Sentences with phrase «miliband winning the leadership»

Ladbrokes cut the odds on Ed Miliband winning the leadership battle from 7/4 to 6/4 after yesterday's result amid a general sense of momentum building up behind the younger sibling.

However, concerns have been raised by senior figures in the party that Brown, who lost his post when Ed Miliband won the leadership, is not aware of the scale of the task facing him.

Not exact matches

Ed Miliband, a young Brownite, then won a bitter leadership contest, in which the main adversary was his brother David, one of Blair's closest advisors.

The leadership contest was won by Ed Miliband.

Alan Milburn and Margaret Hodge both call for the party to deprieve the unions of a say in the leadership election, without whom, of course, Miliband would not have won.

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

The by - election consolidated Nick Clegg's hold on power, sparked new rumours of leadership bids against David Cameron, saw a surge in support for Ukip and raised questions about Ed Miliband's ability to win votes in the south - east.

In the last parliament we had the Milibands, two brothers contesting a leadership contest and the younger one winning.

The second coup is the one that supporters of Ed Balls and David Miliband have been working on, off and on, since Ed won the leadership four years ago.

Blairite David Miliband is the current favourite to win the leadership.

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

Some backbenchers have not yet digested the fact that the wrong Miliband had won the leadership election.

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.

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

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.

Harriet Harman became the Leader of the Opposition and acting Leader of the Labour Party following the resignation of Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010, pending a leadership election [89] subsequently won by Ed Miliband.

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.

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

I have always believed it was a 2 - horse race between the Miliband's, though I know an SDLP supporter in Belfast — who has yet to be proven wrong on leadership races of any kind — who is convinced that Ed Balls will win.

Mr Miliband looks increasingly likely to appoint Mr Balls as his shadow chancellor if he wins the Labour leadership election.

Our raw data finds that slightly more people who voted in the last leadership election backed Ed Miliband rather than his brother David, even though David won more votes among individual party members.

Yet Ed Miliband did much more to pursue every MP one - to - one in the Commons» bars and tearooms, winning the whole leadership election by the equivalent of six second preferences from MPs.

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.

Imagine if David Miliband had won the Labour leadership on 2010 and had taken the party to the right of Tony Blair, or even just continued where Blair left off in 2007.

Tom Harris, the Labour MP for Glasgow South, who was first to declare for David Miliband — even before Miliband did — said that «David is the candidate for the leadership who can win».

Ed Miliband is weak, ineffective, irrelevant and just a puppet to his trades union pals who put him in power in the first place — just as it was clear he would be when he won the leadership election.

Continue reading «Although Ed Miliband is less popular with Labour supporters than David Miliband, he insists his leadership is «winning the battle of ideas»»»

The top line is that despite recent declarations of support from a number of leading unions for Ed Miliband, his brother David is still poised to win the Labour leadership - with Ed Balls trailing in fifth place:

Mr Miliband sought to shake off the tabloids» «Red Ed» tag in his leader's speech to the party conference in Manchester after winning the Labour leadership off the back of substantial support from Britain's unions.

Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, also rejected suggestions there were any «wobbles» over Ed Miliband's leadership, as party officials insisted the key lesson from Thursday's byelections was that David Cameron no longer has a strategy to win a majority at the next election.

We have predicted here that Ed Miliband would come through to win the leadership election as have others as varied as Labour right - winger Luke Akehurst who supports him and (just about) Simon Heffer in today's Telegraph, who presumably doesn't.

On the eve of his long - awaited policy offensive, Mr Miliband was hit by claims that his relationship with his brother David was still in the deep freeze eight months after he defeated him to win the Labour leadership.

In September 2010, Ed Miliband won a Labour Party leadership vote to succeed Gordon Brown as permanent Leader of the Opposition.

When he won the Labour leadership, Ed Miliband declared that Britain had not «heard the last» of his older brother, from whose complacent grip he had snatched the prize.

Ed Miliband has a sense of vision that appeals to members in Reading, but local people know that, whoever wins the leadership, Labour will be in there fighting hard on their side.»

At this early stage, David Miliband is favourite to win the leadership election with two polls yesterday suggesting he had the support of 32 per cent of voters - that's far more than any of his potential rivals.

It also has striking similarities to the case advanced by foreign secretary David Miliband - that Labour needs to win the argument over its record and its vision for the future - which was widely seen as his manifesto for the party leadership.

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».

Speculation about his leadership bid came after he failed to win the backing of the Unite union, which gave its endorsement to Ed Miliband.

The New Statesman piece is long and expansive and gives a good flavour of why David Miliband didn't win the leadership of the Labour party.

Mr Miliband won the last leadership election largely thanks to support from unions, but Mr McCluskey said he suspected only 10 % of its one million members affiliated to Labour would opt to stay in if asked now.

But Mr Miliband backed Mr Corbyn and said Labour could «absolutely» win a general election under him, just weeks after supporting Owen Smith for the leadership because he wanted someone who could make the party a «serious alternative government».

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,

Elsewhere, unnoticed by the nation, the Labour Party are staging their leadership contest under the slogan «who bores wins», giving the Miliband brothers an obvious unfair advantage.