Sentences with phrase «former deputy leader»

The party's former deputy leader called on men to go further than sitting out of the contest and to actively back women for the top job.

Kit Malthouse A former deputy leader of Westminster Council who contested Liverpool Wavertree in 1997, Kit applied for a few seats, but was then selected as GLA candidate for London West Central and was elected to City Hall in May 2008.

Politicians seen as representing the Crosland tradition, most notably former deputy leader Roy Hattersley, who were regarded as firmly on the right of Labour politics throughout their careers, have now tended to find themselves arguing from the left of New Labour.

I am a bit Surprised that she is standing through - same with her fellow former Deputy leader Harriet Harman.

Labour's former Deputy Leader said the argument over Britain's future membership was «too important to be left to men».

Channel 4's Dispatches sent an undercover reporter into Momentum HQ for six months, and was unable to find anything much of note, with former Deputy Leader John Prescott joking that instead of The Battle for the Labour Party it should have been renamed «The Battle to Stay Awake `, and Tory MP Zac Goldsmith remarking it was «weak».

In London, former Cabinet ministers Vince Cable and Ed Davey are putting themselves forward as candidates, while the party's former deputy leader Simon Hughes will stand in his former constituency of Bermondsey and Old Southwark.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

Harriet Harman, Labour former deputy leader, said EU membership meant there was a «floor that is guaranteed» on equal pay and maternity leave.

Ukip was in crisis today as one of its leading MEPs and former deputy leader defected to the Conservatives.

Former deputy leader Anas Sarwar and a clutch of frontbenchers including Jenny Marra, Iain Gray and Jackie Baillie are among those topping the regional lists for Scottish Labour at the Holyrood elections.

Labour's former Deputy Leader writes to Ofcom urging broadcasters to give more airtime to female voices

Former deputy leader of party and ex-trade union organiser announce they will stand in election to replace Kezia Dugdale

[41] Other senior Labour figures who backed the younger Miliband included Tony Benn and former deputy leaders Roy Hattersley and Margaret Beckett.

But former deputy leader Harriet Harman said Mr Corbyn must win 51 nominations as she accused him of trying to «take the party down with him».

Former deputy leader says she regrets not putting herself forward for the top job to stop it «raining men» within the party

Former deputy leader Simon Hughes was unceremoniously dumped from the Bermondsey seat he had held for 30 years whilst whilst an incredible swing to the Conservatives ended Vince Cable's tenure in Twickenham, which he had represented since 1997.

The red hot favourite is MEP and former deputy leader Paul Nuttall who will hope to outlast the 18 days of a Diane James.

A Former Deputy Leader of the CPP, Rodalyne Ayarna has reacted sharply to President Akufo - Addo's August 4 Founder's Day proposal saying she disagrees with it.

[8] Jim Fairlie, a former deputy leader of the SNP and the party's finance spokesman, [9][10] received 575 votes (1.65 %) in Perth.

David Heath, the Liberal Democrat MP and former deputy leader of the Commons, quizzed her as he sought to «understand the precise process».

The GOP's former deputy leader, Libous lost his seat last summer after being convicted on federal charges of lying to investigators.

So it should be with the former deputy leader Roy Hattersley's recent article (with Kevin Hickson) «In praise of social democracy» for the Political Quarterly.

Malaysia's former deputy leader, pardoned and released from jail, talks exclusively about his hopes for his nation

Speaking after his comprehensive victory in the party's leadership contest which the former deputy leader won with 62.6 % of the vote, beating Suzanne Evans and John Rees - Evans, Mr Nuttall said the solution to the immigration crisis was to end the war in Syria.

Suzanne Evans, the former deputy leader, has also declared her interest, but is currently suspended from the party for disloyalty.

Several prominent Labour figures posted messages on Twitter thanking Winterton for her work, including former leader Ed Miliband and former deputy leader Harriet Harman.

On Saturday, the former deputy leader Roy Hattersley said Labour was facing the biggest crisis in its history due to the so - called «purge».

Manchester councillor since 1998 and former deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Manchester council (more information at They work for you)

Hughes is a former deputy leader of the Lib Dems and had been minister of state at the Ministry of Justice since 2013.

A former deputy leader of Labour in Scotland will go head to head with a former trade union organiser standing for the party's pro-Jeremy Corbyn wing in the battle to take over the party following the resignation of Kezia Dugdale.

Former deputy leader Harriet Harman this morning became the latest senior Labour figure to call on Mr Corbyn to stand down.

The former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and UK Deputy Prime Minister is a Sunday Mirror columnist

A group of some 43 Labour MPs, including the party's former deputy leader Harriet Harman, have written to the Prime Minister urging her to rethink her plans.

Former deputy leader of the Lib Dems Lord Beith has described the Leave vote as a revolution that «will fade»

The former deputy leader of the party, below, described the Leave vote as a revolution that «will fade» when it «ushers in a regime that is more authoritarian than that which it replaced, and one less able to deliver prosperity and security».

And, as someone at the top table during the rise of Militant, it is instructive to read the former Deputy Leader's practical comparisons of Militant and Momentum.

Dr Billings is a former deputy leader of Sheffield City Council and was once a parish priest in Sheffield.

The former deputy leader of Liverpool City Council, who was expelled from the party in 1986 because of his membership of the Trotskyist group, praised Mr Corbyn's «charisma» and welcomed the tone of debate at the conference.

Hughes, a former deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, who lost his Southwark and Bermondsey seat to Labour, told guests at a recent birthday party: «I don't believe in an unelected second chamber.

In 2004 a Labour councillor for Guisborough, and former deputy leader of the party, Keith Pudney, became an independent, [4] before becoming a Liberal Democrat in 2005.

«A former deputy leader of Ukip has resigned from the party and accused Nigel Farage of running a «totalitarian» organisation.

I've known in the past when people have criticised MPs and it did turn out they were ill,» the former deputy leader said.

Mr Salmond was speaking at a Yes Scotland event in Edinburgh with Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Jim Sillars, former deputy leader of the SNP.

Now, 29 years after he was expelled, the former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council, Derek Hatton, is returning to the Labour Party.

Hussein, a barrister and former deputy leader of Bradford Council, was previously shadow minister for international development.

The former Deputy Leader of the House, Michael Ellis used to have the chore of responding to them and has now been rewarded with promotion to a departmental job.