Sentences with phrase «labour leader jim»

«The point made in a light - hearted way was that Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy had been slapped down by his party bosses at Westminster and told that he would have no role in a Labour budget,» Mr Salmond said.

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy loses his East Renfrewshire seat to the SNP but vows: «The fight back starts tomorrow.»

The boss of the Unite union has called on Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy to resign for «making certain» the Conservatives won the general election.

After losing his seat he called for Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy to «do the honourable thing and resign».

The Prime Minister tweeted a video, apparently filmed at an SNP event on April 13, in which Salmond tells the crowd he had heard a Labour spokesman say that Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy would not be writing the party's budget.

And it was there too in the Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy's southerner - baiting suggestion that extra Scottish nurses be funded via a mansion tax levied mainly on London.

The biggest news was the demise of Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy in Renfrewshire East and Labour's campaign strategist Douglas Alexander in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

Kirsten Oswald ousted Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy after picking 23,000 votes.

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.

Senior Labour Shadow Cabinet members, notably Ed Balls, Douglas Alexander, and Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, were defeated.

[188] Their net loss of seats were mainly a result of their resounding defeat in Scotland, where the Scottish National Party took 40 of their 41 seats, unseating key Labour politicians such as shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander and Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy.

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy admitted it was a blow but stressed it was excellent news for David Cameron.

The former Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, departing Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and SNP deputy leader John Swinney also attended, sitting far back in the church to allow space for family and close friends in pews closer to the altar.

Former prime minister Gordon Brown, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie also made their way inside the church.

In another blow, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy lost the East Renfrewshire seat he had held for 18 years to the SNP's Kirsten Oswald.

Writing in the Press and Journal ahead of a visit to Aberdeen with Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, he warned that the industry was «at a cross-roads» and called for a resilience fund for oil workers and tax incentives:

Pressure is growing on the Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy after the Unite union called on him to resign.

The Catholicism of the Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has attracted some attention this week against a backdrop of fascinating political developments in Scotland.

Not exact matches

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In January the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Jim Murphy MP, declared himself to be both Catholic and pro-abortion.

Jim Murphy, the former leader of Scottish Labour, is already working for Blair as an associate on various projects.

In May's General Election, when the SNP won Jim Murphy's East Renfrewshire seat, it did not just topple the leader of Scottish Labour, it took a constituency that epitomises middle Scotland.

At time of writing (May 13th 2015) Jim Murphy does not plan to stand down as Scottish Labour leader despite losing his seat.

George Galloway - Respect The Respect leader and former Labour MP George Galloway lost to Labour's Jim Fitzpatrick in the east London constituency of Poplar and Limehouse.

Jim Murphy's election as Scottish Labour leader two months ago did lead to a change in the party's fortunes in the polls, but he has more recently taken some interesting strategic positions.

Jim Murphy has been «astonished» by how easy he's found it to take on the SNP since he was elected leader of the Scottish Labour party, he told BuzzFeed News.

The solution of electing Jim Murphy as leader ensured Labour's defeat.

When the time comes to construct the pantheon of Scottish Labour leaders, Ken Macintosh MSP will surely stand shoulder to shoulder with Jim Murphy at its highest point.

Held by Labour's Elaine Murray, she is standing again in 2016, defending a majority of 3170 votes and 9.9 % despite having offered to stand down for then party leader Jim Murphy so he could be elected to the Scottish parliament.

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.

A senior Labour MSP warns the party is heading for «disappearance» in Scotland unless Jim Murphy quits as leader.

She added: «As a cabinet minister and leader of his party in Scotland, Jim has been a hugely important figure in the Labour Party.

A senior Labour MSP says the party is heading for «disappearance» in Scotland unless Jim Murphy resigns as leader.

So, when he says that Jim Murphy should quit as Scottish Labour leader, he commands a degree of attention.

She said: «They are putting loyalty to the Labour Party ahead of personal career or position and I think Jim Murphy should do likewise and step down as leader.

[citation needed] When Jim Murphy was elected Scottish Labour Party leader in December 2014, Griffin was appointed as Shadow Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland's Languages, covering school education, qualifications, science, HM Inspectorate of Education, the Scottish Qualifications Authority and languages.

Jim McMahon, Labour's leader in local government, reported on a regional cabinet to drive the devolution agenda throughout the UK.

Despite losing his seat in Westminster, Jim Murphy is trying to hang on as leader of Scottish Labour.

In the must - read piece, political correspondent Jim Pickard quotes two insiders on the roles played by the shadow chancellor and the Labour leader.

In East Renfrewshire counting agents supervise the count where Scottish Labour Party leader Jim Murphy lost his seat.

Since then, Jim Murphy, Labour's new Scottish leader, has fought pugnaciously to revive the party's fortunes, with bold new policies (such as promising to hire 1,000 more nurses from the proceeds of the UK - wide Mansion tax, which very few Scots will pay).

However, his defeat was little compared to the seismic shock that hit the leader of the Scottish Labour party, Jim Murphy.

12 weeks since Jim Murphy became leader of Scottish Labour, Labour remains on 27 %, 19 points behind the SNP (Comments: 506)

Labour has been left with just one MP north of the border, but its Scottish leader Jim Murphy, who lost his seat, said he would continue in his post.

But Labour — under most leaders except Clement Attlee, John Smith, Mike Foot and perhaps Jim Callaghan, all self - assured men — has its own insecurities, bred of humble backgrounds — in Tony Blair's case the knowledge of what Fleet Street had recently done to destroy Neil Kinnock.

If Ed Balls says no and returns the backbenches, Alexander could still become a full - time campaign co-ordinator and Jim Murphy could take his job with a promotion for Dan Jarvis — a man many see as the next Labour leader.

In an interview with Emily Maitlis for Thursday's Newsnight, Len McCluskey has laid the blame for Labour's defeat at the feet of Scottish Labour, and called on its leader, Jim Murphy, to go.

Jim Murphy is facing calls to resign as Scottish Labour leader after losing his East Renfrewshire seat to the SNP

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn congratulates Jim McMahon on Friday after his victory in the Oldham West and Royton byelection.

When Jim Murphy became the Scottish Labour leader last year he suggested the party could hold on to every one of their seats north of the border.