Sentences with phrase «as labour»

Don't burn the books A scorching hot list of summer political reading selected by Mark Perryman A year ago as Labour sought to recover from the May General Election defeat halls were starting to fill up for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign rallies.

His message to Tories sniggering about what they perceive as Labour weakness was to «watch this space and watch your backs».

We now need the Labour Party to publish the report, re-instate Murphy as a candidate and let Falkirk select whoever they wish to have stand as the Labour candidate at the next election.

Richard was selected as Labour's official candidate in Blyth in Northumberland for the October 1974 election, but was defeated by the sitting MP, Eddie Milne, who had been deselected as the candidate for alleging corruption in the local Labour party and was then triumphantly re-elected as something of a local hero.

As a Labour Party activist in Oldham I have views on this issue but I'm not saying anything at this stage and I'm more than disappointed that an on line forum that is closely related to Oldham's other Labour MP should make these comments.

Kennedy is known to be privately supportive of Ed Miliband, who he sees as a progressive alternative to his older brother David, who is widely perceived as the Blairite choice to succeed as Labour's next leader.

A growing number of Labour MPs are concerned that his sometimes ponderous professorial prognostications about political abstractions are proving a turn - off for the public - concerns that have grown as Labour's poll lead has shrunk.

He is a former flatmate of the Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, and resigned as Labour's election coordinator over the Falkirk selection row involving the trade union.

Conservatives and Liberal Democrats vie for top spot as Labour slips.

Pleased that Andy Burnham has been selected as Labour candidate for mayor of Manchester - he will fight for the Northan powerhouse and better rail networks.

It's probably more a case of a desire to be led from the front, for him to deploy against the Government the ruthlessness he showed by denying Ed Balls the shadow Chancellor's post and ousting Nick Brown as Labour's chief whip.

Dianne Abbot, Tessa Jowell, Sadiq Khan and David Lammy after it was announced that Sadiq Khan has been chosen as the Labour candidate to run for London mayor in 2016

All those Conservatives who want Gordon Brown to stay as Labour leader will be relieved to learn of an ICM poll for The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Mirror that gives the Labour candidate, Margaret Curran MSP, a 14 % lead over her SNP rival in the Glasgow East by - election, scheduled for 24th July.

And results north of the border looked appalling as Labour lost more than a dozen members of the Scottish Parliament.

With Ed Balls as Labour leader, the party would be pushed into third place behind the Liberal Democrats: CON 50 %, LAB 17 %, LDEM 18 %.

Rahman was dumped as Labour's mayoral candidate in Tower Hamlets in 2010 but went on to win as an independent.

David Cameron, who will have seen Tory seats tumble to Ukip as well as Labour, will have no choice but to resign as Prime Minister and advise the Queen to invite Miliband to form a government.

The Chief Rabbi has hit out at Shami Chakrabarti's elevation to the House of Lords as a Labour peer.

Allen was elected as the Labour MP for the Nottingham North constituency at the 1987 general election, gaining the seat from the Conservative's Richard Ottaway with a majority of 1,665 votes.

Alex Rowley, the MSP for Cowdenbeath, has quit his role as Labour's local government spokesman at Holyrood and urged Mr Murphy to stand down.

Peter Hain has announced he will stand down as the Labour MP for Neath at next year's general election.

As long as Labour continues to speak and think like chartered accountants, they are doomed to lose.

The prime minister was reportedly unaware of the revelation last night, rounding off a day which saw Gordon Brown attempt to launch his political fightback as the Labour party tries to put last autumn's funding scandal behind it.

Cameron was fortunate that he faced Gordon Brown who had succeeded as Labour's Leader and Prime Minister after a divisive relationship with Blair, and who was probably temperamentally unsuited to be Prime Minister.

Nevertheless, the short clip made Salmond look cheap, childish and, as Labour MP Tom Harris put it, «naff».

During his monthly press conference yesterday, Mr Blair refused to comment on the party funding review, but his support for a # 50,000 cap would not be unexpected given his efforts to cut the power of the trade unions during his time as Labour leader.

Michael Dugher was re-elected as Labour MP for Bansley East on May 7th 2015 with 21079 votes, taking 54.7 % of the vote.

«I would personally be astonished if Mr Corbyn does not end up as Labour's leader,» commented YouGov chief Peter Kellner last night.

But for those who like their politics red in tooth and claw then there is The Unusual Suspect, the memoirs of Paul Flynn, who is stepping down as Labour MP for Newport West.

Bookmakers William Hills have made Ukip favourites to finish ahead of Labour at the European elections, and cut the odds on Gordon brown standing down as Labour leader before the general election.

As Labour plummeted in the polls and in real elections, his followers pretended that he was the solution not the cause.

Tracy Brabin was elected as Labour MP for Batley and Spen in 2014.

There is certainly something quite heroic in the Corbyn as Obi - Wan memes that have been cropping up since his election as Labour leader back in 2015.

Writing in a blog ahead of the first of the roadshows in London last night, Conservative party chairman Francis Maude said the Tories did not have a «clause four» which they could scrap, as Labour did, to make clear immediately how much they had changed.

Runrig's singer, Donnie Munro, challenged Charles Kennedy in the 1997 election as a Labour candidate, and stood for the first Scottish election in 1999, narrowly failing.

First elected as Labour MP for Newport West in 1987, he's now been stalking the corridors of Westminster for 25 years.

As Labour spokespeople will no doubt reiterate in the aftermath of this morning's events, by - elections are not general elections.

Ed Miliband's leadership faces a new test today, as Labour defends a substantial majority against a resurgent Scottish Nationalist party (SNP).

As a Labour MP and potential Justice secretary, voters might prefer someone who has fewer friends in prison (despite the obvious difficulty this might pose).

Alex Salmond is still struggling to form a government, as Labour increasingly position themselves as a back - up administration if Mr Salmond is unable form his own.

This would change everything, as Labour has quite different priorities for the transition negotiations.

But I come to this conference as a Labour leader who be lieves you deserve credit for these stories, the daily work you do.

It's a nonsense as evidenced by his huge efforts to unseat me as a Labour Councillor in May, when he spectacularly failed».

Doughty was the head of Oxfam Cymru before his selection as Labour candidate and will now take over from Alan Michael who stepped down to fight the PCC elections.

So let me be clear, in tough times — when there is less money around and a big deficit to get down — there will be no blank cheque from me as a Labour Chancellor for this project or for any project.

Brian Clough had been asked to stand as a Labour Party candidate twice, once in a Conservative safe - seat in Richmond, Surrey and the other time in Moss Side, Manchester.

From 1989 until 1991 Angela was the constituency party secretary for Peckham in South London before being selected as the Labour Party candidate for the constituency of Wallasey.

His successor as Labour leader, Ed Miliband, was forced to deny that his operation to remove adenoids was unrelated to an attempt to prevent his voice sounding «bunged up».

Mr Harper said this had suffered a «traumatic» passage through parliament as Labour peers attempted to prevent it passing before a February deadline.

Ed Miliband's leadership faces a new test today, as Labour defends a substantial majority in Inverclyde against a resurgent Scottish Nationalist party (SNP).