Sentences with phrase «miliband as party leader»

44 per cent agreed with the statement that «Labour would have a better chance in the next General Election without Ed Miliband as party leader».

Labour's National Executive Committee is to meet to draw up a timetable for the race to replace Ed Miliband as party leader.

Alan Johnson leads calls today for reform of the Labour Party, declaring that the system that elected Ed Miliband as party leader was wrong and should be changed to weaken the grip of trade unions.

More Labour MPs have been «testing the waters» and «consulting colleagues» over their chances of replacing Ed Miliband as party leader.

Not exact matches

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

Boris Johnson's performance against Ed Miliband on the Andrew Marr sofa could go down in history as the moment he threw away his best chance of becoming Conservative party leader and prime minister.

YouGov found that Miliband now has a lead over Cameron among voters on which party leader is «most in touch with ordinary people's concerns», as well as being «most genuine and authentic».

At the end of last month Ed Miliband had net personal ratings of -46 % according to YouGov with 68 % of voters saying he is «doing badly» as leader of the Labour party.

Figures from the Electoral Commission put him as the largest private donor to Labour - although in fact there has only been one other private donor since Ed Miliband became leader of the party.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

As a key Blairite and former union leader, his contribution to the row will be interpreted as a sign that centrist elements in the party feel Mr Miliband's leadership is moving in their preferred directioAs a key Blairite and former union leader, his contribution to the row will be interpreted as a sign that centrist elements in the party feel Mr Miliband's leadership is moving in their preferred directioas a sign that centrist elements in the party feel Mr Miliband's leadership is moving in their preferred direction.

However Miliband is the big draw, even if his previous party role is downplayed in literature for the event: he's described as a «Twitter personality, podcast star, and former leader of the Labour party».

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

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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.

Following Labour's defeat by the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, Miliband announced his resignation as leader on 8 May 2015.

After the 2015 general election, in which Labour lost to the Conservative Party, Miliband resigned as leader.

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

After the Labour Party was defeated at the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party; in September 2010, Miliband was elected to replace him.

Miliband is of Jewish heritage — the first Jewish leader of the Labour Party [157][158]-- and describes himself as a Jewish atheist.

Conference will be extremely important as the new leader seeks to unite the party (and possibly the Miliband family) after the contest and start to build a new team to take on the coalition.

In a nutshell, Labour lead UKIP by 29 points in Doncaster North, not twelve; Miliband leads Cameron as best PM by 14 points, not one point; Miliband's constituents would rather see him as PM than Cameron; they give him the highest ratings of the four main party leaders, not the third highest; and they trust Miliband and Balls more on the economy than Cameron and Osborne, not the reverse.

On the 2010 decision to elect Ed Miliband as leader «I voted for David, but I understand why the party chose Ed, because he more than anybody in the race showed that he had understood where we had gone wrong.»

Labour leader Ed Miliband will pledge to repeal the controversial housing benefit reform known as the spare room subsidy - or the «bedroom tax» - if his party win the next General Election in 2015.

Labour leader Ed Miliband will today tell the Welsh Labour Conference that his party will «govern without fear or favour» so that the same rules apply to the richest and most powerful as to everyone else.

This is in contrast to a YouGov poll in the Times today which asked a nationwide sample how people would vote with Vince Cable as leader — in YouGov's control question asking how people would vote with the existing party leaders the Lib Dems were on 8 %, if the leaders were Cameron, Miliband and Cable the Lib Dems would still be on 8 %.

The roots of Labour's defeat can be traced back to 2010, when the party chose Ed Miliband as its leader.

The fact that Miliband had few supporters in the party and the media, and had no powerful international friends, magnified his isolation and weakness as a leader.

So as the leader of the Labour party Ed Miliband has just said, we're not the least complacent about this.

In this final debate, Miliband will appear as a rather anomalous figure alongside a group of party leaders who can not hope to lead a government after May 7.

Cruddas's criticisms certainly made more headlines than any pro-Miliband messages at the weekend, while Peter Mandelson's recent description of Miliband as «the leader we have, therefore the leader I support, and somebody who I believe is capable of leading the party to victory» was equivocal, tempting us to read between the lines on the «leader we have» part.

Ed Miliband last week won the key support of ex-leader Lord Kinnock as well as the backing of Baroness (Elizabeth) Smith, widow of John Smith, Lord Kinnock's successor as party leader.

Ed Miliband's ratings are also unchanged this month, with just over a third (36 %) satisfied with the way he is doing his job as leader of the Labour party and two in five (43 %) dissatisfied, his net score of minus 7 being better than Cameron's or Clegg's.

So, by U-turning, Downing Street isolated Miliband as the only party leader opposing English votes for English laws.

The Falkirk scandal comes against a backdrop of the standoff between Miliband and the unions over the issue of party funding, as the Labour leader attempts to switch to a direct relationship with union members.

He told the New Statesman he views Miliband as «polite and nice», a member of the «soft left» of the Labour party and who is «instinctively a bit more pluralistic than most Labour leaders and a bit more internationalist as well».

So why not imagine that Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper could surprise us by emerging in front, with Cooper edging home as the party's first permanent woman leader?

Enter Ed Miliband, leader of the Jets (Rival Westminster street gang sometimes referred to as the Labour Party.

Miliband's attendance at the «World Transformed» festival is significant as he was among the senior Labour figures who called on Corbyn to quit as party leader last summer.

As the Labour party seeks to move on from Ed Miliband, its leading lights have been keen to distance themselves from the former leader's so - called anti-business stance.

Ed Miliband hit his lowest satisfaction rating as party leader, with just 28 % of people saying they approved of his performance and 55 % saying they did not, giving him a net score of -27.

Nevertheless, the new boost to the Labour leader's popularity in the wake of the party conferences will be a welcome relief to Miliband, given he went into the season as the most embattled of the three leaders.

Ed Miliband's move to shake up the trade unions» relationship with Labour looks to be simultaneously his strongest and weakest moment as party leader.

He said: «We need to have a proper rethink about where we're going as a party, not just imagine that it was because Ed Miliband was leader or because the way he ate a bacon sandwich or whatever was the problem.

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«We have got to look deep in our souls, but we shouldn't open our veins,» said Harriet Harman, the acting leader of the Labour party, as she implored her colleagues to stop bloodletting after the party's loss and the resignation of Ed Miliband.

Jon Cruddas said whoever takes over as leader from Ed Miliband in the wake of a shocking General Election defeat must be prepared for a rethink on what the party is all about.

The next Labour leader must be able to appeal to the general public rather than just party loyalists, Harriet Harman said as she criticised the process that led to Ed Miliband's election.

Just 37 % think Ed Miliband is doing well as party leader across Britain.

Ed Miliband, who has resigned as UK Labour leader in the wake of the loss, said his party had been «overwhelmed» by a «surge of nationalism» in Scotland.