Sentences with phrase «win the leadership election as»

We have predicted here that Ed Miliband would come through to win the leadership election as have others as varied as Labour right - winger Luke Akehurst who supports him and (just about) Simon Heffer in today's Telegraph, who presumably doesn't.

Not exact matches

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

After a divisive PC leadership race and a surprise win in the Calgary - Elbow by - election, it looked as if the Liberals led by Edmonton MLA Kevin Taft were about to build significant gains after their Calgary breakthrough in the 2004 election.

These MPs will have ambitions of climbing the greasy pole and may have chosen to back Remain to satisfy Cameron or may have chosen to sit on the fence in case a Leave candidate such as Boris Johnson or Priti Patel wins the leadership election.

She announced that she would also resign as Deputy Leader, prompting a concurrent deputy leadership election, which was won by Tom Watson.

Field nominated Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015, [23] stating that while he did not think Corbyn could win a general election, he hoped his candidacy would force the party to confront its «deficit denial».

One member of the Labour Party's centre - right wrote to Jon Lansman that: «we find it strange that the winning candidate in a Labour leadership election would sustain the life of the campaign after winning, rather than seeing their role now as having responsibility to unite the whole party.»

As more than one candidate ran for the party leadership, it was the first contested UKIP leadership election since 2010; Farage won the 2014 leadership election unopposed.

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

This makes sense as it is senior politicians who will have the resources, the reputation and, most importantly, the support in the party to win a leadership election.

They saw it as a route to winning a Tory leadership election down the line in 2019; not as something that would actually happen and that they would subsequently have to manage now.

As it happens, I believe Labour can win a general election by adopting a different approach, but as there's a campaign on and it requires a thorough critique of Jeremy's leadership, that's something you can look forward to reading after the polls have closeAs it happens, I believe Labour can win a general election by adopting a different approach, but as there's a campaign on and it requires a thorough critique of Jeremy's leadership, that's something you can look forward to reading after the polls have closeas there's a campaign on and it requires a thorough critique of Jeremy's leadership, that's something you can look forward to reading after the polls have closed.

The think tank has said that Labour is «too weak» to win a general election as things stand under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

For his part, Mr Davis - who had led the seven - month race until the party conference in Blackpool - said he looked at the debates between them as «not just a contest for the leadership, but a preamble to us winning the next general election».

Cameron then offered Corbyn some unsolicited advice, pointing out that he had won the Tory leadership election in 2005 as the outsider candidate promising change.

Mr Miliband looks increasingly likely to appoint Mr Balls as his shadow chancellor if he wins the Labour leadership election.

Ed Miliband is weak, ineffective, irrelevant and just a puppet to his trades union pals who put him in power in the first place — just as it was clear he would be when he won the leadership election.

Because if June's election taught us one thing, it's that if we stand behind Jeremy's principled leadership, if we stand united as a Party, and if we stand on a radical manifesto, there is absolutely no seat that we can't win.

The angry Kennedy Agyepong captured on a video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f3DNDd1rh4] described his own party as bogus and accused its leadership of lacking the knowledge to win an election.

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.

Richard Leonard won the leadership election with 56.7 % of the vote and was elected as the leader of the Scottish Labour Party on 18 November.

«I endorse New York Assembly Member Michael Blake because I know as DNC vice chair he will bring invigorating change in leadership to the party because of his proven campaign experience and wins in state and local elections throughout the country,» Gillibrand said in a statement.

Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, also rejected suggestions there were any «wobbles» over Ed Miliband's leadership, as party officials insisted the key lesson from Thursday's byelections was that David Cameron no longer has a strategy to win a majority at the next election.

[38] The party's 2014 leadership election was won by Jim Murphy, an MP who had previously served as Secretary of State for Scotland and had been a prominent campaigner for the pro-Union side in the referendum.

As an ex member of UKIP with some friends still in the party, I'm fairly confident that Waters will win the leadership election relatively comfortably.

He would probably win as most Labour MP's have no appetite for a leadership election and then he would look like a strong leader going into the election.

The result indicates a divide as Mr Corbyn bids to reunite his party after winning a landslide 62 % in the overall leadership election - a bigger mandate than last year.

Titford narrowly won the ensuing leadership election, promising to reunite the party and restore its effectiveness as a campaigning organisation.

DAILY POST recalls that before Mimiko's election, the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, led the group that emerged after the leadership crisis that engulfed the Nigeria Governors Forum over who won election as its chairman between former Governors, Jonah Jang and Rotimi Ameachi.

Smith, who's been described as a political chameleon, has decided he has a better chance of winning the leadership election if he signs up to Corbyn's crackpot policies than if he tries to haul the party back to reality.

Mind you Corbyn's impression of an oppositional back bencher as if he hadn't won a convincing victory in the very recent leadership election isn't helping.

Labour's Yvette Cooper says she can beat leading left - wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn to win the party's leadership election, as ballot papers begin to arrive.

By taking the assumption that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable as a given, without needing to interrogate it, commentators are then free to debate questions in terms of «Will this unelectable man win the leadership election?»

Fairer votes would be fine, but the system we've got isn't critically unfair and, as a Labour party member, I can't get a nagging scene out of my head: the announcement of the result of the Labour leadership election last year, with the numbers from each stage of the voting flashing up on the big screen and no - one understanding quite what was happening or who was winning.

«The inconvenient truth for Owen Smith is that Labour polled ahead of the Tories in May's local elections; and we have won all parliamentary by - elections under Jeremy's leadership, as well as having won mayoral elections in Bristol, London, Liverpool and Salford.