Sorry Justin but it was perhaps the one clear policy that DC came up
with during the leadership election.
Not exact matches
It follows a campaign by Momentum and other supporters of Jeremy Corbyn to decrease the threshold after Corbyn, unpopular
with most MPs, struggled to pass it
during the 2015 Labour
leadership election.
Not surprisingly, given the above, half (49 %) of Labour's new members believe the membership should have more say over policy,
with the figure rising to 54 % and 65 % respectively among those who joined
during and after the
leadership election.
Combined
with a slight boost from new members that joined
during the Labour
leadership election, Leonard took the first spot on the Central Scotland regional list, bypassing all incumbent Labour MSPs.
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.
He again stated his desire to rejoin the party
during last year's
leadership election, a move which would have been deeply unpopular
with many in the party — especially the Blairites.
In order to avoid voting on a controversial gun bill
during an
election year — a move that no doubt would have further enraged their conservative allies who were still smarting over passage of the SAFE Act - the Senate Republicans moved the bill from the Codes Committee to the Rules Committee, which is controlled
with an iron fist by the
leadership.
During the campaign Lichfield was one of the councils visited by Conservative leader William Hague, on the 29 April,
with the overall local
elections seen by commentators as crucial to his
leadership of the party.
Patel was promoted last year to employment minister
with the right to sit in cabinet after impressing the Tory
leadership with her media performances
during the
election campaign.
His relationship
with the New Labour establishment - most of whom backed David for the
leadership - has been prickly at times, although Tony Blair buried the hatchet by giving a supportive speech
during the general
election campaign.
During the general
election and EU referendum, Fallon was used by the
leadership to voice aggressive messages, including the claim that Ed Miliband could not be trusted
with the economy because he stabbed his brother in the back for the job of Labour leader.
During his doomed
leadership contest David Miliband said Labour could not afford to go into the 2015 general
election with no business support.
As
with so many of his policy speeches
during the
leadership election, Miliband's case is characterised by hastily assembled straw men that are then summarily burned.
In addition to their lobbying work
with ConnCAN, Alexander and Johnson were the individuals who formed A Better Connecticut, Inc. yet another education reform industry front group that spent more than $ 2 million on television ads
during the year before the last gubernatorial
election to «thank» Governor Malloy for his «
leadership» on behalf of the corporate education reform agenda.