Sentences with phrase «labour win the leadership»

Can Labour win the leadership challenge by framing it as one between Nasty David Cameron versus Nice Mr Miliband?

Not exact matches

A leadership race ensued and MLA Rachel Notley won a decisive victory over fellow MLA David Eggen and labour activist Rod Loyola.

He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

Conservatives betting their # 3s on his winning the Labour leadership could lose their party at the election.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

Owen Smith launched a new vision for workers» rights today with a spring in his step — after new sampling from the Labour leadership contest showed he has a sliver of a chance of winning.

(Although since then Scottish Labour has again left the field with Kezia Dugdale quitting the leadership for love triggering a leadership battle between Richard Leonard and Anas Sarwar that's increasingly unseemly even though left wing Leonard has already all but won thanks to the now normal Labour practise of signing up lots of union members on the cheap.)

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

New Labour's massive majorities meant that the leadership could ignore even significant rebellions and still be confident it would ultimately win the day.

Camp followers of the Milibrothers whisper that Ed and David share a common plan to punish Ed Balls, whichever sibling wins the Labour leadership, by appointing Yvette Cooper as shadow chancellor.

Congratulations to Kez Dugdale and Alex Rowley on winning the Scottish Labour leadership elections.

The question of how Labour can win is therefore a problem for all the leadership candidates, not just a concern to be wheeled out when attacking Corbyn.

I've joined Momentum, the grassroots Labour organization that helped Jeremy Corbyn win his second leadership election.

Socialists agree it will be a great opportunity if Corbyn wins the Labour leadership — but for what?

Already at this time there were signs that Labour might win the next election, much aided by the ERM crisis but not yet by Blair's leadership.

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

The TV clash happened when Butler was asked why she had nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership when she wanted Andy Burnham to win.

Corbyn won the Labour leadership less than three months ago with a huge mandate from party members, but without the support of most MPs in the parliamentary party.

[80] The three other defeated candidates for the Labour leadership all stood in the election, though Diane Abbott failed to win enough votes to gain a place.

Love him or not, whichever Miliband brother wins the Labour leadership contest must choose a man who

And he argued that by dismantling a vote - winning Labour machine, the current leadership were doing the Tories» job for them.

Even if Cameron wins the referendum following a negotiation that brings little immediate practical change there will be calls for more reforms from those that lost and perhaps from a Labour leadership that campaigned reluctantly to stay in.

He won the Labour leadership last year because he offered an alternative to austerity and the stale old politics of the last three decades.

Had he won then the Labour leadership contest as we know it could have been over, with Owen Smith poised to take the crown.

In third place we ask if Yvette Cooper could really win the Labour leadership contest.

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.

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than -LSB-...]

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».

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.»

By Tim Bale and Paul Webb: Who will win the Labour leadership election?

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.

And above all, Tony Blair is right that Labour must move out of its «comfort zone» and offer leadership if it is to win.

24th September 2016, The Independent: Labour leadership: Liberal Democrats report increase in new members as Jeremy Corbyn win contest

Ed Miliband won the Labour leadership because New Labour had failed.

Of the two currents able to win Labour's leadership the Blairites are the least likely to challenge the Tories and will cede the most political ground.

The accusations do not refer to antisemitic actions but usually to comments, often made on social media, long before Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership.

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.

Corbyn can clearly win any democratic leadership contest within Labour, so another coup attempt along similar lines to the 2016 leadership election would not succeed at present.

Within twelve hours a new opinion poll of members was released suggesting Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership by a landslide, with none of his rivals even coming close.

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.»

In 2004, the party was given an unexpected boost by winning the support of former Labour MP and television presenter Robert Kilroy - Silk, who got himself elected to the European parliament, was appalled by the reactionary politics of his new colleagues, failed to win the leadership and, in the words of an activist, «disappeared in a puff of vanity».

Corbyn, however, who won a convincing victory in the leadership battle with 62 % of the vote, will seek to consolidate his grip on Labour policymaking.

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.

Labour MP Jess Phillips has said she could resign from the party if Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership contest.

She told BBC News Labour needs «to be in the centre ground to win a general election» but ruled herself out of a leadership bid.

Mr Miliband will set out a 10 - point plan of his priorities for the country if he wins the Labour leadership later this month.

Mr Kerr, who failed to win the Scottish Labour leadership in 2007, said the party in Scotland needed to be independent of the UK organisation.

The theme of Miliband's weirdness has been in wide circulation ever since he won the Labour leadership contest in 2009, beating his brother David.