Sentences with phrase «deputy leadership bid»

He even backed Hazel Blears» deputy leadership bid!

Last summer he donated # 75,000 to the Yvette Cooper campaign for the leadership and # 20,000 to support Rushanara Ali's doomed deputy leadership bid.

Mr Hain has been attacked by the Conservatives for failing to fully explain why around # 50,000 was channelled into his campaign through the PPF, which was set up in December 2006, three months after he launched his deputy leadership bid.

I believed then, and still do, that Tony Benn's deputy leadership bid was a destructive and unprincipled act.

In a statement issued last night Mr Hain said: «As I said in December, as a result of administrative failings within my campaign there were donations to my deputy leadership bid which were not registered within the normal time to the Electoral Commission.

Following weekend reports Jack Straw will be coordinating Mr Brown's leadership campaign, Mr Clarke added MPs had damaged Mr Blair's credibility by announcing their leadership and deputy leadership bids.

Not exact matches

Sometimes over the years the deputy leadership was a consolation prize for a failed leadership bid.

Mr Johnson, who launched his bid for the deputy leadership last November, told the magazine that if he won he would overhaul the Labour party structure.

He has already worked on Jon Cruddas's bid in 2006 - 07 for the deputy leadership of the Labour party and Ken Livingstone's unsuccessful re-election bid last year for London mayor, managing to raise more money in eight weeks than the Labour party normally does in a year online.

His bid for the leadership got off to a shaky start after he pulled out of a deal to back Michael Howard in a «dream ticket» team, in return for the Deputy Prime Ministership if successful.

At a meeting of the parliamentary party at the end of last week, voices who last had their chance when Hazel Blears made her doomed bid for the deputy leadership reportedly piped up, talking about benefit claimants getting «something for nothing» and the need to sound strong notes on immigration controls.

Anas Sarwar, who resigned as Scottish Labour's deputy leader in December 2014, and who is seen as a favourite to succeed Dugdale, denied claims he was eyeing up a leadership bid.

[87] Many of the parliamentarians who nominated Dugdale for deputy leader also endorsed Murphy's leadership bid, but she ruled out standing with Murphy on a joint ticket.