Sentences with phrase «labour group leadership»

The 2008 Labour group leadership election was the first time Labour had elected its Scottish leader with the participation of its members, using a system similar to that used at the time by the UK - wide Labour Party (the system had been adopted in 2007, but no ballot had taken place as Alexander had been unopposed).

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Their campaign groups have managed to get through to the Labour leadership, having long had the sympathy of the Labour left that now dominates it.

It must try to earn leadership through argument in open debate with others — including trade unions, religious groups, community organising initiatives and anti-cuts campaigners.It is encouraging to see that Labour is starting to grapple with the need for serious economic reform.

Many members were dismayed by the party leadership's decision to abstain on the recent welfare bill, and asked what Labour is for, if not to try to protect vulnerable groups.

One legacy has been a membership sharply polarised by when they joined the party: in a recent YouGov poll of Labour members, Corbyn's net approval rating was -46 among those who joined before he became a leadership candidate in 2015 but +36 among those who joined after he declared — and this latter group constitutes 60 % of the total membership.

Labour's focus groups were still finding that Tory attacks on Miliband's leadership had not had the intended effect.

Labour's Corbynite grouping is likely to have enough supportive MPs to hold onto the leadership after the general election - but only if it chooses the right candidate.

Many Labour candidates, particularly in northern seats away from the major cities, say Corbyn's leadership is still problematic among some groups of voters, and the most pessimistic believe May could still secure a much - increased majority of 80 to 100.

A mysterious group called Saving Labour, which declines to comment on its leadership or funding — allegedly for fear of being abused — is organising over a hundred street stalls, paying for content on Facebook and even mounting an advertising campaign in the pages of the Guardian and the Observer in order to collect voters who will oppose Corbyn.

In a separate legal action, it has also emerged that a group of Labour members is taking the party to court over its decision to bar 130,000 people from voting in its upcoming leadership election.

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

The push from a left - wing group to bypass the need to win support from Labour MPs comes as Momentum warns potential dissenters it is «absolutely equipped» to back another Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign.

We also fully back plans to reconstruct the Labour Party so that it can reach its full participative and democratic potential but, if we are to achieve this, the leadership needs to be receptive to comradely criticism from grassroots groups and respectful of the experiences this criticism expresses.

So Tory admirers of the duo will be somewhat alarmed to see that they have both nominated the veteran Campaign Group member and arch Left - winger John McDonnell for the Labour leadership.

Jon Lansman, who helped run the Labour chief's leadership campaign and set up the pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum, suggested John McDonnell was currently performing better than his boss.

Chuka Umunna, who briefly joined last year's leadership race himself before pulling out and Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellorare part of a group working separately from the shadow cabinet, to beef up Labour's economic credibility.

In an Observer article, the former Labour leader wrote: «In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment.»

The campaign group Momentum was born out of Jeremy Corbyn's decision to run for the Labour leadership.

To bolster its meagre majority, the Conservative leadership needs a policy platform to win over the two groups which it lost most ground to Labour at the general election: young people and urban voters.

The Trade Union Liaision Organisation, the group of unions affiliated to the Labour Party, has sought confirmation from all leadership candidates that they will robustly defend the party's links with the unions.

Our survey sample is composed of 1,236 members of the Labour selectorate, with the representation levels of difference membership types (member / supporter / union affiliate) based on how each group turned out in the 2015 leadership election.

Meanwhile, after their man won the Labour leadership race and the Party moved closer to their political agenda, soft left pressure group Compass responded in the only rational way possible: by walking away from the Party.

The group includes senior businessmen from the City, the media, and high street retail, along with a former adviser to the Labour leadership.

In the run - up to Sunday's vote, officials close to Corbyn and the Scottish Labour leader, Richard Leonard, had accused the pro-EU grouping of using the issue to mount a proxy war by Labour's moderates against the party's leadership — a charge they deny.

Over in the other chamber, Labour's Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt have reportedly formed a group dubbed «the resistance», to fight back against an anticipated victory for Corbyn in the leadership contest.

Today's Times has a new YouGov poll of Labour party members and registered supporters (so members, registered trade unionists and # 3 supporters — the same group who were able to vote in the Labour leadership election).

The former shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, who was one of the first major resignations, urged Corbyn to give up: «This is a very clear result and if Jeremy is to show any leadership quality at all he must now reflect and respond to this overwhelming and unprecedented indication from the parliamentary labour party which includes all wings and all groupings.»

Given that John Reid's speech was on the final day of conference, his boost was probably more to do with his «victory» in Newsnight's focus group on the Labour leadership (or more to the point, given that not many people actually watch Newsnight, the media speculation that followed it).

«But regardless of what happens on 5 May 2011, it's clear that one group is already benefitting from the prospect of a referendum: the Labour leadership contenders.

Campaigning group Next Generation Labour (NGL) has established itself as a leading voice within the Labour party against George Osborne's austerity package, to which the party leadership has made dangerous concessions.

Jeremy Corbyn has rejected claims of an «infiltration» of Labour by hard - left groups backing his leadership bid, saying the new supporters will turn Labour into a «social movement» again.

In turn, Labour Tomorrow has donated # 114,460 to Saving Labour, another group opposing Corbyn in the leadership race against Owen Smith, which will conclude on Saturday.

Labour leadership elections have previously been decided by a complex electoral college system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

At the moment, Labour leadership elections are decided by a complex «electoral college» system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

Although the Labour leadership claimed last week's local and regional elections showed «steady progress» since the general election, the research suggests Mr Corbyn still has a long way to go to win over key groups of voters.

The No campaign, Better Together, with its focus - group tested slogan, «No Thanks», was essentially run by the Labour Party — chaired by Alistair Darling, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible with Brown for the deregulation of uk banks, and directed by Blair McDougall, who had organized David Miliband's failed Labour leadership bid — though its platform included local Tories and Liberal Democrats, to the embarrassment of many Labour functionaries, who preferred to claim that the whole referendum campaign was a waste of time.

A group of Labour members is taking the party to court over its decision to bar 130,000 people from voting in its upcoming leadership election.

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At Dentons, Blair is the Manager of the Toronto Employment, Labour and Pensions Group and is also a member of both the Toronto Management Committee and the Ontario Nominating Committee to recommend partners for internal Firm leadership roles.