Sentences with phrase «corbyn moving his party»

Even with Corbyn moving his party leftwards on many fronts I am reminded of an interview with Neil Kinnock in 1988 when he was seeking to change his party's policy on defence.

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Corbyn confirmed the move at a meeting of the party's parliamentary committee in parliament yesterday afternoon.

Such a move would require a change to Labour's constitution to be passed by the party conference, but given that the unions — most of which back Corbyn — hold 50 % of the votes, it would be possible.

Such prolific use can cause one to recoil in fear the interview subject, or dinner party guest, is about to explain how moves to oust Jeremy Corbyn this summer was orchestrated by Mi5.

MPs in rival parties detect the growing disappointment though many remain sneaky admirers and quips about the SNP moving as a herd, the clip - clop of 50 or so pairs of shoes signalling the SNP's arrival, are laced with envy when the Tories are splitting over Europe and Labour's bitterly divided on Jeremy Corbyn.

Now Corbyn is moving to enforce total control of the party.

Party veteran Margaret Hodge tonight moved a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn, which will be voted on by Labour MPs tomorrow.

In this piece, one key Corbyn ally argues that the Labour leader's critics within the parliamentary party need to get back behind him or consider moving on altogether.

Labour's media operation has been lambasted by commentators after the party moved to suspend Naz Shah — hours after Jeremy Corbyn said he would not take action against the Bradford West MP.

Defending the move, allies of Corbyn had briefed that they wanted to allot more time for party members to speak in the main hall.

«Corbyn has the backing of his party, one that ached for something more than the nervy, cautious, hesitant attempts by Ed Miliband to move his party on from the New Labour era.

Ms Abbott, one of Mr Corbyn's closest allies in the parliamentary party, said the «left insurgency» which has seen the Labour membership jump to almost half a million was due to a desire to «move beyond neoliberalism».

Mr Corbyn spoke to the BBC's Norman Smith as he arrived to take part in an economics seminar in central London, shortly after former Labour leader Tony Blair warned the party against moving to the left.

Mr Benn and other moderate members of the shadow Cabinet who backed British action in Syria are tipped to be moved aside in the reshuffle as Mr Corbyn exerts his grip on the party.

• If those who have been working to destabilise Corbyn's leadership such as Tony Blair, Rupert Murdoch, Neil Kinnock, Peter Mandelson etc, and MPs such as Angela Eagle now succeed in their coup, then I predict a wholesale move of existing Labour supporters (myself included) to the Greens and electoral losses for the remaining «Labour party» that will eclipse even those suffered by the Lib Dems in the last general election.

After weeks of speculation, Angela Eagle has finally moved to mount an official challenge to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party.

In the next half, as the election moves into view, Corbyn must form a detailed policy programme that will be subjected to brutal levels of attention, while winning the support of all parts of his party for the policies and, let us not forget, the backing of the wider electorate.

Corbyn initially stood in the British Labour leadership contest to give the party's left wing a voice in the debate on how to move on from its crushing defeat in May's general election.

That is a political move that will chime with Tory Eurosceptics and could help mobilise her ground base when she attempts to wipe Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party off the map in 2020.

Brown's appointment was the first move in a major reshuffle of the party following Corbyn's re-election as leader last month.

In a further move to assert her authority, Winterton sent an email to all Labour MPs on Thursday telling them that Corbyn had assured her that his office was not involved and that he was «keen to ensure that his leadership is inclusive and reflective of the broad range of views represented in the party».

But Mr Corbyn has made it clear he will fight any move against him by MPs and rely on the backing of grass root party members if it comes to a leadership challenge.

Armstrong tells The Westminster Hour on BBC Radio 4 that Blair ruled out the move, taking the view that the party was «a broad church» and could «tolerate that level of difference», despite Corbyn's fierce and persistent criticism of his administration.

As few as 30 MPs would be willing to sign up to take jobs under Mr Corbyn in a move that would effectively stop the party functioning as an opposition, senior figures have warned.

Finally beginning her campaign after weeks of speculation that she would take on Corbyn amid a revolt against him by Labour MPs, Eagle said the party needed to move beyond the factionalism and divisions of the current era.

Mr Corbyn confirmed the move at a meeting of the party's parliamentary committee in parliament yesterday afternoon.

The move is a thinly veiled attack on the party's current deputy chief Tom Watson, after the former flatmates fell out over their support for Mr Corbyn.

Labour MPs disloyal to Jeremy Corbyn could lose their jobs as a result of moves to cut the number of MPs, the party leader has signalled.

It is worth mentioning that at the time of Corbyn's misleading pledge to forgive student debt, the Labour Party's education spokeswoman, Angela Rayner, responded by saying the party would not move forward with such an idea until accurate projections could be Party's education spokeswoman, Angela Rayner, responded by saying the party would not move forward with such an idea until accurate projections could be party would not move forward with such an idea until accurate projections could be made.