Sentences with phrase «miliband leadership campaign»

O'Donovan left Westminster in 2007 to work for Coca Cola but was lured back in 2010 to work on the doomed David Miliband leadership campaign.

It is also alleged the Smith campaign rejected a joint offer of help from the field ops from the Andy Burnham, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and David Miliband leadership campaigns.

Not exact matches

Ed Miliband's leadership campaign saw him outline policies placing him to the left of his elder brother David, who he beat by a margin of 1.3 % overall.

As anticipated, the Conservatives began the «short» campaign with attacks on Miliband's leadership and Labour borrowing, but Miliband's team were buoyed by the Tories» failure to gain traction.

Sadiq Khan, who managed Miliband's successful leadership campaign, was appointed Shadow Justice Secretary and Shadow Lord Chancellor, and continuing Deputy Leader Harriet Harman continued to shadow Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, as well as being made Shadow International Development Secretary.

Together with Jim Murphy, Alexander (who before entering parliament had worked for Brown as a speechwriter) ran David Miliband's leadership campaign in 2010.

After coming out in support of the graduate tax during his leadership campaign, Mr Miliband's favoured policy was instantly destabilised by outspoken comments from his shadow chancellor saying he still supported tuition fees, which he originally helped to bring in while in government.

At Labour's national executive yesterday, Ed Miliband failed to deliver on his leadership campaign promise to give members more say in policy making.

The reports have been confirmed by three separate sources, including one close to Ed Miliband's Labour leadership campaign.

As rival leadership campaign activists settle back into normal routine and the commentariat gets back into the groove of marking PMQs performances, Ed Miliband faces the job of leading Labour.

However, we also know Ed Miliband himself supports the Yes campaign and he is not alone in the party leadership.

Miliband said that he was «not running a leadership campaign» and had «always supported Gordon's leadership».

But Miliband, who mounted a strong defence of the universal welfare state during his leadership campaign, finally showed his hand today.

In response to James» question about the Labour leadership candidates — Ed Miliband campaigned for Simon Hughes to speak out & is encouraging his supporters to call on the Lib Dems to stand up for their values, David Miliband has suggested ending the charitable status of fee - paying schools and (one of those non-monetary aspects to reducing inequality) giving representation to ordinary workers on corporate remunertion committees, Ed Balls has strongly opposed the VAT rise and is calling for a graduate tax instead of higher tuition fees, Andy Burnham has reiterated his support for a National Care Service and spoken out on the abolition of the Future Jobs Fund, Diane Abbot has called for fair taxation, cancelling Trident, and setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Ed Miliband was given a «brutal» dressing down by Alastair Campbell in a rehearsal for a leadership debate, according to the latest inside account of Labour's election campaign.

Tags: Atul Hatwal, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, general election campaign 2015, leadership, resignation, same old Tories

The Ed Miliband campaign took the willingness of his older brother's camp to discuss the consequences of defeat as a sign they are bracing for Ed seizing the leadership in the final lap.

She is the niece of the PM of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and worked on Ed Miliband's leadership campaign.

Mr Miliband's faltering position in the polls has triggered a near - panic in some putative leadership campaign camps in the past month, and now the election is just over 100 days away positions are hardening, says one Labour source.

A survey of Labour members and trade unionists by YouGov suggested Ed Miliband had a small lead over his older sibling, who has been considered the favourite throughout the four - month leadership campaign.

Speaking from his campaign office, incidentally run from the same building Brown used for his 2007 leadership campaign, Ed Miliband is gearing up for the remaining weeks of the campaign with a team of volunteers he is particularly proud of.

It is understood that Jim Murphy, one of David Miliband «s two campaign managers, attended the meeting with members of the Ed Milband camp to map out how they would handle Saturday's dramatic leadership result.

Who would believe that Movement for Change, the home of Community Organising in the Labour Movement, was started as part of David Miliband's leadership election campaign?

Peter's reward for services rendered to Ed Miliband during the Labour leadership campaign.

David Miliband has this evening launched his new online campaign — davidmiliband.net — to build a «movement for change» and help him win the Labour leadership race.

«David Miliband in his campaign for Labour leadership has launched the Movement for Change.

The paper has been speaking to GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny - a vocal supporter of Ed Miliband, whose union has also made a contribution to the shadow energy and climate change secretary's leadership campaign.

James Purnell, Alan Milburn, David Miliband — who Murphy backed in 2010's leadership campaign — have all left the stage, leaving their former colleague as one of the last remaining links to that generation.

The Smirking Gun, as I secretly call Balls, had spent much of last summer trying to pick off Miliband during the Labour leadership campaign.

Two of the leading contenders for the party leadership - David and Ed Miliband - both made clear they would campaign for a «yes» vote if they were in charge.

In his first three months, Miliband established that he will have a more collegiate leadership style, and that he is in the foothills of a long campaign and doesn't see rushing into photo opportunities or political pyrotechnics as the answer.

«Labour leadership contenders David and Ed Miliband said they would campaign for a «yes» vote if they were in charge.

«Ed Miliband will seek today to stand out from the field of Labour leadership candidates with a campaign for a «living wage».

Ed Miliband will open his campaign to win the Labour leadership today with a warning that the party needs to move on from the New Labour era and rediscover its «radical edge».

ED Miliband has released a campaign video telling members of the Labour Party to back his «colleague and friend» Owen Smith in the leadership contest.

Increased press work will help establish him as a major Labour figure in his own right, beyond having been Ed Miliband's leadership campaign manager.

The press are picking up on this as an ttack on Ed, read Eoin Clarkes blog and he point's out it wasn't, Ed miliband had the energy to win, and unfrtunatley he's been disapointing, david miliband couldn't win the ARGUMENT to win and as such he had his chance and blew it, after the Leelction If another leader (Yvette) t akes over the next elader would be wise to invite david back, but he's not leadership amterial as by his fialed leadership campaign showed,

Lord Sainsbury of Turville, who has donated more than # 12 million over the past five years, was alienated by Mr Miliband's leadership campaign and subsequent comments apparently intended to draw a line under New Labour.

In examining Progress funding, it is important also to link it to Movement for Change, the «community organising» outfit created under the auspices of David Miliband's leadership campaign.

The No campaign, Better Together, with its focus - group tested slogan, «No Thanks», was essentially run by the Labour Party — chaired by Alistair Darling, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible with Brown for the deregulation of uk banks, and directed by Blair McDougall, who had organized David Miliband's failed Labour leadership bid — though its platform included local Tories and Liberal Democrats, to the embarrassment of many Labour functionaries, who preferred to claim that the whole referendum campaign was a waste of time.

It was disclosed this week that Miliband raised # 19,000 in donations to him personally last year: enough to kick off a leadership campaign.