Sentences with phrase «after labour called»

Disgraced MP Eric Illsley's future in parliament is under increasing pressure tonight after Labour called on him to resign immediately and David Cameron said his position was «untenable» after he pleaded guilty to dishonestly claiming more than # 14,000 in expenses.

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Strangely, Labour leader Corbyn called for May to trigger Article 50 the day after the referendum, despite supporting «Remain.»

There have been similar lawsuits in Canada, along with high - profile cases like HootSuite, a Vancouver tech firm, amending its call for unpaid help after accusations of violating B.C. labour laws.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

Labour backbencher Steve Rotherham called for the original inquest, which concluded on the advice of its pathologist that it need not consider what occurred after 15:15 on the day, to be quashed.

After Dugdale last week added her voice to the chorus of those calling for Jeremy Corbyn to step down as leader of the Labour Party, her own deputy led calls for him to stay.

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.

After being called the «most dangerous man in British politics», Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to use his first party conference in Brighton to show he is as normal and British as a cup of milky...

Labour is calling for a review of Formula One's tax affairs after it was revealed the company paid just 2 % tax on its UK profits last year.

Dennis Skinner told us he initially refused to sit for one, but his proposed artist, who was apparently out of work, called him and referred to a quote the Labour MP had apparently made in parliament about «looking after the unemployed».

Former Labour leadership contender Owen Smith - who was sacked from Mr Corbyn's frontbench after breaking from party policy to call for a second referendum - seized on the apparent slip of the tongue by Ms Thornberry, saying it was the latest in a string of inconsistencies on Brexit from Labour frontbenchers.

After a barrage of bad press over his position on Trident and his flip - flop over the so - called «shoot - to - kill» policy for armed terrorists, you'd expect Jeremy Corbyn's stock to be sinking fast, even among the most starry eyed of the «Jez - we - can» supporters who voted him in as leader of the Labour party in September.

The Labour peer threatened Daily Mail sketch writer Quentin Letts with a libel suit after he called him «stupid» and suggested he only received his peerage because he was a television personality.

The poll is revealed after some Tory MPs joined Labour in calling for the vote on the final deal to carry proper weight, when debate on the Article 50 Bill got under way in the Commons.

Ms Chakrabarti's appointment, comes after Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, called on the party to refuse to take up any new peerages in order to avoid «legitimising» Mr Cameron's rewards.

Pressure is growing on the Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy after the Unite union called on him to resign.

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, has said he has received «no phone call» or visits from either Home Secretary Amber Rudd or London Mayor Sadiq Khan, after four people were killed in his constituency.

Labour has tabled the amendment calling for a «meaningful» vote, which is likely to be debated when the Article 50 Bill reaches its committee stage — after being given its second reading this week.

He also shared an online petition calling for Dudley North MP Ian Austin to face the «strongest disciplinary action possible» from the Labour party after he heckled Mr Corbyn in a Commons debate.

Pressure is mounting on Theresa May to ban the US «pickup artist» Julien Blanc from entering Britain after the Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone and Labour's Yvette Cooper called for him to be denied a visa.

Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams AM has slammed the Labour Government after a Freedom of Information response reveals Brecon and Radnorshire ambulances are being called to emergencies up to 80 miles away.

As the following graph of opinion poll trends during the 2010 campaign shows, so - called «Cleggmania» peaked immediately after the first debate, when he did most to introduce himself to most voters: his poll ratings, and his party's, surged, while both the Conservatives and Labour fell.

He would be taking the initiative like he did when Brown got the election bug after the good labour conference and then Brown would have to put up or shut up and be faced with calling a risky election before he's sure he could win or looking like Chicken little again.

He also said he should have called an election in 2007 soon after he took over as Labour leader.

David Miliband tonight issued a lukewarm vote of confidence in the prime minister after two former cabinet colleagues called for a secret ballot by Labour MPs to settle the question of his leadership «once and for all».

The debate came after Labour indicated a tougher approach to the EU when the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, called for a change to one of the founding principles of the EU — freedom of movement — to be introduced to prevent EU citizens travelling to Britain in search of a job.

After the resignation of Peter Mandelson, the Deputy Prime Minister issued a coded call for Mr Blair to tone down his revolutionary zeal when he said that the New Labour project should go no further than Labour's manifesto.

After much deliberation on issues that led to the industrial dispute, the leader of the State Government delegation, elder Simon Achuba appealed to the labour leaders to call off their over six - weeks old industrial strike, which has paralysed government activities and has become a great concern to stakeholders in the state.

Ms Shawcroft was forced to stand down from her position on Labour's disputes panel on Wednesday, after she sent an email calling for a council candidate accused of Holocaust denial to have his suspension lifted.

His call for the shift comes after South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner Shaun Wright quit the Labour party following intense pressure to stand aside.

LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn opened a fresh Brexit split inside Labour today after distancing himself from a call by his own Shadow International Trade Secretary for Britain to leave the customs union.

Gordon Brown has called for a resolution of the British Airways (BA) cabin crew dispute «as quickly as possible», after the Tories attacked the Unite union's links to the Labour party.

Labour party members are increasingly calling on Mr Miliband to challenge the chancellor Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership when Tony Blair leaves Downing Street, most likely after the May elections.

Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner was ordered to leave the Commons after he called the prime minister «Dodgy Dave» — and refused to withdraw the remark.

Iain Duncan Smith today risked accusations of homophobia after calling a gay Labour MP a «pantomime dame».

The rebellious backbench Tory MP stepped up his calls for the immediate breakup of the coalition after Liberal Democrat ministers voted with Labour against boundary changes earlier this week.

The Labour grandee, who served as Olympics minister between 2005 - 2010, also dismissed calls for the leadership race to be halted amid the recent surge in party membership after the general election.

Labour's Lucy Powell has accused the Conservatives and senior journalists of misquoting her after she spoke out this morning on the so - called EdStone.

The day of the emergency debate on phone hacking in the Commons, and after PMQs, when Labour leader Ed Miliband called for Rebekah Brooks to consider her position as chief executive of News International.

Five years later, as Labour and the Liberal Democrats were recovering from the shock of John Major's surprise victory, Mr Kennedy showed remarkable prescience on the day after the election by calling for a realignment of Britain's centre - left parties.

Labour has called for the NHS in England to stop privatising services until after the general election.

Appearing on BBC News, Labour MP Ben Bradshaw told Jeremy Corbyn to «call off these Momentum thugs» after Angela Eagle's constituency office was attacked overnight.

The opposition motion calling for the report's publication, with names of witnesses redacted, was carried after Labour AMs abstained.

It comes just hours after Jeremy Corbyn called for a stop to personal attacks from the Labour party

Four long months after it wheezed into life, the Labour leadership contest has proved one thing beyond doubt: for all the ideological gymnastics of the New Labour years, the party's political centre remains much where it ever was — on what used to be called the soft left.

Jim Murphy is facing calls to resign as Scottish Labour leader after losing his East Renfrewshire seat to the SNP

Robert Harris, writing not long before the election was called in the New Statesman, «can't quite understand how the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party can sit there day after day, month after month, year after year, knowing that they're simply heading towards a kind of mincing machine at the next election.»

The Clegg initiative by coincidence comes the day after Labour fully joined the debate for the first time when Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, called for a thorough overhaul of the way in which UK intelligence agencies are held to account.

After Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she is calling for an early general election Labour and the Lib Dems started to prepare.

Wilson's small majority after the 1964 general election had made the transaction of government business difficult, and in 1966 he called another election in which Labour gained a strong working majority of 96.