Sentences with phrase «labour leadership hustings»

The lights went out at the Labour leadership hustings during a question about energy supply plunging the room into darkness.

Ed Balls was in good form at last night's Labour leadership hustings at the TUC conference, producing a string of jokes which rather suggested that he thinks the contest is all over as far as he's concerned.

On Wednesday night Paul wrote about Channel Four's Labour leadership hustings and concisely concluded what each of the candidates was about.

So it's a good job the Wakefield MP had her wits about her as the Mirror's Kevin Maguire chucked an unexpected question her way at the GMB Labour leadership hustings.

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

The Labour leadership hustings are not fit for purpose and the real answers are elsewhere, says Dan...

The Labour leadership hustings are not fit for purpose and the real answers are elsewhere, says Dan Hodges in his latest column for TP.

Asked during a Labour leadership hustings last night, whether he would defend a Nato ally invaded by the Russians, he replied instead that he would seek to avoid any such conflict happening in the first place.

I'm interviewing @JackDromeyMP at labour leadership hustings and this happens!

The comments come after Labour MP Jack Dromey was filmed also criticising Corbyn's leadership — and then warmly greeting the leader when he showed up at the Labour leadership hustings in Birmingham.

Not exact matches

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

The Labour leader sat in the aisle of the London to Newcastle service on 11 August as he made his way to a leadership hustings event with Owen Smith.

Following hustings, the Labour party will convene a special conference to formally declare the result of the leadership contest.

Already this week, Labour has outlined plans to revamp its leadership election hustings, with live...

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?

LabourList reports the disgusting remarks at a hustings of John McDonnell, the Left - wing candidate for the Labour leadership, who is unlikely to reach the ballot paper due to lack of support:

While Labour's leadership contest has been attracting more headlines, the two Lib Dem leadership candidates have attended 25 hustings, more than 100 campaign events and covered about 20,000 miles between them.

People in Nuneaton shown photos of the Labour leadership hopefuls struggle to name them, as the contenders hold a hustings in the town

On the evening of 9 June, just hours after nominations for the Labour leadership closed, the New Statesman hosted the first official leadership hustings at Church House in Westminster.

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

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.

Already this week, Labour has outlined plans to revamp its leadership election hustings, with live screenings and questions from non-supporters.

The last Labour leadership contest was dull, dull, dull: dominated by seemingly endless staid hustings where contenders took it in turns to answer one worthy question after another from audiences made up of loyal party members.

That was the question put to people in Nuneaton, the town chosen by Newsnight for the first live televised hustings debate with the Labour leadership contenders.

Mr Corbyn is set to address the Parliamentary Labour Party today at hustings ahead of this summer's leadership campaign.

The leadership candidates now have one last televised hustings on Question Time this Thursday to put their case to become Labour leader to members.

David Miliband has warned Labour could be out of power for years as he made his bid for the party leadership at the final hustings before September's vote.

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-LSB-...] 11.35 am: The New Statesman held a hustings for the Labour leadership candidates last night.

The parliamentary Labour party will stage hustings for the leadership contenders on 8 June and for deputy leadership contenders on 9 June when nominations for both posts open.

Labour has done nowhere near enough to address the basic charge of economic mismanagement; from the ludicrously long leadership hustings, which allowed the coalition government an unrivalled opportunity to set the political narrative for four whole months, to Balls» stupid delight in his «flat - lining» gesture, the damage has been done and is yet to be repaired.

Sunday will see the first Labour party hustings for the deputy leadership in Coventry - David Thompson will be taking the temperature live.

«You and the other leadership contenders attended hustings in towns and cities across the UK, including eleven hosted by the Labour party.