Sentences with phrase «with the party leader failing»
I am interested in the possibility of a party being elected into Westminster in a UK General election, with the party leader failing to be elected in his or her constituency.
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Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.
Following the General Election, and after failing to persuade the Lib Dems to form a coalition government with Labour, Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the party on 11th May 2010.
The leader of the Women's Equality Party has lambasted David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn for failing to match their words on gender equality with action.
Kennedy was upset that Marcellino failed to speak out on his behalf, or even attempt to intercede with party leaders after they yanked their support for the mayor's Assembly campaign.
Faced with a lack of social housing and vicious private sector rents, the party leaders fail to challenge the rhetoric that blames lack of homes on immigrants.
The Hansard Society say the incumbent «caretaker» prime minister has first call on forming an administration: «Only if the incumbent prime minister fails to put together a deal with one or more of the other parties, or, after having chosen to «meet» parliament, he loses a confidence motion, will the leader of the opposition party be invited to form a government.»
He told Channel 4 News: «This is an extraordinary and damning revelation because Lord Ashcroft has failed to come clean with the leaders of the Conservative party, and the leaders of the Conservative party have failed to come clean over the last few months with the rest of the country.
UKIP came third in terms of votes with 12.6 %, but only won one seat, with party leader Nigel Farage failing to win the seat of South Thanet.
Opposition politicians did their best to mercilessly mock Theresa May for failing to turn up for the BBC's TV debate with other party leaders.
Giambra, a former Democrat who failed to garner much traction with Republican and Conservative Party leaders in the state, left open the possibility of running on the Reform Party ballot line, created in 2014 by then - GOP nominee Rob Astorino out of opposition to the Common Core education standards.
It has a bright young leader who is bravely moving in reverse, replacing the election - winning choices that Blair made in the 1990s with the old, heartwarming, moral and upstanding values that so utterly failed to bring the Labour party anywhere near power.
The Labour leader later told ITV News that he would «live with it somehow» if he failed to change party policy.
As for Ed, whom the New Statesman endorsed as Labour leader last week, he can feel justly frustrated that senior figures in the party have failed to engage with his sophisticated and well - meant critique of New Labour.
The party lost seats to both the nationalists and the Tories, with Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale failing in her bid to take the Edinburgh Eastern seat.
Emboldened by the surge in his support since the first televised leaders» debate, Mr Clegg said that the other parties would have to come to terms with the Lib Dems if the General Election failed to produce an outright victor.
The British National Party failed to win a single Westminster seat, with leader Nick Griffin trailing third in the Barking poll.
The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.
The failed leader of the ailing political party is to pow - wow with the failing newspaper's prognosticator in chief, about the political failure of the attempt to rescue ailing governments from their failures..