Sentences with phrase «labour party leadership election»

In the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, The Guardian supported Yvette Cooper and was critical of left - winger Jeremy Corbyn, the successful candidate.

The 2014 Scottish Labour Party leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new leader and deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party, following the resignations of Johann Lamont as leader and Anas Sarwar as deputy.

The 2011 Scottish Labour Party leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Then, in the Labour Party leadership election, these vicious degenerates deliberately humiliated Woman of our Times, Liz Kendall.

In July 2015, Lapavitsas endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the UK Labour Party leadership election.

In July 2015, Stiglitz endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.

«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.

Not exact matches

The next event was the Labour leadership election in which Jeremy Corbyn sought a fresh mandate from his beleaguered party.

She was a member of the leadership team with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown re-shaping the Labour Party and preparing the successful 1997 election campaign.

It comes as 180,541 people have applied to become registered Labour supporters to take part in the party's leadership election - netting the cash - strapped party a cool # 4.5 million.

Amongst the bitter mud slinging of Labour's leadership election it is prescient to assess the party's recent engagement with the NHS and ask why the gamble did not pay off.

Embattled UK opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will stand in any new party leadership election amid calls for his resignation in light of the referendum result.

Conservatives betting their # 3s on his winning the Labour leadership could lose their party at the election.

For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

I read that, now, to mean «as long as it complies with Cameron's dictates» If, as is suggested, Mandleson pulls the rug from under Brown, prior to a general election, and the Labour Party get a new invigorated leadership then, sadly, Cameron will not have a chance.

We reached out to Yes voters within Scottish Labour in last year's leadership campaigns, should we not reach out beyond the party in this years UK leadership election?

Since the leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn has made it his priority to turn Labour into a democratic socialist party with the support of social movements.

A forthcoming by - election in the Cumbrian constituency of Copeland is shaping up to become a key test for the Labour Party's electoral prospects under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.

A growing number of voices within the party are calling for a robust deputy leadership election within the Labour party too.

With Labour faced with another leadership election between two brands of liberalism, the gulf between the Labour Party and it's traditional working class base (and almost everyone else) has never been greater.

The Labour leadership contenders are spending more on their campaigns than the Green Party spent nationally in the general election.

You could not have a TV debate onthe labour party election leadership, because no one would watch, and advert space would not pay, just like labour, a dead loss.

In last year's leadership election in Britain's opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn was the rank outsider who defied the odds.

He nominated David Miliband in the Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2010, but did not nominate anyone in the 2015 or 2016 contests.

This was a reference to the events of late July and early August 2008 which followed Labour's defeat to the Scottish National Party in the Glasgow East by - election when, with a demoralised Gordon Brown on holiday in Suffolk, with Labour as many as 25 points behind in the polls, and with MPs insurgent and openly discussing a leadership challenge, Miliband made his move.

By 9 June, the deadline for entry into the leadership election, Miliband had been nominated by just over 24 % of the Parliamentary Labour Party, double the threshold.

Tom Quinn's research interests include British party politics, the UK coalition agreement, leadership elections, and the Labour Party's relationship with the trade unparty politics, the UK coalition agreement, leadership elections, and the Labour Party's relationship with the trade unParty's relationship with the trade unions.

Comment: The reason why Labour lost the 2010 general election, is because the party leadership and hierarchy became out of touch with popular opinion amongst members, progressives and the electorate in general.

This way of presenting the election exploits the considerable public approval of Mrs May's leadership of the government (52 percent satisfied) compared to Mr Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party (23 percent satisfied, 64 percent dissatisfied.

Labour is to make leadership a defining issue at the next general election, according to a party whip.

The last Labour leadership election was beset by rows over attempts by Labour officials to strike off registered supporters who did not «share the values and aims of the Labour party».

Labour's advance on 5 May, beating the Tories in the English local elections, is a result of the party's change of orientation under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

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».

The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.

One member of the Labour Party's centre - right wrote to Jon Lansman that: «we find it strange that the winning candidate in a Labour leadership election would sustain the life of the campaign after winning, rather than seeing their role now as having responsibility to unite the whole party.&rParty's centre - right wrote to Jon Lansman that: «we find it strange that the winning candidate in a Labour leadership election would sustain the life of the campaign after winning, rather than seeing their role now as having responsibility to unite the whole party.&rparty.»

Under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership the Labour Party has consistently polled over 40 per cent for the past nine months since the general election, and held a narrow lead over the Tories.

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.

Constituency Labour Party nominations in the leadership election closed yesterday, with Jeremy Corbyn securing 285 CLPs, 84.3 % of all those that made nominations, compared to Owen Smith's 53, or 15.7 % of the total.

Labour now faces a similar conflict of opinion, made worse by the need to hold a leadership election using a system which highlights the divisions in the party.

Labour party representatives have been accusing the hard left of «entryism» in the run up to the leadership election next month.

The next couple of months will see a Labour leadership election which will test Jeremy Corbyn's support in the party.

Having achieved a significant boost to membership and supporter affiliation during and after the leadership election, what can a numerically strengthened Labour party achieve?

To the bemusement of their own party, the Tory leadership will go into the election accepting Labour's spending plans, proposing that 45 % of GDP is taken in tax, and pledging a tax increase to match every tax cut.

Andy Burnham is the Labour leadership contender most likely to improve the party's chances at the next general election, according to a survey of 2,000 people for The Independent by ORB.

Although Labour's «vitriol, bile and insults» are now being aimed at him personally, he hoped the party would stop talking to itself after its leadership election, and he has no intention of returning the fire.

«People will have opinions this way and that, but it's incredibly important once that [leadership] election is complete that we really do come together — while Labour continues to tear themselves apart over the summer — and we can immediately hit the ground running after the summer break as a united party,» he said.

In August 2015, it was revealed that Loughton was amongst a number of supporters of other political parties who had paid # 3 to register to join the Labour Party in an attempt to participate in its leadership election.

Labour has picked Tom Watson as its deputy leader in a role that will involve helping to rebuild the party after its bruising election defeat and leadership contest.

In an address to the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) he accepted the party was still not in a position to win the next election under his leaderParty (PLP) he accepted the party was still not in a position to win the next election under his leaderparty was still not in a position to win the next election under his leadership.