Sentences with phrase «from the labour leadership»

Owen Smith launched a new vision for workers» rights today with a spring in his step — after new sampling from the Labour leadership contest showed he has a sliver of a chance of winning.

Even if Cameron wins the referendum following a negotiation that brings little immediate practical change there will be calls for more reforms from those that lost and perhaps from a Labour leadership that campaigned reluctantly to stay in.

I agree with the above commenter - let's hear more from the Labour leadership candidates about how political the economic decisions are, and how they can be different.

1st September 2016, Huffington Post: Revealed: The Racist, Anti-Semitic, threatening abuse that barred applicants from Labour leadership election

The Streatham MP withdrew from the Labour leadership contest last summer, citing extreme pressure on his private life, including a reporter doorstepping his fiancee's grandmother.

That was quickly followed by a legal threat from the Labour leadership team and a then swift deletion of the offending tweet.

Chuka Umunna has said he is looking to the future after withdrawing from the Labour leadership race.

Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including the latest from the Labour leadership contest

«If people see some trade union leaders having a go at me because I am saying we have got to be disciplined on spending, tough on pay, I think most people would say that's what we'd expect from the Labour leadership and that's what we are going to deliver,» Ballls said.

«That sounds like a line from your Labour leadership campaign!»

Here is Angela Eagle's full statement to the BBC announcing her withdrawal from the Labour leadership race.

«Supporters of Diane Abbott are urging fellow backbencher MP John McDonnell to stand down from the Labour leadership race to give the left a greater chance of having a candidate on the final ballot.»

Mr Corybn's speech to the National Women's Conference offered a change from the Labour leadership contest, which has so far dominated proceedings ahead of the party conference.

This will increase her name - recognition going into the campaign, but it may also enable her to distance herself from the Labour leadership, should she need to.

Rolling coverage of all today's political developments as they happen, including turmoil in Ukip and the latest from the Labour leadership contest

This is not something that will come from the Labour leadership.

Ms Lucas said she was concerned by the «relative silence from the Labour leadership» about the referendum, and warned the Opposition could not stand aside and watch the Tories fight out the question.

Angela Eagle tonight withdrew from the Labour leadership race - setting up a straight fight between Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn.

Not exact matches

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

Sarwar was MP for Glasgow Central from 2010 to 2015 and became an MSP for the Glasgow region in 2016, and was deputy leader of Scottish Labour under Johann Lamont's leadership.

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.

For instance, it will say Labour believes in a system of fairer rents, from which the leadership would come up with something specific, like longer tenancies.

Mr Cameron replied: «It's always nice to have a lecture on happy families from the honourable member» — a reference to Mr Miliband's battle with his brother for the Labour leadership.

The next event was the Labour leadership election in which Jeremy Corbyn sought a fresh mandate from his beleaguered party.

The New Labour era is over, Ed Miliband proclaimed as he seized the party leadership from the grasp of his elder brother.

From the 1970s, Harriet campaigned for increased women's representation in the Labour Party - more women Labour councillors, more women Labour MPs and for a Labour leadership team of three of which at least one should be a woman.

It's fairly clear that the Labour leadership doesn't understand communications — for example no - one seems to have spotted that hiring a Sinn Fein adviser to Jeremy Corbyn's team might at the very least raise eyebrows — but it seems the people criticising him from his own benches aren't much better.

He did so by differentiating himself from the previous leadership, declaring that New Labour was over and running a quite leftist campaign.

«It's very difficult to see how the current leadership could possibly unite the elements of the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party being a key part of the that,» he argues, before singling out the role of Momentum, the grass roots movement whose aim is «to build on the energy and enthusiasm from the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaign», for its part in creating the current civil strife.

This uncompromising opposition to the appalling displays of racism and xenophobia witnessed across the country in the last week, is exactly the kind of leadership we need from the head of the Labour Party.

Allies of Jeremy Corbyn are hoping to see off the Labour leadership challenge from Angela Eagle -...

Despite the opprobrium that Mr Blair's interventions draw from Labour's new model army, his analysis and political approach remains the only coherent argument coming from the left of centre and Labour's leadership appears to be out of step with the Party.

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

Allies of Jeremy Corbyn are hoping to see off the Labour leadership challenge from Angela Eagle - by looking back to 2003.

I read that, now, to mean «as long as it complies with Cameron's dictates» If, as is suggested, Mandleson pulls the rug from under Brown, prior to a general election, and the Labour Party get a new invigorated leadership then, sadly, Cameron will not have a chance.

The evidence from the 2010 Labour leadership contest suggested that the vast majority of affiliated members did not vote.

I have heard nothing from Chukka Umma, David Lammy or any of the other so called successors to the Labour leadership that would inspire me to vote Labour.

Corbyn won the Labour leadership less than three months ago with a huge mandate from party members, but without the support of most MPs in the parliamentary party.

I agree that we are so far lacking in a sense of direction from the new Labour leadership.

So, no one apart from seemingly the Labour or Tory leaderships thinks there's going to be a majority government after May 7?

The man seen by many as Labour's lost leader has lashed out at Labour's current leadership saying the party has «never been further from power».

The Labour leader responded to 12 departures from his shadow cabinet in 20 hours, by insisting that he would not resign and vowing to stand in any leadership contest.

«They had hoped to leave that meeting with the confidence to continue to support the leadership in bringing the Labour Party together from within the Shadow Cabinet.

A Labour source told The Daily Telegraph in April that the shadow chancellor «wants to take over from Jeremy before 2020 and he's just watching the leadership crumble».

Labour are reeling from a dreadful general election result and a highly divisive leadership battle, the effects of which were evident this week in Brighton.

All parties have had problems — from the Conservative ex-Treasurer, through the Lib Dem conman donor Michael Brown to the outright purchase of the Labour leadership by the trades unions.

Former Labour leadership contender Owen Smith - who was sacked from Mr Corbyn's frontbench after breaking from party policy to call for a second referendum - seized on the apparent slip of the tongue by Ms Thornberry, saying it was the latest in a string of inconsistencies on Brexit from Labour frontbenchers.

Criticisms of Corbyn's leadership style focused on his inept approach to internal party management and estrangement from his own parliamentary party; where Corbyn exceeded expectations was his ability to fashion a distinctive, eye - catching political agenda that captured the imagination of the electorate, and distanced the Labour party from its potentially «toxic» legacy (one of the historian Stuart Ball's key criteria for effective opposition party leadership).

He is surrounded by a Parliamentary Labour Party that largely doesn't support him or his policies, yet he received a massive mandate from those voting in the Labour Party leadership contest.

He was a member of the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet from 1986 to 1994, and stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party in 1992.