Sentences with phrase «labour leadership»

Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest after a legal challenge to force him to collect the backing of MPs was rejected by a High Court judge.

«There is no doubt in my mind that the Labour leadership, including the National Committee, should have acted more swiftly.

Exclusive: It comes as a major row is brewing over the Labour leadership's lack of support for the single market

Owners of homes worth # 2million or more should pay a «mansion tax» to help the poor, Labour leadership contender David Miliband said yesterday.

He dismisses suggestions that his plans for one person, one vote elections for the Labour leadership and deputy leadership will lead to ordinary members being swamped by a stage army of leftwing union activists recruited as affiliated supporters.

Talking to politics.co.uk, the Labour leadership candidate insisted he was running «the largest field operation that any political campaign has had in a leadership election in the history of British politics».

Mr Miliband will set out a 10 - point plan of his priorities for the country if he wins the Labour leadership later this month.

The Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has called on the party to root out people voting for him in a bid to to skew the election result.

Ed Miliband, the Labour leadership contender, said: «These are very serious allegations.

Labour MP Jess Phillips has said she could resign from the party if Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership contest.

While we're on the Labour leadership, I see that Andy Burnham has made the NME for sending out a tweet quoting The Courteeners.

None the less, the views of a figure so close to the Labour leadership may startle many in and outside the party.

She also made a calculated attempt to seize and redefine a term that's being argued about by Labour leadership contenders, although amongst them «aspiration» is often code for a return to the kind of politics seen under Tony Blair.

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP was shadow public health spokesman under Ed Miliband, after losing out to him in the 2010 Labour leadership contest.

The shadow international development secretary announced her intention to join the race for the Labour leadership, via an article in the Daily Mail.

The Electoral Commission's latest publication of donations to politicians is dominated by the Labour leadership candidates.

Owen Smith this morning launched his bid for the Labour leadership, saying he would be a «radical and credible» alternative to Jeremy Corbyn.

Former foreign secretary rules himself out of Labour leadership race as he says voters delivered clear verdict on failure to embrace «aspiration and inclusion»

The decision by the Labour leadership, which has gone from supporting the amendment on civil partnerships to rejecting it within the space of 24 hours, means that the marriage (same - sex couples) bill will now experience a safer journey through parliament.

YouGov said: «With the ballot papers out for the Labour leadership contest, Labour members will be dismayed to see the party's rating in the polls dipping below the 30 % mark once again.»

An 11th - hour plea to the Labour leadership by the Tory chief whip Sir George Young, who warned that the government was in danger of losing the vote, prompted a change of heart by Miliband, who had been planning to abstain on the amendment.

David Miliband attempted to shift the focus of the Labour leadership debate away from the Iraq conflict yesterday, after two of his main rivals criticised the decision to go to war in 2003.

«No one is suggesting Khan has extreme views, but there are legitimate questions about the judgement of Khan and the Labour leadership and whether they have, in the words of Yvette Cooper, «legitimised those with extreme views.»»

The Labour leadership hopeful dutifully toured the TV and radio studios this morning as he set out his pitch to party members as the campaign gets underway.

During the current Labour leadership campaign he has spoken at rallies in support of Jeremy Corbyn.

Jeremy Corbyn could romp to victory in the Labour leadership race with an even bigger vote share than he secured last year, a new poll has suggested.

Expect similar woes for former Labour leadership candidate Mary Creagh, whose Wakefield seat has been cleared by UKIP to give the Tories a bigger shot at her 2,613 majority.

Angela Eagle and Owen Smith will go head - to - head on Monday night to decide who will take on Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership.

Our panel also pick over the Labour leadership candidates.

Andy Burnham is the Labour leadership contender most likely to improve the party's chances at the next general election, according to a survey of 2,000 people for The Independent by ORB.

That seems to be the message from Blairite veterans at how the nascent Labour leadership contest is shaping up.

Anyone can vote in the Labour leadership election.»

Asked about which possible Labour leadership contenders people felt warmest towards, Greenberg said David Miliband was the favourite, followed by his brother, Ed, the likely candidate from the left of the party Jon Cruddas, and then the former schools secretary Ed Balls.

Others who think the Labour leadership election is being rushed have said much the same.

Jeremy Corbyn has denounced a failed legal bid to have him kicked off the Labour leadership ballot as a «waste of time and resources».

The reports have been confirmed by three separate sources, including one close to Ed Miliband's Labour leadership campaign.

Former shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith this morning launched his bid for the Labour leadership, saying he would be a «radical and credible» alternative.

A former home secretary and shadow chancellor, Alan Johnson is the Labour leadership candidate who never quite was.

Plans to merge the Transport and General Workers union (T&G), Amicus and the GMB have been in the pipeline for months, following concerns of declining influence both with the Labour leadership and in the global economy.

In fourth place is our review of this week's first televised hustings for the Labour leadership contest.

But it is telling that most political opponents of military action - which at the moment is basically Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership and the broader Stop the War movement - do not seem to be making these points.

But there are no signs of any cross-party Brexit committee being formed, nor that the Labour leadership wishes to help the Tories avoid a catastrophe of their own making.

-- the obvious double standard on the part of the Labour leadership recalls the words of the late Columbian novelist Gabriel García.

Most Labour MPs of all persuasions are to the ideological right of the current Labour leadership - otherwise there would not have been a 172 - 40 vote of no confidence in the leadership in June 2016.

The decision by the Labour leadership to run an electoral college for the mayoral nomination rather than the one member, one vote (OMOV) system originally planned, meant that Ken was ultimately narrowly beaten to the Labour nomination by Frank Dobson.

Indeed their was a plan last year that the co-operative party could sign up MP's dissatisfied with the Labour leadership and act as the official opposition themselves.

The tactical decision by Andy Burnham to «lend» nominations to Corbyn would probably go down as the moment he lost the Labour leadership for a second time, were it not for his subsequent disastrous decision to flip - flop on the welfare bill.

While Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership suffers death by a thousand polls, the Corbynites themselves are looking to salvage what they can from what currently looks like an electoral apocalypse.

Labour leadership candidate John McDonnell also condemned the plans, telling BBC Two's Daily Politics that the Hayden Phillips review was being used for «political purposes» by people who wanted to break the union link with Labour.

Within twelve hours a new opinion poll of members was released suggesting Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership by a landslide, with none of his rivals even coming close.