Sentences with phrase «defeat for labour»

But a terrible defeat for Labour will be spun as a rejection of the policies Corbyn supporters rightly champion.

There's no doubt that our defeat for the Labour Party is painful, but it is not the end of our campaign.

A defeat for Labour would be seen as a major blow for Mr Miliband whose Doncaster constituency lies in the South Yorkshire police force area.

Brown said that the results were «a painful defeat for Labour», and that «too many good people doing so much good for their communities and their constituencies have lost through no fault of their own».

Shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers said the referendum's result was a major defeat for Labour at the national level.

However, only one was returned at the 1931 election against the backdrop of a massive defeat for Labour.

«I always thought that the 2010 election result was the worst defeat for Labour since 1918,» he says.

The one consolation of defeat for Labour is that they don't have to answer for the promises they wouldn't have been able to keep.

In particular, a heavy defeat for Labour may pile more pressure on Ed Miliband if he ends up taking a big part of the blame, notwithstanding Ken's individualistic brand.

Bradford West and Tower Hamlets — both areas in which the taken - for - granted BME vote rebelled, delivering stinging defeats for Labour in their heartlands — show that working via «elders» is less of a guarantee than has been assumed.

Not exact matches

I managed to have another natural drug free birth, and I was defeated for a few days with how I acted, until my midwife kicked my butt and told me to kick that labour's ass with the next one.

The development, which comes as parliament prepared to unite behind a Labour motion condemning the bid as against the public interest, represents a major defeat for the media mogul.

He addresses a number of myths, not least that which became a convenient excuse for the Conservatives, defeated in the landslide election of 1945, that their party organisation had atrophied during the war whilst Labour's had strengthened.

That is where Labour needs to look not just for short - term tactical opportunities — a chance to split or defeat the government — but also for inspiration.

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

He's a Telegraph hack after all... He's right on this of course - defeat for the No camp is a highly likely possibility and the image of Labour stalwarts teaming up with «old» style Tories is not an appealing one for the electorate.

His defeat would not just have been a personal loss for him and a numerical blow to Labour: for the last 10 years, Wilson has represented Sedgefield, the seat previously held by none other than Tony Blair.

Over a third of Labour voters in 2015, where it went down to heavy defeat, said they would not vote for the party under him.

Then, in January 2010, with the general election just four months away and Labour heading for a seemingly inevitable defeat, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt launched a desperate — and widely - viewed as hopeless — plot to unseat the PM before the country went to the polls.

But he also says Labour have historically been far too squeamish about removing leaders heading for electoral defeat, and warns the party that they must not make the same mistake again.

After Labour's election defeat in 2015, Khan announced he would run for the party's nomination for the London mayoralty.

If the polls are correct (and many Corbynistas doubt they are), then Labour is heading for defeat.

As the domestic and international fall - out from Thursday's defeat for the prime minister continues, Labour responded angrily.

It's an argument predicated on the assumption that, as he puts it, «naturally, Corbynites tend to be in safe Labour seats, so a catastrophic defeat for the party won't affect most of them».

The event itself was an opportunity for Blue Labour friends and others to take stock following Labour's terrible defeat at the 2015 General Election.

Following Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking.

You have to go back to Labour's defeat in Brighouse and Spenborough in 1960 for anything remotely comparable.

Well one things for sure, a Lib / Lab pact will be the only way to defeat the Tories if Labour starts sliding down the drain again, which it looks like it is...

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

Defeated Labour councillor Adam Langleben called for Jeremy Corbyn to apologise to Jewish activists, adding: «We as Jewish Labour activists were told we were endorsing anti-semitism.»

[80] The three other defeated candidates for the Labour leadership all stood in the election, though Diane Abbott failed to win enough votes to gain a place.

This might not work, but so what if it doesn't — Labour have nothing to lose, because if they do nothing they are going down for their worse defeat ever (it'll be worse than 1983).

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.

Rebel MPs may defeat the government in the new year as opposition grows to Labour's plans for Heathrow and Royal Mail.

Labour insists that it will vote for a post-legislative referendum at some point in the debates, forming another possible point of Labour alliance with dissenting Tory MPs to defeat the government.

When the leader of the country's largest union tells Labour's leader he's being dragged into a swamp, heading for certain defeat at the next election and presiding over the destruction of his party, then something's up.

Labour has 221 peers and there are 89 Liberal Democrats, making it harder for Labour to combine with crossbenchers to defeat the coalition.

Liberal Democrats and Labour unite to defeat Jeremy Hunt's bid for one year freeze in licence fee

Defeats under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were commonplace — for example there were 12 on the 2005 - 6 Identity Cards Bill.

Creating a UKIP of the Left would be self - defeating for indulgent unions, with Tories the only winners if a weakened Labour is electorally drained.

Labour would be noisy and passionate, leading a thousand heartfelt marches against «the cuts» — and nicely on course for yet another election defeat.

Winning this vote would be a shock defeat for Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander, and a clear indication that the membership is much more inclined to a coalition with Labour post 2015.

Labour MPs have roundly defeated the Tory MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, Jesse Norman's ten minute rule bill on trade union facility time today (January 11).

Labour sources have insisted Cameron's «Flashman» character was ultimately responsible for the defeat, however.

But in the wake of a disastrous general election defeat, and with a huge rebuilding job to be done for Labour to stand any chance in the 2020 election, it seems now is not the time for platitudes.

The DUP, which is targeting 10 seats this time, is pragmatic about its partnerships and famous for driving hard bargains: it propped John Major up against Conservative rebels in the 1990s but also saved Labour from defeat over anti-terrorism legislation two years ago.

A statement from Unison Scotland's Labour Link said: «It is unprecedented for a party leader not to stand down after such a defeat, particularly when he loses his own seat.

Mr Murphy said he left no legacy of bitterness for anyone in the Labour Party, and the only person he was angry at was the person who blamed Scottish Labour for the party's UK - wide general election defeat - a reference to Unite leader Len McCluskey.

The former Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, spoke out about the need for the government to be sensitive about huge societal divisions as he was defeated by Labour in Sheffield Hallam.

He warned that if Mr Murphy remained leader, Labour was heading for another big defeat at the Holyrood elections in 2016.