Sentences with phrase «after labour won»

His buoyant mood came after Labour won 262 seats in the General Election, up from the 232 secured by Ed Miliband in 2015.

He said he would step down as leader with immediate effect after Labour won 26 fewer seats than in 2010, adding that deputy leader Harriet Harman would succeed him pending a leadership contest.

That attack came back to haunt her after Labour won the 1997 election when, as minister for public health, she was forced by Tony Blair to allow tobacco advertising to continue in Formula One motor - racing.

Domestic violence Having a critical mass of women in Parliament, after Labour won, to push that issue [of domestic violence] across government was really important.

The Tories won the most seats but were trapped in a hung parliament, thrashing out a chaotic deal with Northern Ireland's right - wing DUP, after Labour won key symbolic seats in south east England, Wales and Scotland.

The central idea was that Labour needs to introduce an emergency «anti-austerity» or «Growth4All» budget to set its key economic policies in place as soon as possible after Labour wins the 2015 election with an overall majority..

Not exact matches

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

SEOUL, April 23 - General Motors Co's South Korean unit dropped a plan to consider filing for bankruptcy after winning concessions on pay, bonuses and benefits from its labour union in a tentative deal reached on Monday.

SEOUL, April 23 - General Motors Co's South Korean unit dropped a plan for a vote on a bankruptcy filing after reaching a tentative wage deal with its labour union on Monday that helped the U.S. automaker win concessions on pay, bonuses and benefits.

The rebels won the British parliamentary vote by 307 to 294 votes, a majority of 13, after they received support from the Labour Party, a generally pro-European group accused by Cameron of «rank opportunism».

In The Wages of Wins, a book co-authored by three American economics professors, its writers debunk sports myths, including the notion that spectators desert leagues after labour disputes.

The Tories line of attack is always «but he won't be here after the election even if Labour wins.»

After a dramatic morning, it was only as Westminster heard Big Ben strike noon that Corbyn won the nomination of his 35th Labour MP.

Winning general elections is all about managing expectations — so it really matters that many are quietly deciding the Labour leader is more likely to end up in Downing Street after polling day.

Labour won the 1974 General Election after Enoch Powell had told his supporters to vote Labour because of Europe.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

Owen Smith launched a new vision for workers» rights today with a spring in his step — after new sampling from the Labour leadership contest showed he has a sliver of a chance of winning.

He lost his seat to Labour's Imran Hussain in 2015, five years after first winning election, but returned as a Lib Dem councillor in Bradford last year.

But after Brexit, appearing «prime ministerial» is no longer the deal - breaker it used to be for the kind of angry voter Labour needs to attract if it is to win the next election.

John Biggs won the tower hamlets labour mayoral selection, well just about by 8 votes after the second preference votes were redistributed.

After Labour's 1997 general election win, she was appointed minister for local government and housing at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, and had special responsibility for neighbourhood renewal.

One member of the Labour Party's centre - right wrote to Jon Lansman that: «we find it strange that the winning candidate in a Labour leadership election would sustain the life of the campaign after winning, rather than seeing their role now as having responsibility to unite the whole party.»

And after New Labour won three elections in a row, such enduring support requires its reward — such as overlooking the burgeoning bonus culture of the City as well as its downstream consequences.

After coming in second to Labour's Mary Mulligan in 2003 and 2007, Fiona Hyslop won the re-drawn constituency for the SNP in 2011 after serving as a regional MSP since After coming in second to Labour's Mary Mulligan in 2003 and 2007, Fiona Hyslop won the re-drawn constituency for the SNP in 2011 after serving as a regional MSP since after serving as a regional MSP since 1999.

Despite the dire polls and the equally dire local election results, some 64 % of Labour's post GE2015 membership believe Labour is likely to win the next general election — a figure which rises to 77 % of those who joined after Corbyn became leader.

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.

Held by Labour in 2015 with a 6.5 % majority, the Tories won it comfortably in a by - election earlier this year after the centrist Labour MP Jamie Reed decided to quit parliament.

Yesterday's Glasgow North East by - election saw Labour win the seat vacated by Michael Martin after he resigned as Speaker with a majority of 8,111 over the SNP.

Labour Unite union aide Dan Carden should be parachuted into Liverpool Walton, the safest seat in the country, after previous MP Steve Rotheram won the metro mayor election.

Mr Khan will fight the Tories to win back London's City Hall after he beat long - time favourite Tessa Jowell to Labour's nomination.

Tony Benns view that the electorate were wrong for not voting for us, was only matched by, the view after 1992, the electorate haven't voted for us 4 times now, what's wrong with them, Or the union boss who said he'd told labour what policies to have and then when labour had lost, and that it was this fault for telling us to have policies we didn't want, but labour for not being any good at winning in those policies

There are plenty who say that none of the candidates — Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham, Mary Creagh, Yvette Cooper, and possibly Tristram Hunt (Chuka Umunna pulled out after less than a week in the field, citing media intrusion)-- appears up to the task of rebuilding a party with shattered morale and no clear sense of how to win again now that Scottish Labour is all but obliterated, the Tories have taken 25 marginals from the Lib Dems, and boundary changes are about to make it all much more difficult.

Sadiq Khan is the first Labour Mayor of London for 8 years after winning a landslide victory over Tory Zac Goldsmith.

Jenny Willott has lost Cardiff Central to Labour ten years after she won it from them.

Liberal Democrat John Birch won the by - election after his supposed Labour rival, Alex Mockridge, had to run as an independent because she has been a member of the party for less than a year.

So, after clinging on for a full five years Major goes to the polls, Smith wins with ease, presiding over a Labour majority of 150, an even bigger margin of victory than that achieved by Clement Attlee after World War II.

She won her seat in a by - election during the Falklands War from the incumbent MP who honourably instigated the election after defecting from Labour to the SDP.

After leading the party through the second Holyrood elections in 2003 Elections, again winning 17 MSPs but with a higher share of the vote, he led the party into a second coalition with Labour.

After considerable boundary changes, the sitting Labour MP, Shahid Malik, will be defending a notional majority of only 3,999 (based on the Rallings and Thrasher figures), meaning that Simon needs a swing of 4.5 % to win the seat.

Then, after a spell as a television journalist and producer for STV in Glasgow, he won the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline East, at the 1983 general election, at the age of 32.

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.

What was no more than a one - point lead over Labour in the local ballot boxes had seemed like small beer after the SNP's success in winning an overall majority at Holyrood a year earlier.

Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.

Loyalty to Labour will be eroded still further if, after winning in 2015, Miliband brings the Blairite project to completion.

Galloway returned to parliament after winning the «Bradford Spring» by - election in Bradford West, which had been a safe Labour seat.

As it happens, I believe Labour can win a general election by adopting a different approach, but as there's a campaign on and it requires a thorough critique of Jeremy's leadership, that's something you can look forward to reading after the polls have closed.

However, in 1997, all 23 candidates won seats in Parliament and, after Labour assumed power, the Party gained its first members of the Cabinet since AV Alexander: Alun Michael 1998 — 99 (later First Minister for Wales) and Ed Balls 2007 — 2010.

As for the Labour Party being indecisive, there were only 154 Labour MPs left in Parliament after the election rout of November 1935, which the Conservatives had won with more than half the total votes cast, an outcome that is difficult to quibble about.

Two days later Tory Chloe Smith became its newest MP, after winning the Norwich North by - election from Labour.