Sentences with phrase «huge mandate»

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.

Despite the fact that huge swathes of the electorate voted with Labour, believing it to be their best way to stop Brexit, the Tories were able to spin the last general election as giving a huge mandate to pro-Brexit parties.

«At the heart of Jeremy's campaign, upon which he received such a huge mandate, was the rejection of austerity politics.»

Corbyn has just won a huge mandate on a strictly anti-austerity ticket.

I recognise the huge mandate that you have from Party members.

«Bill de Blasio wants Melissa Mark - Viverito to get as many votes as possible so that he can claim not only a win but a huge mandate and have even more leverage and power to push his agenda and diminish the power of critics and skeptics,» said one labor insider.

The open defiance by Maria Eagle shows that the shadow cabinet faces a bumpy ride after Corbyn told the conference he would use his «huge mandate» in the leadership contest to change the party's position.

Corbyn won a huge mandate among Labour members in 2015, and almost 130,000 more people have joined the party since the referendum on Britain's EU membership, many of them thought also to be Corbyn supporters.