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All the day's action as Labour leader makes first keynote speech and Green party launches its election campaign

Labour leader makes clear that he does not support any changes to party rules to make it easier to deselect sitting MPs

Rather morbidly, the 75 - year - old says he will be «probably long gone» the next time a Labour leader makes it to Number 10, adding:

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.

The Labour leader made the surprise move of turning up to an adjournment debate on Tuesday night in the House of Commons to express his admiration for the outgoing Arsenal manager.

He was tweeting as the former Labour leader made an animated Commons intervention on press behaviour.

The Labour leader made his opposition to the EU's state aid rules a key point in his argument on Brexit, but how many of them actually stack up?

The Labour leader made the comments at a Yes to AV event beside business secretary Vince Cable and former home secretary Alan Johnson.

The Labour leader made his exit shortly after speaking at around 1030 pm.

The Labour leader made it clear that he plans to present himself as a champion of the powerless against political and business elites.

In his biggest speech on Brexit since the referendum, the Labour leader made clear he is ready to sacrifice the UK's ability to strike new trade deals in return for staying in an EU customs union.

The Labour leader made this comment while reacting to the formation of a new Labour centre known as the United Labour Congress by some top Labour leaders in Lagos on Saturday.

The newly re-affirmed Labour leader made only a veiled reference to his win, apologising to delegates for «the disruption caused by other engagements this morning».

No matter how many pilgrimages Labour leaders make to Russell Brand or how many voter registration drives we do, it will not change.

The Labour leader made his stinging remarks after the Work and Pensions Secretary - who has been slashing welfare since 2010 - claimed slashing Personal Independence Payments (PIP) was a «compromise too far».

Not exact matches

A war erupted inside the Labour Party, the government's official opposition, over leader Corbyn's decision to make the party's parliamentarians vote in favour of May triggering Article 50.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the appointment «makes mockery of media neutrality and insults the voters he is supposed to serve.»

Earlier in the week, health and labour leaders wrote a letter urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pull Morneau from the national pharmacare file over comments he made the morning after his budget announced the council's formation.

Opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband on Friday urged Cameron to apologize for «the appalling error of judgment he made in hiring Andy Coulson,» but Cameron refused and said Coulson remained a friend.

They need a skilled labour force and we need to make investments in them now,» the Liberal leader concluded.

Before one rival to Notley could compare Leap to the 1980s National Energy Program — which made the Liberal brand toxic in Alberta for a generation — Alberta labour leader Gil McGowan warned there could be NEP - level political damage.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has thanked Christian rapper Stormzy for the positive impact he's made on young men in London.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

Forgot it was not long ago labour back Gaddafi was that when the leader was making his black book on future contacts

If his comments had been made by a Labour leader at any other time in the past four decades they would have caused controversy, Mr Clarke insisted.

Writing for Politics.co.uk Labour MP Sharon Hodgson said the next leader of the party should be a woman and Cooper's experience as a mother made her the right choice.

«Picture it: history in the making as a Liberal Democrat leader entered, finally, into the corridors of power, preparing to unshackle Britain after years of Labour and Conservative rule.

Speaking at a reporters» lunch in parliament, the Labour leader joked about his relationship with Gordon Brown before assuring the assembled journalists that he would be making radical proposals on overhauling the country's pension system.

The Labour leader also made light of his tweet upon the death of Bob Holness, when he mistakenly said he worked on «blackbusters».

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

The new leader will now make a concerted effort to woo disillusioned northern Labour voters by painting Jeremy Corbyn and his London - based allies as out of touch with ordinary working people.

You'd struggle terribly to make this up... Those Labour MP's that have clung on to their seats now understand how badly having the wrong leader can screw them.

The WIPF, made up of women leaders from 26 registered political parties led by Ebere Ifendu of the Labour Party expressed their full support for the government's war on corruption and insecurity.

But they couldn't understand why the media wouldn't turn their attention to the union strength which, they believe, effectively makes the Labour leader a puppet of the Brothers.

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

Labour's leader has made arguably his strongest intervention yet in the debate over leaving the European Union, with a warning that a «Tory Brexit» would be disastrous for most people in Britain.

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

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

The debates trapped timid Labour leaders into making commitments that either killed off campaigning verve or paralysed them in government.

Hazel Blears MP and Mehdi Hasan (Senior Editor New Statesmen, co-author «Ed: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader») will be joined by a special guest to pass judgement on your ideas.

Mrs May made a concession, welcomed by some Labour leaders as well as most Conservatives, which was in effect a worthless sop.

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.»

In that post-1922 and pre-1997 period when every Tory leader made it to PM, the Labour party had four Prime Ministers but six party leaders (Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Hugh Gaitskell, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith) who were never Prime Minister.

But he also says Labour have historically been far too squeamish about removing leaders heading for electoral defeat, and warns the party that they must not make the same mistake again.

After Labour lost the 2010 general election and Ed Miliband became the party's leader, Alexander was elected to the Shadow Cabinet and was made the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Former Labour leader has used a speech to attack claims made by the «Leave» campaign which he thinks are aimed at «wooing» Labour voters.

«If, God forbid, David Cameron falls under a bus William Hague would certainly be the next Tory leader Main By conceding the need for spending cuts Ed Balls has made the job of the next Conservative government a lot easier... George Osborne now wants Labour to also concede the need for tax rises»

What we do learn anew from this poll is that Ruth Davidson has struck a chord with her claim that she would make a more effective leader of the opposition than her Labour counterpart, Kezia Dugdale.

The Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has made what she hopes is a major speech to win back lost voters and make her party relevant in the constitutional debate that has followed the Brexit vote in the EU referendum.

It is a story of decisions deferred, of a senior team divided, and of a losing struggle to make the Labour leader electable.