Sentences with phrase «former labour group»
Councillors standing down at the election included Gwen Richardson and Erica Shaw, while former Labour group leader David Potter and the former Conservative council leader from the 1980s and 1990s, Stephen Reid, attempted to return to the council.
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Backed by Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and former Labour spin - doctor Alastair Campbell, the group said it is also planning marches in Europe, to political party conferences and organising for stalls to be set up in busy town centres.
The former Prime Minister spoke to MPs Wes Streeting and Ruth Smeeth for Progress, the Labour group often characterised as «Blairite» in outlook.
Last week the Fabian Society published an anonymous essay by a group of former Labour advisors which provided a damning but insightful critique of the failures of the Miliband years, and the challenge facing his successor.
The English Labour group met in Manchester town hall, near the Labour conference centre, and included Ben Bradshaw, the former culture secretary, John Denham, the former universities secretary, and Steve Reed, MP for Croydon and one of the architects of Labour's plans for devolving power.
Supporters The Labour MP Jon Cruddas; Jonathan Rutherford, academic and chair of the Compass Good Society working group; Neal Lawson, chair of Compass; and Madeleine Bunting, Guardian columnist and former Demos director.
And last year, a Labour councillor was accused of making death threats against one of his former group colleagues, Rania Khan, who now serves in Rahman's cabinet.
In the final week of the election, the group says 42.2 % of Facebook users in Canterbury viewed its videos, while in Sheffield Hallam, where the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was unceremoniously ejected by a Labour candidate, the percentage was 55.9 %.
The group, which includes the former Labour Cabinet secretary John Denham, MPs Jon Cruddas, Liam Byrne, Shabana Mahmood and Sam Tarry — who was a co-director of Corbyn's re-election campaign, said the challenge was «to give Labour a distinct English voice».
Last weekend, former T&G general secretary Lord Morris warned that the «march to mega-unions and mega-mergers» threatened the constitution of the Labour party by putting too much power into the hands of some key groups.
The former director of strategy under Gordon Brown, David Muir, travels to Milton Keynes to lead a focus group with disenchanted Labour voters - and ask them «where did it all go wrong?»
Labour First, shadowy right - wing Old Labour group run by John Spellar got in first (though the mouth of former Labour national executive member Luke Akehurst), describing the new group as «a slap in the face for grassroots campaigners ``.
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But on April 13, former Respect councillor Mohammad Shabbir released a statement announcing that he had joined the Labour Group within Bradford council.
The Labour party will be led down a blind alley if trade unions succeed in banning Progress, a pressure group associated with Tony Blair, the former business secretary Lord Mandelson warned on Sunday.
As a member of Westminster Council and deputy Leader of the Labour Group, he was a leader of the campaign to expose the «Homes for Votes» scandal which led eventually to the surcharging of the former Conservative Council Leader Dame Shirley Porter and colleagues.
Trafford MBC's former Conservative leader Sean Anstee has said campaigning by hundreds of activists from outside the area was an important «contributory factor» in his party losing overall control of the council - but said it is not «cut and dry» Labour will take control after becoming the largest group.
And to try to counteract the accusation from Nigel Farage that In was a «group of yesterday's men and big corporate business», the campaign has also recruited Jude Kelly, the artistic director of the Southbank Centre, and Labour - supporting former T4 presenter June Sarpong.
Speaking for the Open Britain group, former Labour frontbencher Chuka Umunna also weighed in with a hefty attack.
With 22,236 votes, the former leader of Tower Hamlets» Labour Group, Christine Shawcroft, was also elected to the NEC.
Chuka Umunna, who briefly joined last year's leadership race himself before pulling out and Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellorare part of a group working separately from the shadow cabinet, to beef up Labour's economic credibility.
Former frontbencher Caroline Flint warned that it was being used by «far - left parties» seeking to penetrate the Labour party, adding: «That is exactly what far - left groups like Militant did in the 1980s.
In an Observer article, the former Labour leader wrote: «In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment.»
The report was commissioned by the UK Government and produced by a group chaired by former Labour Minister Alan Milburn said that is was «especially concerned» that a smaller proportion of Welsh children who receive free school meals achieve five good GCSEs (26 %) compared to children from similar backgrounds in England (38 %).
A group of Labour politicians have written an open letter to Jeremy Corbyn, urging him to suspend the former disputes panel chairwoman from the party's ruling body amid an ongoing row over anti-Semitism in the party.
Addressing a small group of observers in Westminster, the former foreign secretary gave a frank assessment of why Labour lost the election, saying the party needs to become a «movement» again.
Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.
On Wednesday, Shirley Williams, the Liberal Democrat peer and former SDP co-founder, even suggested that Labour centrists could join with Lib Dems to form a new group if Corbyn wins.
If Labour does want to regain its former levels of support from working class citizens (who remain objectively the largest social group in society), the party must adopt the politics of hope and ambition — the hope and ambition to make the mass of citizens» lives better through regulating the processes and outcomes of the market.
Former Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander, of the pro-EU campaign group Open Britain, said: «Without this, it is genuinely not clear how Labour members, supporters and the public are meant to contribute to the party's policymaking on the biggest issue we face as a country.
In April 2016, Conservative MPs Kelly Tolhurst and William Wragg, Labour MP and Chair of the Britain - Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group Richard Burden and former Minister of State in the Department of Health and Crossbench Peer, Lord Warner visited the West Bank on a Caabu and Medical Aid for Palestinians delegation.
The group will have three treasurers from across the board: the spread - betting millionaire Stuart Wheeler, who defected from the Tories to Ukip; the former Tory treasurer Peter Cruddas; and the Labour donor John Mills, who is one of the few links with the no side in the 1975 EEC referendum.
Groups pushing for the UK to stay in the single market, such as Open Britain, backed by Lib Dem former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and former Labour leader Ed Miliband, argue that a «hard Brexit» would be damaging to the economy because of the risk of tariff and non-tariff trading barriers.
The group includes some former remain supporters but its founding members are largely made up of those involved in the Brexit campaign, including Tory former chancellor Nigel Lawson, Tory donor Peter Cruddas, Digby Jones, who is a former head of the CBI, and David Owen, the former Labour foreign secretary who went on to help found the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
She was better known in Europe where she was secretary general of the Labour group in the European parliament and a former EU transport commissioner.
But supporters of Mr Smith say the campaign group Save Labour have encouraged thousands to sign up and vote for the former shadow Cabinet Minister.
The group includes senior businessmen from the City, the media, and high street retail, along with a former adviser to the Labour leadership.
A former Labour MP and cabinet minister, Williams was one of the group known as the «Gang of Four» who broke away from the Labour party in 1981 to form the SDP, which later joined with the Liberals in 1988 to create the Liberal Democrats.
The former shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, who was one of the first major resignations, urged Corbyn to give up: «This is a very clear result and if Jeremy is to show any leadership quality at all he must now reflect and respond to this overwhelming and unprecedented indication from the parliamentary labour party which includes all wings and all groupings.»
Darren Williams - former employee of PCS union Ann Black - former party chairwoman Johanna Baxter - highly active grassroots campaigner Christine Shawcroft - ex leader of Labour group in Tower Hamlets Ellie Reeves - trade union lawyer Pete Willsman - active in Labour machine since 1980s and «enjoys a good disco»
She is a former chair of the Scottish group of Labour MPs and sat on a commission considering the future of local government for Scotland, where she opposed the introduction of PR for council elections.
Labour's former General Secretary Peter Watt joined the «In - The - Black» group to urge his party to think the unthinkable.
Some 49 Labour MPs joined a group including the SNP and Liberal Democrats in voting in support of the amendment tabled by former shadow cabinet minister Chuka Umunna.
Saving Labour was set up by Reg Race, the former MP for Wood Green in north London, who founded a socialist group with Corbyn and Tony Benn in 1990.
Mr Livingstone, the former Mayor of London and now co-chair of Labour's defence review, told the Daily Politics: «Diane is responding to this wave of backstabbing by this disaffected group of uber - Blairites.
A new Scottish Labour for the Single Market group has been backed by former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale as well as Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray and MEP Catherine Stihler.
Former Labour education minister Lord Adonis has called the level of interest charges «indefensible», and the head of the Russell Group of universities has called for a reassessment of interest rates.
It is a bit of a concern for me that, this group is endorsed by David Cameron (Prime Minister), Nick Clegg (deputy prime minisiter) and Ed Milliband Labour party leader and former minister for the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Dean Archer, a chauffeur and former Labour councillor residing in Shapps» Welwyn Hatfield constituency, reportedly wrote a post on the Facebook group «Positively Hatfield for Hatfield» questioning Shapps» honesty in running an online marketing company under the name Michael Green.
Big Law firms continued to strike deals with former Heenan Blaikie LLP lawyers this week in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal as the much - admired labour and employment group continued to be split up as well as some of the commercial litigators.