In the 2015
Labour Party leadership election, The Guardian supported Yvette Cooper and was critical of left - winger Jeremy Corbyn, the successful candidate.
The 2014 Scottish
Labour Party leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new leader and deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party, following the resignations of Johann Lamont as leader and Anas Sarwar as deputy.
The 2011 Scottish
Labour Party leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new leader of the Scottish Labour Party.
Then, in
the Labour Party leadership election, these vicious degenerates deliberately humiliated Woman of our Times, Liz Kendall.
In July 2015, Lapavitsas endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the UK
Labour Party leadership election.
In July 2015, Stiglitz endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in
the Labour Party leadership election.
«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of
the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.
Not exact matches
The next event was the
Labour leadership election in which Jeremy Corbyn sought a fresh mandate from his beleaguered
party.
She was a member of the
leadership team with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown re-shaping the
Labour Party and preparing the successful 1997
election campaign.
It comes as 180,541 people have applied to become registered
Labour supporters to take part in the
party's
leadership election - netting the cash - strapped
party a cool # 4.5 million.
Amongst the bitter mud slinging of
Labour's
leadership election it is prescient to assess the
party's recent engagement with the NHS and ask why the gamble did not pay off.
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.
Conservatives betting their # 3s on his winning the
Labour leadership could lose their
party at the
election.
For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the
party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the
Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the
election trying to minimise its differences with the government.
As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the
party (in the first week of the
election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by
Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a
leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general
election campaign.
I read that, now, to mean «as long as it complies with Cameron's dictates» If, as is suggested, Mandleson pulls the rug from under Brown, prior to a general
election, and the
Labour Party get a new invigorated
leadership then, sadly, Cameron will not have a chance.
We reached out to Yes voters within Scottish
Labour in last year's
leadership campaigns, should we not reach out beyond the
party in this years UK
leadership election?
Since the
leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn has made it his priority to turn
Labour into a democratic socialist
party with the support of social movements.
A forthcoming by -
election in the Cumbrian constituency of Copeland is shaping up to become a key test for the
Labour Party's electoral prospects under the
leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
A growing number of voices within the
party are calling for a robust deputy
leadership election within the
Labour party too.
With
Labour faced with another
leadership election between two brands of liberalism, the gulf between the
Labour Party and it's traditional working class base (and almost everyone else) has never been greater.
The
Labour leadership contenders are spending more on their campaigns than the Green
Party spent nationally in the general
election.
You could not have a TV debate onthe
labour party election leadership, because no one would watch, and advert space would not pay, just like
labour, a dead loss.
In last year's
leadership election in Britain's opposition
Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn was the rank outsider who defied the odds.
He nominated David Miliband in the
Labour Party (UK)
leadership election, 2010, but did not nominate anyone in the 2015 or 2016 contests.
This was a reference to the events of late July and early August 2008 which followed
Labour's defeat to the Scottish National
Party in the Glasgow East by -
election when, with a demoralised Gordon Brown on holiday in Suffolk, with
Labour as many as 25 points behind in the polls, and with MPs insurgent and openly discussing a
leadership challenge, Miliband made his move.
By 9 June, the deadline for entry into the
leadership election, Miliband had been nominated by just over 24 % of the Parliamentary
Labour Party, double the threshold.
Tom Quinn's research interests include British
party politics, the UK coalition agreement, leadership elections, and the Labour Party's relationship with the trade un
party politics, the UK coalition agreement,
leadership elections, and the
Labour Party's relationship with the trade un
Party's relationship with the trade unions.
Comment: The reason why
Labour lost the 2010 general
election, is because the
party leadership and hierarchy became out of touch with popular opinion amongst members, progressives and the electorate in general.
This way of presenting the
election exploits the considerable public approval of Mrs May's
leadership of the government (52 percent satisfied) compared to Mr Corbyn's
leadership of the
Labour party (23 percent satisfied, 64 percent dissatisfied.
Labour is to make
leadership a defining issue at the next general
election, according to a
party whip.
The last
Labour leadership election was beset by rows over attempts by
Labour officials to strike off registered supporters who did not «share the values and aims of the
Labour party».
Labour's advance on 5 May, beating the Tories in the English local
elections, is a result of the
party's change of orientation under Jeremy Corbyn's
leadership.
Field nominated Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the
Labour leadership election of 2015, [23] stating that while he did not think Corbyn could win a general
election, he hoped his candidacy would force the
party to confront its «deficit denial».
The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish
Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the
party is 20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's
election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.
One member of the
Labour Party's centre - right wrote to Jon Lansman that: «we find it strange that the winning candidate in a Labour leadership election would sustain the life of the campaign after winning, rather than seeing their role now as having responsibility to unite the whole party.&r
Party's centre - right wrote to Jon Lansman that: «we find it strange that the winning candidate in a
Labour leadership election would sustain the life of the campaign after winning, rather than seeing their role now as having responsibility to unite the whole
party.&r
party.»
Under Jeremy Corbyn's
leadership the
Labour Party has consistently polled over 40 per cent for the past nine months since the general
election, and held a narrow lead over the Tories.
Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the
leadership contest had joined the
Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general
election.
Constituency
Labour Party nominations in the
leadership election closed yesterday, with Jeremy Corbyn securing 285 CLPs, 84.3 % of all those that made nominations, compared to Owen Smith's 53, or 15.7 % of the total.
Labour now faces a similar conflict of opinion, made worse by the need to hold a
leadership election using a system which highlights the divisions in the
party.
Labour party representatives have been accusing the hard left of «entryism» in the run up to the
leadership election next month.
The next couple of months will see a
Labour leadership election which will test Jeremy Corbyn's support in the
party.
Having achieved a significant boost to membership and supporter affiliation during and after the
leadership election, what can a numerically strengthened
Labour party achieve?
To the bemusement of their own
party, the Tory
leadership will go into the
election accepting
Labour's spending plans, proposing that 45 % of GDP is taken in tax, and pledging a tax increase to match every tax cut.
Andy Burnham is the
Labour leadership contender most likely to improve the
party's chances at the next general
election, according to a survey of 2,000 people for The Independent by ORB.
Although
Labour's «vitriol, bile and insults» are now being aimed at him personally, he hoped the
party would stop talking to itself after its
leadership election, and he has no intention of returning the fire.
«People will have opinions this way and that, but it's incredibly important once that [
leadership]
election is complete that we really do come together — while
Labour continues to tear themselves apart over the summer — and we can immediately hit the ground running after the summer break as a united
party,» he said.
In August 2015, it was revealed that Loughton was amongst a number of supporters of other political
parties who had paid # 3 to register to join the
Labour Party in an attempt to participate in its
leadership election.
Labour has picked Tom Watson as its deputy leader in a role that will involve helping to rebuild the
party after its bruising
election defeat and
leadership contest.
In an address to the Parliamentary
Labour Party (PLP) he accepted the party was still not in a position to win the next election under his leader
Party (PLP) he accepted the
party was still not in a position to win the next election under his leader
party was still not in a position to win the next
election under his
leadership.