Sentences with phrase «winning leadership elections»

There are huge difficulties associated with this when it comes to winning leadership elections.

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.

Since winning the leadership election in a landslide vote, Corbyn has, however, accepted an invitation to become a member of the Queen's privy council.

Some backbenchers have not yet digested the fact that the wrong Miliband had won the leadership election.

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.

«There are times when I begin to wish David Davies had won the leadership election...» Aye.

«Jeremy winning the leadership election has thrown that off kilter somewhat,» she laughs.

«If you thought the way to become leader of the Labour party was to follow a very defined route, then all of a sudden Jeremy Corbyn winning the leadership election on the route you're not meant to take - it tips it all on its head, doesn't it.

«They're probably not saying that to boost my chances of winning this leadership election,» he says, with a laugh.

A defiant Mr McDonnell added that since Mr Corbyn won the leadership election they had been expecting a «coup».

Whoever wins the leadership election will have to outwardly talk up their chances in 2020, though in reality any proper revival will take much longer.

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.

What he fails to acknowledge however, is that Labour will fail to win a majority whoever wins the leadership election.

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.

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.

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.

Do you really believe that even if you somehow find a seat, win a by - election, contrive a no - confidence vote in Cameron, and then win a leadership election that there would be no consequences?

At this early stage, David Miliband is favourite to win the leadership election with two polls yesterday suggesting he had the support of 32 per cent of voters - that's far more than any of his potential rivals.

Ms Evans said she was confident she could win the leadership election without Mr Farage's backing.

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.

We were here for the second leg of Labour frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn's four - city tour of Scotland, a place where he has much work to do if he wins the leadership election — and where Scottish Labour is about to announce its own new leader in a contest that has had much less attention than this one.

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?»

Alasdair McDonnell won the leadership election and was announced the new leader of the SDLP on 5 November 2011.

Not exact matches

The op - ed article sought to positively portray the Ukrainian government's work when it was under the leadership of Viktor Yanukovych, the former Ukrainian president and pro-Russia strongman whom Manafort is widely credited with helping win Ukraine's election in 2010.

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.

It is expected that current Progressive Conservative MLA and former Premier Alison Redford could resign to allow Jim Prentice to run in a by - election shortly after he wins the PC leadership race in September.

Calgary - North West MLA Frank Bruseker was stripped of his major critic portfolios after telling reporters he was worried the party could not win enough seats in Calgary to secure an election win due to Mr. Decore's leadership.

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.

On one hand, their districts are closely divided, and they need to display independence from the liberal House Democratic leadership in order to appeal to the centrist, swing voters who will likely make the difference between winning and losing in the 2014 elections.

He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

His campaign had previously suggested there were «thousands» of Tories who had infiltrated the leadership election and suggested he could mount a legal challenge against a Corbyn win.

There are past instances of parties winning elections with the least - popular leader, or without a perceived handle on all things economic, but there's no obvious precedent for a party to win an election when it is behind on both leadership and matters fiscal.

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

Party sources suggested the swing rivalled many that were seen in famous by - election wins under the leadership of Paddy Ashdown and Charles Kennedy.

Conservatives betting their # 3s on his winning the Labour leadership could lose their party at the election.

Perhaps the strongest evidence against the idea that his support has slipped (or at least slipped significantly) amongst the membership is that the PLP has so far failed to trigger a leadership election — because they know that they could not win.

«Each day that goes by, I'm coming to the conclusion that, if this was a sure win for Democrats... I'm sure the Democratic leadership and governor himself would have called a special election last week,» Reed continued.

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

Thus even if he wins the second leadership election, Corbyn's movement is empty and the party in its entirety is left in disarray.

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.

After Jeremy Corbyn won the 2015 leadership election on 12 September, Thornberry was appointed Shadow Minister of State for Employment.

Whoever wins the leadership contest will be subject to sustained scrutiny and criticism from a Conservative press emboldened by their perceived successes in the general election.

Congratulations to Kez Dugdale and Alex Rowley on winning the Scottish Labour leadership elections.

Despite a vote of no confidence, Corbyn has insisted he won't resign, citing the large mandate he won in the 2015 leadership election, when he finished 40 percentage points ahead of his nearest challenger in a vote of party members.

I've joined Momentum, the grassroots Labour organization that helped Jeremy Corbyn win his second leadership election.

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

Conversely, whatever the result of the referendum, Boris coming out in favour of Leave places him at the helm of the increasingly dominant faction in the Tory party and well placed to win the subsequent leadership election.

Already at this time there were signs that Labour might win the next election, much aided by the ERM crisis but not yet by Blair's leadership.

Could Labour, under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, win a General Election?

Alan Milburn and Margaret Hodge both call for the party to deprieve the unions of a say in the leadership election, without whom, of course, Miliband would not have won.