Sentences with phrase «after the labour leadership»

The memoirs give a taste of the breakdown in relations between Brown and Mandelson in the years after the Labour leadership contest in 1994.

Jeremy Corbyn will take aim at Tom Watson and other party bigwigs as he tightens his grip on power after the Labour leadership contest.

Not exact matches

It comes a year after Burnham took just 19 per cent of the votes in the battle for the Labour leadership — having started out as the clear favourite to replace Ed Miliband.

The latest bizarre twist in the Labour leadership race came after Smith told a rally in west London that «Jeremy is not the only socialist in the village».

For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.

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.

The Labour leadership hopeful made his latest attempt to set the record straight after one senior Corbyn ally branded Smith «a TV - savvy turncoat who lobbied for big pharma and Tony Blair».

Owen Smith has tried to stress his left wing credentials after the path was cleared for him to stand as the sole candidate against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has also faced a backlash after announcing that she is backing Smith in the leadership contest.

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.

He made the pledge during his leadership campaign last year but changed his mind after asking the former director of Liberty to chair an inquiry into anti-Semitism within Labour, which reported back earlier this summer.

It is the sort of leadership the last Labour government - internationalist in our values - showed in summit after summit.

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.

That hardly needs restating after weeks of a leadership campaign during which he has signalled his intention to return to the pre-Tony Blair era, when Labour was pure and unsullied by tawdry compromise.

The two contenders to take on Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership are said to be neck and neck after Angela Eagle and Owen Smith addressed MPs and peers today.

A mere three days after announcing his candidature for Labour's leadership, Chuka Umunna has quit the race.

One legacy has been a membership sharply polarised by when they joined the party: in a recent YouGov poll of Labour members, Corbyn's net approval rating was -46 among those who joined before he became a leadership candidate in 2015 but +36 among those who joined after he declared — and this latter group constitutes 60 % of the total membership.

Potential candidates for the Labour leadership were being discussed even before Miliband resigned on the morning after the election.

One morning early in July, after it became clear that Owen Smith hoped to challenge Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership but before most Labour voters had any real idea who he was, Smith set out his position in a brief series of tweets.

After two bruising leadership elections in less than two years, the second of which strengthened Corbyn's position, there's not much chance of anyone being willing to trigger a third attempt to remove Labour's increasingly embattled leader.

It follows a campaign by Momentum and other supporters of Jeremy Corbyn to decrease the threshold after Corbyn, unpopular with most MPs, struggled to pass it during the 2015 Labour leadership election.

This 2nd edition includes new material: a post-2015 election analysis by Adrian Pabst and a postscript by Maurice Glasman on Labour after the 2015 leadership contest.

So, no one apart from seemingly the Labour or Tory leaderships thinks there's going to be a majority government after May 7?

Labour moderates were left licking their wounds this afternoon after it was confirmed that Jeremy Corbyn will not be thrown off the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest.

Since Labour's leadership election and after, Britain's discussion over the deterrent has been stuck in a rut.

The comments come after Labour MP Jack Dromey was filmed also criticising Corbyn's leadership — and then warmly greeting the leader when he showed up at the Labour leadership hustings in Birmingham.

It seems to me that the most profound challenges were to Labour after 1983, since they had to adapt to Thatcherism following the party's own shift sharply left, and indeed a major split in the party with the SDP forming, and profound differences between the party leadership and the trade unions in Kinnock's first 2 years.

After Labour lost the Copeland by - election in February, despite defending a much larger majority over the Conservatives than in Barrow, Woodcock warned Labour was headed for a «historic and catastrophic» election defeat under Corbyn's leadership.

While they should be celebrating the democratic revival within the party, for some reason a number of Labour MPs don't see it that way and have forced another leadership contest just 10 months after members last made their choice clear.

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

We have to wait for the spending review, after the conclusion of Labour's leadership election, to find out about the 80 per cent spending cuts.

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.

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.»

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.

Given that the city region is a traditional Labour stronghold, Street's victory with a 50.6 per cent share of the vote (after the second round) was testament to the strength of his campaign, and to the strong emphasis the Conservative national leadership placed on supporting his bid.

Not surprisingly, given the above, half (49 %) of Labour's new members believe the membership should have more say over policy, with the figure rising to 54 % and 65 % respectively among those who joined during and after the leadership election.

In last year's Labour leadership contest and after much shilly - shallying, my vote went to Yvette Cooper.

Few could have anticipated the surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn, who after getting on to the Labour leadership ballot by the skin of his teeth has become remarkably popular among his party's grassroots.

A victory for Khan would be seen as a major boost for Labour after a difficult start to Corbyn's leadership.

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.

Labour's Corbynite grouping is likely to have enough supportive MPs to hold onto the leadership after the general election - but only if it chooses the right candidate.

Labour have been accused of «purging» critical voices from the party after a Labour - supporting blogger was banned from voting in the leadership race, after criticising his local council.

Having achieved a significant boost to membership and supporter affiliation during and after the leadership election, what can a numerically strengthened Labour party achieve?

Mr Scott is the second man to end his leadership in the wake of the Scottish result, after Labour leader Iain Gray also stepped down when the scale of the SNP victory became clear.

Jeremy Corbyn has secured a significant victory after Labour's ruling body agreed to proposed changes that will make it easier for a leftwing candidate to run for the party leadership.

Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan, a former Labour MP, said: «If we had a situation next June after the European elections that Labour was outed... I suspect that there would be a change of leadership then.»

Although Labour's «vitriol, bile and insults» are now being aimed at him personally, he hoped the party would stop talking to itself after its leadership election, and he has no intention of returning the fire.

«People will have opinions this way and that, but it's incredibly important once that [leadership] election is complete that we really do come together — while Labour continues to tear themselves apart over the summer — and we can immediately hit the ground running after the summer break as a united party,» he said.

The issue was thrust on to the agenda this weekend after two leadership rivals used separate interviews to criticise the decision to go to war, citing the impact it had had on the Labour Party.

The embattled left - winger faces another leadership contest after he was challenged by former Labour frontbenchers Owen Smith and Angela Eagle.