Sentences with phrase «miliband moved the party»

- One in three new MPs rebelled against their leader just a couple of months into the parliament, lending credibility to the theory that Ed Miliband moved the party to the left.

Not exact matches

«Don't move the party to the left,» shadow home secretary Alan Johnson urged Mr Miliband in an article for the Independent on Sunday newspaper.

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 direction.

That he didn't was a relief to many senior party officials, including some around Miliband, keen to move beyond his divisive legacy.

This was a reference to the events of late July and early August 2008 which followed Labour's defeat to the Scottish National Party in the Glasgow East by - election when, with a demoralised Gordon Brown on holiday in Suffolk, with Labour as many as 25 points behind in the polls, and with MPs insurgent and openly discussing a leadership challenge, Miliband made his move.

Then there's Labour, which - despite Ed Miliband's bold move to shake up the way the party's funded - is still as reliant as ever on funding from Unite.

Mr Miliband is keen to distance himself from the unions for fear of being branded «Red Ed» by the tabloid press, a particularly crucial political move given his reliance on union votes when he beat his brother to the Labour party leadership.

Miliband had the Labour leadership in his hands yet threw it away out of an arrogant refusal to move towards his party's own supporters.

Miliband urged other party leaders to «respond to this call for changing the system», in a move which puts the ball firmly on their side of the court over reforms of MPs» earnings.

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&raParty 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&raparty under Ed Miliband's leadership because it had made a «policy shift moving back towards what Old Labour stood for».

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

Ed Miliband, one of the five Labour leadership contenders, today urged the party to «move on» from the «factionalism and psychodramas» of the party's past.

The Conservative party see David Miliband as an increasing rival to David Cameron, as the environment secretary moves to enhance his media profile.

«Corbyn has the backing of his party, one that ached for something more than the nervy, cautious, hesitant attempts by Ed Miliband to move his party on from the New Labour era.

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.

In a move with strong echoes of Tony Blair's Clause Four campaign, when he scrapped the party's commitment to nationalising industry, Mr Miliband will insert a clause that brands Labour «a force for social justice».

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.

But while the party's top team moved to heal the wounds of a battle that set brother against brother, there were still questions over what role, if any, David Miliband would take in the shadow cabinet.

Firstly, David Miliband's own personal politics are right - of - centre... and he doesn't want the party to move outside his own reassuring comfort zone.

His latest move brought him into line with Ed Miliband, the party leader, but drew sharp criticism from the coalition who accused him of «flip flopping».

These were amended four years ago at the request of the then leader, Ed Miliband, to abolish shadow cabinet elections which had long taken place annually when the party was in opposition — a move which the same MPs had rejected only a year earlier.

But many of those big hits have been landed on his own Party - or at least the half of it that backed Blair (and Miliband's brother) Part of the art of political reinvention is «conceding and moving on».

Ed Miliband made his first move to take control of the Labour party today, when he told Nick Brown he did not want him for the chief whip role.

The spending review is Ed Miliband's last chance before the election to signal a change in approach, move the party towards the public and disrupt the drift towards support of the Tories» economic policies.

The move could have serious financial implications for the party but Mr Miliband said it would make politics more «open, transparent and trusted».

Of course, had Labour managed to retain, say, 30 of the 41 Scottish seats it won last time, Labour and the Conservatives, Ed Miliband would have an excellent chance of leading the largest party after Thursday, and moving into Downing Street.

More specifically, Ed Miliband, who is 40, believes it is essential for the party to «move on from New Labour».

Ed Miliband says Tony Blair is the «first to realise» political parties must move on, after the former prime minister warned about turning Labour back into a left - wing party of protest.

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».

Miliband's warning that the party must move out of the «New Labour comfort zone» also seems to have touched a nerve:

Support from the trade unions proved decisive in Ed Miliband's Labour leadership victory, and he has sought to move the party on from the New Labour era, projecting a more left wing message on tax and inequality.

Now we see the David Miliband supporters, the majority in the PLP, flexing their muscles to make the parliamentary party ungovernable by Ed Miliband and those moving back towards the centre.