Sentences with phrase «winning the leadership last»

«That wouldn't have happened if we hadn't won the leadership last year.

Mr Corbyn has promoted her twice, first from a backbencher to Shadow International Development Secretary when he won the leadership last year.

Not exact matches

As expected, Corbyn defeated Smith in comfortable fashion, winning with an even larger mandate than he received in last year's leadership contest.

While Tories haven't been shy about slamming Trudeau, even releasing negative ads just a day after he won the Liberal leadership last year, it seems they are trying something new these days.

I do not understand the economics of the business well enough and there always seems to be contradictory reports about everything (dollars, skills, scheme fit etc.) From my admittedly naive, fan - based vantage point, we needed to strengthen the offensive line and the linebacker corp, add some punch to the running game (while keeping an eye on the draft for a fleet - footed youngster), and bring some leadership to a clubhouse that was akin to Animal House last year (of course, winning makes grown ups out of everyone).

Eden Hazard, who made his return to action in last weekend's convincing win over Bournemouth, is looking forward to a big night at the Bridge on Monday and further ahead, beginning life under Antonio Conte's leadership next season.

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

«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.

It's almost as if he misses having a leadership contest to keep him busy having spent the last two summers winning then defending his position.

The party's current success comes against a backdrop of winning only 6 MPs in 2010, having as little popularity as the widely - loathed Scottish Conservatives as recently as 2013 and, in September of last year, leading a losing referendum campaign that forced a change in party leadership.

A Brooks win would solidify the claim the mainline Democratic conference leadership has been making for the last several weeks: A numerical 32 - lawmaker majority in the Senate should be enough to hand them control of the chamber.

In the last parliament we had the Milibands, two brothers contesting a leadership contest and the younger one winning.

He won the Labour leadership last year because he offered an alternative to austerity and the stale old politics of the last three decades.

In a federal lawsuit filed today, the party claimed that Rob Astorino, the Republican Westchester county executive and candidate for governor, threatened to «decapitate» party leadership in a bid to win the Independence Party's support as he ran for re-election in Westchester last year.

After winning majorities last fall, Republicans managed to lose leadership elections in New Hampshire and Washington state.

Mr Johnson, who launched his bid for the deputy leadership last November, told the magazine that if he won he would overhaul the Labour party structure.

The Westchester County Independence Party said in a federal lawsuit that Astorino threatened to «decapitate» its leadership in a bid to win its support as he ran for re-election last year.

Andy Burnham's campaign chief Michael Dugher was on good form at the Westminster Arms last night as he insisted his man could still win the Labour leadership contest.

At the same time, Valesky's favorable changes will make it harder for a Republican to win his seat, a present from the GOP leadership following his move early last year to secede, along with three other senators, from the Senate's Democratic leadership.

He said: «On behalf of the Labour party and its leadership, I would like to express my sincere thanks to each and every Momentum member and supporter who played a part in our tremendous effort to secure Labour wins in the elections last week.

Our raw data finds that slightly more people who voted in the last leadership election backed Ed Miliband rather than his brother David, even though David won more votes among individual party members.

The governor told reporters that while the state is «entering the political season now,» he would still work with the Republican - dominated Senate leadership coalition, which he denounced as a failure in a video message recorded, after tense negotiations, to win the Working Families Party endorsement last weekend.

One of the reasons the incoming House Majority Leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy from California, easily won last week's leadership election to fill Rep. Eric Cantor's number two slot, which he is leaving after his primary loss in Virginia, was his close relationships with scores of members he helped elect.

He brushed aside questions about his leadership, pointing out that he won a second leadership election in September of last year.

Then maybe Yvette would have won, as Andy's campaign was so bad, she would have won it on merit The deputy leadership, saw two centre right, female candidates in the last three, both had the anyone but Watson tag, considering one of the male candidates Ben Bradshaw had this Tom Watson partly win, due to transfers from Bradshaw, was it sexist that he won, no, had he not win on the third round, could one of the females beat him, due to their combined vote, who knows but it wouldn't have been on gender, but their voters dislike of Watson

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.

In response to its byelection success last week, Ukip is now claiming it will win the upcoming Rochester and Strood byelection, possibly forcing the prime minister from the Conservative leadership.

Labour spent the first six months since the election on the leadership election (i.e. doing nothing politically useful); and has spent the last six months providing a too - subtle — that is, a bit muddled — message on cuts and the economy, on which it has so far lost the argument (let's hope that it's genuinely still possible to win it, long shot though that may seem).

Ever since he won a special election to replace Eric Massa last year, Reed has been central to leadership's dealings with the freshmen.

When he won the Labour leadership, Ed Miliband declared that Britain had not «heard the last» of his older brother, from whose complacent grip he had snatched the prize.

was blamed for the defeats of two Democratic candidates in races last week in Georgia and South Carolina with some in her party even suggesting a change in leadership is needed if they have any hope of winning control of the House in the 2018 mid-term elections.

Michael Portillo yesterday joined Baroness Thatcher and Norman Lamont in the last push behind Mr Hague's campaign to stop Mr Clarke winning the leadership.

The formation of the SDP wasn't a Sudden thing, at the last stages of talks, Roy Jenkins had approached David Steel, to see if he could join the Liberal party, both had come to the conclusion if Michael Foot did win the leadership, for there to be a breakaway party, and Jenkins would be in more of a position to take one tenth of the CLP with him, and form an electoral pact, followed by a merger years later, of which would really be a take over.

Diaz, along with Monserrate and Sen. Pedro Espada (D - Bronx), helped precipitate the leadership crisis in the state Senate last year by briefly defecting to the Republican camp in an effort to win concessions from Democratic leaders.

The conservative congresswoman from Minnesota, who's a favorite of many Tea Party activists, won approval for the new organization late last week from the Democratic leadership.

Literally just seconds after Corbyn won last year's contest Reed published a letter announcing he couldn't serve under the new leadership.

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.

Even though the Democrats have won the New York Senate numbers-wise, at least one member of the party has already announced he plans to caucus with the Republicans and it appears that the four - man IDC might do the same, drawing comparisons to the «four amigos» of State Senators Ruben Diaz, Carl Kruger, Pedro Espada and Hiram Monserrate, who defected to GOP leadership the last time the Democrats held the numerical advantage.

The leadership team, which did not expect to win last year, made mistakes in communication and strategy that cut through and caused damage.

Mr Miliband won the last leadership election largely thanks to support from unions, but Mr McCluskey said he suspected only 10 % of its one million members affiliated to Labour would opt to stay in if asked now.

Last night a source close to Boris ruled out a snap election this autumn if he wins the Tory leadership.

Campbell's leadership bid last spring was so ineptly run that Chris Huhne came in from a 200 - 1 shot to nearly win.

Although the Labour leadership claimed last week's local and regional elections showed «steady progress» since the general election, the research suggests Mr Corbyn still has a long way to go to win over key groups of voters.

The leadership team of KIPP Raíces Academy, which last year was the only LA Unified school to win a National Blue Ribbon award, received the «School Changemakers» awards: founding principal Amber Young Medina, principal Chelsea Zegarski and assistant principal Yesenia Castro.

We have won the Euromoney Best National Firm for Women in Law for the last five years (2012 - 2016) based on our strong female leadership throughout the firm.