Sentences with phrase «election after labour»

Alex Salmond will make Scottish devolution a key battleground in the general election after Labour resisted pressure to bring forward legislation to strengthen Holyrood's powers.

Not exact matches

It comes with the Government under pressure after losing its House of Commons majority in the general election as Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity Labour outperformed expectations.

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Britain's Labour Party adopted the song «Things can only get better» as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions for governing after 18 years in Continue Reading

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

He was, after all, the man that wrote the Labour manifesto at the 2010 election.

The Tories line of attack is always «but he won't be here after the election even if Labour wins.»

After Bercow intervenes, Cameron says the choice at the next election is simple: if you want to join the single currency or give power away, vote Labour!

MPs» pay rises are in peril this week, as Labour leader Ed Miliband reportedly mulls ruling out anything more than a one per cent pay rise after the next general election.

Jeremy Corbyn has sent out a defiant message to his critics after Labour appeared to hold its ground in the English council elections.

A day after the election, the left succeeded in ousting the moderate Labour leader Andrew McIntosh, replacing him with Ken Livingstone.

On purely constitutional issues, the best combination for any coalition after the election would seem to be Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

The danger which Labour faces after the election is not a vigorous internal challenge by left - wing activists furious at betrayal, but how to rebuild support with a very low membership and few activists.

Winning general elections is all about managing expectations — so it really matters that many are quietly deciding the Labour leader is more likely to end up in Downing Street after polling day.

After Labour lost the general election she reviewed the proposals and decided to back it.

After an ominous night for the Labour party at May's elections, I visited her in Birmingham for a feature on the West Midlands.

The last Labour government was able to plan its 1997 manifesto on the basis of rising departmental spending in the first years after the election.

The results marked a welcome boost for Corbyn after Labour slumped to fourth place in the Sleaford and North Hykeham by - election last night.

Labour and Lib Dem peers have inflicted a blow against the government after they passed an amendment to the political parties and elections bill barring tax exiles from donating to political parties.

Most Liberal Democrat activists want the party to support Labour rather than the Conservatives in government after the next general election, a poll has found.

Labour won the 1974 General Election after Enoch Powell had told his supporters to vote Labour because of Europe.

«That's why when Labour walked away after the last election, we couldn't let the Tories run the country on their own.

For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

The Labour government attempted to undergo a re-valuation in 2007, but abandoned its plans until after the 2010 election.

Owen Smith has tried to stress his left wing credentials after the path was cleared for him to stand as the sole candidate against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election.

A challenge to him might arise in nine months» time after the Scottish, Welsh and London mayoral elections in May 2016, depending on how Labour does in them.

I am about to put up a blog post at http://www.barder.com/ephems/ suggesting the outline of Labour's best line to take with the LibDems after the election has produced a hung parliament, if it does, and before parliament meets, while Brown and other Labour ministers sit tight, refusing to yield to the unconstitutional clamour for their resignation.

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

But year after year, election after election, Labour try to use it to divide us.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliamentary elections, Labour fell to third place behind the Scottish Tories, whose Ruth Davidson is now leader of the opposition and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon main challenger to be First Minister after the 2021 election.

After all, when I worked for Labour, the Conservative Party by - election team were as dangerous as a vampire with faulty dentures.

He lost his seat to Labour's Imran Hussain in 2015, five years after first winning election, but returned as a Lib Dem councillor in Bradford last year.

Labour MPs could move a motion to delay Tuition Fee increases until after the next election.

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

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.

After the shock of last week's poll suggesting that Labour might lose their first general election in Wales since 1918, what message emerges from the local elections about the prospects for June 8th?

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

After losing the 1959 general election, Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell came to believe that public opposition to nationalisation had led to the party's poor performance and announced that he proposed to amend Clause IV.

This does indeed mean that literally a handful of new MPs could determine who leads the Labour Party after the election — either by lending the left sufficient numbers to nominate one of their own under the existing 15 % threshold or, in refusing to do so, by making it essential that Corbyn cling on and the left achieve a reduction in that threshold.

But after Brexit, appearing «prime ministerial» is no longer the deal - breaker it used to be for the kind of angry voter Labour needs to attract if it is to win the next election.

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,

The purpose of this Policy Network study, a sequel to the Southern Discomfort series carried out after the 1992 general election defeat, is to address the crippling weakness that Labour faces in Southern England following the 2010 defeat.

The first serious attempt to change course came in May 2014, after Labour's poor performance in the European parliamentary elections.

When Gordon Brown, guided by Ed Balls, announced just four days after the 1997 election that the Bank of England would become independent, the move appeared to be a masterstroke for New Labour.

But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory general election victory apart from John Smith.

(Well, it could hardly be less so...) It may be worth bearing in mind that even if Labour are reduced to 120 MPs or so after the election, Lammy will be one of them, and in those circumstances a shoo - in for the shadow cabinet.

Potential candidates for the Labour leadership were being discussed even before Miliband resigned on the morning after the election.

The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.

After the 2015 general election, in which Labour lost to the Conservative Party, Miliband resigned as leader.