Sentences with phrase «labour general secretary»

Labour general secretary Iain McNicol said the victor in the contest would go on to fight for the job of Prime Minister.

«They will stuff the NEC with new supporters and then force a vote of no confidence in (Labour general secretary) Iain McNicol.

He famously argued that they should support Labour General Secretary, Arthur Henderson, «in the same way as the rope supports a hanged man ``.

Last month, Emilie Oldknow was being tipped as a possible new Labour general secretary following...

When Momentum founder Jon Lansman announced that he was challenging Unite boss Jennie Formby for the job of Labour general secretary, the battle lines could not have been clearer.

Austin also said that it was «completely unfair» for John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, to appear to blame the former Labour general secretary Iain McNicol for the party's failure to tackle antisemitism in his Today interview this morning.

The Labour general secretary, Iain McNicol, has written to Labour branches in the wake of Clegg's announcements, saying plans to reorganise Labour constituency parties in England and Wales will not now go ahead.

26th February 2018, Huffington Post, Momentum's Jon Lansman emerges as possible successor to Iain McNicol as Labour General Secretary

A former Labour general secretary seen as a hate figure by many on the left wing of the party has been given a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn.

Woodcock and Bradshaw have both written to chief whip Rosie Winterton and Labour general secretary Iain McNicol to complain.

Not exact matches

On Monday the union's general secretary Robert Reid told a group of Hamilton leaders, including representatives from the Waikato Regional Council, Hamilton City Council and National and Labour MPs, that another bid had gone to the company.

The Global Compact was introduced by then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to encourage corporations to align «their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.»

Writing for politics.co.uk today, the Fabian Society's general secretary Andrew Harrop argued that Labour's public health efforts were «a heroic effort at running up a down escalator».

13:23 - I'm hearing that Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, will open in the phone - hacking debate, followed by Dominic Grieve, attorney general, for the government, and then probably Chris Bryant, the Labour MP and phone - hacking victim, who called for the debate.

It has become a cliche to repeat the observation made by former General Secretary Morgan Phillips, that Labour «owed more to Methodism than Marxism».

The Unite general secretary, one of the most vocal supporters of Corbyn, was asked whether hostile elements of the Parliamentary Labour Party would be «asking for it».

A big winner from election night was Iain McNicol, Labour's general secretary.

Addressing the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union annual conference in Bridlington, Ronnie Draper — General Secretary of the BFAWU told delegates that attacks on the NHS from the Tory led government were born out of resentment for achievements under the 1945 post war Labour administration.

Some Kremlinologists on Labour's backbenches have also noted current TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady's not - so - subtle hints that she intends to sit this battle out.

Labour's new general secretary isn't, I'm assured by folk in the Unite trade union, a foe to forget or forgive and Lansman badly mishandled the NEC election for the post.

But the Labour leader was backed up by TUC general secretary of Frances O'Grady, who also questioned the Brexiteers» commitment to pouring money into the NHS.

Former home secretary Alan Johnson is the biggest Labour beast to say that he will sit out the general election set for June 8.

«Sunder Katwala, the general secretary of the Fabian society and a signatory of the statement confirmed that the specific references to The Labour party and its bloggers was due to concerns that a more general code would in some way burden Green, Lib Dem and other non-Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour Labour party and its bloggers was due to concerns that a more general code would in some way burden Green, Lib Dem and other non-Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour labour blogs.

Alex Rowley MSP - a former General Secretary of Scottish Labour - and two Scottish Parliamentary colleagues, Neil Findlay and Richard Leonard, issued a statement demanding loyalty to Corbyn.

The person charged with stiffening Labour's resolve and putting some life into this once - stout body is new general secretary Iain McNicol.

Earlier this year, I wrote to Iain McNicol, the general secretary of the Labour party, to ask him to investigate a donation reported by the Electoral Commission of # 18,500 made by Labour Leave into Ukip party coffers, just three days before the EU referendum.

Here is a question; Would Jeremy Corbyn be leader of the Labour party today if he hadn't had the unequivocal backing of the general secretary of the UK's biggest trade union?

After Labour lost the 2010 general election and Ed Miliband became the party's leader, Alexander was elected to the Shadow Cabinet and was made the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Before becoming a Member of Parliament Jessica worked for two local MP's (Llew Smith in Blaenau Gwent and Huw Edwards in Monmouth) and served as General Secretary for the Welsh Labour Party.

Justine Greening, the former education secretary, said the results revealed that Labour had reached «peak Corbyn» since last summer's general election.

It's very interesting, and something of a giveaway about this guy's attitude, that he thinks that if MPs, councillors, union executives and general secretaries were somehow removed there would be no one left in the Labour Party.

This week, former General Secretary of the CWU Alan Johnson has issued an unabashed attack on trade union influence within the Labour Party in an interview with Progress, part of an increasingly confrontational and destructive approach to dictating Labour Party policy from the Blairite wing.

Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society Labour lost the election — so has spent a week on a rollercoaster ride through the classic stages of the grieving process.

I can not find any specific story covering the views of the former General Secretary of the Labour party on the BBC politics page on their website.

A group of senior Labour Party officials have resigned their posts ahead of the appointment of a new general secretary and the expectation of major job changes.

Labour was granted three nominations, and Jeremy Corbyn put forward the former party general secretary Iain McNicol and the race equality campaigner Martha Osamor, the mother of the MP Kate Osamor, as had been expected.

Prior to the discussions there had been a lot of talk about Labour's general secretary, Iain McNicol, being removed for supposedly being too moderate and being replaced by Jennie Formby, Unite's south - east regional secretary.

The outspoken Rochdale MP is mulling over a recent letter sent to Labour's general secretary Iain McNicol calling for him face disciplinary action.

Unite's general secretary, Len McCluskey, has been dismissive of claims that Labour lost the election because it was too left wing.

Its General Secretary sent out this email below clearly expressing political support for the Conservatives over Labour.

A recording passed to the Telegraph newspaper shows assistant general secretary Steve Turner informing a Unite audience the union is seeking a «secretary of state for a Ministry of Labour».

Commenting on today's speech by the Labour leader, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this:

Recall, that the Senate had on May 3rd confirmed the new ministers, Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) and Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) to replace the late Minister of State for Labour, Mr. James Ocholi (SAN), who died in an accident on March 6, 2016; and Amina Mohammed, who was recently appointed as the Deputy Secretary - General of the United Nations.

RDAs, creations of the Labour government, have put # 3 million into struggling steel companies, the union's general secretary Michael Leahy says.

«As you know Labour are now in formal talks with the Liberal Democrats to see if we can agree a stable government to secure the economic recovery and change our politics,» the letter, signed by the joint general secretaries Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson, said.

She is also deeply unimpressed by rumoured Corbynite plans to remove Labour's general secretary.

Hon. Andy Burnham MP to the Labour Party Conference, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said this:

Labour Party general secretary Iain McNicol said anyone witnessing Labour members or registered supporter engaged in abusive or intimidatory behaviour, should report them to the party.

«Beer and Britannia» was a rallying cry from many early Labour MPs, such as Jimmy Thomas who served simultaneously as an MP and the general secretary of the railwayman's union.

Unison's general secretary Dave Prentis warned Labour in Britain could suffer the same fate as its namesake party in Australia, where former prime minister Kevin Rudd has been decisively defeated by Tony Abbott's Liberal - National coalition by taking 88 seats to Labor's 57.