Sentences with phrase «corbyn wins the leadership»

Bookies are currently offering a more than 80 % chance of Corbyn winning the leadership but are much more doubtful of his chances of winning in 2020.

Blair used a piece in the Guardian to warn that Labour faced annihilation if Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership:

«If you thought the way to become leader of the Labour party was to follow a very defined route, then all of a sudden Jeremy Corbyn winning the leadership election on the route you're not meant to take - it tips it all on its head, doesn't it.

A defiant Mr McDonnell added that since Mr Corbyn won the leadership election they had been expecting a «coup».

Corbyn won the leadership by mobilising mass backing among an increased party membership (encouraged by internal party reforms).

Senior Labour MPs tell the Daily Telegraph tens of shadow frontbench roles would be left empty if Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership race.

He also warned that the party risked «receding into irrelevance» if Mr Corbyn won the leadership battle.

Members of the leader's office have already been quietly texting former shadow cabinet members to see if they are prepared to come back if Mr Corbyn wins the leadership contest.

Two thirds of Labour's front bench roles would be left unfilled if Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership because MPs will refuse to back his policies, shadow cabinet ministers have warned.

Meanwhile, former prime minister Tony Blair said the party risked «annihilation» if Mr Corbyn won the leadership contest.

Not exact matches

Asked whether MPs who have criticised his leadership should be worried about deselection, Corbyn — who won 61.8 % of the vote to see - off challenger Owen Smith — failed to totally rule out this possibility when he spoke to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

As expected, Corbyn defeated Smith in comfortable fashion, winning with an even larger mandate than he received in last year's leadership contest.

NDP leadership for years under Jack Layton and Tom Mulcair had proven effective at keeping the party's more extreme wings either mollified or at bay, and will repeatedly assert that Corbyn and Sanders have split their parties and have so far won precisely nothing.

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 a lively hustings, the Potypridd MP went to war over Europe, the «futility» of Corbyn's leadership, his inability to win key seats... and T - shirts.

The main case for the prosecution is that he nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership, only to quickly distance himself from him once he won his own nomination.

Thus even if he wins the second leadership election, Corbyn's movement is empty and the party in its entirety is left in disarray.

After Jeremy Corbyn won the 2015 leadership election on 12 September, Thornberry was appointed Shadow Minister of State for Employment.

Despite a vote of no confidence, Corbyn has insisted he won't resign, citing the large mandate he won in the 2015 leadership election, when he finished 40 percentage points ahead of his nearest challenger in a vote of party members.

The question of how Labour can win is therefore a problem for all the leadership candidates, not just a concern to be wheeled out when attacking Corbyn.

I've joined Momentum, the grassroots Labour organization that helped Jeremy Corbyn win his second leadership election.

Socialists agree it will be a great opportunity if Corbyn wins the Labour leadership — but for what?

Could Labour, under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, win a General Election?

The TV clash happened when Butler was asked why she had nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership when she wanted Andy Burnham to win.

Corbyn won the Labour leadership less than three months ago with a huge mandate from party members, but without the support of most MPs in the parliamentary party.

So Burnham should be well - placed to win the leadership contest, but it is Corbyn who leads the race.

Since winning the leadership election in a landslide vote, Corbyn has, however, accepted an invitation to become a member of the Queen's privy council.

The shadow chancellor said he will unite behind Owen Smith if he wins the leadership contest, while Jeremy Corbyn unveiled his policies to rebuild Britain.

According to YouGov, 71 per cent of those who voted for Corbyn in the leadership contest believed parties should put forward policies «irrespective of whether they help to win elections».

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than -LSB-...]

Field nominated Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015, [23] stating that while he did not think Corbyn could win a general election, he hoped his candidacy would force the party to confront its «deficit denial».

Though Corbyn's polling is diabolical and the likelihood of Labour winning an election under his leadership is slim, that does not mean Smith will defeat him in the leadership election.

Yet in a leadership election in which, though Corbyn can be expected to win comfortably, the result is not yet known, what are the stakes?

24th September 2016, The Independent: Labour leadership: Liberal Democrats report increase in new members as Jeremy Corbyn win contest

Having won the votes of only 15 MPs in the leadership contest (the other 20 MPs who nominated him did so to ensure the Left had a candidate), Corbyn has struggled to maintain his legitimacy within the parliamentary party.

The accusations do not refer to antisemitic actions but usually to comments, often made on social media, long before Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership.

Corbyn can clearly win any democratic leadership contest within Labour, so another coup attempt along similar lines to the 2016 leadership election would not succeed at present.

Within twelve hours a new opinion poll of members was released suggesting Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership by a landslide, with none of his rivals even coming close.

Corbyn, however, who won a convincing victory in the leadership battle with 62 % of the vote, will seek to consolidate his grip on Labour policymaking.

«If Jeremy Corbyn wins, that would change everything... We wouldn't rush into affiliating but would want to work very closely to develop policy together — and if that goes well then let's see where we end up,» he told the FT after Corbyn's leadership bid was announced.

The former shadow business secretary argued Mr Corbyn was unable to «provide the leadership» to win a general election but that she believed she had what it takes to become Prime Minister.

No point trying to win them over, to give Corbyn a chance, for apriori they have decided the futility of the venture, which is daft because it is the same people who decided back in May that Corbyn's bid for the leadership was futile, and look how wrong they were there.

Labour MP Jess Phillips has said she could resign from the party if Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership contest.

Smith played down the idea of a split in the party if Corbyn won a second leadership election.

A Corbyn - led party could win those people back in a way the other leadership candidates couldn't.

Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour leadership election by a landslide, easily taking more than the other three candidates put together.

It is unclear whether Mr Corbyn would win a second leadership election in a one - on - one race, since his grip on the members appears to be waning.

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.

It is unclear whether Mr Corbyn would win in a one - on - one leadership race, although the chances are in his favour since he retains strong support among the Labour membership.

The think tank has said that Labour is «too weak» to win a general election as things stand under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.