She afterwards declined to serve in Iain Duncan Smith's Shadow Cabinet ( although she indicated on the television programme When Louis Met ..., prior to the leadership contest, that she wished to retire to the backbenches anyway ).

In the post-election leadership contest held in November 1935, Attlee was opposed by Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood.

During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

It appears the Urquharts believe that the affair will give him a power over Mattie that will enable him to manipulate her position at the main newspaper, The Chronicle, and subsequently skew her coverage of the Conservative Party's leadership contest.

On 22 June 1995, tired of continual threats of leadership challenges that never arose, Major resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party and announced he would contest the resulting leadership election – he continued to serve as Prime Minister while the leadership was vacant, but would have resigned had he not been re-elected by a large enough majority.

Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).

With the Labour left still strong – in 1981 Benn decided to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, a contest Healey won narrowly – Foot struggled to make an impact and was widely criticised for it, though his performances in the Commons, most notably on the Falklands war of 1982, won him widespread respect from other parliamentarians, though he was criticised by some on the left who felt that he should not have supported the Thatcher government's immediate resort to military action.

* November 22 – Margaret Thatcher announces she will not contest the second ballot of the leadership election for the Conservative Party ( UK ).

In July 1965, he had come third in the Conservative Party leadership contest, obtaining only 15 votes, just below the result Hugh Fraser gained in the 1975 contest.

As the minority party has one less leadership position after losing the speaker's chair, there may be a contest for the remaining leadership positions.

The next two figures in the House Republican leadership hierarchy, majority leader Richard Armey and majority whip Tom DeLay, chose not to contest the Speaker's office.

However, the Alliance failure to win more than the two seats in Ontario, along with residual resentments from the Alliance leadership contest and questions about Stockwell Day's competence, led to caucus infighting.

The following year, Heath – who was Shadow Chancellor at the time, and had recently won favourable publicity for leading the fight against Labour's Finance Bill – unexpectedly won the party's leadership contest, gaining 150 votes to Reginald Maudling's 133 and Enoch Powell's 15.

Joseph's close friend and ally Margaret Thatcher, who believed an adherent to CPS philosophy should stand, joined the leadership contest in his place alongside the outsider Hugh Fraser.

When Hugh Gaitskell died in January 1963, Callaghan ran to succeed him but came third and the leadership contest was won by Harold Wilson.

The Labour Party's UK national leadership was seen to interfere in the contest and deny the popular Rhodri Morgan victory.

In opposition the Labour party continued to fractionalise: Goodwin resigned suddenly in 1980 and in the following leadership contest the little-regarded left-winger Ken Livingstone was only just beaten in an intensely tactical campaign by the moderate Andrew McIntosh.

Mulroney, despite never having run for elected office, was encouraged to run in the leadership race to replace Stanfield, and entered the contest.

On 20 May 2010 Abbott announced her intention to stand in the Labour leadership contest.

Benn entered the subsequent leadership contest and came fourth, with 37 votes, in the first ballot.

The changes of venue and leadership resulted in a constant shifting of focus, technique, instructors, and politics.

Supporters of the Continuity IRA leadership claim that this resulted from an internal disagreement, which although brought to a conclusion, was followed by some people leaving the organisation anyway.

The 2012 Northern Territory General Election resulted in the party winning 16 out of 25 seats under the leadership of Terry Mills, defeating the Incumbent Labor Government lead by Paul Henderson.

While the Roman church was presumably founded by Jewish Christians, the exile of Jews from Rome in AD 49 by Claudius resulted in Gentile Christians taking leadership positions.

Nkumbula's allegedly autocratic leadership of the ANC eventually resulted in a split.

In his later years Remey made confused and contradictory appointments for a successor, which resulted in further divisions among his followers dividing among several claimants to leadership.

Although this sometimes resulted in inefficient command according to some American historians, the Party leadership considered political control over the military absolutely necessary, as the Army relied more and more on officers from the pre-revolutionary Imperial period and understandably feared a military coup.

Another request from the Korean government for unification resulted in the formation of the Korea Tae Soo Do Association, which changed its name back to the Korea Taekwondo Association in 1965 following a change of leadership.

Under Honecker's leadership, the GDR adopted a programme of " consumer socialism ", which resulted in a marked improvement in living standards already the highest among the Eastern bloc countries.

Ghana's sorry economic condition, according to the PNDC, had resulted in part from the absence of good political leadership.

This ignited tensions with the communist leadership of the other republics, and awoke nationalism across the country, that eventually resulted in the Breakup of Yugoslavia, with Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia declaring independence.

The Cherokee Trail of Tears resulted from the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota, an agreement signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which exchanged Native American land in the East for lands west of the Mississippi River, but which was never accepted by the elected tribal leadership or a majority of the Cherokee people.

The resistance, under the leadership of Trần Quĩ at first gained some advances, yet as Trần Quĩ executed two top commanders out of suspicion, a rift widened within his ranks and resulted in his defeat in 1413.

Covenant-breakers are defined as leaders of schismatic groups that resulted from challenges to legitimacy of Bahá ' í leadership, as well as those who follow or refuse to shun them.

A defining characteristic of Standish's military leadership was his proclivity for preemptive action which resulted in at least two attacks ( or small skirmishes ) on different groups of Native Americans — the Nemasket raid and the Wessagusset massacre.

This resulted in disaffection which led to a general revolt in 1653 known as The Coonan Cross Oath. Under the leadership of their elder Thomas, Nazranis around Cochin gathered at Mattancherry church on Friday, January 24, 1653 ( M. E.

Shortly thereafter, a denominational leadership dispute resulted in the separation of some member churches.

His leadership resulted in the establishment of the Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller ( Order of St John / Maltese Order ) within the Imperial Orders of Russia.

In November 2002, the 2002 legislative election resulted in a landslide victory ( 42. 27 % of the vote ) for the People's Party under the leadership of Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel.

The battle on 14 June 1658 which resulted from this manoeuvre, became known in England as the Battle of the Dunes because the red-coats of the New Model Army under the leadership of Sir William Lockhart, Cromwell's ambassador at Paris, in Turenne's army astonished both armies by the stubborn fierceness of their assaults particularly with a successful assault up a sand-hill high and strongly defended by Spanish veterans.

There is general agreement that US technological superiority was a crucial factor but the speed and scale of the Iraqi collapse has also been attributed to poor strategic and tactical leadership and low morale among Iraqi troops, which resulted from a history of incompetent leadership.

His own abilities, and those of his successors, provided Sarawak with excellent leadership and wealth generation during difficult times, and resulted in both fame and notoriety in some circles.

Difference in political outlook, and FitzGerald's ambitions for the Fine Gael leadership resulted in profound tensions between the two men.