Sentences with phrase «corbyn after labour»

The results marked a welcome boost for Corbyn after Labour slumped to fourth place in the Sleaford and North Hykeham by - election last night.

Not exact matches

Strangely, Labour leader Corbyn called for May to trigger Article 50 the day after the referendum, despite supporting «Remain.»

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

It comes with the Government under pressure after losing its House of Commons majority in the general election as Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity Labour outperformed expectations.

Asked what would happen after five years of a Corbyn government, Heseltine, a lifelong Europhile, said: «We have survived Labour governments before.

Yanis Varoufakis: Isn't it astonishing that after Jeremy Corbyn was being described as «the longest suicide note by the Labour Party» about a year ago, today there is an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led government.

Britain's main political parties, led by Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour head Jeremy Corbyn, suspended campaigning after the terrorist attack late Saturday.

In a recent interview with Sky News, he said «God is not left - wing or right - wing» after it was implied he «takes policy positions close to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party».

After a dramatic morning, it was only as Westminster heard Big Ben strike noon that Corbyn won the nomination of his 35th Labour MP.

Jeremy Corbyn has sent out a defiant message to his critics after Labour appeared to hold its ground in the English council elections.

After his response to anti-semitism, Russia and Syria, Corbyn could be doing the Labour left more harm than good.

After a series of terrible polls for Labour in recent days, Corbyn told MPs he planned to enthuse people to vote for the party through the use of «online media».

Portland is run by Tony Blair's former deputy press chief Tim Allan, who gave up on Labour soon after Corbyn became leader, according to well - placed sources.

This Derbyshire constituency ought to be safe Labour territory but we're told the Tories are going after one of Jeremy Corbyn's keenest supporters in the hope of a «Portillo moment» of their own.

Last year, Corbyn's support soared after caretaker leader Harriet Harman instructed Labour MPs to abstain from voting against the Conservative's welfare bill at the second reading.

Jeremy Corbyn's office has defended his decision to hand a key job to the former head of Sinn Fein's London office after the move sparked fury among some Labour MPs.

Diane Abbott has said Labour should not rule out keeping Britain in the single market after Brexit and that Jeremy Corbyn agrees - despite the leader rejecting the option just days ago.

Earlier on, Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn tore strips of each other after the prime minister attacked the Labour leader's alleged extremist sympathies.

After Dugdale last week added her voice to the chorus of those calling for Jeremy Corbyn to step down as leader of the Labour Party, her own deputy led calls for him to stay.

The Labour leadership hopeful made his latest attempt to set the record straight after one senior Corbyn ally branded Smith «a TV - savvy turncoat who lobbied for big pharma and Tony Blair».

Owen Smith has tried to stress his left wing credentials after the path was cleared for him to stand as the sole candidate against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election.

Backbenchers and political journalists piled the praise on Eagle after today's performance, while a shadow cabinet member suggested that many Labour MPs preferred Eagle's «confrontational» style to Jeremy Corbyn's «calm» approach.

Jeremy Corbyn has rowed back just an hour after saying that a Labour government would axe the government's benefit freeze - even though it made no mention of it in its manifesto published this morning.

After May later claimed that Corbyn was «casting his mind back to the 1950s,» the Labour leader had a robust response.

The Tango Man assaults will see Corbyn going after the Tories on solid Labour ground such as grammar schools and an ailing NHS while capitalising on doubts fast emerging about May's competence over the economy and Brexit.

Watson was responding to Mick Hucknall after the Simply Red singer and former Labour donor criticised Corbyn for failing to «fully commit» to the Labour campaign for remain.

Having previously struggled to think on his feet at PMQs, Corbyn then reacted sharply after May argued that «it is the Labour party who will take the advantages of a good education for themselves and pull up the ladder for other people».

The two contenders to take on Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership are said to be neck and neck after Angela Eagle and Owen Smith addressed MPs and peers today.

Smith has thrown his hat into the ring after Labour's ruling body, the National Executive Committee, said Corbyn would automatically be on the ballot without needing to collect nominations from MPs.

After being called the «most dangerous man in British politics», Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to use his first party conference in Brighton to show he is as normal and British as a cup of milky...

The bearded Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn criticised the Tory benches and their position on Human Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.»

This does indeed mean that literally a handful of new MPs could determine who leads the Labour Party after the election — either by lending the left sufficient numbers to nominate one of their own under the existing 15 % threshold or, in refusing to do so, by making it essential that Corbyn cling on and the left achieve a reduction in that threshold.

But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory general election victory apart from John Smith.

One legacy has been a membership sharply polarised by when they joined the party: in a recent YouGov poll of Labour members, Corbyn's net approval rating was -46 among those who joined before he became a leadership candidate in 2015 but +36 among those who joined after he declared — and this latter group constitutes 60 % of the total membership.

One morning early in July, after it became clear that Owen Smith hoped to challenge Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership but before most Labour voters had any real idea who he was, Smith set out his position in a brief series of tweets.

After two bruising leadership elections in less than two years, the second of which strengthened Corbyn's position, there's not much chance of anyone being willing to trigger a third attempt to remove Labour's increasingly embattled leader.

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It follows a campaign by Momentum and other supporters of Jeremy Corbyn to decrease the threshold after Corbyn, unpopular with most MPs, struggled to pass it during the 2015 Labour leadership election.

Labour moderates were left licking their wounds this afternoon after it was confirmed that Jeremy Corbyn will not be thrown off the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest.

After the exchange, Campbell tried to reach out to Jeremy Corbyn, by suggesting that the Labour leader might be «more sincere» than his shadow chancellor.

The oratorical flourish at the end of the debate on Syria was the most vivid example of defiance, but it was also Hilary who used a Today programme interview soon after Corbyn had been elected to politely insist that Labour policy was in favour of renewing trident and then to appear once again to express his support for the right of police to «shoot to kill», in both cases against the publicly declared position of his leader.

Bookies have further cut the odds on Jeremy Corbyn remaining in place as the Labour leader after a second court verdict in his favour.

After a summer in which he plans to maintain election fitness with yet more rallies and campaigning, Jeremy Corbyn will be greeted like a hero by his adoring fans at Labour's conference in Brighton.

The comments come after Labour MP Jack Dromey was filmed also criticising Corbyn's leadership — and then warmly greeting the leader when he showed up at the Labour leadership hustings in Birmingham.

Bookies have further cut the odds on Jeremy Corbyn remaining in place as the Labour leader after a...

After Labour lost the Copeland by - election in February, despite defending a much larger majority over the Conservatives than in Barrow, Woodcock warned Labour was headed for a «historic and catastrophic» election defeat under Corbyn's leadership.

Former Labour leadership contender Owen Smith - who was sacked from Mr Corbyn's frontbench after breaking from party policy to call for a second referendum - seized on the apparent slip of the tongue by Ms Thornberry, saying it was the latest in a string of inconsistencies on Brexit from Labour frontbenchers.

Some thought after the election that the party needs to be more radical to counter Jeremy Corbyn's Labour.

Why — even after the turmoil of the past year — do Labour members (and # 25 supporters) still want Jeremy Corbyn to be their leader?

After a barrage of bad press over his position on Trident and his flip - flop over the so - called «shoot - to - kill» policy for armed terrorists, you'd expect Jeremy Corbyn's stock to be sinking fast, even among the most starry eyed of the «Jez - we - can» supporters who voted him in as leader of the Labour party in September.