Sentences with phrase «labour skullduggery»

And as for Neil's accusation of New Labour skullduggery, having myself been on the receiving end, it looked very small beer.

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Lamont's long list of grievances included being elbowed aside during Miliband's Beria - style takeover of the Falkirk selection process in 2013, [32] The process of selecting a new Labour parliamentary candidate for Falkirk began after sitting mp Eric Joyce launched a drunken assault (headbuttings, etc.) on fellow members of the House of Commons and rapidly descended into a turf war, with skullduggery on both sides, between the Mandelson faction and local union officials, culminating with Miliband's decision to call in the police to deal with his party comrades, only to be told there was insignificant evidence to launch a criminal investigation.