Sentences with phrase «from the labour front»

You need only take a look at the stream of supportive tweets from Labour front benchers to see how isolated he is.

In the Commons debate to decide the issue, Mr Corbyn opened from the Labour front bench to speak against intervention before Mr Benn won widespread plaudits for his closing speech making the opposite case.

Labour's Emily Thornberry has resigned from the Labour front bench over a tweet she sent during the Rochester and Strood by - election campaign.

Labour's Emily Thornberry resigns from the Labour front bench over a tweet she sent during the Rochester and Strood by - election campaign.

Diane Abbott has accused Ed Miliband of favouring only politicians who «will literally read from the script», days after being dropped from the Labour front bench.

Much attention has been focused on Labour MP Emily Thornbury's social media gaffe, which saw her resign from the Labour front bench for tweeting a picture of a home in Rochester decorated with English flags.

Big banks and hedge funds have received a rush of goodies from the Chancellor and we have not heard a peep from the Labour front bench about any of it.

The resignation of Tom Watson from the Labour front bench is a great disappointment.

Clockwise from top left: Chuka Umunna, Tristram Hunt, Peter Mandelson and Liz Kendall have all resigned from the Labour front bench Photo: AP / Rex / AFP / The Telegraph

It was Corbyn's stance on nuclear weapons that triggered Reed's rapid resignation from the Labour front bench team last year.

Shadow Europe Minister Pat McFadden was sacked from the Labour front bench last night, in what has proved to be a pivotal moment in Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

Clockwise from top left: Chuka Umunna, Tristram Hunt, Peter Mandelson and Liz Kendall have all resigned from the Labour front bench

Mr McDonnell criticised Progress on Wednesday after three Labour MPs resigned from the Labour front bench in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle appointments.

Not exact matches

The NDP's monthly contributions report from its leadership candidates shows Edmonton - Strathcona MLA and front - runner Rachel Notley has raised $ 82,826.99, Edmonton - Calder MLA David Eggen has has raised $ 32,924 and labour activist Rod Loyola raised $ 5,310 since the race started.

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

Labour finance spokesman Grant Robertson said billions of dollars was disappearing from right in front of farmers» eyes.

That EDM has the support of the Labour front bench and sports 36 signatures, just one of which is from a Lib Dem MP.

66 Labour MPs voted against Maastricht, including, in Bryan Gould, the only resignation from either front bench in order to do so, and outnumbering Conservative opponents by three to one.

It's probably more a case of a desire to be led from the front, for him to deploy against the Government the ruthlessness he showed by denying Ed Balls the shadow Chancellor's post and ousting Nick Brown as Labour's chief whip.

Over 50 Yorkshire and Humber Labour Party delegates packed into Saturday's fringe meeting in Leeds to hear from the front line in what has been labelled «A Very European Coup `.

certainly not in sufficient numbers to stand a chance in 2020, once the Conservatives have finished loading the deck against Labour, with everything from individual electoral registration and boundary changes, through to the financing of the opposition front bench, sharpened to a fine point in order to stab the Labour party to death.

In answer to a parliamentary question from Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, the Government confirmed that the budget for this year's Warm Front scheme is # 100m.

Throughout Mr Osborne's blockbuster of a Budget, David Cameron sat alongside him, almost unnoticed as the Chancellor strutted in front of him at the dispatch box, all swagger and confidence and seemingly relishing the barracking and heckling from Labour MPs opposite.

The leader of the Labour party needs to be leading from the front.»

Another returning MP, Louise Haigh, spoke out against Corbyn in the summer but did not actually resign from the front bench, according to a Labour source.

The Labour leader woke up to a slew of negative headlines on the front pages of the newspapers and a sustained assault from the energy industry, which has warned of blackouts if he proceeds with plans to fix energy prices for two years after 2015.

But as Labour prepares to gather by the seaside once again, seven years on, these stories might as well be the paper party members eat their fish and chips from as they wander down the front.

This follows the resignation last week of Jo Stevens from the shadow cabinet and Tulip Siddiq from Labour's front bench.

It is more important than that — it is the most striking piece of thinking to emerge from Labour's lazy Front Bench since 2010.

Tory Brexit Minister Steve Baker said: «If Labour want to be taken seriously as a party which respects the decision the people took in the referendum, they must remove Lord Hunt from their front bench.

Visitors will hear from senior Labour front - benchers, participate in the party democracy review, have their say on policy, and brush up on their campaigning skills with the latest training seminars.

He had support from both the Conservative and Labour leadership, however many backbench MPs, particularly those from the Labour Party (who held a large majority in the House at the time), viewed Young as someone who had too recently been a member of his party's front bench team and was thus not sufficiently in touch with ordinary MPs.

Labour leadership front - runner Andy Burnham has strengthened his campaign team with two senior hires from the lobbying world.

Tories — from the grassroots to front benchers - spend every morning complaining about the non-existent Labour bias on the BBC.

The rare public questioning of the respected IFS came as Labour tried to move on to the front foot over the economy by asserting it had made the right decisions to pull Britain from recession, and had detailed plans to attack the deficit.

«Jeremy Corbyn had called this right; Labour MPs and particularly those who've accepted jobs from him, like Diane Abbott and others, if they're not prepared to vote the way that Jeremy's told them to vote then they shouldn't be on the front bench,» he added.

Tommy Sheppard, the SNP candidate who could take Edinburgh East from Labour - the Edinburgh Evening News front page this week claimed Labour was fac ing a wipe - out in the capital - was Labour's assistant general - secretary in Scotland from 1994 to 1997 when Tony Blair became prime minister.

Apart from Owen and Rodgers, and to a lesser extent Maclennan and Mabon, none were front - rank figures in the Labour Party, and most were undistinguished backbenchers in danger of deselection (nothing new there then!).

«Perhaps the Labour front bench believes that having been mercifully released from the death grip of G Brown, it is now under no obligation to accept responsibility for his errors: that expunging the chief perpetrator was itself an absolution.»

At the Commons debate on anti-Semitism, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson pointedly moved away from Comrade Corbyn on the front bench to sit next to Labour MPs Ruth Smeeth and Luciana Berger, whose emotional descriptions of the abuse they've been subjected to by Corbyn supporters for being Jewish triggered a rare standing ovation.

Guardian front page - final edition, Friday 23 May 2014: Labour reels from Ukip poll «mayhem» pic.twitter.com/bydhPWWY3 7

An appetite for further strikes has been lost by the utter contempt displayed by the Conservative / Lib Dem coalition and the deafening silence from anyone on the Labour front benches.

At the Commons debate on anti-Semitism, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson (pictured) pointedly moved away from Comrade Corbyn on the front bench

Labour sources made clear that open dissent against the leader would not be tolerated in future and there would be no repeat of the situation in which Corbyn and Benn argued different positions over Syria from the front bench.

In the spirit of Mad Men's Don Draper, we didn't like what was being said about Labour (that the party can't be trusted with public money), so we changed the conversation (by fronting up to enough cuts to create fiscal room for a set of policy priorities distinctly Labour and different from those of the Tory - led government).

Corbyn's people think that the waves of resignations from Labour's front bench were planned, to put pressure on him to step down voluntarily.

«Twelve years of Labour red tape and bureaucracy have wasted police time, keeping them away from front line crime - fighting.

He led from the front in Crewe and at the local elections and managed a 17.6 % in a heartland Labour seat and beat Labour by 20 % nationally in the local elections.

Shadow Ministers Jonathan Reynolds, Stephen Doughty and Kevan Jones have all resigned from Labour's front bench this morning.

He was a shadow Labour spokesman throughout the 1980s before serving as Home Secretary, from 1997, in Tony Blair's first term as PM, becoming Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 and then holding a series of other front bench roles until Labour lost power in 2010.