Sentences with phrase «labour leadership coup»

Not exact matches

I saw an interesting graph of the polls and Labour for 12 months was level with, sometimes just ahead, and sometimes just behind the Tories before the Right Wing coup when unsurprisingly the polls have gone downhill and we have had to waste months on a leadership contest when we could have been hammering the Tories.

Corbyn can clearly win any democratic leadership contest within Labour, so another coup attempt along similar lines to the 2016 leadership election would not succeed at present.

There has been speculation that Labour centrists could mount a leadership coup in the event of a bad showing in May's council and assembly elections.

Speaking after the hour - long meeting, a source close to the Labour leader said the party was still suffering the after - effects of last year's failed leadership coup.

• If those who have been working to destabilise Corbyn's leadership such as Tony Blair, Rupert Murdoch, Neil Kinnock, Peter Mandelson etc, and MPs such as Angela Eagle now succeed in their coup, then I predict a wholesale move of existing Labour supporters (myself included) to the Greens and electoral losses for the remaining «Labour party» that will eclipse even those suffered by the Lib Dems in the last general election.

Others expressed outrage at the parliamentary Labour party for undermining him from the start of his leadership and mounting the coup attempt against him.

Labour's five turbulent years of office from 1974 to 1979 came during the global oil crisis and also saw domestic unrest — from militant unions, inflation, IRA and coup talk — which stimulated growing attacks on the Westminster leadership for betrayal and incompetence in the face of harsh choices.

Corbyn is facing an all - out coup against him from Labour MPs angry at his leadership during the referendum campaign.

««Serial bottler» David Miliband's Labour leadership hopes in tatters after dithering during failed coup Main The public are divided as to whether ditching Brown would help Labour - but the vast majority agree there is no obvious successor anyway»

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.