Sentences with phrase «labour leadership election»

Damning: Sewel, who helped Tony Blair with Scotland's devolution, said the candidates for the Labour leadership election «an absolutely hopeless set of choices»

It was the second Scottish Labour leadership election in as many years, the first being caused by the resignation of Jack McConnell, [2] following the Scottish National Party's victory over Labour in the Scottish Parliament election, 2007, however in this election, Alexander was unopposed, meaning that no ballot actually took place.

It was the third Scottish Labour leadership election in four years, the first being caused by the resignation of Jack McConnell following the party's defeat in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, [2] and the second by Wendy Alexander's resignation.

The Labour leadership election has been a case - in - point: the commonest piece of abuse thrown at Liz Kendall for daring to suggest, for instance, we should not be knee - jerk hostile to parents who want to improve the outcome of the state education system by setting up challenger schools, is that she is a Tory.

The result of the Labour leadership election should come before midday.

Tags: comfort zone, general election 2015, Labour defeat, Labour leadership election campaign, Simon Danczuk

«Yes,» they will have exclaimed into their polenta and soil smoothies, «Now both candidates in the Labour leadership election are hard - line, proper, old - school socialists!»

Tags: austerity, far left, general election 2015, Jeremy Corbyn, Kenny Stevenson, Labour defeat, Labour leadership election 2015, PLP

As one party figure put it: «If just one in 10 trade unionists becomes an associate member, the unions will effectively control a majority of votes in a Labour leadership election.»

Meanwhile, way too many on the left have equally rapidly immersed themselves in a ridiculously premature Labour leadership election that provides a handy duvet beneath which to hide from electoral and political reality.

Fairer votes would be fine, but the system we've got isn't critically unfair and, as a Labour party member, I can't get a nagging scene out of my head: the announcement of the result of the Labour leadership election last year, with the numbers from each stage of the voting flashing up on the big screen and no - one understanding quite what was happening or who was winning.

When, during the last Labour leadership election, I posed critical questions for Corbyn supporters, one senior leftwing figure told me I had resigned from the left.

Normally in a Labour leadership election people like us either profess disinterest (or, possibly, even uninterest), or make jokes about intrusions into private grief.

The Labour leadership election is starting to resemble Tony Blair's «masochism strategy».

Tags: Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leadership election, leadership, Robin Thorpe, Tony Blair

Tags: electability, George Osborne, Harriet Harman, Kevin Meagher, Labour leadership election, welfare

«Ed Miliband has delivered the most personal speech of the Labour leadership election, coming clean about his early life and political inspirations.

Tags: bands, Jeremy Corbyn, John Slinger, Labour leadership election, moderates, resignation, Tom Watson

Jeremy Corbyn today triumphed over Owen Smith in the Labour leadership election with an even bigger mandate than last year.

«This should be the challenge for the Labour leadership election: not an argument about which policies of the Labour government the contenders did or did not support, or even which policies they support now, but a real attempt to identify the basis for a contemporary centre - left political project.

John McDonnell has signalled there could be a compromise on proposed changes to the Labour leadership election rules as he said the «heat is off» on the need to reduce MPs» influence on the process.

Today's Times has a new YouGov poll of Labour party members and registered supporters (so members, registered trade unionists and # 3 supporters — the same group who were able to vote in the Labour leadership election).

If it isnt then kindly please do tell me how many of the second preferences of Ed and David Miliband supporters were counted in the Labour leadership election?

It could have gone either way for Ed Balls this year, but once the Labour leadership election has ascended to its expected conclusion, and the former chancellor judges that the possibility of embarrassing his wife has receded, I strongly urge Balls to go for sequins rather than ermine.

First, we asked «If you had a vote in the Labour leadership election, who would you vote for?»

Andy Burnham's campaign team calls for meeting over concerns about «large scale» infiltration by Tories in the Labour leadership election

Not only did tactical voting take place during the Labour leadership election (held under AV) but it was actively encouraged by all campaigns I would presume.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) has decided to ban new members of the party from voting in the upcoming Labour leadership election.

Blair's book, A Journey, gives fresh details of the depths of the struggle between the two most powerful men in the Labour government and reopens the wounds of the Blair - Brown era on the day the ballots were sent out in the Labour leadership election.

The first thing to remember is that the relatively few people eligible to vote in the Labour leadership election — 400,000 odd until a few weeks ago, now more like 600,000 — are not remotely representative of the rest of the country.

In fairness, Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the Labour leadership election mirrored that of Trudeau in size (Trudeau steamrollered all competition, winning 78.86 % of the vote) but that is about where the similarities end.

Voting gets under way in the Labour leadership election, as David Miliband becomes the latest senior Labour figure to warn of the dangers of electing as leader the left - wing backbencher, Jeremy Corbyn.

Tony Blair has not pulled his punches in a series of attacks on the left - wing candidate for the Labour leadership election.

Labour has become increasingly reliant upon union sources of funding in recent years, and large public sector unions maintain an influential grip on the party's power structure, including having a third of the bloc - votes for the Labour leadership election currently underway.

Campbell was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015 [8] and one of a handful of Labour MPs to publicly support leaving the European Union.

He says: «What is striking about the Labour leadership election is that whatever you thought about Jeremy Corbyn, none of the other candidates came across as having yet got the depth and maturity and the leadership ability to lead their party.

Tagged: Andy Burnham · Eurozone Debt Crisis · Greece · Jeremy Corbyn · Labour leadership election · Liz Kendall · Troika · Yvette Cooper

«Labour is to look at broadening its electoral base by offering the chance for Labour sympathisers, and not just members or union levy payers, to be given a vote in the Labour leadership election.

The Labour leadership election is about choosing someone to be leader of the Opposition for the next 4 and 1/2 years, give David Cameron a hard time at PMQs every Wednesday, and lead the Labour Party into the next General Election in 2020.

A variant of QE for the people is People's Quantitative Easing, a policy proposed by Jeremy Corbyn during the 2015 Labour leadership election, which would require the Bank of England to create money to finance government investment via a National Investment Bank.

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.

Ah yes, the 2010 Labour leadership election.

The elder Miliband's relationship with his brother, Ed, has dominated the media coverage of the Labour leadership election.

I find this a strange «comment on the Labour leadership election.»

The other, more immediate, race is the Labour leadership election.

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.

Mr Miliband looks increasingly likely to appoint Mr Balls as his shadow chancellor if he wins the Labour leadership election.

Women overwhelmingly chose Jeremy Corbyn over Owen Smith in the Labour leadership election, an exit poll says.

I would be extremely cautious of polling about the Labour leadership election.

As ballot papers go out for the Labour leadership election and after weeks of hustings, does it feel as though these are the people the party is talking about or talking to?