Sentences with phrase «labour called for the resignation»

[6] On election day itself Labour called for the resignation of a Liberal Democrat councillor in Danehouse ward, Arif Khan, after claiming his parents were registered for proxy votes despite living in Pakistan; however Khan denied doing anything wrong.

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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.

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The PM hit back that the Labour leader was jumping on a «political bandwagon», having failed to call for Mrs Miller's resignation himself.

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

The comments came amid calls for her resignation from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who claimed she inherited a «failing policy» and made it «worse».

After the resignation of Peter Mandelson, the Deputy Prime Minister issued a coded call for Mr Blair to tone down his revolutionary zeal when he said that the New Labour project should go no further than Labour's manifesto.

Following the loss of the Crewe and Nantwich by - election in 2008 he was the first Labour MP to call for Gordon Brown «s resignation (more information at They work for you)

Labour backbencher Bob Marshal - Andrews has become the first member of his party to back calls for the speaker's resignation.

In response to Labour's poor performance in Scotland, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy initially resisted calls for his resignation by other senior party members.

However, if the scenario were to play out in which both politicians are found to have broken rules, I suspect that we would see a «gentlemen's agreement» between both Labour and Conservative parties not to make political capital out of either case - whereas if either Mrs Spelman or Mr Brown were found to have breached rules as an isolated news story, there would be calls for sackings, resignations etc..

But the prime minister indicated it might be held sooner during a tense meeting of the parliamentary Labour party last week where he faced calls for his resignation after a week of cabinet resignations and the European election drubbing.

Following the Brexit victory in the EU Referendum vote in June 2016 and calls for the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn, could Tom Watson be the next Labour leader?

At a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party earlier on Monday, the BBC understands there were calls for Mr Brown's resignation from Mr Clarke and MPs Fiona McTaggart, Tom Harris and Siobhan McDonagh.

John Mann, a Labour MP who has led calls for her resignation, will attend a meeting in the culture secretary's constituency of Basingstoke to hear the concerns of local voters.

Mr Watson had led calls for Labour to boycott David Cameron's crony - packed resignation awards list — thinking the party would be safe because Mr Corbyn had previously said he would not appoint to the House of Lords.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, took the momentous step of turning against Rupert Murdoch «s empire, calling for the resignation of News International «s chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, and demanding the BSkyB decision be referred to the Competition Commission.

[36] On 30 March 2012, the Labour Peer the Lord Harris called for Maude's resignation, [37] after a woman suffered severe burns during an attempt to decant petrol next to a lit gas cooker.

The Independent understands the warning was made to a Labour spokesman hours after Mr Miliband had called on Wednesday for the resignation of News International's chief executive Rebekah Brooks.