Sentences with phrase «elected labour leader»

Hodges article was titled «Fear and loathing in the Labour Party», but here is the curious thing, since Ed Miliband was elected Labour leader the quotient of «fear and loathing» seems to have abated — except amongst those John Prescott refers to as the «Bitterites».

Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader on the back of trenchant opposition to welfare cuts, however, when his team wrote their 2017 manifesto, they chose to continue those that had not yet been implemented.

For the record unless you call Gordon brown not being elected leader, isn't it 8 males since Margaret thatcher, who've been elected labour leader, not 7 as stated

The stage is set for the SNP to dominate Scottish politics for the foreseeable future, whoever is elected Labour leader.

David Cameron used his speech at this year's Conservative party conference to take a swipe at newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn today - accusing his opponent of «Britain - hating ideology».

Jeremy Corbyn has finalised his full frontbench team nearly a week after being elected Labour leader.

The newly elected Labour leader's first official engagement was the Battle of Britain memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday.

His ratings have hardly improved since he was first elected Labour leader.

Sunder Katwala of the Fabian Society said the newly elected Labour leader had a number of choices: «He could pick a fight [with the unions] or have dinners at the CBI.

Reed was one of the first to resign from the shadow frontbench after Corbyn was first elected Labour leader and last year accused him of seeking «to inject an unprecedented poison» into the party.

If the Jeremy Corbyn bandwagon rolls on to 12 September and the left wing MP is elected Labour leader, what does the party do next?

Bookies William Hill responded by making Lewis 5/1 joint favourite to become the next elected Labour leader.

Ever since he was elected Labour leader in 2015 on a promise of straight talking, honest politics, Jeremy Corbyn has regularly been accused by his opponents of doing nothing of the sort.

Ever since he was elected Labour leader last summer there have been murmurings of threats to Jeremy Corbyn from within the party.

Ever since he was elected Labour leader last summer there have been murmurings of threats to Jeremy...

[313] After Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Livingstone was one of his most prominent allies; in November 2015 Corbyn appointed Livingstone to co-convene Labour's defence review alongside Maria Eagle.

• Surely we need to know what Jeremy Corbyn — if elected Labour leader — would wear to the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day?

Jeremy Corbyn has been elected Labour leader for the second time in just twelve months, beating Owen Smith by 313,209 votes to 193,229.

Should the unthinkable happen, and Owen Smith be elected Labour leader, the party would lurch to the right ahead of the 2020 General Election in an attempt to triangulate both the Conservatives and UKIP, being tougher on welfare than the Tories, being tougher on migrants than the Tories, accepting the economic consensus as it is — regardless of how many people it left behind.

In September 2015, the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Turley as shadow civil society minister in his first shadow cabinet.

Newly - elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has arrived for his first official engagement at the Battle of Britain memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral.

When Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader in 2015, he was immediately written off and ridiculed by Conservative - supporting public affairs professionals, while the industry's hefty contingent of diehard Blairites were often even more scathing.

If Jeremy Corbyn is elected Labour leader, what does the Labour party do next?

Finally, there is the process for electing a Labour leader.

The Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

Not exact matches

Amidst all the doom and gloom around Arsenal following a typically tough and trying month of November (maybe if the Gooner leader of the Labour party ever gets elected we could petition him to abolish the month altogether) I think we all got a bit carried away by the talk of an injury crisis.

McDonnell said: «I've been talking to Labour party members all over the country, they're saying for those begrudgers — because that's what they are — for goodness sake, get behind the leader of the Labour party that was democratically elected, it's time to put up or shut up.

In 2007 Harriet was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

Regarding the UK, the issue seems to have become more relevant since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party.

Having had a prince not of darkness but of light, and of such spellbinding oratory, Labour MPs were resolved never again to elect a leader in MacDonald's mould.

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

Not only is the former Tooting MP Labour's most senior elected figure, he also appears to be the Labour politician most likely to be popular as a party leader.

With the Labour Party seemingly willing to gift the Tories half a year to do whatever they want with the country, the Liberal Democrats have a shorter path to electing a new leader and getting on with the business of rebuilding.

Labour staged its second leadership contest in a year this summer and elected the same leader.

Over the past year, Reed has been one of the Labour leader's most vocal opponents in Westminster, having resigned from the shadow frontbench almost immediately after he was first elected in 2015.

Let us allow ourselves to reminisce and go back to the early 1990s, when Tony Blar had just been elected leader and the New Labour saga was about to begin.

The Labour Party had just lost John Smith and elected Tony Blair as its new leader.

KR Lohse responded to Dan Hodges» piece wondering where Ed Miliband stood on the issue of Europe and a new EU treaty by roundly condemning the means by which the Labour leader was elected: «Ed's luck ran out the day the unions propelled him into a position that the majority of the party didn't want him in.

First elected in 1982, when only three percent of MPs were women, Harman entertains in reminiscence of Labour leader Michael Foot.

After Labour lost the 2010 general election and Ed Miliband became the party's leader, Alexander was elected to the Shadow Cabinet and was made the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

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.»

What happens when you are elected leader of the Labour Party with a massive mandate but a small minority where it most matters?

Andy would have been the best leader we never had last time, he's not right this time, incidentally your choice for Mayor Diane Abbot comes out with her usual nonsense regarding, her 24,000 majority compared to Khans 2,000 majority, When she was first elected in 1987 ′ she had a swing against her, even though, any really after the 1983 election, it would be expected, that a labour politician would have a swing towards them as 1983 was our all time low, and I could be said her swing against her at the time was due to racism, but Paul boeteng stood for the first time, next to her in 1987 ′ he never had a swing against him,

Elected in the party's biggest ever wipeout, Labour's 1983 intake of MPs could be about to notch up its third party leader.

Jim Murphy has been «astonished» by how easy he's found it to take on the SNP since he was elected leader of the Scottish Labour party, he told BuzzFeed News.

It has been 18 months since Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as leader of the Labour party, promising «a new kind of politics».

The solution of electing Jim Murphy as leader ensured Labour's defeat.

After the Labour Party was defeated at the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party; in September 2010, Miliband was elected to replace him.

On 24 June 2007, in what was a close contest Harman was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.