He will face Binyamin Netanyahu in a contest for the leadership of the Likud Party on November 28th, and a general election two months later.
Mr Brown's nail-chewing insecurities have been eased by knowing (roughly) both the date of Mr Blair's departure and that he will probably not face a serious contest for the leadership.
They poured petrodollars into the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan, matching America dollar for dollar, in the belief that this would work to their advantage in the contest for Islamic leadership with a radicalised Iran.
Lord Mandelson, a close ally of Tony Blair who backed Ed's brother David in the contest for the Labour leadership, has avoided personal criticism of the two men but has repeatedly attacked their strategy.
The two rivals in the disputed leadership contest for France's conservative opposition have been called to face-to-face talks.
BBC: UMP rivals Fillon and Cope called to face-to-face talks
He won a contest for the Senate minority leadership in 1994 by a single vote, and one of his backers bolted soon afterwards to the Republicans.
If their clarion call for a leadership contest was meant to ignite a putsch among Labour backbenchers, then it might have fizzled.
Now that a Zuma succession is no longer a certainty, a contest for succession to the ANC leadership and, hence, the presidency, is going to start behind the scenes.
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson, said calls for a leadership contest were being echoed, in private, up to cabinet level and there were some cabinet ministers who believed Mr Brown had to go.
He was also a councillor in the London Borough of Merton and - interestingly - worked as a researcher for one of the local MPs, Siobhan McDonagh, the junior Whip sacked for calling for a leadership contest.
None of his Westminster colleagues voted for him in the leadership contest in 1995: four stood against him.
Those people will demand the top jobs in his shadow cabinet in return for their support during the leadership contest.
It says the Tory high command has turned its fire on her for positioning herself ahead of a possible leadership contest.
French papers warn of a crisis in the conservative opposition Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) after a "grotesque" leadership contest failed to produce a clear winner amid claims of vote-rigging.
He says that half of his constituents berate him for being hard on Mr Ozawa, while the other half urge him to contest the leadership.
This means Mr. Najib is vulnerable to a leadership contest from within his own party, and his likely challengers favor the racial privileges for Malays that have underpinned the ruling coalition.
Ladbroke says it had taken bets on the leadership contest, but stopped about two weeks before it officially started because of the overwhelming backing for Charles Kennedy.
应用推荐