Sentences with phrase «force the labour leadership»

They were already planning to table emergency resolutions at this week's conference to force the Labour leadership to rule out support for proportional representation at the General Election.

Not exact matches

While they should be celebrating the democratic revival within the party, for some reason a number of Labour MPs don't see it that way and have forced another leadership contest just 10 months after members last made their choice clear.

Field nominated Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015, [23] stating that while he did not think Corbyn could win a general election, he hoped his candidacy would force the party to confront its «deficit denial».

During his Labour leadership, Miliband did not go quite as far as pledging to force all firms to put employees in the boardroom.

Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest after a legal challenge to force him to collect the backing of MPs was rejected by a High Court judge.

Momentum - which sprung from Mr Corbyn's leadership campaign - has already been forced to deny it wants to deselect Labour MPs opposed to their leader, including those who backed the bombing of Isil targets in Syria.

If the Labour brand becomes so damaged by the Corbyn leadership that it can no longer defeat the Tories, it's not impossible that a new force could be created which could.

Chuka Umnna is less feared than he was before his Labour leadership wobble, but is still seen by many Tories as a force to be reckoned with.

Interview footage from 2014 shows the Labour leadership contender making an apparent comparison between US forces and Islamic State.

The Labour leadership contest forces Compass to think really hard about its political strategy.

Depressingly, the Labour leader has been forced to retreat from her sensible position after Len McCluskey accused her of «running up the white flag» and the leadership candidates Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper joined Jeremy Corbyn in undermining her.

The leadership of the organised labour in Kogi State have alleged of threats to their lives over the ongoing strike by the state work force.

«We regret that Tom Watson also forced through the decision yesterday at Labour's NEC meeting to challenge the court judgement to restore the right to vote in the leadership election.

David Miliband has said he will stand for the Labour leadership, arguing the party needs to «rebuild» itself as a reforming force in British politics.

The Labour leadership is under pressure from some of their own MPs to join forces with Conservative rebels and the Lib Dems to back an amendment to the Trade Bill, currently making its way through Parliament, to stay in a customs union.

This morning Mrs Eagle, who has challenged Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership, explained her reaction: «I couldn't believe that somebody who went round the country telling blatant lies could be rewarded in that way, and I thought immediately of the Hillsborough families because he repeated the slurs about them and then he went up to Merseyside and insulted Merseyside and was forced by Michael Howard to go back up and apologise.

«Ed Miliband is facing the gravest crisis of his leadership after former Home Secretary David Blunkett warned that he was putting the «entire Labour project» at risk... Mr Miliband was last night said to have been forced into a humiliating climbdown in his battle with the union barons because he feared the loss of their vital funds.

Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith has been forced to apologise for saying he wanted Labour to «smash» Theresa May «back on her heels».