Sentences with phrase «week leadership campaign»

«A nine - week leadership campaign at such a critical moment for our country is highly undesirable.

Announcing her decision to pull out of the contest, Mrs Leadsom — who was a leading light of the Brexit campaign — said a nine - week leadership campaign at such a «critical time» for the UK would be «highly undesirable» — and she gave her backing to Mrs May.

Not exact matches

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

That hardly needs restating after weeks of a leadership campaign during which he has signalled his intention to return to the pre-Tony Blair era, when Labour was pure and unsullied by tawdry compromise.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.

«Yvette is 100 % going for leader,» one ally of Cooper told friends this week, adding that the campaign message on why the MP for Pontefract and Castleford only came third in the 2015 leadership contest has already been put together.

Mr Hain, who is also secretary of state for Wales, confirmed last week that he had failed to declare # 103,000 in donations to his deputy leadership campaign.

Mr Corbyn and Mr Smith will go head - to - head in their first hustings of the leadership campaign next week, The result of the election will be announced on 24 September.

There has never been any convincing explanation about why the leadership signed up to it, having campaigned for an alternative approach just weeks before, during the 2010 General Election.

The party postponed the forum last week after consultation with the leadership of the NDC's national campaign team.

Speaking from his campaign office, incidentally run from the same building Brown used for his 2007 leadership campaign, Ed Miliband is gearing up for the remaining weeks of the campaign with a team of volunteers he is particularly proud of.

«The Liz and Jeremy campaigns have been exemplary,» one Labour source said as eyebrows were raised when Burnham told the Guardian on Saturday that he would outline his leadership manifesto this week.

The machinations will continue for the rest of the week, consuming the focus of the senior party leadership and burning another week of the general election campaign.

Writing about the latest election campaign on the Labour Home website, John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister commented: «I've just discovered tonight that over the last few weeks, James Purnell was not planning for these crucial Local and European elections - he was planning for his own leadership election...

Abbott has had masses of TV experience - much of it acquired on This Week - and, partly because of it, has fought an punchy Labour leadership campaign to date.

Liz Kendall annoyed Andy Burnham's campaign team this week with her «country comes first» swipe during the Newsnight leadership hustings.

He has also donated tens of thousands of pounds to the Labour Party and to Gordon Brown's leadership campaign (Iain Dale posted a list of eight Labour big money donors who are reportedly non-dom earlier in the week).

It was disclosed this week that Miliband raised # 19,000 in donations to him personally last year: enough to kick off a leadership campaign.

Corbyn had declined at a leadership hustings last week to rule out campaigning for a no vote on the grounds that David Cameron was intent on «trading away workers» rights» in his EU negotiations.

President Reagan's campaign on behalf of merit pay, now more than eight weeks old, has thrown the leadership of the National Education Association (nea) off balance and has provoked a debate within the organization over the issue, recent events and interviews with union officials suggest.

New Schools Network director Nick Timothy is taking a break from his role to run Theresa May's campaign for the Conservative leadership, Schools Week can reveal.

Last week, China announced the latest campaign to «sweep away black and eliminate evil,» saohei chu'e (扫黑除恶), «Concerning the Carrying Out of a Special Action to Sweep Away Black and Eliminate Evil» (关于开展扫黑除恶专项行动的通知)(full text not yet released) with Xinhua news reporting that it reflects it reflects the leadership's outlook on security and people - centered governance thought.