Sentences with phrase «when leaders of the opposition parties»

And everyone should expect that such news will sell and achieve the likely political capital especially when leaders of the opposition parties appears to be the very people consoling and leading the crusade towards recovering their fortunes.

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WA Labor is operating a cash - for - access Leaders» Forum — which charges wealthy company bosses about $ 25,000 a year for private meetings with the Premier and his ministers and is a carbon copy of a secretive Liberal Party fundraising venture slammed by Mark McGowan when he was in Opposition.

Edmonton - Gold Bar Liberal MLA Bettie Hewes became the first woman to lead a major political party when she served as interim leader of the Official Opposition in 1994.

When United Conservative Party Leader, Jason Kenney prepared to set a new standard for the Official Opposition in the Legislature, he did so with the intent of representing Albertans with dignity and respect.

Otumfuo made a statement when the opposition leader visited Manhyia few days ago and unfortunately for the opposition block, effort by their leaders to misinterpret his statement was cleverly crashed by one of the ruling party's smart communicators Sam Dzata George.Otumfuo's delivery was clear and equivocal and I quote

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Explaining his party's opposition to the draft Communications Data Bill in 2013, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said a «law which means there will be a record kept of every website you visit, who you communicate with on social media sites» would not happen when his party was in government.

There was a bit of an anomaly in 1917 when the Conservatives and some Liberals came together to form the Unionist Party (which was essentially an election about conscription), but the Unionist coalition was gone by the next election in 1921 (technically, the Conservatives came third in that election, but they were still named the Official Opposition due to the leader of the second - place party declining Official Opposition status — and so the largely two - party state continParty (which was essentially an election about conscription), but the Unionist coalition was gone by the next election in 1921 (technically, the Conservatives came third in that election, but they were still named the Official Opposition due to the leader of the second - place party declining Official Opposition status — and so the largely two - party state continparty declining Official Opposition status — and so the largely two - party state continparty state continued).

When Corbyn became leader he had no choice but to make the best of the lack of support in the parliamentary party by portraying the internal opposition to him as a grown up way of conducting politics.

The ex-vice President, who advised the leadership of the party to focus on resolving the crisis in order not to allow the opposition party take advantage of the situation, noted that, «We can resolve our differences when our leaders individually and collectively shift ground from extreme positions and move to the centre in the interest of our party and our country».

These were amended four years ago at the request of the then leader, Ed Miliband, to abolish shadow cabinet elections which had long taken place annually when the party was in opposition — a move which the same MPs had rejected only a year earlier.

«I hope they will feel that I have worked conscientiously for them as I have always tried to do, even when I was heavily involved in the peace process in Northern Ireland or as Conservative Party Chairman or indeed when I travelled a good deal as Shadow Foreign Secretary and Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

Howard Flight, a former deputy chairman of the Conservative party, and Tina Stowell, a former deputy chief of staff to William Hague when he was opposition leader, were also on the list.

No party in opposition has ever won when they are behind in the opinion polls on both personality of the leader and economic policy

Labour's initial attempt to re-nominate Carwyn Jones as first minister of a minority administration after the 2016 assembly poll election failed, when opposition parties united to back Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood instead.

Prior to that she was a health policy advisor to the Federal Australian Labor Party, working for Simon Crean when he was Leader of the Opposition and then Julia Gillard when she was Shadow Minister for Health.