Sentences with phrase «general election defeat under»

Labour MPs will gather for the first time since last week's general election defeat under the interim leadership of Harriet Harman.

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He has spent three decades in the party, more than John Prescott when he took the same role under Tony Blair, and had ringside seats for the general election defeats of Neil Kinnock - twice - Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband.

However, he was narrowly defeated by the Conservatives under the leadership of Winston Churchill, despite winning the most votes of any political party in any general election in British political history until the Conservative Party's fourth consecutive victory in 1992.

[11] In the general election, Swalwell narrowly defeated Stark by just under 10,000 votes.

He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, until his defeat in the 2010 general election by Ben Gummer, son of former MP John Gummer.