Sentences with phrase «first labour leader»

The long battle over a home for the latter bust caused him an untold amount of frustration, but he is back on the trail, campaigning to have his bust of Antonio Soberanis, Belize's first labour leader, occupy a place in the new Battlefield Park which was the scene of many of his meetings and demonstrations in the 1930's.

«Jeremy Corbyn is not the first Labour leader to find himself in this position and so we should consider what he can learn from the last one who faced a similar, perhaps even worse predicament.

Last year, he even pulled out of the Durham Miners» Gala having previously pledged to be the first Labour leader to speak at the rally since Neil Kinnock himself.

Jeremy Corbyn is not the first Labour leader to find himself in this position and so we should consider what he can learn from the last one who faced a similar, perhaps -LSB-...]

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First Nations, labour, environmental and community leaders came together to figure out a way to help local communities decide their own future, collaboratively and democratically.

The MP has become Welsh Labour's first deputy leader after the result was announced at the Welsh Labour conference in Llandudno.

Ed Miliband's first speech to conference as Labour leader saw him signal a distinct break with the past.

Ed Miliband delivered his first conference speech as Labour leader yesterday, where he referred to his parents and his young child, but not Ms Thornton.

The first is that Labour politicians, or at least leaders, use the parable with deniability.

Among the guests on the first show were the union leader Dave Prentis and the Labour MPs Kate Hoey and Caroline Flint.

The first is that the analysis of Labour's defeat can not end on 12 September, when the new leader is crowned.

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.

The Labour leader talked about national policies and complained about the media at first campaign event

The Labour leader said: «I welcome the prime minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.»

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded by saying that his party wanted the election, calling it a chance to get a government that puts «the majority first».

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.

This brings Labour level, the first time this has happened in a Mori since 2008, and will greeted with glee by the party, which still remains without a leader until September 25th, the eve of its conference.

The phone - hacking scandal, shocking in its detail and devastating in its implications, delivered the Labour leader with his first comprehensively one - sided victory.

If borne out it would be the first time a leader of the three main political parties has lost their seat in a general election since Labour's Arthur Henderson in 1931.

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

The establishment of an Irish Constitutional Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 centenary.

Whoever the new Labour leader is, they'll have a lot on their plate and one of the first big issues is likely to be Syria.

Former Deputy PM Nick Clegg moved first in the autumn of 2013 (his penultimate party conference as leader) and the Labour leader felt compelled to follow.

After being called the «most dangerous man in British politics», Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to use his first party conference in Brighton to show he is as normal and British as a cup of milky...

On February 12 1906 Keir Hardie's election as Labour's first leader was declared.

Conducted after the first Scottish leaders» debate on STV on Tuesday, but with much of the interviewing completed before the second instalment on BBC on Wednesday, the poll must have come as a bitter disappointment to the Labour party.

He first came to the Labour leader's eye after his LabourList website became one of the first on the centre left to challenge the well - established Tory «blogemony».

Nothing to do with us, the first thing the new leader of Labour should do is give a cast iron promise to jettison Scotland from the Union.

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.

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,

Miliband's first electoral tests as Labour Leader came in the elections to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and various councils across England, excluding London, on 5 May 2011.

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

He also recently told PAN that he first backed Corbyn to be Labour leader a year earlier: «I voted for Jeremy Corbyn in the Owen Smith leadership challenge.

Party leader Nigel Farage had failed to become Thanet South's MP, but his party reduced Labour councillors from 24 to four and won overall control of Thanet district — its first principal council.

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

The first was from the Resolution Foundation, a think tank chaired by Conservative peer David Willetts and run by Torsten Bell, previously adviser to former Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Any hopes that Labour might have that the election of Mr Murphy as its Scottish leader would prove to be a magic bullet are dispelled by the first poll to be conducted since he won the crown.

Miliband is of Jewish heritage — the first Jewish leader of the Labour Party [157][158]-- and describes himself as a Jewish atheist.

When Harman, as Leader of the House of Commons, stood in for Gordon Brown during Prime minister's questions on Wednesday 2 April 2008 (due to the Prime Minister attending a NATO summit in Romania), she became the first female Labour Minister to take Prime Minister's Questions.

I think British political leaders through out history can be fitted into the following 4 types, when it comes to the role of the state: Big Redistribution + Centralised State Big Redistribution + Decentralized State Small Redistribution + Centralized State Small Redistribution + Decentralized State The modernized wing of the labour party fit's basically in the first category, particularly post Credit Crunch.

It first became apparent last summer when the Labour leader sought to position himself as an international statesman over Syria.

Labour's leader has been more mocked than praised in his first two years in opposition.

Ed Miliband's first speech to conference as Labour leader saw him signal a distinct break with the past, but should he have criticised the war in Iraq?

The Labour leader has won many plaudits for her performances in the Holyrood chamber, particularly during first minister's questions, but also needs to continue to increase her profile among voters.

SNP leader Alex Salmond declared a «wind of change» was blowing through the country, predicting Labour was on course to lose an election in Scotland for the first time «since 1995».

In his first months as Labour leader, Corbyn amassed a team of some of the world's greatest economists: from the most pronounced voices on global inequality to Nobel Prize winners.

When I first joined the Labour Party in 1976, MPs were able to select the leader of the party without any recourse to members.

The Central Scotland region is the birthplace of the Labour Party's first leader Keir Hardie and forms part of what used to be seen as solidly Scottish Labour Party «heartland.»

14th March 2016, Independent: Labour neck - and - neck with Tories in poll for the first time since Jeremy Corbyn became leader

The problem, as described by Lewis Minkin in The Blair Supremacy (Labour First «s secretary Luke Akehurst's «book of the year» in 2014), was that «Blair, despite a huge victory in his election as leader, had in practice only a narrow base of committed supporters of his full political project» [p663].