Sentences with phrase «labour general election defeats»

Tax and spend was the bloody hook upon which four Labour general election defeats were hung.

Not exact matches

According to Harris's analysis, Labour's general election defeat is rooted in the long - term decline of social democracy following de-industrialisation.

Following Labour's defeat at the 2010 general election, a new intellectual movement, close to the new leader Ed Miliband, began to gain ground within the party.

Then, in January 2010, with the general election just four months away and Labour heading for a seemingly inevitable defeat, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt launched a desperate — and widely - viewed as hopeless — plot to unseat the PM before the country went to the polls.

Tom Harris admits that Labour will be defeated in the up and coming general election?

Mr Hunt will speak to Tom Bradby about how Labour can recover following last week's general election defeat.

The purpose of this Policy Network study, a sequel to the Southern Discomfort series carried out after the 1992 general election defeat, is to address the crippling weakness that Labour faces in Southern England following the 2010 defeat.

Following Labour's defeat by the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, Miliband announced his resignation as leader on 8 May 2015.

A major new report charting the reasons behind Labour's 2015 general election defeat and how it can win in 2020

The event itself was an opportunity for Blue Labour friends and others to take stock following Labour's terrible defeat at the 2015 General Election.

After the Labour Party was defeated at the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party; in September 2010, Miliband was elected to replace him.

Labour seems absent without leave on too many issues since the 2015 general election defeat.

With a General Election looming, the Labour government was unable to reverse that defeat in the Commons.

Heathcoat - Amory contested the London Borough of Brent seat at Brent South at the 1979 general election but was defeated by the sitting Labour MP Laurence Pavitt by 11,616 votes.

MacDonald continued as prime minister of a cross-party «National Government» and then defeated his former Labour allies at the general election that followed.

A week after Labour's catastrophic general election defeat, Jon Cruddas is holding nothing back.

But in the wake of a disastrous general election defeat, and with a huge rebuilding job to be done for Labour to stand any chance in the 2020 election, it seems now is not the time for platitudes.

Mr Murphy said he left no legacy of bitterness for anyone in the Labour Party, and the only person he was angry at was the person who blamed Scottish Labour for the party's UK - wide general election defeat - a reference to Unite leader Len McCluskey.

The MP for Wallasey said Labour could not be «complacent» if it was to reverse its general election defeat.

Don't burn the books A scorching hot list of summer political reading selected by Mark Perryman A year ago as Labour sought to recover from the May General Election defeat halls were starting to fill up for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign rallies.

The result, which may well be settled by second and third preferences, will say something powerful about the mood of the Labour party after its general election defeat.

Labour MPs and activists have not yet forgiven Ed Miliband for the devastating defeat the party suffered at the last general election.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

After its defeat in the 1979 general election the Labour Party underwent a period of internal rivalry between the left represented by Tony Benn, and the right represented by Denis Healey.

Labour's devastating defeat in the general election was shocking in its scale, but in retrospect, the signs were there all along.

McGovern was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Wirral South in December 2009, following Ben Chapman's decision to stand down at the next election for family reasons following adverse publicity in The Daily Telegraph over the expenses scandal, and subsequently won the seat in the 2010 general election, defeating the Conservative candidate, Jeff Clarke, by 531 votes.

In the 1979 general election Labour was heavily defeated by the Conservatives now led by Margaret Thatcher.

[4][6] In the 2001 general election, Pritchard stood as the Conservative candidate for Warley in the West Midlands where he was defeated by John Spellar of the Labour party.

Up to 150 Labour MPs face defeat if the new Tory leader calls a snap general election, according to research seen by PoliticsHome.

Evennett was elected as the Conservative MP for Erith and Crayford at the 1983 general election when he defeated James Wellbeloved who had defected from the Labour Party to the newly formed Social Democrats in 1981.

The Labour Party is in many ways already mourning its defeat at the forthcoming general election.

The government carried on for over a year, before another general election in 1951 saw the Labour government defeated and the Conservatives return to Downing Street.

When Labour MPs gathered for their weekly meeting in committee room 14 at the House of Commons on the evening of 13 July, the mood was grimmer than at any point since the party's general election defeat in May.

The vote on this amendment would have carried Lib Dem and SNP support but Labour's whips would have ensured beforehand that it would be narrowly defeated (thereby avoiding a disastrous general election).

The Tories won the general election because of their stance on austerity, according to the first report from an independent inquiry into Labour's defeat.

However, to find a defeated Labour Leader of the Opposition one has to look as far back as the 1992 General Election, in which John Major vanquished once and for all the possibility of Neil Kinnock ever reclining on 10 Downing Street sofa.

In the past ten years, Labour has been defeated in two general elections, two Scottish elections, two European Parliament elections and two London mayoral elections.

At the 2010 general election Chapman contested the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath seat, but was defeated by the Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown by over 23,000 votes.

First Minister Carwyn Jones says a clearer pro-business message could help Labour recover from its defeat in the UK general election.

Some Labour MPs think Miss Harman is positioning herself as a possible successor to Mr Brown as Labour leader if he is forced from office, possibly after a general election defeat.

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Labour MPs will gather for the first time since last week's general election defeat under the interim leadership of Harriet Harman.

It's obvious that the «old politics» are on the cusp of change and that Corbyn has captured voters» hopeful reponse to Labour's defeat in the general election.

Mercer was first elected to Parliament as the member for Newark at the 2001 general election, defeating the Labour incumbent, Fiona Jones, overturning a majority of 3,000 and creating a majority of just over 4,000.

[7] In the 2017 general election, he stood as the Labour candidate for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill, defeating the incumbent Scottish National Party MP Phil Boswell.

Warning that Labour's general election defeat showed it could no longer afford to oppose all such austerity measures, Ms Harman also announced MPs would not oppose the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

It plunged the shellshocked Labour party into a leadership contest before it had time to absorb its general election defeat or to draw wise conclusions.

Young was elected to parliament at the February 1974 general election as MP for Acton with a majority of 1,300, defeating the sitting Labour Party MP, Nigel Spearing (who was returned to Parliament a few weeks later after winning a by - election in Newham South).

So when new Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap general election a few weeks later, seeking a personal mandate to pursue the country's fateful «Brexit» negotiations, it was widely expected that Corbyn would drag Labour down to another miserable defeat.

Labour won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election from 1964 until 2015, where they lost heavily to the Scottish National Party; [12] every European Parliament general election from 1979 until being defeated by the SNP in 2009; and in the first two elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003.