Sentences with phrase «victory in the leadership»

Troubling new polling shows the damage that could be done if the Labour Party splits following a Jeremy Corbyn victory in its leadership contest.

Corbyn, however, who won a convincing victory in the leadership battle with 62 % of the vote, will seek to consolidate his grip on Labour policymaking.

Some in particular have suggested that the likelihood of a Corbyn victory in the leadership could boost the chances of female deputy candidates if members are keen on gender balance.

Mr Kenny gave a clear warning to the Labour leader that his overwhelming victory in the leadership contest was not a mandate to push through changes.

Not least, the fact that Corbyn's sweeping first - round victory in the leadership contest was enabled, to a great extent, by three alternative candidates who utterly failed to inspire the selectorate.

ED MILIBAND yesterday vowed to unite the party after his knife - edge victory in the leadership contest.

If those who seek to take his place think the route to victory in the leadership contest is Continuity Miliband with a different accent or gender, or with a higher level of emotional connection, they will consign Labour to another defeat.

Asked if he would seek to face down any leadership challenge, he said he would, pointing to the size of his victory in the leadership election last autumn.

Some Labour members have been cutting up their membership cards in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the leadership election.

Tomorrow they will cement their control of the Labour machine if, as expected, Mr Corbyn storms to victory in the leadership race.

Not exact matches

Under former prime minister Stephen Harper's leadership, the group declared victory over the financial crisis too soon, wasting time in 2010 negotiating a pledge to narrow deficits and reduce debt that has since has been abandoned.

Mr. Weilinger said most of Mr. Hill's work with the company - which began almost two months before Ms. Clark's leadership victory - has to do with «getting the natural gas story out in B.C. from a whole bunch of different perspectives.»

Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

Jim Prentice becomes Premier After a first - ballot victory in a lack - lustre and uninspiring leadership contest, Jim Prentice started his time in office with a bang.

During the UPC leadership campaign, and in his victory speech last weekend, Jason Kenney repeatedly described the NDP as â $ œthis deceptive, divisive, debt - quadrupling, tax - hiking, job - killing, acciden...

However, one victory since the end of December and now a crushing defeat in the FA Cup, a competition the Hammers could have realistically won given the number of big names who have already exited, has left some supporters questioning the club's leadership.

Daniele De Rossi's bullish like approach in the midfield was also a key and overlooked part to the victory, showing great leadership qualities.

The hope among the NLD leadership is that economic and political life can be gradually opened over the next three years and that moderates will be entrenched enough by 2015 to allow the NLD's inevitable victory at the polls in that year's general election to be translated into some real political power.

His victory speech after winning the Clacton by - election last night was a leadership speech in all but name.

It was a pledge originally made in his leadership election campaign at a time when his victory over rival David Davis was far from certain.

It didn't prove that he had it in him to actually become Prime Minister but he is not the dead loss with the public many feared following two leadership victories powered largely by zealots.

When the FIS won a landslide victory in the 1991 parliamentary elections, all its top leadership was in jail; it was also its salafi rivals who unleashed the violence that followed annulment of the results, sucking the radical fringe of the movement in with them.

This idea would probably have been badly received had it been put forward in the leadership election and might well have cost Clegg his very narrow victory.

The implication was that Johnson had become the standard - bearer of the Leave campaign in order to improve his chances of victory in the next Tory leadership contest.

In September 2015, he pledged to build on the enthusiasm generated among his supporters during a leadership contest that saw him start as rank outsider before sweeping to victory on a left - wing wave.

Recent political events such as the energy around the Scottish referendum and indeed the surprise people - movement that secured Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the Labour leadership election indicate that discontent with stale managerial politics is spreading.

Maybe this is his strategy — stay out of the last leadership race — it's likely to produce a dud, get the position of party chairman, make challenging powerful speeches and articles (he has identified the English democratic defecit, Toque, in his New Statesman article, which is about the best on the issue from any MP see: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/08/labour-party-english-england), make more of a public name for himself, then stand when the prospects of victory are real.

«Matt's leadership will help bring victory for the people of this state in November so we can finally clean up Albany,» Lazio said in the release.

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

In the 2010 Labour leadership election, union members tilted to the left and were decisive in handing victory to Ed MilibanIn the 2010 Labour leadership election, union members tilted to the left and were decisive in handing victory to Ed Milibanin handing victory to Ed Miliband.

According to the Financial Times: «his views — higher taxes, mass nationalisation, more welfare, more borrowing — are seen as toxic by New Labour veterans, who prophesy a repeat of Michael Foot's disastrous leadership in the early 1980s that led to a landslide 1983 election victory for Margaret Thatcher».

He had been written - off by most opinion formers and a hostile press, even as his victory in the recent leadership contest was confirmed.

Much has been written and spoken about Jeremy Corbyn since he secured a landslide victory in the Labour leadership contest last year.

Party members in various areas of the country have accused the leadership of the NDC especially government appointees and Members of Parliament of failing woefully to secure a victory for the NDC.

«In the end, the choice at the election is going to come down to: who do I want to provide fresh direction and leadership for the country, rather than who scored a points victory in a debate?&raquIn the end, the choice at the election is going to come down to: who do I want to provide fresh direction and leadership for the country, rather than who scored a points victory in a debate?&raquin a debate?»

Mr Scott is the second man to end his leadership in the wake of the Scottish result, after Labour leader Iain Gray also stepped down when the scale of the SNP victory became clear.

«I think we got a lot done in terms of what we tried to achieve for the betterment of New York City, even with the Republican leadership,» he said in an interview with Capital on Tuesday night, shortly before he spoke at Governor Andrew Cuomo's victory party at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel.

Jeremy Corbyn could romp to victory in the Labour leadership race with an even bigger vote share than he secured last year, a new poll has suggested.

During the subsequent leadership election on 20 November, he polled 152 votes (40.9 %) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

But this is clearly the most bittersweet victory for Clegg: his seat saved but his party decimated, his leadership in question, his cabinet seat lost.

«I will bring integrity to this office, experience and leadership,» he said during the victory celebration at Slate in Chelsea.

Supporters of Charles Kennedy's bid for the Liberal Democrat leadership are increasingly concerned that the frontrunner to succeed Paddy Ashdown has not done enough to clinch victory in the first count - and may face a dangerous run - off against the rising challenge of Simon Hughes.

We wish to extend our congratulations to the President elect of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo and his Vice, Alhaji Doctor Mahamudu Bawumiah and the leadership and members of our great party for the convincing victory chalked in this year's elections.

«The Newzbin ruling was a victory for the UK's creative industries and demonstrates that the law of the land must apply online, but the government is now under pressure to show leadership and ensure there are effective and efficient measures put in place to stop sites from infringing copyright.»

Buoyed by his unprecedented victory, Republican leaders revived the old lily - white southern strategy in an attempt to permanently capture the South for the G.O.P. Basically, this policy required purging black Republicans from leadership positions in the southern wing of the G.O.P. and replacing them with respectable, business - oriented southern whites....

«I think the leadership of the party is in a situation now where we haven't had many statewide victories,» DeFrancisco said.

Despite his English roots, Richard Leonard won a decisive victory over his rival Anas Sarwar in Scottish Labour leadership contest.

After Jeremy Corbyn's landslide Labour leadership victory, revolution was well and truly in the air...

Nicola Sturgeon will be «absolutely delighted» by a Jeremy Corbyn victory in the Labour leadership race, according to new TP columnist Euan McColm.