Sentences with phrase «hoon attempted»

The Blairite former health secretary caused a sensation this January when she and Geoff Hoon attempted to bring down Gordon Brown by urging Labour MPs to vote in a secret leadership ballot.

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Parliamentary Labour party chairman Tony Lloyd condemns Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt's attempt to secure a vote on Gordon Brown's leadership:

This started with Hewitt and Hoon's attempted «leadership coup» — their standing was of course shown by the fact that they are now being investigated over the scandal of whether they attempted to sell influence for money.

Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt's attempt to remove the prime minister from No 10 only succeeded in denting Labour in the polls, it subsequently appeared.

Not Geoff Hoon, who has recently felt the need to attempt to topple prime ministers of well - established democracies.

Everything about Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt's attempt to force a leadership vote was flawed.

I was in the Palace of Westminster watching Hoon hop nervously from one foot to the other as he attempted to explain his move.

He faced a second attempt to launch a leadership challenge by former Cabinet colleagues Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt in January 2010, but the plot failed to gather momentum and Brown remained as both Labour leader and Prime Minister to lead his party into the 2010 General Election.

• Brown was not told about the Geoff Hoon / Patricia Hewitt attempted «coup» when Downing Street first found out about it because he was about to go into PMQs.

This move is, above all, a very conscious attempt to soften up the cabinet to revolt against Gordon Brown, a former cabinet minister and supporter of the Patricia Hewitt / Geoff Hoon letter insists this afternoon.