Sentences with phrase «former new labour»

18:46 - And now it's time for the extremely independent - minded Denis MacShane, the former New Labour Europe minister, now safely back within the embrace of his party once more.

In the 126th attempt * to talk up the former New Labour high flyer as the saviour of the liberal centre, the anonymous pal has spilled the beans to The Times columnist Rachel Sylvester.

Their alleged victims include former New Labour minister Tessa Jowell and her estranged husband David Mills, former deputy prime minister John Prescott and former Lib Dem frontbencher Mark Oaten.

Labour has split in two on the issue, with many - including former New Labour ministers John Reid and David Blunkett - preferring to keep the first - past - the - post system currently in use.

David Blunkett, the former New Labour home secretary, says the debate so far has already established the need for «time to do this properly».

Not exact matches

Former minister Stephen Byers has called on fellow supporters of Tony Blair to unite behind new Labour leader Gordon Brown.

One former Labour cabinet minister criticised the «cocky» attitude of his new colleagues.

Morgan, a former aide to New Labour prime minister Tony Blair, made clear on Saturday she believes the Tories are making a series of appointments on partisan grounds.

The former Treasury minister and one time Labour leadership challenger is to examine modern British life including work, home ownership, education and inequality in the tome to be titled «The New Serfdom».

The former shadow chancellor's new book is due to be published by Hutchison in September, just before this year's Labour party conference gets under way.

Helen Goodman, the Labour former whip, calls for a new draft for clause 2 - that's the one on primacy - as soon as possible.

It has just secured full funding, and has commissioned a tranch of new, (and one trusts more robust), polling from the Campaign Company run by former Labour advisor Nick Pecorelli.

A former Labour special adviser himself, Forde skillfully managed the New Labour banter by pushing the right buttons, chucking in the odd impression, gently mocking his interviewees and ensuring that it didn't get too serious too often.

There are nine former special advisers, two of whom used to work for Boris Johnson and only one of whom has a (New) Labour background.

A political archeologist looking for traces of the edifice that was once New Labour message discipline could extract it from the bitten lips of former ministers now on the backbench, repressing the urge to attack their leader.

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

Former Conservative health minister Nicola Blackwood is to become a senior adviser at Global Counsel, the PR and lobbying firm set up by new Labour architect Peter Mandelson.

Meanwhile, the idea of a new Act of Union to replace the 1707 original has been floated in the past by Dennis Canavan, the then maverick Labour MP who later became chair of Yes Scotland for the 2014 independence referendum; and more recently by the likes of former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell and former Labour Welsh Secretary Peter Hain.

Politics for New Labour was often reminiscent of the former DDR.

But now that former shadow business secretary Angela Eagle has triggered a leadership contest (before stepping aside for Owen Smith), Labour members have to consider whether somebody else should carry its new leftist banner.

Jeremy Corbyn is also expected to nominat three new Labour peers, with former party general secretary Ian McNicol tipped to take one of the new seats.

Labour favours the former drawn - out, Leveson - style inquiry, whereas the Government favours a swift investigation by Lords and MPs, so that any recommendations can be implemented in the upcoming banking reform Bill, which is set to come before the House in the new year.

Last week Labour MP Natascha Engel beat Tory MP and former Deputy Speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst by 202 votes to 173 to chair the new committee.

But New Labour's faith in the market meant it contributed to the deregulation that led to the 2008 banking crisis, one which even the former governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, admits was the real reason for the huge deficit inherited by the Conservative - led coalition.

«I laughed when I read the five policies Tom Clark, a former special adviser, imagined might be on Tony Blair's new Labour pledge card:

Confused TonyThe dizzy heights of New Labour obviously got to our former PM's head.

Substance Not Spin, the new book by the former Labour minister Nick Raynsford, is an altogether different beast.

Conservative and Lib Dem ministers have struggled to win over Labour to their proposals, which had concentrated on former justice secretary Jack Straw's work in a white paper published towards the end of the New Labour government.

The Labour leader will make former BBC Trust chairman Michael Lyons chair of a Rebuilding Britain Commission to identify sites for new towns and garden cities.

Giles Radice, former Labour MP and political author, has tried to get the measure of the three politicians at the heart of New Labour in Trio: Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project (IB Tauris # 20).

In 2004, the party was given an unexpected boost by winning the support of former Labour MP and television presenter Robert Kilroy - Silk, who got himself elected to the European parliament, was appalled by the reactionary politics of his new colleagues, failed to win the leadership and, in the words of an activist, «disappeared in a puff of vanity».

A leaked version of the speech David Miliband planned to make if he had become Labour leader shows the former foreign secretary would also have pushed for a new clause I.

And, while Ukip did indeed attract more former Labour voters during the later New Labour years, they have won a substantially higher proportion of Tory voters since the coalition came to power.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.

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 ``.

The former Prime Minister on dealing with the right - wing press, New Labour's alleged obsession with celebrities and how he wished he had reformed the party to ensure that Jeremy Corbyn could never have been leader

Mr Healey will be reacting to a report from the New Local Government Network, a think tank overseen by former Labour minister Chris Leslie.

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

Over the weekend, Mandelson said he and former prime ministers Tony Blair and Brown had «killed each other» at the height of New Labour infighting.

The former business secretary — and architect of New Labour — warned that the party risked a long period in opposition if it swung to the left and failed to recreate the wide - ranging coalition that took Tony Blair to power in 1997.

Lord Andrew Adonis, former SDP councillor, turned Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, former speechwriter to Paddy Ashdown and latterly a New Labour Minister has told The Observer that he is right behind Ed Miliband's «party reform plans».

Former naval commander Lord West said: «It sounds to me almost as if he's decided he wants to destroy the Labour party and set up a new party which would be more like the Socialist Workers Party.

He is author of the forthcoming report: «This human business: why the new bottom line is social» Hopi Sen is a former head of communications for the Parliamentary Labour Party.

The book reveals the dirty tricks that were used to destabilise the Conservative Party, including the newspaper's bribery of US government officials, the abuse of parliamentary privileges by New Labour MPs and financial intimidation by former Government minister, Clare Short.

Up to 30 MPs including David Davis, the former Tory leadership candidate, will support Go, a new grassroots organisation founded last week by the Tory MPs Tom Pursglove and Peter Bone and the Labour MP Kate Hoey.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed former BBC executive Anjula Singh as Labour's new director of communications.

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

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.

The Labour leader is on the hunt for a new political secretary to replace Katy Clark, the former MP who has been in the job for around two years.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has welcomed a speech by former minister Liam Byrne delivering the last rites to New Labour and claiming common ground with Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.