Sentences with phrase «brown coronation»

Charles Clarke, who was sacked as home secretary by Mr Blair last year, has publicly urged the environment minister to stand, claiming there is «no broad consensus» within the Labour party for a «Brown coronation».

«This latest set back will do nothing to ease the concerns of the British public as we head towards a Gordon Brown coronation as prime minster,» claimed shadow work and pensions secretary Phillip Hammond.

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Brown secured his coronation.

Change and transformation in the main political parties, because of the election of Cameron and the coronation of Brown, has resulted in several studies.

Gordon Brown is widely tipped to succeed Mr Blair, however left - winger John McDonnell has declared he would stand against Mr Brown, if only in the interests of democracy to prevent an outright coronation.

Michael Meacher has confirmed that he will stand against Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership, calling for a «contest not a coronation».

Cameron won power by beating Gordon Brown, the man whose own «coronation» in 2007 undermines MPs otherwise better claim to electoral wisdom.

The «election» of Gordon Brown turned into a coronation not because he wanted it that way, and certainly not because that's what MPs wanted, but because the process made it happen.

Everything points to Alan Johnson being the man of the hour, but there can still be a real debate of the sort that the massively shortsighted coronation of Brown two years ago precluded.

It is the party that fell meekly into line behind Gordon Brown's paranoid insistence on a leadership coronation — and then, recognising the Brown problem too late, abjectly refused to remove him when it could and should have.

Lunches can be: Salade niçoise; coronation chicken wrap (one of our special recipes); chef's salad; omelette; brown rice salad...

Indeed, from the sly casting of impish Emily Blunt in the title role to the Easter - egg hues of Sandy Powell's typically immaculate frocks, Jean - Marc Vallee's film works overtime to convince us that the 18 - year - old Victoria could be very amused indeed: as Blunt barely suppresses laughter at a stiff royal function, or skips down a corridor after being informed of her impending coronation, she effectively severs any connection or comparison with Judi Dench's Oscar - nominated interpretation of the role in «Mrs Brown.»

On the day of Horus's coronation by his father, god of light Osiris (Bryan Brown), the king's envious brother Set (Gerard Butler), god of the desert, shows up and takes control of Egypt.