Sentences with phrase «labour leadership battle»

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The Pontypridd MP has spent recent days building his campaign team for the Labour leadership battle.

The prime minister made only the briefest reference to the Labour leadership battle that has now begun.

The Labour leadership battle shows one alarming thing to the PM's mind: that there are still a significant number of Brits who believe that spending too much money is never a bad thing.

Not exact matches

Mr Cameron replied: «It's always nice to have a lecture on happy families from the honourable member» — a reference to Mr Miliband's battle with his brother for the Labour leadership.

Both declared they would join the battle to secure Labour Party leadership to replace Gordon Brown.

It comes a year after Burnham took just 19 per cent of the votes in the battle for the Labour leadership — having started out as the clear favourite to replace Ed Miliband.

The battle for the Labour leadership is good evidence of this.

(Although since then Scottish Labour has again left the field with Kezia Dugdale quitting the leadership for love triggering a leadership battle between Richard Leonard and Anas Sarwar that's increasingly unseemly even though left wing Leonard has already all but won thanks to the now normal Labour practise of signing up lots of union members on the cheap.)

Labour are reeling from a dreadful general election result and a highly divisive leadership battle, the effects of which were evident this week in Brighton.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

Sadly, I expect we'll hear an awful lot more of this type of talk from Labour MPs in the coming weeks as they battle it out to challenge Corbyn's leadership.

Back in 1981, he was at the centre of the hugely divisive battle for the Labour deputy leadership between Benn and Denis Healey; seven years later, he organised Benn's doomed challenge to the then leader Neil Kinnock.

Corbyn, however, who won a convincing victory in the leadership battle with 62 % of the vote, will seek to consolidate his grip on Labour policymaking.

In the first direct shot in the leadership campaign battle, Diane Abbott said Labour members faced a «clear political choice» because Ms Eagle voted in favour of the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Labour's leadership battle has so far been a courteous affair, with the candidates playing nicely...

The former home secretary Charles Clarke has spoken positively of the chancellor Gordon Brown, as the Labour party attempts a show of unity ahead of today's election and a possible leadership battle.

The latest Labour thinking on the leadership and deputy leadership battles is revealed by Daily...

The party enforcer was met with cheers and clapping as Jeremy Corbyn and Labour MPs gear up for a leadership battle

Labour is facing a lengthy leadership election - and only after a possible court battle over whether Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot - while Theresa May settles in as Prime Minister.

It's been a year of political upheaval, with a general election and a leadership battle for Labour.

The row underlines the scale of tensions within Labour during the leadership battle, with many Corbyn supporters furious about the action that has been taken to suspend individuals.

As the New Statesman hustings showed, the battle for the leadership of the Labour Party has at its h

Corbyn has called for a meeting of Labour's equalities committee to discuss the issue in early September, before the end of the leadership battle.

Continue reading «Although Ed Miliband is less popular with Labour supporters than David Miliband, he insists his leadership is «winning the battle of ideas»»»

The latest Labour thinking on the leadership and deputy leadership battles is revealed by Daily Mirror associate editor Kevin Maguire in a new column for TP.

And it plunged Labour into a leadership battle which could split the party for good just 10 months after Mr Corbyn won an overwhelming victory backed by more than 250,000 members.

Despite the bizarre timing, a leadership battle could help revitalize Labour.

Labour was expecting to mount a long summer leadership contest alongside a Tory battle for Number 10.

More on the Labour leadership from Channel 4 News: - Labour leadership: the contenders - Andy Burnham: the «ordinary» person's candidate - Diane Abbott: more than a token candidate - Ed Miliband: the alternative brother - Miliband brothers» leadership battle divides Labour - David to Ed: Miliband family must remain strong - Labour leadership: the «squabble» for power

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The author analyses Labour s strategic errors and the debilitating bumps in the road the 10p tax rate row, the disastrous battles over 42 - day detention, the plots against Gordon Brown s leadership, poor local and European election results and perceived policy U-turns.

«Andy Burnham is set to win enough support to battle for the Labour leadership.

As two major unions, Unite and Unison prepare to announce this week which candidate they will support in the Labour leadership contest, political editor Gary Gibbon analyses how the battle is testing the brotherly bond between David and Ed Miliband.

As the battle over who should become the next Labour leader enters its final stages, the party's former director of communications has described the leadership campaign as «an unedifying mess».

Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Yvette Cooper has called the current Labour leadership campaign a «battle for the soul of the party».

A sign of potential battle lines to come were demonstrated in Mrs May's speech this morning, in which she said voters faced a choice between «strong» leadership under the Tories and Labour «propped up» by other parties including the Liberal Democrats and the SNP.

With a brutal battle raging for the future of the Conservative party, and the vast majority of Labour's MPs united over Europe, the early stages of the referendum campaign brought temporary relief from the relentless rumours about party coups, splits and leadership challenges.

The Labour left — which has now assumed the party's leadership — is in large part a product of London and its political battles from the 1970s onwards.

«Ed Miliband is facing the gravest crisis of his leadership after former Home Secretary David Blunkett warned that he was putting the «entire Labour project» at risk... Mr Miliband was last night said to have been forced into a humiliating climbdown in his battle with the union barons because he feared the loss of their vital funds.

A PLP that currently lacks a leadership role and has been undermined and weakened by political and cultural changes, public disapproval of politicians in general, and the control freakery and internecine battles of the New Labour years.

Labour MPs supporting Jeremy Corbyn are urgently seeking ways to avoid a historic split after their leader's refusal to resign set the party on track for a ferocious leadership battle.

Charlie Whelan, the former Labour spin doctor, has blamed the party's election defeat squarely on Lord Mandelson and urged «annoying» David Miliband to «get a life» after his failed leadership battle.