Sentences with phrase «labour leadership speech»
Throws Balls's Labour leadership speech forecasting a double - dip recession into the spotlight
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Gordon Brown has kick - started the campaign for next year's Scottish parliament elections with a speech in Edinburgh - but made no mention of the Labour leadership crisis.
In his inaugural leadership speech at the 2010 Party Conference, he called on Labour to «inspire people with our vision of the good society».
Later this morning Corbyn gave a speech in Dagenham where he unveiled wide - ranging policy that will form the basis of a Labour manifesto for government under his leadership, including # 500bn of public spending.
In her speech during the Conservative leadership contest in the summer May also sounded even more radical than Labour's 2015 manifesto when she pledged: «We're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but employees as well.»
In his latest speech, Smith also risked the wrath of centrist Labour members as he took a swipe at Tony Blair, saying that under his leadership the party had lost touch with ordinary members.
At that year's Labour conference, he made what was widely interpreted as the opening salvo of a leadership campaign - with a speech appealing to the party's «soul» telling activists «we are best when we are Labour».
Giving his maiden speech in the House of Lords this week, former Labour MP and chair of the parliamentary Labour party David Watts said: «My advice to my own party leadership is that they should take less notice of the London - centric hard left political class who sit around in their # 1m mansions eating their croissants at breakfast and seeking to lay the foundations for a socialist revolution.»
After a speech yesterday, Mr Corbyn was defiant about his future and said he would stand again if Labour MPs brought about a leadership contest.
It also comes as some restless Labour MPs are backing a «show not tell» approach that sees leadership hopefuls winning over left - leaning members by delivering speeches that chime with their values - rather lecturing them on where Corbyn is going wrong.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has welcomed a speech by former minister Liam Byrne delivering the last rites to New Labour and claiming common ground with Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
«I'm not going to make the normal political speech either as shadow home secretary or as Labour leadership candidate - attacking the Government and setting out an alternative Labour response.
Labour MP John Woodcock was quick out of the traps to accuse the Labour leadership of distracting from the growing Tory unease over tax credits, as articulated by Heidi Allen in her maiden speech:
In a speech setting out how Labour would move on from an election defeat that remained «very raw», Ms Harman stressed that the influence of the unions over the decision on leadership had been altered by the move to a «one person, one vote» electoral system.
In a speech to her Salford constituency party, an «exasperated» Blears blew open the internal wrangling in the Labour party when she became the first member of the cabinet to acknowledge that ministers were jockeying for the leadership.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech in London on the Labour leadership race and the future of the party.
Mr Miliband sought to shake off the tabloids» «Red Ed» tag in his leader's speech to the party conference in Manchester after winning the Labour leadership off the back of substantial support from Britain's unions.
The shadow care minister delivered what was billed as a «concession speech» — just before voting closed in the Labour leadership contest at midday today.
On Monday, the Mail said Gordon Brown had to make the speech of his life if he was to silence Labour's rebels and revive battered confidence in his leadership.
The Bill had its Second Reading in the Commons yesterday, during which new Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams gave her maiden speech and David Miliband gave his first full speech as a backbencher since losing the Labour leadership.
Labour leadership contender Owen Smith delivers a speech at the Open University in Milton Keynes, where he promised to reverse Conservative cuts set to leave millions of low paid workers thousands of pounds a year worse off
Labour leadership frontrunner Andy Burnham has used a speech to focus his campaign on apprenticeships and technical education.
Giving the closing conference speech, McDonnell hinted at the Labour leadership's central arguments against the EU.
«Ed Miliband has delivered the most personal speech of the Labour leadership election, coming clean about his early life and political inspirations.
Given that John Reid's speech was on the final day of conference, his boost was probably more to do with his «victory» in Newsnight's focus group on the Labour leadership (or more to the point, given that not many people actually watch Newsnight, the media speculation that followed it).
They believe that the party leader's failure in his speech to mention the issues that cost Labour the election — immigration and the deficit — show the new leadership has no idea of how to reach out to mainstream voters.
Mr Corybn's speech to the National Women's Conference offered a change from the Labour leadership contest, which has so far dominated proceedings ahead of the party conference.
«While Labour fights a leadership contest and Lib Dems wonder whether they can change the voting system as a reward for their loyalty, Osborne needs to win the argument that his measures are «unavoidable» — a word that recurred in his speech as often as «progressive».
A sign of potential battle lines to come were demonstrated in Mrs May's speech this morning, in which she said voters faced a choice between «strong» leadership under the Tories and Labour «propped up» by other parties including the Liberal Democrats and the SNP.
Jeremy Corbyn is set for a key union speech in Brighton on Tuesday as Labour's Executive Committee meet in London to discuss his leadership.
The strategy for inflicting maximum damage on Labour's chances required the Prime Minister to make a good, but not very good, speech, and for everyone to stop talking about the leadership.
It says something about the rather dismal condition of both British politics and journalism, that this week there was an amount of liberal fluttering over a speech at the London School of Economics by former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who was beaten by his brother for the Labour leadership.
His relationship with the New Labour establishment - most of whom backed David for the leadership - has been prickly at times, although Tony Blair buried the hatchet by giving a supportive speech during the general election campaign.
So, the Queen's speech will contain plenty of measures designed to trip up the Labour leadership candidates.
After taking office as Labour leader in December 2011, Lamont urged First Minister Salmond to set a date for the referendum, arguing in her leadership acceptance speech that uncertainty over the referendum's timeline was having a negative impact on Scotland.