday's result amid a general sense of momentum building up behind the younger sibling.

Shortly after Tony Blair won the leadership of the Labour Party in 1994, Campbell left Today to become his press secretary.

John Smith won the leadership contest, [5] but Gould resigned from Smith's Shadow Cabinet on 27 September 1992 when the Shadow Cabinet rejected a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty and in protest against Labour's support for the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Wouldn't matter who won the leadership just gone nor does it matter who leads Labour into GE2020 — there is simply no way they would win it.

Instead of a merger, which is technically forbidden under Albeeta's election laws, the best solution for moderate conservatives in the current PC party who can't stomach staying in that party if Jason Kenney wins the leadership might be simply joining one of the two non-NDP centrist parties: either the Alberta Liberals or the Alberta Party.

Yesterday, Jagmeet Singh decisively won the leadership of the Federal New Democratic Party (NDP) on the first round of balloting.

In 1995 John Major won his leadership battle despite the vocal opposition of almost all the papers, including his party's traditional backers.

If Andrea Leadsom wins the leadership contest and a document snapped on the tube really is her blueprint for success.

If DM is level / ahead in this section, he will certainly win the leadership.

The elections are more than six months away, but the president of the Public Employees Federation is already facing a challenge — and it's coming from a member of her own slate, which won leadership of the union two years ago.

Can Labour win the leadership challenge by framing it as one between Nasty David Cameron versus Nice Mr Miliband?

Harriet Harman will now take temporary charge of the party for the second time, but some Labour insiders believe it is only a matter of time until Chuka Umunna wins the leadership contest.

Sir Menzies won the leadership contest after gaining 57 % of the vote and said he was ready to take risks to «modernise» the party and lead it «back to government».

Seeing the turnout in Liverpool, and the energy of his campaign, I have no difficulty believing that Corbyn may well win the leadership.

When Rhodri Morgan won the leadership of Welsh Labour which Blair had fought to prevent, he put clear red water between Welsh Labour and New Labour, and recovered much of the ground Labour had lost to Plaid.

Two New York Democrats this weekend won leadership posts at the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting in Atlanta.

Richard Leonard won the leadership election with 56.7 % of the vote and was elected as the leader of the Scottish Labour Party on 18 November.

Do you really believe that even if you somehow find a seat, win a by - election, contrive a no - confidence vote in Cameron, and then win a leadership election that there would be no consequences?

The Justice Secretary also told Boris that he should appoint Mr Cummings as his Chief of Staff if the former London Mayor won the leadership race.

When Heath won the leadership, the chief whip, Whitelaw, decided that Prior should be appointed as PPS to the leader of the opposition, believing that his approachable manner would help counter Heath's air of aloof reserve, or «brusqueness amounting to rudeness», as Prior called it.

Michael Portillo yesterday joined Baroness Thatcher and Norman Lamont in the last push behind Mr Hague's campaign to stop Mr Clarke winning the leadership.

With the support of the five Labour members, the Lib Dems» Gerald Vernon - Jackson won the leadership vote by 21 votes to 20 at meeting of the full council.

By taking the assumption that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable as a given, without needing to interrogate it, commentators are then free to debate questions in terms of «Will this unelectable man win the leadership election?»

Alasdair McDonnell won the leadership election and was announced the new leader of the SDLP on 5 November 2011.

But he refused to criticise her opponent Andrea Leadsom when asked if there would be security risks if the relatively inexperienced junior minister won the leadership race.