Sentences with phrase «labour leader called»

The Labour leader called for party and national unity, saying that there is a need for «solidarity amongst all of us».

WATCH: The Labour leader called over communications chief Seumas Milne - and then Tom Watson magically regenerated into his colleague Steve Rotheram!

The Labour leader called on the Government to «update» the current law at an LGBT event which also saw the Education Secretary disparage people who hold traditional views on sexuality.

In the seven - minute address, the former Labour leader calls on Mr Corbyn's supporters to «wake up» or the see the party face electoral wipeout.

In the seven - minute address, the former Labour leader calls on Mr Corbyn's supporters to «wake up» or the party faces electoral wipeout.

Not exact matches

Strangely, Labour leader Corbyn called for May to trigger Article 50 the day after the referendum, despite supporting «Remain.»

Jeremy Corbyn, Britain's Labour Party leader, recently called on companies to end «early evening socialization,» calling it a sexist relic.

In his Sunday Times interview, Sugar, who famously quit the Labour Party in 2015 over its anti-business policies, called Corbyn a «poor leader» and said the Labour Party in «hopeless disarray.»

Labour leaders should participate in deciding staff - related matters, «but it (co-determination) should be confined to this and it should not give rise to a claim to co-management,» Porsche told Stern, calling for a «separation of powers.»

Parliamentarians and socialists in the UK and Europe are calling on Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party and a longtime supporter of Venezuela's leadership, to denounce the Venezuelan government in light of recent events.

I think many British Columbians, much like Albertans, have shrunk from voting NDP because they were seen as a party of labour leaders, professors and what my father would call «parlor pinks.»

It was part of Saturday's Miners» Gala which drew 200,000 people, including Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn who called the event «Europe's biggest demonstration of working class culture».

A Christian charity has expressed its disappointment in the Labour leader's call for the government to enable transsexuals «self - identify their gender».

A Christian charity has expressed its disappointment in the Labour leader's call for the government to... More

Former minister Stephen Byers has called on fellow supporters of Tony Blair to unite behind new Labour leader Gordon Brown.

At various times Herbert Asquith (Liberal PM 1908 — 16), Ramsay MacDonald (Labour PM 1924 and 1929 — 35) and Michael Foot (Labour Leader 1960 — 63) have all called Hampstead home.

Len McCluskey, the leader of the Unite union which has donated over # 8 million to Labour since Ed Miliband became leader, has voiced a careful warning to Labour, calling the move a «gamble».

Embattled UK opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will stand in any new party leadership election amid calls for his resignation in light of the referendum result.

Former Labour minister Jack Straw was forced to withdraw a remark calling leader of the House Andrew Lansley «a tad disingenuous».

The Labour leader made all the right headlines yesterday by calling for a cap on rents, to kick off his party's local and European election campaign.

Cameron repeatedly called on Corbyn to retract a remark about being «friends» with the terrorist group Hamas — and the Labour leader responded by disassociating himself from the group.

After Dugdale last week added her voice to the chorus of those calling for Jeremy Corbyn to step down as leader of the Labour Party, her own deputy led calls for him to stay.

Finally, Tristram Hunt can not become leader of the Labour party for the simple reason that he is called Tristram.

Corbyn's performance was applauded by lobby journalists, with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg calling it «his most effective for ages» and many others calling it a rare win for the Labour leader.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded by saying that his party wanted the election, calling it a chance to get a government that puts «the majority first».

Nevertheless, in this space, I want to reflect on why the so - called «embittered sliver» — that 81 per cent of his PLP; not to mention all Labour MEPs, hundreds of Councillors, all living former leaders and all but three MSPs, and as recent polls indicate, an increasing portion of the membership — could possibly want to see the back of him.

Jamie Reed Labour MP for Copeland The pick of online comments from TotalPolitics.com Commenting on Iain Wright MP's blog praising Ed Miliband's call for greater «patriotism» in UK business policy, Ralph Baldwin was dismissive of the Labour leader's intervention.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, has joined these calls, as have the interim Labour Leader Harriet Harman and all the candidates in the Labour leadership coleader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, has joined these calls, as have the interim Labour Leader Harriet Harman and all the candidates in the Labour leadership coLeader Harriet Harman and all the candidates in the Labour leadership contest.

His vision of «stakeholding» in New Britain (1996) and Anthony Crosland's priority on the poor in The Future of Socialism (1963), what Blair calls «a magnificent essay», were different visions by Labour leaders of how to redress capitalist excess.

The establishment of an Irish Constitutional Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 centenary.

Len McCluskey, leader of the UK's biggest union, Unite, will use his speech at the historic Durham Miners» Gala today (Saturday) to call upon Labour to renew its connection to working people by delivering a genuine alternative to the government's ruinous austerity programme.

Labour's Chuka Umunna, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron and Conservative MP Nicholas Soames argue that Vote Leave will be «complicit in a campaign that is increasingly inflammatory in tone» if it does not call for the film to be withdrawn.

But what's troubling for Labour's leader is that some of those calling for the system to be reformed are, in effect, declaring his election illegitimate.

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

After being called the «most dangerous man in British politics», Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to use his first party conference in Brighton to show he is as normal and British as a cup of milky...

Last night, 48 Labour MPs defied interim leader Harriet Harman's call to abstain on the Conservatives» welfare plans and voted against the Government.

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has reiterated his call for the Government to do an «objective test» on the impact of a potential takeover by Pfizer of AstraZeneca, despite the British firm's board rejecting the apparently final offer from the US drugs company.

Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, has called for Jeremy Corbyn to resign, saying he has lost the confidence of the party's MPs in parliament and his position has become untenable.

The prime minister's defense cut little ice, particularly with Mr. Miliband, the Labour leader, who called it «a catastrophic error of judgment» and brought hoots of approval from Labour backbenchers when he said of Mr. Cameron, «He just doesn't get it, Mr. Speaker.»

The PM hit back that the Labour leader was jumping on a «political bandwagon», having failed to call for Mrs Miller's resignation himself.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.

Call me Dave and his minions kept a low profile on the coup because they know their best chance at the election is for Gordon Brown to be Labour leader.

For this reason, Labour leaders have been called «Mcarthyites» afraid of democracy.

When Labour HQ called its Manchester leader, Richard Leese, and asked him to bad - mouth Osborne's speech, he is said to have told them to get lost, with an expletive.

The Labour leader is facing calls from some within his senior team to shake up the weekly session in order to make it less confrontational — perhaps by defusing the topicality of the exchanges by making them topic - based.

Last Wednesday Hilary opened his speech with a defence of Corbyn, condemning David Cameron for calling the Labour leader the friend of terrorists.

The Labour leader has called a special conference taking place next spring, which he hopes will resolve the issue, but support from Unite now seems conditional on Miliband lurching to the left.

Meanwhile, a number of Corbyn supporters on Twitter also insisted that Labour's low standing under the current leader is a result of what they call the «chicken coup» — a reference to the flurry of resignations that was triggered by Hilary Benn standing down as shadow foreign secretary on 26 June.

In 2006, the MP was said to have instigated the so - called «curry house coup» to remove Tony Blair as Labour leader and install Gordon Brown in his place.