Sentences with phrase «corbyn standing against her»

If it's Corbyn standing against her, she'll win.

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Since announcing he was standing against Corbyn, Smith has promised a «socialist revolution» and set out a series of radical policies.

Standing ovation for Tom Watson as he warns against «trashing» the record of Blair / Brown - but Jeremy Corbyn stays seated pic.twitter.com/DfEPp 2oYZh

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.

(The effect of Blair's three public warnings against electing Corbyn is testament to his standing with members.)

Those standing behind the continuing legal challenges against Len McCluskey's 2017 re-election as General Secretary hope to break the union's current alliance with Corbyn.

Blair's former communications chief Alastair Campbell told LBC: «Jeremy Corbyn can frankly say what he wants — and also it's very easy for him to do that as somebody who stood up not just against the Iraq war but pretty much anything else that the Blair government tried to do.

Among MPs in trouble, as Momentum circles, are the member for Wallasey, Angela Eagle, who declared her intention to stand against Corbyn in 2016 but withdrew in favour of Owen Smith.

One former donor, Michael Foster, has pledged to stand against Corbyn in the leader's Islington North constituency for driving the party towards «annihilation».

As he continues to gather momentum, Corbyn is edging ever closer to the record - high level of support that Blair registered when he stood against John Prescott and Margaret Beckett to be Labour leader.

Ms Eagle, who announced she was standing against Mr Corbyn for the Labour leadership yesterday, has had to move a planned campaign event in Luton over safety fears.

When Angela Eagle announced she was intending to stand against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership campaign she faced death threats and a brick was thrown through her office window.

Corbyn says McMahon's success came from standing against Conservative austerity policies and indicates Labour's strength

At times openly shouting at him from the benches behind, moderate Labour members demanded to know why Mr Corbyn himself was rebelling against standing Labour Party policy.

The former shadow cabinet ministers have reached a «common understanding» about the best way to take on Mr Corbyn, who won a landslide victory last year, after wrangles over who should stand against him.

Nominations from MPs and MEPs close at 5 pm on Wednesday, but it may become clear before this time whether Mr Smith or Ms Eagle has the stronger claim to stand against Mr Corbyn.

Jeremy Corbyn has said that anyone wishing to challenge him for the leadership of the Labour party will have to stand against him in a «democratic election».

The poll indicated that Mr Corbyn's margin of victory may be slightly narrower if just Mr Smith stood against him - 56 % for Mr Corbyn and 34 % for Mr Smith - but the result would still be a convincing victory for the incumbent.

Corbyn's support among members is the reason that Labour MPs, desperate to oust him, want just one candidate to stand against him.

According to Huffington Post's Paul Waugh, Jeremy Corbyn wants Labour's national executive committee to agree that Labour MPs who want to stand again at the election have to go through a «trigger ballot» so that local activists can vote against them if they want an alternative candidate.

So, neither Watson nor Eagle are standing against Corbyn.

Corbyn has publicly shown little indication that he is ready to stand aside, while McDonnell has urged those plotting against the leader to spark a formal leadership contest.

July 7 - Mr Corbyn rejects fresh calls to stand down, telling Labour MPs they are free to stand against him.

Labour is split three ways on the issue, as Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to vote against the standing party policy of backing Trident renewal, key figures in the Shadow Cabinet will abstain, and the bulk of MPs are expected to vote in favour of the motion.

A prominent Labour donor has pledged to stand against Jeremy Corbyn in the general election if he does not stand down.

A spokesman for Corbyn said the Labour leader attended a Stand Up to Racism event on Saturday co-convened by a senior member of the SWP as he «wanted to show his support for the campaign against racism and xenophobia, particularly given the rise in hate crime since the EU referendum in June».