Sentences with phrase «to win the leadership election»

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

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

Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership election in 2015 not because he was left - wing but because his performance was stunning.

«If you thought the way to become leader of the Labour party was to follow a very defined route, then all of a sudden Jeremy Corbyn winning the leadership election on the route you're not meant to take - it tips it all on its head, doesn't it.

Campbell said that he assumed Miliband was reluctant to do so because he had won the leadership election on the promise of a break with the past.

«Jeremy winning the leadership election has thrown that off kilter somewhat,» she laughs.

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.

Since winning the leadership election in a landslide vote, Corbyn has, however, accepted an invitation to become a member of the Queen's privy council.

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

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?

We have predicted here that Ed Miliband would come through to win the leadership election as have others as varied as Labour right - winger Luke Akehurst who supports him and (just about) Simon Heffer in today's Telegraph, who presumably doesn't.

As an ex member of UKIP with some friends still in the party, I'm fairly confident that Waters will win the leadership election relatively comfortably.

Ms Evans said she was confident she could win the leadership election without Mr Farage's backing.

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.

Smith, who's been described as a political chameleon, has decided he has a better chance of winning the leadership election if he signs up to Corbyn's crackpot policies than if he tries to haul the party back to reality.

What he fails to acknowledge however, is that Labour will fail to win a majority whoever wins the leadership election.

At this early stage, David Miliband is favourite to win the leadership election with two polls yesterday suggesting he had the support of 32 per cent of voters - that's far more than any of his potential rivals.

A defiant Mr McDonnell added that since Mr Corbyn won the leadership election they had been expecting a «coup».

Corbyn's decision to vote against the bill was crucial in his winning the leadership election that summer.

Some backbenchers have not yet digested the fact that the wrong Miliband had won the leadership election.

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.

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

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

Jeremy Corbyn could become chairman of a collectively led Labour party if he won another leadership election, a report has claimed.

I quoted it on the day I won the leadership election and I make no apology for quoting it again this afternoon.

«People didn't trust us with their money or on the economy, and we didn't set out a positive enough vision for the future of the country that everyone could feel part of, and it's the person that can answer those questions that's going to win the leadership election to win the country in 2020.»

Nevertheless this is less than 25 % of the parliamentary party and after careful consideration I do not believe this is sufficient support to win a strong and stable government should I win the leadership election

«Nevertheless, this is less than 25 % of the parliamentary party and after careful consideration I do not believe this is sufficient support to lead a strong and stable government should I win the leadership election.

«They don't want to have a leadership election because they're not certain of winning a leadership election.

Back when Corbyn looked unlikely to win the leadership election, he made a pledge that the shadow cabinet would be 50 % female and that the Labour party would tackle gender inequality head on.

Whoever wins the leadership election will have to outwardly talk up their chances in 2020, though in reality any proper revival will take much longer.

Labour MPs opposed to Jeremy Corbyn will reportedly establish a new rebel group in parliament if he wins the leadership election.

Ed Miliband is weak, ineffective, irrelevant and just a puppet to his trades union pals who put him in power in the first place — just as it was clear he would be when he won the leadership election.

There are huge difficulties associated with this when it comes to winning leadership elections.

Just after he won his leadership election, he became the first opposition leader in sixty years of polling to start out with a negative rating, with more people saying he was doing badly than well.

We were here for the second leg of Labour frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn's four - city tour of Scotland, a place where he has much work to do if he wins the leadership election — and where Scottish Labour is about to announce its own new leader in a contest that has had much less attention than this one.