Sentences with phrase «labour grandee»

Labour grandee Neil Kinnock warns voters in the leadership contest against choosing a route that would see Labour becoming a party of «perpetual demonstration».

Denis McShane, Labour grandee, says the world believes this is «diplomatic catastrophe».

The Labour grandee, who served as Olympics minister between 2005 - 2010, also dismissed calls for the leadership race to be halted amid the recent surge in party membership after the general election.

Labour grandee Alan Johnson has laid bare his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's «risible» performance in the EU referendum campaign as he tore into the party leader.

Labour grandee Alan Johnson, who chaired the Labour In campaign, laid bare his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's «risible» performance in the fight last week.

New Labour grandee warns that «lowering trust in Labour's fiscal credentials remains the Tories» main aim»

Labour grandee Peter Mandelson has praised Ed Miliband's «leadership and guts» for refusing to match the Conservative promise of a referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017.

The executive director of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign and son of Labour grandee Jack Straw had suggested that European Union citizens living in the UK could be sent back to the country they were born in should Britain vote to leave on June 23.

Media reports over the weekend were drenched with tributes to Labour grandee Tony Benn.

Tony Blair said «everything she touched turned to gold», while Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn paid heartfelt respects to the Labour grandee.

There was immediate excitement in the corridor as almost every waiting journalist followed the master of the dark arts awkwardly down the corridor, eager for an anti-Corbyn quote from a euphemistically titled «Labour grandee» or «senior Labour figure».

This is certainly true in East Lancashire, where a recent meeting of local politicians convened by Labour grandee Jack Straw resolved to examine the feasibility of creating a single cost - saving authority.

Even Labour grandee George Foulkes has given Nicola Sturgeon, the current first minister, his backing to negotiate directly with the EU regarding its future relations with Scotland.

The 33 - year - old, a former Labour special adviser, last week kicked off his six - part television series Unspun on Dave with Labour grandee Alan Johnson his first guest.

Labour really has declared war on Murdoch when a real New Labour grandee joins the attack.

Labour grandees go to Tuscany, Tories go to... Many of them, I can now disclose, go to The Gers, in the Midi - Pyrénées, a 90 - minute car journey west from Toulouse.

You will recall that there were the interventions by the Labour grandees just before the by - elections.

The result - on a turnout of 77.6 % - was announced to a hall packed with Labour grandees at the party conference in Liverpool

In his Times interview he takes a provocative swipe at two Labour grandees he has long disliked: «I understand that people of a certain age like Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley want to hark back to a previous age, and they believe that [Ed] Miliband would reconstruct the party in that image.»

The leader of the Unite union has hit out at Labour grandees being «dragged out» to be part of the «unedifying» coup against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn which he said was «outrageous».

Pro-EU Labour grandees are desperate to present a united front for the party during the EU referendum campaign.

In other words, Balls is the man to deliver the cuts that the Tories and New Labour grandees think are so essential.

Labour grandees Alan Johnson (pictured) and Charles Clarke say the documents would prevent a repeat of the fiasco, which helped trigger Amber Rudd's shock resignation last night.

Hence the shameless public — and, in some cases — private wooing of Clegg by Labour grandees from Gordon Brown downwards.

Not exact matches

I fully understand how the party has changed in a way that some of the grandee generation do not - perhaps because they haven't really been in touch with the Labour roots since Tony Blair stood down.»

For days, Sky News had a «Labour woes» strap on the screen as the party's opinion poll lead shrank and its grandees kept on twisting the knife.

Some senior Labour MPs believe that respected grandees from the Miliband era and the party's «soft left» must come out against a Corbyn victory to prevent the worst happening.

As the attacks from Labour party grandees on the leadership frontrunner continue to grow, so too does his support base.

Many on the left of the party — including party grandees such as former leader Charles Kennedy — are likely to be further troubled by Clegg's message that under his leadership the party is no longer a natural home for disaffected Labour supporters.

Near to the end of a play centred on the compromises and retreats made in the name of party politics, the Labour candidate, Nigel Barton, breaks down in the middle of a speech to selected local grandees.

Responding to criticism from Labour MP Kate Hoey, the Eton - educated Tory grandee added: «I met him purely and entirely in a personal capacity - there was no - one present, it was just him and me.

Lib Dem grandees, who overwhelmingly backed Kennedy, were reassured by his carefully crafted speech which promised to carry on the Ashdown legacy of cooperating with Labour, but to re-tune the links to ensure that the party has a distinctive voice at the next general election.

A motion of no confidence in his performance as leader was also backed by more than three - quarters of Labour MPs, while a string of party grandees have called on him to resign.

We have the benefit — courtesy of the Guardian — of the advice offered by one of the Labour Party's grandees as to the response that should be made to the calamity that has apparently now befallen the Party.

Yet this isn't a Tory grandee; he is a union baron and the man credited with helping Ed Miliband to beat his brother David to the Labour leadership.

Before long the Labour Party grandees will soon search for a credible, statesman - like leader whom they believe capable of delivering a victory in the polls.

Labour peers tweeted last night about the novelty of voting with diehard Tory grandees like Brian Mawhinney and ex-social security minister Tony Newton.

Lord Kinnock has become the latest grandee to warn against Labour limiting itself to being a party of «perpetual demonstration.»

The great advantage Tory grandees have over Labour politicians is that they don't have to act, they have no problem saying, «Grandfather was a banker and I'm a banker».

Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.

Many Conservative MPs plan to vote tactically to try to stop Bercow, while, if the Labour vote splits between the two candidates, a rival such as Tory grandee Sir George Young could be boosted.