In the weekly knockabout that is prime minister's question - time,
the Labour opposition leader Ed Miliband pressed David Cameron to admit to this tendency at the heart of his own party.
Despite opposition from its left wing the Labour party supported British nuclear weapons but opposed tests, and
Labour Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell and shadow foreign secretary Aneurin Bevan agreed with Sandys on the importance of reducing dependence on the American deterrent.
But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other
Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory general election victory apart from John Smith.
However, Corbyn's ratings as
a Labour opposition leader almost 18 months in are closer to Michael Foot's.»
Not exact matches
A war erupted inside the
Labour Party, the government's official
opposition, over
leader Corbyn's decision to make the party's parliamentarians vote in favour of May triggering Article 50.
British
opposition politicians said Trump was not welcome in the U.K. Former
opposition Labour party
leader leader Ed Miliband tweeted to Trump that the reason he cancelled was really «because nobody wanted you to come.
He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's
opposition to the
Labour leader.
However, it would have been far better for us all if he had been held to account in a court of law,» said Jeremy Corbyn,
leader of
Labour, the main
opposition party.
Opposition Labour Party
leader Ed Miliband on Friday urged Cameron to apologize for «the appalling error of judgment he made in hiring Andy Coulson,» but Cameron refused and said Coulson remained a friend.
«It is right that Rebekah Brooks has finally taken responsibility for the terrible events that happened on her watch, like the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone,» said
opposition Labour Party
leader Ed Miliband, who had been demanding that she quit.
VICTORIA — New Democrat Official
Opposition Leader John Horgan and New Democrat spokesperson for
labour Shane Simpson paid tribute to Jim Sinclair, who has announced he will not seek re-election as President of the BC Federation of L
labour Shane Simpson paid tribute to Jim Sinclair, who has announced he will not seek re-election as President of the BC Federation of
LabourLabour.
Britain's shocking decision to remove itself from the European Union brought more political turmoil Sunday as Scotland's
leader threatened to block the move and the
opposition Labour Party's
leader faced a coup attempt from his own legislators.
The
Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing, Harold Wilson once claimed — though it's notable that he did so when it was in
opposition and before he was
leader.
Jeremy Corbyn — all but certain to be re-elected as
Labour leader next weekend - really believes he can win the next general election, despite having the worst ever poll ratings for a
leader of the
opposition, not just at this stage, but at any stage, of a parliament.
Embattled UK
opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will stand in any new party leadership election amid calls for his resignation in light of the referendum result.
Ireland's
Labour Party is well - placed to gain votes from both Prime Minister Brian Cowen's Fianna Fail and the
opposition leader Enda Kenny's Fine Gael.
I watched Brown to day, he is a very very poor
leader end of story, he is dragging this government into a very very long stay out of power, I do think people will see
Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer l
Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in
opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer
labourlabour.
With polls suggesting the Tories could challenge
Labour as the main
opposition party in Scotland, our fifth most - read item this week was an interview with the Scottish Conservative
Leader, Ruth Davidson.
In the 2016 Scottish Parliamentary elections,
Labour fell to third place behind the Scottish Tories, whose Ruth Davidson is now
leader of the
opposition and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon main challenger to be First Minister after the 2021 election.
His tenure as
Labour leader was characterised by a leftward shift in his party's policies, and by
opposition to the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government's cuts to the public sector.
After losing the 1959 general election,
Labour Party
leader Hugh Gaitskell came to believe that public
opposition to nationalisation had led to the party's poor performance and announced that he proposed to amend Clause IV.
On becoming
Leader of the
Labour Party on 25 September 2010, Miliband also became
Leader of the
Opposition.
What we do learn anew from this poll is that Ruth Davidson has struck a chord with her claim that she would make a more effective
leader of the
opposition than her
Labour counterpart, Kezia Dugdale.
Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who was
Leader of the
Labour Party as well as
Leader of the
Opposition between 2010 and 2015.
He was the acting
Leader of the
Opposition and
Leader of the
Labour Party (as chairman of the Parliamentary
Labour Party) from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government.
She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy
Leader of the
Labour Party, she has served as the Acting
Leader of the
Labour Party twice and
Leader of the
Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.
Despite the deep
opposition to Corbyn in the Parliamentary
Labour Party (PLP), the
leader's base of support among the grassroots remains solid.
Following the resignation of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister and
Leader of the Labour Party on 11 May 2010, Harman automatically became the temporary leader of the party as well as the Leader of the Opposition, entitling her to the salary and government car that come with the
Leader of the
Labour Party on 11 May 2010, Harman automatically became the temporary
leader of the party as well as the Leader of the Opposition, entitling her to the salary and government car that come with the
leader of the party as well as the
Leader of the Opposition, entitling her to the salary and government car that come with the
Leader of the
Opposition, entitling her to the salary and government car that come with the role.
Labour's
leader has been more mocked than praised in his first two years in
opposition.
The strategy, dubbed «Let Corbyn be Corbyn» aims to portray the
Labour leader as an anti-establishment figure and hopes to build on recent populist movements that have set themselves up in
opposition to a political and media elite.
Acting
Labour leader Harriet Harman said she would offer a «responsible
opposition» as ex-Cabinet members began their work in the shadow Cabinet:
The
Labour leader is set to press on with his bold attempt at reforming the relationship between his party and the unions, despite intense
opposition from those gathered at the TUC's annual conference in Bournemouth.
In Parliament, Field was made a member of the
Opposition frontbench by the then
Labour leader Michael Foot as a spokesman on education in 1980, but was dropped a year later.
It might be argued that any
leader would have a formidable task in restoring
Labour's «efficiency» as an
opposition party.
A
Labour leader, a Shadow Chancellor and an
Opposition which supports an end to austerity is a wholly new development in British politics.
Patrick Diamond assesses the
Labour leader's performance as an
opposition leader according to five criteria, and concludes the risk of a
Labour schism between «principles» and «power» — of the kind that rivened the party in the early 1980s — is considerable.
The
Labour leader made his
opposition to the EU's state aid rules a key point in his argument on Brexit, but how many of them actually stack up?
His skills — or lack of them — are evident enough from the polling, where he continues to set the wrong sort of records (a recent one being that no
Labour leader of the
opposition has had such bad ratings on his first anniversary in office).
Instead, every
Labour leader since Ramsay MacDonald has automatically been slotted into one of two very important constitutional positions: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom or Leader of the Oppos
leader since Ramsay MacDonald has automatically been slotted into one of two very important constitutional positions: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom or
Leader of the Oppos
Leader of the
Opposition.
If the majority of
Labour MPs chose to break away from Corbyn — which seems likely — he would no longer be the
Leader of the
Opposition.
The
opposition leader promised a vigorous political response from
Labour in the new year, as he seeks to dispel questions around his leadership.
Labour was forced to backpedal after shadow Welsh secretary Peter Hain complained about the lack of screen time during the coverage for
leader of the
opposition Ed Miliband.
And
Labour's situation in Scotland went from bad to worse as Scottish Tory
leader Ruth Davidson, who won a sensational victory from the SNP in Edinburgh Central, hinted her party would become the official
opposition in Holyrood.
But
Labour did lose control of one council in Dudley and unlike under most previous
opposition leaders, failed to make any overall gains.
The prime minister recounted allegations from the
Labour government era and then said the
opposition leader was «just a bit late» with his questions, claiming the Fox bandwagon had moved on.
Hon. Boris Johnson;
leader of the
Labour Party and
leader of the
Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn; Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan; and the Duke of Cambridge.
Of this group, only 17 % thought
Labour prime minister Gordon Brown had come across best overall in the debates, and 61 % thought he had performed worst; 31 % thought David Cameron (then the
leader of the
opposition) had won, while 34 % thought him the loser.
He is a very different type of
leader from his predecessor Neil Kinnock, who was probably a tad too brash for the British electorate; Smith is the friendly bank manager in the High Street (before, that is, bank managers became a toxic brand) and he leads a united
Labour opposition.
Harriet Harman became the
Leader of the
Opposition and acting
Leader of the
Labour Party following the resignation of Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010, pending a leadership election [89] subsequently won by Ed Miliband.
With
Labour in turmoil as
Labour MPs continue plotting to oust their
leader, the SNP has solid grounds for claiming that it is much better placed to fulfil the core roles of an official
opposition.