Sentences with phrase «after the labour victory»

Look what happened after the Labour victory in 1997.

Not exact matches

I labour for nothing yesterday night around 9:30 pm after login on again and wrote a comment on Arsenal victory over Chelsea.

After three electoral victories and 13 years in office, New Labour had lost its appeal due to the legacy of the Iraq war, a series of burning scandals and endless backbenchers» rebellions.

Shortly after Labour's landslide victory in 1997, for some perverse reason I invited Ken Clarke to attend one of our monthly Tribune dinners in the Gay Hussar restaurant, that old canteen of the Labour Left, in London's Soho.

But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory general election victory apart from John Smith.

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.

Although most Labour Party members are now focused mainly on working for a Labour victory in the general election, there are some important internal party elections shortly after 7 May.

Jeremy Corbyn rushed to Manchester for a victory rally after Labour's Andy Burnham was elected mayor - but Mr Burnham himself failed to show up.

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.

On the morning after the EU referendum victory, the Tories were in disarray, and Labour were perfectly placed to seize the political initiative by setting out a positive and robust Labour - Brexit plan.

The result concluded a byelection clean sweep for Labour after comfortable victories in the Manchester Central and Cardiff South and Penarth votes.

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

Labour figures claimed victory today after RBS chief executive Stephen Hester gave up his bonus following threats of a Commons vote.

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.

And after increasing Labour's share of the vote by 5.8 %, Ms Furniss used her victory speech to attack David Cameron's government.

After the election defeat of 1992 a whole generation of Labour figures, who were to rise to prominence in the New Labour era from 1994 onwards, concluded that victory would only come if an intense and unyielding discipline on language and behaviour were maintained.

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

Mr Javid's father's job was the same as the dad of another high - profile politician, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, and he congratulated the Labour politician «from one son of a Pakistani bus driver to another» after his City Hall victory in 2016.

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.

Mr Farage said he was not questioning Labour's victory, but denounced the electoral process as «bent» after claims that people had arrived at polling booths carrying bundles of postal votes.

Red and buried: Labour rocked as shock poll says party will lose next TWO elections, seven key figures quit and MPs plot to oust Corbyn after Left - winger's sensational victory 12 September 2015

After Jeremy Corbyn's landslide Labour leadership victory, revolution was well and truly in the air...

Jeremy Corbyn was only the most recent when he told Labour conference last year, just days after being anointed leader, that his victory would herald a new era of «straight talking, honest politics».

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is celebrating what she said was an «emphatic» victory, her first as party leader, after the SNP emerged as the largest party at Holyrood with 63 seats, ahead of the Conservatives on 31 and Labour on 24.

After Jeremy Corbyn's landslide Labour leadership victory, revolution was well and truly in the air this afternoon — with even Sky News man Adam Boulton taking radical action.

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood celebrated a famous victory after she took the seat of Rhondda from Labour in its south Wales heartlands.

May and her ministers — buoyant after their byelection victory in Copeland, Cumbria, where they seized the former Labour stronghold from Jeremy Corbyn's party — are determined to continue broadening their appeal beyond Tory heartlands, not least by helping those struggling with the costs of housing and rent.

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's membership almost doubled after Jeremy Corbyn's victory, from just short of 200,000 when Ed Miliband stood to a little under 400,000.

When, shortly after Tony Blair's third election victory, the Fabian Society began polling the voters who had left the party between the 2001 and 2005 elections, many expected that Iraq or tuition fees would loom large among the reasons given for giving up on Labour.

Despite most opinion polls predicting that the Conservatives and Labour were neck and neck, the Conservatives secured a surprise victory after having won a clear lead over their rivals and incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron was able to form a majority single - party government with a working majority of 12 (in practice increased to 15 due to Sinn Féin's 4 MPs» abstention).

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn congratulates Jim McMahon on Friday after his victory in the Oldham West and Royton byelection.

Tony Blair originally formed the Blair ministry in May 1997 after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government following the resignation of the previous Prime Minister, John Major of the Conservative Party, as a result of the Labour Party's landslide victory at the 1997 general election.

After another torrid week for the Labour leader, which saw him suffer dire personal poll ratings and thinly veiled criticism from senior figures including Lord Mandelson, Kinnock said part of the reason the rightwing press was going for Miliband was because it knew he was bold and a threat to Tory victory hopes.

And it plunged Labour into a leadership battle which could split the party for good just 10 months after Mr Corbyn won an overwhelming victory backed by more than 250,000 members.

The full victory speech given by the Labour leader after he was re-elected in a landslide by members.

The day after Labour's landslide election victory John Major told the crowds outside Downing Street that he was to stand down as leader of the Conservative Party.

Ed Miliband has been put on notice that Labour faces a major battle if it is to secure an overall parliamentary majority next year after the local elections showed that the party is struggling to achieve the sort of breakthrough that would signal a Westminster victory.

Labour took heart after it topped the local polls in England with 31 % of the vote — up two points on last year — as the Tories came second and Ukip failed to translate an expected victory in the European elections into a breakthrough in council seats.

The Labour frontbencher faced the accusations after a photograph emerged of him holding a list of demands from the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory, a group to which he is a signatory to the principle aims.

Back to the bigger picture now though, and the Guardian's political team reports that Ed Miliband has been put on notice that Labour faces a major battle if it is to secure an overall parliamentary majority next year after the local election showed that the party is struggling to achieve the sort of breakthrough that would signal a Westminster victory.

Senior Labour MPs privately blame Lamont for showing poor, lacklustre leadership both during and immediately after the referendum, failing to capitalise on the no camp's victory and allowing the SNP to seize the agenda.

The poll implies that Scottish voters have been deeply disillusioned with Labour, only a month after the party successfully spearheaded the no campaign's victory in the Scottish independence referendum.

One would have thought that, with the LibDems trailing at 10 % in the polls and likely to end up after the next election with little more than 10 MPs, and with Labour leading the Tories by a solid 10 % in the polls, we should be going flat - out for an outright Labour victory.

Labour pledged a referendum on electoral reform in its 1997 election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair after his landslide victory.

After a lower - than - expected margin of victory for the remain campaign in Newcastle, where it won the backing of 54 % of voters, there was a jolt after midnight when leave captured Sunderland with 61.3 % of the vote in a city that has traditionally been a Labour strongAfter a lower - than - expected margin of victory for the remain campaign in Newcastle, where it won the backing of 54 % of voters, there was a jolt after midnight when leave captured Sunderland with 61.3 % of the vote in a city that has traditionally been a Labour strongafter midnight when leave captured Sunderland with 61.3 % of the vote in a city that has traditionally been a Labour stronghold.

Former Corby MP Louise Mensch has spoken of her «regret» after Labour romped to victory in a bellwether seat that boosts Ed Miliband's chances of becoming Prime Minister.

Labour's Lucy Powell gives her victory speech after winning the Manchester Central by - election last night with a majority of 10,439

Labour has claimed a «resounding victory» after comfortably winning the Glasgow North East by - election and seeing off an SNP challenge.