conviction politician

But he does long to be perceived as a conviction politician.

I also admire the fact she is a conviction politician.

Also, proponents argue that conviction politicians are more likely to win.

"He is a conviction politician," said the American official.

A conviction politician who convinced voters not to elect a Conservative government for 13 years.

First, you don't have to be a conservative to be a conviction politician.

He hankered after the tag that she had assumed of "conviction politician".

Is that belief as in Scientology or conviction politician?

That conviction politician was still visible as late as the 1980's.

She was what she called a conviction politician.

I am a conviction politician" upon assuming leadership of the Conservative Party in 1975.

By saying what they believe and ignoring the polls, conviction politicians distinguish themselves from other politicians in this way.

I am a conviction politician like her."

I don't see any conviction politicians in this administration, only politicians that need to be convicted, of fraud.

God save us from conviction politicians.

I thought that was a very strong speech, a speech of a conviction politician, and also a nerveless speech.

Agree that Benn is a conviction politician and a man of principle, even if I disagree with him on a great many things.

There is a difference between being a conviction politician and being a rationally guided politician.'

The one who had entered the drop-in centre and spoken to Jessie - a deeply committed conviction politician and family man.

Mrs Thatcher was usually termed 'a conviction politician', most at home with others of that stern, unbending creed.

Portillo is a conviction politician and is determined to use the spending review to reopen the debate about the boundaries of the welfare state.

A self-described conviction politician, Thatcher always insisted that she did not care about her poll ratings, pointing instead to her unbeaten election record.

Her appeal as a conviction politician is especially strong in an era where the possession of strong principles and opinions is considered unusual, even a handicap.

Hugo Young looks back on a testing year for world leaders: "A generation of self-confident conviction politicians has been replaced by leaders helplessly engulfed in events."

By my observation Mr Major was most effective when he was being himself, an earnest, unexciting, understated conviction politician, meeting people, being jostled.