Sentences with phrase «labour leadership debate»

But responding to this, Corbyn told TP he did not want to see MPs coerced into supporting him - and that he would be part of the Labour leadership debate whatever happens:

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.

Smith's intransigence on the European question is in remarkable opposition to his dexterity on nearly every other issue in the Labour leadership debate.

The tone of the current Labour leadership debate has, thus far, been extremely depressing.

Tony Blair decided it would be helpful to wade into the Labour leadership debate this week, with an attack on surprise frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn.

Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming Labour leadership debate (as I have already pointed out on this site) as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates need to answer?).

While the Labour leadership debated the economy today, the Conservative party continued to push English MPs voting on English laws.

I would dispute how much media impact, as opposed to coverage, the many Labour leadership debates have had.

Not exact matches

It must try to earn leadership through argument in open debate with others — including trade unions, religious groups, community organising initiatives and anti-cuts campaigners.It is encouraging to see that Labour is starting to grapple with the need for serious economic reform.

Better precedents would be James Callaghan, the former Labour prime minister, and the ex-Conservative leader, Michael Howard, who both stayed on temporarily while their parties debated changing leadership selection rules.

You could not have a TV debate onthe labour party election leadership, because no one would watch, and advert space would not pay, just like labour, a dead loss.

Losing such an established Labour - held seat will almost certainly re-ignite the debate about Corbyn's leadership and its effectiveness.

The new selection rules opened the door to this left - wing revolt — though not before moderate Labour MPs, seeking to «widen the debate» in the leadership contest, helped Corbyn pass the nomination threshold of 15 % of Labour MPs.

The opposition parties claimed the appeal revealed Labour's unease at Brown's weak performances in the leadership debates.

The fact that anyone would ever simply assumes that the debate about Labour and its leadership is a debate solely or mostly about policy only shows how unusual — well, weird — people active in politics tend to be.

Policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party, Jeremy Corbyn has said in a debate with his three leadership rivals organised by the Guardian.

Meanwhile one of the dominant themes of the Labour leadership campaign is not an attack on this reactionary economic policy but a wholly ill - informed debate on immigration.

During the three - month Labour leadership campaign, the debate increasingly addressed the failings of New Labour and the polices needed to rebuild Labour's support.

In August, he told the Guardian that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary party to see the leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of debate.

He added that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary party to see the leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of debate.

Whilst the existence of the document itself is cause for much cheer, it appears as if the leadership contenders are coming to the wider debate about the future of the Labour party with their direction already established.

It has featured very little this year, due to the referendum and the leadership election, but Labour's disarray was on full display in the debate that was staged to coincide with May's coronation.

Still, while Miliband may not be glamorous or loved, he has also capably confronted Cameron at prime minister's questions; Labour is secretly confident he will do the same in leadership debates.

The Labour leader challenged the Conservatives to a debate about leadership and character, and said to them: «Be my guest».

He contended that the debate over the next steps for Labour had to go beyond the Labour leadership contest and he admitted the Labour leadership contest was a «lottery» that could throw up an unbalanced leadership pairing.

The Labour leadership has also stressed that Brexit is being debated on Monday, with an introduction by shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer.

Cabinet ministers standing for the Labour deputy leadership should quit their jobs to allow a proper debate, the one non-ministerial candidate has declared.

The Labour leader could have upgraded to first class for his journey to Gateshead to debate Owen Smith in the latest Labour leadership hustings.

Ed Miliband was given a «brutal» dressing down by Alastair Campbell in a rehearsal for a leadership debate, according to the latest inside account of Labour's election campaign.

Owen Smith's campaign team has appealed to Momentum to get Jeremy Corbyn to agree to more debates as part of the Labour leadership election.

«It is my understanding that both campaigns were clearly informed by the General Secretary of the Labour party that broadcast debates would form part of the official leadership election timetable.

Jeremy Corbyn insisted he would put nuclear disarmament at the heart of his leadership re-election campaign as he promised to vote against the renewal of Trident in a Commons debate that will expose deep divisions within the Labour party.

As a keen Labour support who's just getting into the leadership debate, I started my own blog at blogger.com/theyorkrose and did a few hours research.

«I stood for the Labour leadership as the candidate of the Left and trade union movement so that there could be a proper debate about Labour's future in which all the wings of the party were fully represented.

To what ends the levers of state control should be tugged will be debated by different Labour leadership contenders.

The BBC's Ben Brown takes a closer look at the contenders for the Labour Party leadership, who take part in a Newsnight debate in Nuneaton on Wednesday evening.

In an Observer article, the former Labour leader wrote: «In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment.»

[35][36] Seven parties (Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, UKIP, SNP, PC and Green) participated in the election leadership debates.

Lord Mandelson today hit back at criticism over his decision to publish his memoirs during the Labour leadership election, claiming his analysis of New Labour was at its «most relevant» as the party debates its future.

He warned: «Let us remember one thing if there is a debate, if there is a leadership contest, if there is a change of leader is the British public really going to wear the Labour party carrying on in office, is it not going to ask for an immediate general election.

The four candidates for the Labour leadership faced questions from the public in the first televised debate between the would - be leaders of the opposition.

Ahead of a leadership hustings debate at the Local Government Association conference this week, Mr Miliband even pledged to invite Labour's local government leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected party leader.

But Labour, which have been euphoric at the way the summer debate over the NHS played directly into its agenda, accused Mr Cameron of weak leadership.

Corbyn initially stood in the British Labour leadership contest to give the party's left wing a voice in the debate on how to move on from its crushing defeat in May's general election.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has challenged the Conservatives to a debate about leadership and character, and said to them: «Be my guest».

«Even though Labour is in a leadership campaign, I am not going to let the EU debate be defined by David Cameron.»

If in the TV debates at the next election the other parties» candidates turned on any of the current Labour leadership contenders and sneered «You're no John Kennedy», what answer would they have?»

After the debate the Labour leadership was crowing about avoiding Osborne's «trap».

With the leadership candidates asked for a Labour political hero during the Newsnight debate, we were at least spared their tributes to Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.

In 2012 the budget debate pitted the Conservative leadership (for the budget settlement) against the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative party and Labour who opposed it.