Sentences with phrase «unpopular leader»

Some blame him and other senior Labour figures for not replacing a very unpopular leader.

Huq's link with a deeply unpopular leader, together with Ukip's decision not to contest the seat, may well mean that Ealing turns back to blue on June 8.

May's Conservatives do have a massive lead, with recent polls showing them 9 to 21 points ahead of Labour and their unpopular leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

Back to Douglas Alexander, who feels that Labour's campaign was, relative to its circumstances (an unpopular leader and the public mood for change), a good one.

He added: «We can not go into another general election with an unpopular leader.

Last month, Mr Miliband appeared to say Mr Brown would be an unpopular leader when he told BBC One's Question Time: «I predict that when I come back on this programme in six months» or a year's time people will be saying, «Oh, wouldn't it be great to have that Blair back, we can't stand that Gordon Brown».»

Imagine if he'd turned out to be an unpopular leader who had stuck to his central message that Labour needed to move to the right, entertain radical reform of public services, tackle the deficit through cuts and be avowedly pro-business, even though many commentators and many in his party thought that the cost of living crisis and pre-distribution were more important themes.

However, this did little to end speculation about the future of their unpopular leader Iain Duncan Smith and in October 2003, he lost a vote of no confidence and was replaced by Michael Howard, who stood unopposed for the leadership role and took control without a leadership contest.

At the end of a discussion about whether the Labour party should be able to boot out an unpopular leader, Burnham said yes because the «party comes first».

McCain faced eight years, a tanking economy and an unpopular leader.

Like «Prometheus», we have an unpopular leader, a foggy, wet new world (just not photographed as beautifully), and handfuls of characters that are not developed beyond their intended purpose of junk food for nasty looking life forms.

At opposite ends of the planet, unpopular leaders of weak political parties — parties not strong enough to form governments by themselves — slapped each other on the back, from across the political spectrum.