Sentences with phrase «challenge for labour»

Gordon Brown may face a left - wing challenge for the Labour leadership from either Michael Meacher or John McDonnell.

Balls on «pressure» The former children's secretary Ed Balls told Channel 4 News that he would talk to party members tomorrow before announcing if he would also challenge for the Labour leadership.

The challenge for Labour is being seen by the public as nice and smart.

This is an even greater challenge for Labour because it still has a Brexit problem.

«This should be the challenge for the Labour leadership election: not an argument about which policies of the Labour government the contenders did or did not support, or even which policies they support now, but a real attempt to identify the basis for a contemporary centre - left political project.

Ed Balls is struggling to gain enough support to challenge for the Labour leadership, it was claimed last night.

The union leader's comments came as Corbyn delivered a speech in which he acknowledged that Brexit posed a significant challenge for Labour, but insisted it would be wrong to focus only on remain or leave voters.

It presents a challenge for the Labour party: do they accept the spending totals?

Angela Eagle will make a challenge for the Labour leadership, although she won't give a statement today.

He announced his intention to challenge for Labour's top job between cups of tea with ally Vernon Coaker and chats about Nottingham Forest with supporters.

Angela Eagle has stopped holding public surgeries for constituents following police advice after she received abuse and threats in the wake of her decision to challenge for the Labour party leadership.

Angela Eagle has been tipped as the unity candidate to challenge for the Labour leadership as the pressure on the embattled Jeremy Corbyn continues to heighten.

It will be a massive challenge for the Labour Party to reach out to your members in a way that we have not done for many years and persuade them to be part of what we do.

On the challenge for the Labour party in the coming years, he advised: «We have got to be forward - looking, we have got to know what we are talking about.

The revelation that the deputy leader opposed both the prime minister and Lord Mandelson will add further fuel to the rumours that she has been positioning herself to challenge for the Labour leadership when Mr Brown steps down, despite fierce denials from Ms Harman at the weekend.

«The next challenge for Labour is to be the party, not just of experience, but also of change,» Mr Hain concludes.

The challenge for Labour is that most splitting occurs between ideologically adjacent parties, and because less partisan Labour voters are more likely than Conservatives to split their vote.

They'll also be «Fabian Question Time: The Challenge for Labour» featuring Yvette Cooper MP; «Is There Such a thing as Society?»

I look at the particular challenges for Labour in reconnecting to disillusioned liberal - left voters as part of the task of rebuilding the broad electoral coalition which won it three election victories.

Irrespective of the outcome of this year's NEC elections, the critical tactical challenges for the Labour left are to continue to broaden the alliances in defence of party democracy and to start to prise apart the bloc of the trade union bureaucracy and Mandelson / Blair.

«This coming year will be the most challenging for Labour in a decade and a half.

He twice challenged for the Labour party leadership (and once for the deputy leadership), but alas we never will see the socialist nirvana he imagined.

The most daunting challenges for the Labour leader are to restore the party's economic reputation and forge a new political economy, and to demonstrate some supple leadership in dividing the coalition and demonstrating Labour's ability to adapt to this more plural political environment.

Digging deeper into these numbers, however, raises some challenges for Labour.

Not exact matches

Over the years, you've been a vocal advocate for getting Canadians to address various business challenges, including the need to go global and the skills gap affecting the labour force.

Labour has selected a former parish priest to challenge for the vacant Police and Crime Commissioner role in South Yorkshire.

Labour has selected a former parish priest to challenge for the vacant Police and Crime Commissioner... More

The aim of the Cocoa For Good project is to address key challenges facing the industry, namely poverty, labour abuses and deforestation in cocoa - growing communities.

Hiring a house in order to be in the catchment for DOMINO homebirth, asking for a new health care professional in labour, changing hospitals, challenging policy — women are becoming more proactive in their approach of navigating the system in order to ensure that they get the most out of their maternity care and have a healthy positive birth experience.

This anti-politically correct will also stand them in good stead when the unions come for UKIP if they look like seriously challenging Labour.

No Love for Johnnie by Wilfred Fienburgh, about the trials and tribulations of a Labour MP struggling with career ambitions, and some of the challenges which life around Westminster and his constituency threw in his way.

Where this government's failure on growth and jobs has led to their failure on the deficit, the next Labour government will rise to the challenge: action to strengthen the recovery and our economy for the long - term; alongside a tough deficit reduction plan.

And the longer the government carries on with these failing policies, the bigger the challenge will be for the next Labour government.

The challenge for central government is getting local government, particularly Labour councils, to execute the coalition's programme.

The Labour party faces a challenging three - way fight for a marginal northern seat after the shock...

In a bit of Fabian pluralism, and disagreement, I posted this in the Liberal Conspiracy thread, which is more about Lucas» article challenging Labour than your own Labour argument for PR.

Assuming that a moderate unity candidate could be found, let's think about the second and third hurdles: the difficulty of challenging Corbyn and the poor prospects this would create for Labour in the 2020 election.

Revived calls for a third runway at Heathrow are posing challenges for both the Conservative and Labour parties» leaderships.

On launching his leadership bid, McDonnell, who vehemently opposed the Iraq War and was an ardent critic of the new Labour government, called for «a challenge to the present political consensus».

On the whole, across party, it tends to be very good as a space for internal party politics (especially party organisation issues like all women shortlists or primaries), for broad political narrative and argument (what should Labour), personalities and reactive left - right politics around major headline news events, and for some other specific political issues (challenging the far right is a good example).

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

Similarly, the idea about inheritance must be challenged, as a brave Labour government would have done last year when the Tories proposed raising the threshold for inheritance tax (see the Fabian pamphlet, «How to Defend Inheritance Tax»).

Instead of dismissing the coalition as a victory for the right, Labour ought to be challenging its claim to be progressive.

Labour's biggest challenge for the immediate future is Brexit — and here, Corbyn may face another problem.

Brown's instincts are for a broad pitch, projecting Labour as the party responding sensibly and fairly to international and domestic challenges while seeking to place the Conservatives on the isolationist right.

In local authorities elsewhere, where Labour has been in power for 25 years or more, the LibDems have (very properly IMO) challenged this as entrenched power and called for change.

Announcing the timetable for the election, Ms Harman said: «Our challenge now is to use this time to listen and learn, to elect a new leader and deputy leader who will rebuild the Labour party in order to take the fight to this Tory government and to stand up for Britain.»

In Bromley and Enfield, Labour candidates fell short by a margin of less than the Women's Equality party votes, while in Richmond the Liberal Democrat / Green alliance saw off the Tory challenge for a second time.

They would have to wait a year to challenge Corbyn for the leadership, which would require a candidate to be nominated by 20 % of Labour MPs.

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.