Sentences with phrase «labour leader does»

That is nothing new, every Labour leader does it somehow.

The Labour leader does not tend to speak a lot about his wife Laura Alvarez and he notably rejected an invitation to appear alongside her on the BBC's One Show sofa, with Labour sources saying that «family are completely out of bounds».

McGovern also insists that the Labour leader does not support the stance taken by the shadow chancellor.

Today, Mr Kinnock said he believed the Labour leader does not have the «requisite skills or experience to ensure there is a strong Labour voice at the negotiating table» during Brexit talks.

The choice of Jerusalem appears designed to dispel notions that the Labour leader does not do patriotism.

The Labour leader does have a higher profile than Ruth Davidson and Willie Rennie, who were both elected leaders of the respective parties some months prior to Lamont.

But it seems like the Labour leader does want more fundamental change here and it is not clear how he would secure that.

However the Labour leader did have one good line.

The Labour leader did, of course.

The Labour leader did briefly come unstuck when asked which footballer past or present he would compare himself to.

Suddenly the Labour leader did a quick line - by - line criticism of a section of the bill.

The Labour leader did appear on Monday evening — but then infuriated colleagues by leaving after less than an hour without taking any questions.

In his 45 second message, the Labour leader did his best to pretend that the local elections did not have anything to do with boring local services such as collecting the bins and cleaning the streets.

«As they did in 2012, if labour leaders do not also stand up for the people at this time, posterity will not forgive them.»

What's really important is that, in future, Labour does have leadership elections, not coronations, when it needs to, and that the process ensures that future Labour Leaders do not lose touch with both the party and its supporters as happened in the New Labour years.

I find it astonishing that other Labour leaders didn't speak to new little people, only their Front Bench.

Interestingly, perhaps because of divisions on AV on his own backbenches, the Labour leader didn't raise the issue of divisions in the Coaltion.

Not exact matches

Leaders of both the Conservative and Labour parties, which don't normally agree on much, have ruled out the possibility of holding a «second referendum».

There's much more to do before the government can claim to be a climate leader, warns Labour's Barry Gardiner

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: «I think what we need in this country is something more robust like a War Powers Act so that governments do get held to account by Parliament for what they do in our name.»

In February, David Cameron told the Labour leader: «My mother would say: «Put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the national anthem».»

When the Labour leader finally did emerge from his holiday on Tuesday he did little better.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing, Harold Wilson once claimed — though it's notable that he did so when it was in opposition and before he was leader.

It's hardly news that morale is not universally high in Labour's ranks and former leader Margaret Beckett (yes, she counts) has done her best to rally the troops.

If Jeremy Corbyn is elected Labour leader, what does the Labour party do next?

Bryant then told presenter Jane Hill that he had asked the Labour leader which way he voted and «he didn't answer».

A ComRes / Sunday Mirror survey showed a 50 % rise in the Labour leader's rating, with 27 % now saying he is doing a good job, compared to 18 % last month.

This shows exactly why Cameron and his advisers have been so keen to avoid head - to - head debates with the Labour leader and why Labour have done everything they can to pressure Cameron into accepting them.

At the end of last month Ed Miliband had net personal ratings of -46 % according to YouGov with 68 % of voters saying he is «doing badly» as leader of the Labour party.

The Labour leader may battle on in the coming months, but that does not mean politics is standing still.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

The Labour leader said: «Some of the biggest names in business are holding cash piles that don't actually belong to them.

With the Labour Party seemingly willing to gift the Tories half a year to do whatever they want with the country, the Liberal Democrats have a shorter path to electing a new leader and getting on with the business of rebuilding.

The latest Ipsos Mori political monitor found that half of Labour supporters are now dissatisfied with the way that Corbyn is doing his job as Labour leader.

The Labour leader then did his best to heap further pressure on the prime minister over her dealings with Donald Trump.

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.

Praised by Theresa May for doing an «excellent» job and attacked by President Trump on twitter, he looks more and more like a future Labour leader.

The leader's office asserting the man himself hasn't expressed a view doesn't mean he isn't listening to advice and Corbyn's said by those close to him to instinctively favour involving as many of Labour's 500,000 + members as possible in selecting candidates.

Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but its leaders did as much as David Cameron and George Osborne to brand Labour as spendthrift and irresponsible — Nick Clegg by playing up the comparison between the UK and Greece, David Laws by brandishing the now - notorious note from Liam Byrne.

I watched Brown to day, he is a very very poor leader end of story, he is dragging this government into a very very long stay out of power, I do think people will see Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer lLabour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer labourlabour.

The Labour leader has a ready - made army of people who want him to do badly, mostly for good reason.

KR Lohse responded to Dan Hodges» piece wondering where Ed Miliband stood on the issue of Europe and a new EU treaty by roundly condemning the means by which the Labour leader was elected: «Ed's luck ran out the day the unions propelled him into a position that the majority of the party didn't want him in.

The acting Labour leader really doesn't want to be there anymore - but she scored some important wins regardless

The former Labour leader replied: «Do not panic too much about this tweet.

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

«Or do we revert to an old - style, «government - knows - best» culture championed by the most leftwing Labour leader for a generation?»

Baroness Smith, a minister in Gordon Brown's government and now Labour's leader in the Lords, made a little heralded speech last week in which she said: «For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to the one more heave theory.»

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.

It doesn't take much to be Labour's leader - in - waiting these days.

Speaking on ITV's Peston on Sunday, the Labour leader also admitted he did not mind that Donald Trump would not be coming to Britain.