Sentences with phrase «which leadership candidate»

The old three - way electoral college was replaced with a new «one - person - one - vote» system in which leadership candidates are elected not just by party members, but also by registered and affiliated supporters.

Not exact matches

This commitment to development allowed P&G to create a leadership funnel, which has led it to fill many management positions with internal candidates.

Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney probably levelled the silliest criticism of the carbon tax when he tweeted on January 4 a photo of Tesla charging station in Fort Macleod, which was empty.

Kenney's plan has also raised questions on whether such a merger platform contravenes leadership contest rules, which forbid candidates from doing harm to the party or its brand.

We (church leadership) encourage each person to study the issues and determine which candidate best represents their views.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Which takes us back to the Conservatives» prospective leadership candidates.

But candidates» views are largely to the right of the leadership, or the manifesto on which Cameron wrote for Michael Howard in 2005.

They would have to wait a year to challenge Corbyn for the leadership, which would require a candidate to be nominated by 20 % of Labour MPs.

Arron Banks spoke out after last night's leadership hustings during which one candidate called for the death penalty for paedophiles, but not if the child «looked 18».

It would have taken a good NY GOP leadership to have had a Congressional Candidate somewhere here in NY State to be the guest speaker at todays breakfast today... Today was a disgrace and clear indictment of a dysfunctional NY GOP Party which has lost its Moral Compass

«Those who want to change Labour's leadership will have to stand in a democratic election, in which I will be a candidate.

[14] However, referring to a Conference speech by the party's former leader, Campaign Manager Andrew Mitchell said: «William Hague made a great speech which many people will judge to be better than all the other leadership candidates put together.

Is there some missing part of the Jeremy Corbyn life which can explain his overwhelming victory over the other leadership candidates?

As a result he was not able to be a candidate in the leadership election of 1983 which he may well have won.

The discussions do not need to lead to a firm policy programme, but we need to find out what views on Labour's future direction exist within the Labour Movement so we can then have a meaningful leadership contest in which the candidates and those voting understand each other.

Asked about which possible Labour leadership contenders people felt warmest towards, Greenberg said David Miliband was the favourite, followed by his brother, Ed, the likely candidate from the left of the party Jon Cruddas, and then the former schools secretary Ed Balls.

Labour deputy leadership candidate Stella Creasy has responded to internet trolls by releasing a video in which she reads out some of the offensive messages she has been sent during the campaign.

At a separate rally, organised by Labour First, Angela Eagle, the former leadership candidate and minister, accused Corbyn's supporters of allowing a culture of abuse of MPs and Labour party staff which could lead to a form of «populist authoritarian rule».

Nex, which used to be known as Icap and is one of the world's biggest money - broking firms, is attempting to head off a rebellion at next week's annual general meeting by announcing its chairman will personally pay back the # 25,000 used to fund the candidates, including one who ran against Lib Dem leadership contender Sir Vince Cable.

During the frenetic campaigning for the party leadership over the next six months, which will overshadow the party's preparations for this year's unprecedented batch of elections, all the candidates are likely to exploit the resentment which has built up at all levels of the party over Mr Ashdown's ever growing links with Mr Blair.

The Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has said the party should consider bringing back Clause IV, its traditional commitment to public ownership, which was abandoned by New Labour.

In the event of an idiotic candidate winning elections, leadership will be about idiocy and idiotic policy decisions which will have idiotic effects on all Ghanaians.

Asked which of Labour's leadership candidates the SNP feared was best placed to win back Scottish voters, he said:

Delegates in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to back a motion put by the Lib Dem leadership for extra funds to support ethnic minority and female candidates, and to consider diversity when deciding which seats to target in an election.

«I stood for the Labour leadership as the candidate of the Left and trade union movement so that there could be a proper debate about Labour's future in which all the wings of the party were fully represented.

But in any event, he may not get enough nominations, due to your Party's leadership election rules - which are designed to exclude rather than include candidates.

A few thousand votes is sufficient to move an election, which is why the candidates in NY - 19 went all out in hopes of landing the endorsement of the Kiryas Joel leadership.

«Now more than at any time in our lifetime, New Yorkers need new leadership in the Capitol, which is why I am a candidate for governor,» Molinaro said in a statement.

The Guardian reports this morning that the former Foreign Secretary is accused of «buying» the leadership election as wealthy Blairite donors push his campaign chest to # 200,000 - causing what the paper describes as a «disparity in financial backing» for the five candidates, which it believes to be «a big issue».

Diane Abbott, speaking to Labour conference as a losing leadership candidate, won loud cheers and a standing ovation — enthusiastic amongst delegates but noticeably reluctant amongst MPs, perhaps because she revealed that she was going to add to the competition which so many of them are about to face in the shadow cabinet elections.

He added that «now more than at any time in our lifetime, New Yorkers need new leadership in the Capitol, which is why I am a candidate for governor.»

«The national leadership of the party has asked us to continue with the campaign because the campaign is not for any candidate but for the party which is contesting the election.

Socialism, which all five leadership candidates have confessed an adherence to, can only be the collective capacity to change our world.

However, Corbyn supporters believe that the new party membership, which has doubled since 2015 and powered his two landslide leadership victories, should retain its rights to decide their candidate.

There was John Redwood's challenge to John Major's leadership in 1995, with the brutal slogan, «No change equals no chance,» which was the right analysis but the wrong candidate.

Potential leadership challengers, such as Dan Jarvis and Angela Eagle, are prepared to work together to decide which candidate has the best chance of toppling Corbyn.

As two major unions, Unite and Unison prepare to announce this week which candidate they will support in the Labour leadership contest, political editor Gary Gibbon analyses how the battle is testing the brotherly bond between David and Ed Miliband.

The people's party has become a travelling circus in which the five leadership candidates perform at endless hustings and get reacquainted with an electorate that told them to take a running jump.

Those who want to challenge my leadership are free to do so in a democratic contest, in which I will be a candidate.»

Amongst the other potential candidates for Labour's leadership, John Reid enjoyed a huge boost in popularity as a result of his handling of the terror arrests in early August, which saw his net ratings shoot up from minus 16 to minus 2.

A leadership candidate who describes the manifesto which took the party to its worst defeat in a generation as one of its best should give anyone who truly wants a Labour PM on the steps of Downing Street in May 2020 pause.

The second donation from the CRC paid for a poll during the last Tory leadership election, which boosted the «hard Brexit» candidate Andrea Leadsom.

The last paragraph to this article should inform the fundamental promise every leadership candidate makes to the party and the country, to do otherwise would be a complete betrayal of everything Labour should stand for and further a betrayal of the principles of fairness and justice on which our future must be built

There is an ICM study in today's Guardian which, like the YouGov poll in last week's Spectator, tries to get round the fact that some of the Conservative leadership candidates are very unfamiliar to the public by giving respondents information about the candidates before asking questions.

NARAL is only supporting «100 percent pro-choice candidates,» and has «serious concerns about the current Senate leadership's commitment to reproductive health and rights,» which is why not sitting senators received its endorsement «at this time.»

The candidates said the leadership battle, which culminates in the autumn, was about taking the party forward and exposing and opposing the new Government.»

The news, which follows the attempt to turn Tory MP backbencher Bob Stewart into a stalking horse candidate, will further destabilise the prime minister's leadership as he heads into difficult political territory.

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