Sentences with phrase «former labour»

Former Labour leader who lost two general elections (1987 and 1992), he once told Alastair Campbell: «You imagine what it's like having your head stuck inside a fucking light bulb».

Former Labour minister Chris Bryant raised a point of order demanding the Speaker write to police himself, on the basis that MPs» security had been affected by hacks into their mobile phones.

Indeed, it comes just a few days after former Labour PLP chairman Dave Watts memorably used his maiden speech in the House of Lords to hit out at allies of Jeremy Corbyn who «sit around in their # 1 million mansions, eating their croissants at breakfast and seeking to lay the foundations for a socialist revolution».

The New Statesman's Stephen Bush gave the slogan a thumbs up while the moderate former Labour MP Tom Harris - who is not normally one to endorse anything related to Corbyn - also appeared to suggest that he liked it.

The former Labour comms chief has written a new novel — My Name Is — in which the lead character, a teenage girl, battles against a descent into alcoholism.

Former Labour home secretary David Blunkett, who played a substantial role in the introduction of ID cards, stood up brandishing his own ID card to tell the Commons the subject was «rather close to my heart».

Knight (drums), Labour's Kevin Brennan (guitar and lyrics), the SNP's Pete Wishart (keyboard) and former Labour MP Ian Cawsey (bass) together comprise MP4.

Former Labour leadership contender showed Jeremy Corbyn how to do it, say commentators (and the odd MP).

Former Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall is a rap aficionado who likes running along the Thames to Eminem and Dr Dre.

Former Labour MP Alan Simpson, who stood down at the general election and is now Friends of the Earth's sustainable energy advisor, reacted with concern.

In a recent article for the Labour modernisers» house journal, Progress, the blogger and former Labour Party staffer Hopi Sen commented on the growing consensus within and without the Conservative Party that a Tory loss at the 2015 General Election would trigger the end of David Cameron's leadership.

Matt Forde is a former Labour adviser who is now a successful comedian and regular TV - show panellist.

Former Labour MP Oona King has said she is «sure» that Michelle Obama will run for president and that she stands just as good a chance of entering the White House as Hillary Clinton.

She said that Labour should resist calls to lurch to the right in an attempt to win back former Labour voters from Ukip.

Former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has spoken out against Donald Trump's attitude to women — and in favour of a female Dr Who.

A former Labour MP has landed a senior job in the lobbying industry after spending less than three years in the Commons.

In Aberavon Stephen Kinnock, the son of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, has been elected, taking a handsome 49 % of the vote share.

Speaking for the Open Britain group, former Labour frontbencher Chuka Umunna also weighed in with a hefty attack.

Cooper's campaign to be leader of the Labour party is being bankrolled by millionaire author Ken Follet and his wife Barbrara, a former Labour MP, who have given # 50,000.

A former Labour MP has landed a senior job in the lobbying industry after spending less than three...

Former Labour minister Tom Harris has said he is not leaving Labour «yet» — despite saying «goodbye» to the party on Facebook last night.

Senior Conservatives and Lib Dems have joined forces with former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell to push for an increase in mental health spending.

Margaret Beckett, former Labour foreign secretary, campaigned against AV with culture secretary Jeremy Hunt:

Kennedy and board member and former Labour MP Tony Wright argued for the necessity of annual reporting, for transparency purposes and enabling the electorate to see MPs as «modern professionals.»

Similarly, former Labour minister Denis MacShane took to Twitter to call the idea «a nice hand out for middle classes» — and was rebuked by Corbyn's former campaigns chief Jon Trickett.

The irate senior citizen and former Labour voter yelled: «I tell you what, you keep going on all the time.

Former Labour MP Eric Joyce is reportedly being held by police after another brawl in parliament, just over a year since he was suspended from the party for a similar incident.

The former Labour leader had spent the past week on holiday in Ibiza.

Diarist and former Labour politician Chris Mullin was sceptical about MPs producing their own literature covering what they've been doing in office, telling the room that his successor (MP for Sunderland Central Julie Elliott), «publishes a brochure, from party funds» but this kind of thing is «vanity publishing» and «doesn't advance your knowledge very much... [but] I wouldn't object to anything pretty basic and bland.»

The former Labour party member, who quit in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, also challenged the Ukip leader to sponsor him.

The former Labour chief whip said: «Those who decide to wear the veil just make it that much more difficult for their neighbours, anybody that they're talking to, to really feel that they are sharing values and so on with them.»

On This Week on Thursday night, former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson was at pains to stress that while the Windrush generation's landing cards were controversially destroyed during his time in office, it had absolutely nothing to do with him.

The director said that the former Labour leader described the play's central character as a «ghastly» and «a fucking bastard».

The former Labour leader is said to have pointed to analysis by pollsters Ipsos MORI stating that 2.9 m «lazy Labour» supporters failed to make good on their intentions to turn out to vote.

Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has said it «doesn't look like» his party can win the general election.

The widely - respected former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson has already criticised Corbyn, telling the BBC last month:

The new film comes 28 years after Kinnock The Movie — which former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock has credited with boosting his personal ratings and ensuring Labour came «second and not third» in the 1987 election.

Former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway is set to become an author of children's books about a...

He was joined by former Labour leadership candidate Diane Abbott, who said the government «entirely failed to recognise» the problems faced by families confronted with the prospects of higher debt.

But the most effusive praise came from former Labour special adviser Paul Richards, who declared: «I think Grayling's time at CCHQ will be seen as a golden age, free from gaffes or blunders.»

Former Labour cabinet minister Douglas Alexander has landed a new job as an adviser to U2 frontman...

The commission has been in talks with the Smith Institute - which was founded in memory of former Labour leader John Smith - since December, but today announced it was opening a formal inquiry into its work.

Former Labour whip Lord Grocott has previously tried to pilot a bill through the Lords on the subject but it was talked out by two Conservative hereditaries.

The council leader also saw off competition from Chris Williamson, the former Labour MP for Derby North.

But speaking to Total Politics last year, the former Labour MP and celebrated diarist Chris Mullin was more sceptical about whether Brown should put pen to paper.

In June last year, comedian and former Labour adviser Ayesha Hazarika wrote for TP about how Corbyn was going nowhere.

The former Labour MP's new role may come as a surprise to some, but the pair have known each other for some years as a result of Bono's advocacy work when he was international development secretary under Gordon Brown.

Former Labour cabinet minister Douglas Alexander has landed a new job as an adviser to U2 frontman Bono.

Former Labour foreign secretary David Miliband has made one of the most thunderous attacks on Brexit yet by a senior political figure.

This notion, that lobbyists are now crying out for, «scrambling» to hire, former Labour figures is just depressing for the professional public affairs sector, and for all of us who care about engagement with the political process.