Sentences with phrase «current labour leader»

The polar opposite of the current Labour leader's office.»

After more questions about his views on the current Labour leader, Blair resolutely refused to be drawn into dissing Miliband.

He claimed the difference between his and Corbyn's view was that he was about taking action, while the current Labour leader focused on protesting.

Abbott had a brief relationship with current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn when he was a councillor in north London in the late 1970s, [96][97] before marrying David P Ayensu - Thompson, [98] a Ghanaian architect, in 1991.

As Ralph Milliband, the father of the current Labour leader, noted, Labour became obsessed with defending existing parliamentary forms but that is not the heritage of the Labour movement.

On the BBC's Daily Politics show, two MPs who are not natural bedfellows of the current Labour leader insisted that Wilson would be on their side:

If there was a change of policy then that change would be highly puzzling, given that the current Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has been an outspoken critic of the House of Lords over many years.

Serwotka is more flattering about current Labour leader Ed Miliband — but even he has serious faults.

While Mr Miliband stressed that the current Labour leader was «criss - crossing the country» throwing his weight behind the Remain campaign, he conceeded that «we all need to do more» and that the June 23 referendum is «even more important than the General Election».

Because you simply couldn't imagine the current Labour leaders working with a website where Labour supporters took pop - shots at them.

Not exact matches

Rowley is the current deputy leader of the Scottish Labour party, and as such will become the interim leader in Dugdale's absence.

The Labour leader called on the Government to «update» the current law at an LGBT event which also saw the Education Secretary disparage people who hold traditional views on sexuality.

Labour MPs struggling to decide which candidate has the best chance of ousting their current leader

Their current leader, the untypically - Tory Ruth Davidson, helps in this respect, while the collapse of the Scottish Labour Party has sent thousands of voters searching for a credible alternative.

However, his determination to stick to Labour's current policy on Trident clearly annoyed the Labour leader and Lewis has now paid the price.

Nearly a year later, the former prime minister is no closer to supporting the current leader of the Labour party.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

As the final numbers came in, the current leader was said to have secured the backing of 285 Constituency Labour Parties.

«It's very difficult to see how the current leadership could possibly unite the elements of the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party being a key part of the that,» he argues, before singling out the role of Momentum, the grass roots movement whose aim is «to build on the energy and enthusiasm from the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaign», for its part in creating the current civil strife.

The Labour leader says the current UK economic model is «broken» and his party will not «sit back» as homelessness and inequality spiral.

All of which is music to the ears of a Tory press delighting in Labour's current woes to the extent that one newspaper, the Daily Telegraph to be precise, ran a «joke» feature which encouraged its readers to become registered supporters of the Labour party: so that they could the vote to ensure Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader and Labour is «consigned to electoral oblivion».

The man seen by many as Labour's lost leader has lashed out at Labour's current leadership saying the party has «never been further from power».

Meanwhile, a number of Corbyn supporters on Twitter also insisted that Labour's low standing under the current leader is a result of what they call the «chicken coup» — a reference to the flurry of resignations that was triggered by Hilary Benn standing down as shadow foreign secretary on 26 June.

Leaving aside the fact that the choice of an alternative to Corbyn was mainly framed in terms of somebody who was simply a better communicator than the current leader, could a different type of leader really have appealed to Labour members?

Take Labour's current predicament: an elderly, leftist leader faces a new Conservative Prime Minister.

Based on the logic above, if the majority of the current PLP split from Labour, that group's leader would automatically gain this support.

Given the claimed ambiguity in Labour's rules, as to whether the current leader is automatically on the ballot, the political balance and views of Labour's 33 strong NEC are important.

And while there are comparisons to be made between these leaders, the current situation is ultimately linked to two recurring questions about Labour's identity: how it responds to the far - left, and what it looks for in its leader.

«We began the week arguing that Labour would not make political progress under its current leader.

That was one thing, but failing to defeat current Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, whose approval ratings are subterranean, is quite another.

There is also a buzz locally because the parliamentary seat of Hastings and Rye is now a tight marginal, which the current home secretary and potential future Tory leader Amber Rudd retained in June by just 346 votes over Labour.

Labour are defending half the 60 seats in the Assembly, with leader of Welsh Labour Carwyn Jones the current First Minister.

But Labour in the new parliament will also need a deputy leader who can reach those parts of the electorate untouched by the current leadership, and who will also be trusted by our core voters as we engage that new country.

The disappointing ratings are reflected in a second ICM survey for the News of the World, in which 57 per cent of people said they held Mr Brown responsible for Britain's current pensions shortfall, while a further 44 per cent thought that the chancellor's handling of pensions would impede his chances of winning the next election if he becomes the next Labour leader as expected.

However, Labour voters are much more inclined towards the EU than their current party leader.

«Whatever the niceness and the current warm glow, Corbyn will be a leader of the hard left, for the hard left, and espousing both general politics and specific positions that the public just are not going to accept in many of the seats that Labour is going to have to win to get back in power.»

The home secretary John Reid has insisted that the Labour party will not become «fractured» after current leader Tony Blair steps down.

Tony Blair's departure should be seen as an opportunity to «renew» the Labour party, its current education secretary - and would - be deputy leader - has said.

The former deputy Labour leader and past Corbyn critic suggested that the current leader was the heir to Tony Blair.

But even if labour keeps those voters who are current, y thinking of voting Libdem or Tory and managed to get a leader who would get back the blue labour vote, that's 35 % of the vote.

The Guardian has learnt that two former members and one current member of Labour's national executive committee believe that the selection of a new leader could be concluded within 23 days.

The proportion of the current Labour vote who stick with the Corbynite faction is larger than the anti-Corbyn faction... but that's largely to be expected, these are current Labour voters and Jeremy Corbyn is the current leader.

30 % of current Labour voters would go with the Corbyn wing of Labour in the event of any split — if Corbyn stays leader they will vote Labour, if the Corbynites left they would vote for his rival party.

Many Labour voters may have doubts about their current leader and a revived respect for Gordon Brown — but that doesn't mean they're ready to resurrect the centrist approach of the party's recent history.

But this is different: Labour's current convulsions have not resulted in a moderate leader trying to rein in restive backbenchers on the fringes of the party.

But due to various historical accidents, lost parliamentary seats and early retirements, the current parliamentary Labour Party lacks figures of this statute — with the possible exception of Harriet Harman, a former deputy party leader, and Alan Johnson, who has held previous roles as home secretary and security of state for health and education to his name.

The leader made his first appearance of the year before the Parliamentary Labour Party, but had to leave early to appear on ITV current affairs programme «The Agenda».

Labour's abysmal result saw the leader of the party and current Tanaiste (deputy Prime Minister) Eamonn Gilmore, resign as Labour leader.

The Labour leader also said the party was «very, very ready» for a snap election amid mounting speculation the Conservatives will try to go to the polls before the current parliament is due to end in 2020.

The current bout of fighting started last week after the resignation of Stephen Doughty, which, according to some Corbyn supporters, was timed by the BBC to maximise the Labour leader's embarrassment.