Sentences with phrase «embarrassment to labour»

The announcement was timed to cause maximum embarrassment to Labour and dominated the headlines on the day after the then Prime Minister's keynote conference speech.

I doubt that such a candidate would be other than an embarrassment to the Labour Party as a whole mind.

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While Labour's membership surges and its popularity grows among the young, the Conservatives» membership is a cause of some embarrassment to the party.

Labour, he is careful to point out, has an «embarrassment of riches» to choose from in the form of four ex-cabinet ministers: the Milibands, Ed Balls and Andy Burnham.

A number of pro-Remain Tories have backed Labour's move, with former chancellor Ken Clarke accusing ministers of trying to protect the government from «political embarrassment».

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.

«Labour said the decision by so many councils to turn their backs on the Coalition's offer to fund a freeze was an «embarrassment» for the Coalition.

At Labour's conference he faced more embarrassment as he was pictured holding a plea to bring back the very same job.

In the end the Prime Minister was saved the embarrassment of defeat although he was forced to rely on Labour and Lib Dem votes to quash it.

Despite tonight's show of unity, Brown suffered the embarrassment of Labour's former general secretary Peter Watt disclosing that in 2007 one of the triumvirate, Alexander, favoured Brown going for an early general election, partly because he feared the public would quickly come to dislike the prime minister.

The No campaign, Better Together, with its focus - group tested slogan, «No Thanks», was essentially run by the Labour Party — chaired by Alistair Darling, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible with Brown for the deregulation of uk banks, and directed by Blair McDougall, who had organized David Miliband's failed Labour leadership bid — though its platform included local Tories and Liberal Democrats, to the embarrassment of many Labour functionaries, who preferred to claim that the whole referendum campaign was a waste of time.

The revelation will be an embarrassment to Mr Gove, who scrapped Labour's Building Schools for the Future scheme in July 2010, saying it was beset by bureaucracy and delay.

I have nothing but contempt for those idjits — they are a blight on the face of the indie world and an embarrassment to those of us who labour long and hard on our literary efforts and don't wish to be lumped in with amateurs, nuts and weekend warriors.