Sentences with phrase «corbyn leadership campaign»

The surge of interest around the Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign clearly gives many a glimpse of what is possible.

The 30 - year - old MP is due to marry Ben Soffa, the tech guru who is said to have worked wonders on the Corbyn leadership campaign and is now Labour's head of digital.

The push from a left - wing group to bypass the need to win support from Labour MPs comes as Momentum warns potential dissenters it is «absolutely equipped» to back another Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign.

Not exact matches

His lack of experience could hold him back, but the MSP for Central Scotland is a member of the Campaign for Socialism and his support for Corbyn could see him surprise many in the leadership election.

His campaign had previously suggested there were «thousands» of Tories who had infiltrated the leadership election and suggested he could mount a legal challenge against a Corbyn win.

In fact, during the last leadership election for Jeremy Corbyn, and at many of his rallies in this campaign, I was repeatedly taken by how many teachers and nurses and fire - fighters and doctors I came across.

Jon Lansman, the Momentum founder who helped run Corbyn's leadership campaign, said: «A period of silence from Ken Livingstone is overdue, especially on antisemitism racism & Zionism.

«It's very difficult to see how the current leadership could possibly unite the elements of the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party being a key part of the that,» he argues, before singling out the role of Momentum, the grass roots movement whose aim is «to build on the energy and enthusiasm from the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaign», for its part in creating the current civil strife.

Even, improbably, Jeremy Corbyn has used it, telling his delirious fans in his leadership acceptance speech, «I want us to stand up and say «we want to live in a society where we don't pass by on the other side of those people rejected by an unfair welfare system»,» and motivating them again 18 months later at the start of the 2017 Election campaign by claiming, «we know that the people of Britain don't pass by on the other side.»

Corbyn must use all the fizz of his leadership campaign and get Momentum to hit the road, get out there and sell the vital message with honesty, integrity and Labour values.

Having woefully misjudged the leadership campaign, all Corbyn's opponents must avoid compounding this error by assuming he will quickly fail as leader.

Instead, Corbyn's base is among the new members who flocked into the party to support his leadership campaign.

When you look at the artwork that David Gentleman did for the Stop the War campaign, which was chaired by Corbyn, or simply the sharply designed logo of his leadership campaign, you can see something of this older visual tradition of public relations in the UK.

The basic political programme should be the 10 Pledges outlined by Jeremy Corbyn in his leadership campaign.

In other words, precisely the number who supported Corbyn in his second leadership campaign.

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.

Corbyn's campaign team did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but leadership rival Owen Smith was quick to tweet that his own campaign «remains on track».

Some supporters of Corbyn have claimed that he is the victim of a deliberate campaign from media outlets to undermine his leadership.

None of Corbyn's rivals in the leadership campaign tried to balance the real security imperatives with the party's obvious antipathy towards nuclear weapons by carving out an alternative.

As the campaign kicked off there was some debate as to how the «Shadow Shadow Cabinet» would deal with it — whether now the game was afoot they would feel obliged to call a truce with the Corbyn leadership and take part in the national battle.

The establishment now stands firmly behind Owen Smith's leadership campaign, recognising that for Smith to defeat Corbyn, he must imitate Corbyn.

21th July 2016, Huffington Post: Labour MPs are Tory «Sleeper» agents Jeremy Corbyn rally told as leadership campaign begins

A number of features stand out: gender; left - wing identity; social liberalism; campaign activism; feelings about the leadership; and the possibility that the ranks of the newer members, and those that support Jeremy Corbyn, may have been swollen by what we call «educated left - behinds» — people who, given their qualifications, might have been expecting to earn more than they currently do.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

Under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership Labour has shifted its campaign focus away from tighter immigration controls to attacking the «nasty Tories» unwillingness to assist refugees.

Though the leadership's lacklustre performance on the EU referendum campaign trail annoyed many new members, support for Corbyn amongst members was at 55 % in mid-July, nearly a month after the result.

Jeremy Corbyn launched ten pledges for his leadership campaign this month, detailing how the Labour Party will rebuild and transform Britain when it returns to government.

It is effectively Corbyn's leadership campaign given more permanent form.

Responding to the grim poll numbers, a spokesman for Mr Corbyn's leadership campaign said: «Before the attempts began to remove Jeremy Corbyn as leader, Labour and the Tories were neck - and - neck in the polls.

A mysterious group called Saving Labour, which declines to comment on its leadership or funding — allegedly for fear of being abused — is organising over a hundred street stalls, paying for content on Facebook and even mounting an advertising campaign in the pages of the Guardian and the Observer in order to collect voters who will oppose Corbyn.

The Prime Minister said the party's disciplinary panel let the former London mayor «off the hook» following accusations of anti-Semitism as she launched a stinging attack on Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in a campaign speech.

During the current Labour leadership campaign he has spoken at rallies in support of Jeremy Corbyn.

Mr Corbyn and Mr Smith will go head - to - head in their first hustings of the leadership campaign next week, The result of the election will be announced on 24 September.

Jeremy Corbyn's official leadership campaign has blamed Labour MPs who tried to oust him «at a time of national crisis» for the party's dramatic poll slump.

Right from the start of Corbyn's leadership campaign, he tells me, «I wanted to build a new left organisation.»

Don't burn the books A scorching hot list of summer political reading selected by Mark Perryman A year ago as Labour sought to recover from the May General Election defeat halls were starting to fill up for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign rallies.

Jeremy Corbyn's Labour critics are already discussing how to respond if the party sustains heavy losses on election night — with most counselling against an early leadership challenge after his better - than - expected performance on the campaign trail.

A 58 - year - old Labour veteran who joined the party in 1974 and went on to work for that revered radical icon Tony Benn, Lansman spent last summer serving as director of operations for Corbyn's leadership campaign.

«Though this a pure media stunt, Labour has in any case robust mechanisms to root out anti-Labour people from participating and we urge constituency Labour parties and members to shop anyone to the party who may have tried to sign up on this basis,» a spokesman for Corbyn's leadership campaign told the Guardian.

[15] Green became chair of Owen Smith» leadership campaign challenging Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election.

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

Momentum, which was set up as the successor organisation to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign, also wants to recruit 20,000 more members and hire eight full - time employees.

Jeremy Corbyn's «hard left» campaign for the Labour leadership has been dismissed by Rhodri Morgan, the former first minister.

Momentum - which sprung from Mr Corbyn's leadership campaign - has already been forced to deny it wants to deselect Labour MPs opposed to their leader, including those who backed the bombing of Isil targets in Syria.

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

On the other hand the Labour party's new leadership under Jeremy Corbyn has expressed its official position to support the Remain campaign, although political pundits have noted a slight reservation of Corbyn towards the EU (primarily based on his previous opinions of the EU).

People's QE was a prominent part of the leadership election campaign for British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

McDonnell (pictured) was Corbyn's leadership campaign manager and the new job looks very much like a reward for his efforts, as well as underlining the new leader's commitment to an unwavering anti-austerity agenda.

Two rival leadership campaigns have conducted private polls which are said to put Corbyn in front.

For a leadership contender whose basic pitch to party members is that he is a more competent and less controversial version of Jeremy Corbyn, this has not been a great start to his campaign.