Sentences with phrase «labour under his leadership»

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The prime minister also claimed that cuts to public services begun under the leadership of former Labour PM Tony Blair and involved «governments of all colours, councils of all political persuasions».

Sarwar was MP for Glasgow Central from 2010 to 2015 and became an MSP for the Glasgow region in 2016, and was deputy leader of Scottish Labour under Johann Lamont's leadership.

These seats were last contested in 2012 and saw Labour make gains of over 500 councillors under the leadership of Ed Miliband.

Paul Nuttall wants to convince you that under his leadership Ukip will pose a serious threat to Labour because convincing you of that is Paul Nuttall's job.

As Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, under the leadership of John Smith MP, Harriet led Labour's campaign against the Tory decision to put 17.5 % VAT on gas and electricity.

This follows reports that hundreds of Labour MPs would refuse to serve under Corbyn and warnings by senior party figures that the party would become divided under his leadership.

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.

Never mind that under Corbyn, Labour has increased its vote share on its 2015 general election showing, and grown its percentage majorities in all four by - elections fought under his leadership.

Labour are competitive despite Corbyn — and they're competitive because of the legacy power of the Labour brand on key issues like healthcare and housing, and also because Labour have created and marketed so many retail policies (which, to be fair, has occurred under Corbyn's leadership).

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.

Under the leadership of Charles Kennedy, the party sought to reaffirm an identity that had become somewhat blurred during Paddy Ashdown's prolonged but ultimately fruitless flirtation with Labour and Tony Blair.

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.

I am at present working on a study of the ideology of the Labour party under the Miliband leadership.

In 2010, he stated that he would demand Clegg's resignation as a precursor to any future Labour - Liberal Democrat coalition under his own leadership.

Could Labour, under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, win a General Election?

Former MP David Miliband spoke for many people when he argued that under his brother's leadership, Labour had hoped to «suspend the laws of political gravity» by moving somewhat to the left, yet continuing to believe victory was still possible.

The former Labour leader said Ukip had a record of «stirring up division» under Farage's leadership.

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.

After Labour lost the Copeland by - election in February, despite defending a much larger majority over the Conservatives than in Barrow, Woodcock warned Labour was headed for a «historic and catastrophic» election defeat under Corbyn's leadership.

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.

The most right - wing Labour government in history destroyed an electoral coalition that had seen Labour win 13.5 million votes in 1997 but lose five million votes whilst in power — overwhelmingly under Tony Blair's leadership.

He condemned «predatory capitalism», with calls for limits to executive pay and controls on the excesses of the financial industry; under his leadership, he said, Labour would reform capitalism, building what he called «responsible capitalism».

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.

Though Corbyn's polling is diabolical and the likelihood of Labour winning an election under his leadership is slim, that does not mean Smith will defeat him in the leadership election.

Under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership Labour has shifted its campaign focus away from tighter immigration controls to attacking the «nasty Tories» unwillingness to assist refugees.

The Milibands Ed has come from being a dead man walking — even a year after he won the leadership, people were saying «he's down - and - out, there's nothing that can resurrect Labour under Ed Miliband», and he's proved that is completely wrong.

If any questionable behaviour is found to have taken place, the Labour leadership candidate could see his campaign put under severe strain.

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.

I'm delighted that the authoritarian Labour government under Tony Blair's leadership has finally got its comeuppance from judges in Luxembourg.

But he quit the Labour Party last year, saying he had «lost confidence» in the party under Ed Miliband's leadership because it had made a «policy shift moving back towards what Old Labour stood for».

Under your leadership, Labour has no hope of winning power because you simply don't engage with the typical person on the street and you don't inspire belief among the public at large.

He wants and hopes to see a Labour victory and believes Labour can indeed win under Ed's leadership.»

Many on the left of the party — including party grandees such as former leader Charles Kennedy — are likely to be further troubled by Clegg's message that under his leadership the party is no longer a natural home for disaffected Labour supporters.

That Labour would lose fewer seats under his leadership than under Brown's?

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 leadership.

Jeremy Corbyn will be hoping to disprove the polls and show Labour is making headway under his leadership in a key test one month before the general election.

Mr Goldsmith says he used those words to describe the economic policies of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP was shadow public health spokesman under Ed Miliband, after losing out to him in the 2010 Labour leadership contest.

She also made a calculated attempt to seize and redefine a term that's being argued about by Labour leadership contenders, although amongst them «aspiration» is often code for a return to the kind of politics seen under Tony Blair.

Many young people like me joined the SDP precisely in response to Labour's visceral anti-Europeanism under the leadership of Michael Foot, and the dark days of the 70s and its endless strikes.

Shortly afterwards former energy secretary Ed Miliband announced his intention to stand in the leadership race and under Labour's electoral college voting system was narrowly elected over his brother David in the fourth and final round of voting.

Labour is facing the prospect of «political oblivion» if it goes into a general election under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, a senior backbencher has warned.

The Labour unity that typified the Smith and Cook leadership, begins to disintegrate under Miliband.

Gordon Brown: «Under Tony Blair's magnificent leadership the Labour party is now ready to rebuild the bond of trust between the British people and their government.»

This led to the Labour manifesto for the 2015 general election under Ed Miliband's leadership which promised to «legislate to make three - year tenancies the norm, with a ceiling on excessive rent rises».

At the time, the Conservative Party was perceived to have moved to the right under Margaret Thatcher and the Labour Party was seen as having moved to the left under the leadership of Michael Foot.

One such conciliatory option to win them is the request by a swathe of mainstream Labour MPs for a return to MPs voting in shadow cabinet elections, which was abolished under Ed Miliband's leadership in 2011.

[176] The Fire Brigades Union, which «severed links» with Labour in 2004, re-joined the party under Corbyn's leadership in 2015.

Trades unions will no longer control a third of the votes in Labour leadership elections, under proposed changes to be announced by Ed Miliband.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.