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Poilievre ran for leader of the Conservative Party in its 2022 leadership election, winning on the first ballot. Described as populist , Poilievre has primarily focused on issues pertaining to the cost of living in Canada; since mid-2023, the Conservative Party has a lead in opinion polling for the 2025 federal election , though it began to ...
The leader of the Conservative Party (officially the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the highest position within the United Kingdom's Conservative Party. The current holder of the position is Kemi Badenoch , who was elected to the position on 2 November 2024, following her victory against Robert Jenrick in the party's ...
He was the first Leader of the Conservative Party since Austen Chamberlain (1921–22) to never assume the office of Prime Minister. After David Cameron was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in 2005, Hague was reappointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Foreign Secretary.
The 2024 Conservative Party leadership election was announced on 5 July 2024 when then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared his intention to resign as Conservative Party leader following the party's defeat at the 2024 general election. The leadership race commenced on 24 July and concluded on 31 October. [2]
She became the first black leader of any major UK political party and the fourth woman to lead the Conservative Party, after Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May and Liz Truss. [ 123 ] Badenoch appointed Rebecca Harris as Chief Whip of the Conservative Party in her first appointment to her Shadow Cabinet on 4 November 2024, as she began forming her ...
German conservative candidate for chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Friedrich Merz reacts after the exit poll results are announced for the 2025 general election, in ...
On 11 July 2016, Theresa May became the leader of the Conservative Party. [134] May promised social reform and a more centrist political outlook for the Conservative Party and its government. [135] May's early cabinet appointments were interpreted as an effort to reunite the party in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the European Union. [136]
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher [nb 2] (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British stateswoman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.