Sentences with phrase «labour leadership rivals»

Labour leadership rivals Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn clashed over Isis and Brexit as they went...

Andy Burnham has said he is disappointed that his Labour leadership rival, Yvette Cooper, suggested he step aside.

Not exact matches

Corbyn's leadership rival Owen Smith may have accused him of failing to do enough to stamp out misogyny within the party, but a number of female Labour members do not seem to agree with that.

Smith also told his rival he would not take a shadow cabinet post under his leadership because it would be «futile» with nobody listening to Labour.

Support for Smith is understood to be growing among Labour MPs, with some who had nominated Eagle's leadership bid already switching sides to back her rival.

And so it is no surprise that he is at his wiliest in wiggling around Gordon Brown to assume leadership of New Labour, depicting Brown as intellectually brilliant and skillful, but also an overcautious and unfailingly strange rival wedded to traditional, Crosland - inspired Labour.

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.

Within twelve hours a new opinion poll of members was released suggesting Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership by a landslide, with none of his rivals even coming close.

PoliticsHome has learned that support for Mr Smith is growing among Labour MPs, with some who had nominated Ms Eagle's leadership bid already switching sides to back her rival.

The issue was thrust on to the agenda this weekend after two leadership rivals used separate interviews to criticise the decision to go to war, citing the impact it had had on the Labour Party.

As rival leadership campaign activists settle back into normal routine and the commentariat gets back into the groove of marking PMQs performances, Ed Miliband faces the job of leading Labour.

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.

Last week, Yvette Cooper — a seasoned Labour hand who has had government experience both as work and pensions secretary and as chief secretary to the Treasury, and is perhaps Burnham's greatest leadership rival — suggested she agreed with Miliband's refusal to accept blame.

Also in her interview, Abbott criticises rival Labour leadership teams for complaining about the voting system used to elect the new leader.

Despite his English roots, Richard Leonard won a decisive victory over his rival Anas Sarwar in Scottish Labour leadership contest.

Burnham was not among the almost 50 Labour MPs who voted against the bill last night, including his leadership rival Jeremy Corbyn.

We didn't see this coming until it became clear that (a) the thousands of new «# 3 members» who joined to vote in the Labour leadership election were nearly all Corbynistas, (b) Jeremy was playing to packed houses of adoring crowds everywhere he went to campaign and (c) his rivals were fighting lacklustre campaigns in comparison.

He knows he has many disparagers - both from among the supporters of his main rival for the Labour leadership, his elder brother, David Miliband, and from the professional commentariat, who caricature him as an unreconstructed Brownite statist with limited appeal to the wider electorate, especially in England.

Latest opinion polls show labour leadership candidate overtaking his main rival Jeremy Corbyn.

«FIVE candidates will fight for the Labour leadership after backers of the favourite, David Miliband, lent their support to less - fancied rivals.

«Labour leadership contender David Miliband is challenging his rivals to a TV debate.

«David Miliband threw caution to the wind last night by calling for a full television debate between all candidates for the Labour leadership, in a move that could help boost his rivals.»

LABOUR leadership hopeful Owen Smith will today tell veteran rival Angela Eagle to get out of the way and let him challenge Jeremy Corbyn.

The left - wing Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has brushed off criticism from his rivals, warning against the debate turning «puerile».

Labour leadership candidate Yvette Cooper says rival candidate Jeremy Corbyn is offering «old solutions to old problems».

Meanwhile, in the Labour Scotland leadership, Unite is now publicly backing the main rival to the Westminster - facing & Blairite stooge Murphy — saying that whatever happens he must not be allowed to be leader.

I also do not believe it will be at all easy to change the leadership of Labour so soon after electing a new leader in such a short space of time - It shouldn't be discounted also that Corbyn could do very well as party leader in the next few years and stop dead in their tracks any attempts by his rivals within the party to challenge his authority.

During the Labour leadership contest last year, the authors say Mr Balls was furious when Mr Miliband got secret phone numbers of key union leaders and persuaded Unite to back him, not his rival.

These changes bring Labour very close to being an individual membership party (as most of its rival parties already are, at least for leadership election purposes) while preserving in a much changed form the historic relationship with organised labour that Mr Miliband rightly cherLabour very close to being an individual membership party (as most of its rival parties already are, at least for leadership election purposes) while preserving in a much changed form the historic relationship with organised labour that Mr Miliband rightly cherlabour that Mr Miliband rightly cherishes.