Others will want to see him fulfil his promise to mobilise his supporters
into a Labour campaigning organisation.
Still, there will be an inquest
into the Labour campaign, and why it has been as much the victim of the anti-politics mood as the governing parties
Now is the time to put some musical fire into our Labour hearts, and rock and roll soul
into our Labour campaigning.
Not exact matches
Sadiq Khan's mayoral
campaign ran
into trouble this week when it was reported that Transport for London (TfL) estimated the cost of the
Labour candidate's transport fares scheme to be much higher than he claims.
Huge resources have been poured
into the Tory election
campaign, with the party expected to outspend
Labour by up to three to one over the coming months.
Controversy about the highly charged EU Referendum
campaigning was briefly slipped
into proceedings by Cox's friend of 20 years and
Labour MP Stephen Kinnock.
The leadership
campaign was fought out amongst Oxbridge graduates, two of the candidates were sons of a left - wing historian with connections deep
into North London
Labour intellectual circles.
But the direct result of that decision is millions of pounds less money coming
into Labour's future election
campaigns.
That would test candidates» wider
campaigning experience, broader appeal AND bring outsiders
into Labour party processes which is healthy.
He made the pledge during his leadership
campaign last year but changed his mind after asking the former director of Liberty to chair an inquiry
into anti-Semitism within
Labour, which reported back earlier this summer.
The debates trapped timid
Labour leaders
into making commitments that either killed off
campaigning verve or paralysed them in government.
Tom Watson burst
into song at the launch event for a new poster from the
Labour In for Britain
campaign.
«Where
Labour needs to learn lessons is that twice now — and I say this with no personal animosity to either, I respect them both greatly, they're remarkable people — but twice in a row now we've gone
into a general election
campaign with leaders that we knew to be unpopular with the public, and people weren't prepared to speak out, and when they did they were attacked for disunity,» he says.
If all goes according to the
Labour plan, the new leader will take the party
into the next election
campaign and
into No 10 Downing Street in 2020.
Two weeks ago, the
Campaign for
Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation
into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former
Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed
Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.
The challenge for the Scottish
Labour left is to put these socialist convictions
into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based
campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.
Mr Dugher was one of 66
Labour MPs who defied Mr Corbyn last week by voting in favour of the RAF extending its anti-Isil bombing
campaign from Iraq
into neighbouring Syria.
For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes
campaign (if you typed AV
into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No
campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in
Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.
And the distillation of the whole
campaign into a personal contest between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling has framed the choice as one between the SNP's catch - all brand of civic nationalism and a Unionism with New
Labour characteristics — at the expense of putting
into play the ideological diversity on both sides, from the environmentalist republican nationalism of the Scottish Socialists and Greens, to the federalist vision of the Liberal Democrats, and the cautious sovereigntism of the Conservatives.
22:31 - First up is Dan Hodges for the Telegraph, who is laying
into Labour's election
campaign.
The
campaign group Saving
Labour has claimed that the polling translates
into a loss of 44 seats for
Labour, while angry
Labour MPs have seized on the figures as further evidence that Corbyn can not lead the party to electoral success.
From 1985, when this former London Weekend Television producer arrived as director of
campaigns and communications at
Labour's then headquarters in Walworth Road, south London, Mandelson worked closely with both Brown and Tony Blair, the two MPs who - in that order - he believed would lead the party
into government.
Few would query the proposition that constituency
Labour party groups should have a voice in how their parliamentary representatives cast their votes, but what has caused very considerable ill - feeling has been widespread suspicion that Momentum, a recently - formed group of Corbyn supporters, orchestrated a
campaign to pull MPs
into line — with the threat of deselection if they failed to do so.
Look at how the
Campaign for
Labour Party Democracy worked in the seventies and early eighties to bring their agenda
into the limelight.
Terribly slowly, some lone voices in the Westminster village have started to suggest
Labour might just be crazy enough to get
into a
campaign without a Budget.
Scottish
Labour leader Iain Gray, whose poor election
campaign reached its low point when he was chased
into a sandwich shop, managed to cling on with a majority of just 151 votes.
With jobs and pensions standing out as the key areas of debate,
Labour sent former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who has fashioned himself
into a
campaigning machine since leaving the Commons, to the constituency.
A pre-election survey in April and May found the Conservatives had a lead over
Labour of 41 % to 27 %, but by the final days of the
campaign this had turned
into a virtual dead heat.
Let's keep up the pressure on
Labour and the issue alive in the media by running a nationwide
campaign to keep Gordon Brown's promise for a referendum on the Treaty and to kick UKIP
into the long grass.
As rival leadership
campaign activists settle back
into normal routine and the commentariat gets back
into the groove of marking PMQs performances, Ed Miliband faces the job of leading
Labour.
It has been the case that time and time again that the Yes
campaign has tried to bounce
Labour into adopting its position, along with its allies in The Guardian — a newspaper which incidentally gives a totally biased and unchallenged hearing to the Yes camp and seemingly refuses to publish articles from the No camp.
Fighting any marginal seat is difficult but Jim's elevation to the Cabinet provides a new set of challenges, not least of which is the amount of money the
Labour Party are pumping
into his
campaign for re-election.
The
campaign is not only based on extremely weak arguments but also on the idea that
Labour should go
into the next election saying «We believe not only that free movement should be possible with the countries with which we have the closest economic ties but also from every where else in the world.
Pro-Jeremy Corbyn
campaign group Momentum are «aggressive and stupid», says Michael Dugher Momentum seeks to push left - wingers
into key internal
Labour positions Momentum «entryists» trying to take over
Labour, claims Tom Watson
We will now be
campaigning to turn that hope
into a
Labour majority at the earliest opportunity.
Labour grandee Alan Johnson has laid bare his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's «risible» performance in the EU referendum
campaign as he tore
into the party leader.
Two weeks ago, the
Campaign for
Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation
into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former
Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against -LSB-...]
If it's responsibility you want then you should start
campaigning for
Labour to enter
into talks for a Blue - Red alliance (after Germany).
Andrew Gwynne,
Labour's election co-ordinator, pounced on the climbdown, saying: «Theresa May has thrown her own election
campaign into chaos and confusion.
At the same time
Labour is looking to hire a # 66k director of strategy who will have «lead responsibility for analysis of issues, voter opinions, demographic trends and other factors the party should take
into account in planning its
campaigning and communication».
Anti-austerity and leadership dominated the 2017
campaign, with
Labour's manifesto tapping
into a widely felt desire for change, promising more spending on public services, the NHS, and education.
The
Labour for the Single Market
campaign is a good example of championing a cause, but it must be made about the members not allowed to be side - lined
into yet another fight about the leadership.
Speaking on the Daily Politics today, Danczuk also laid
into former leader Ed Miliband for leaving
Labour with an electoral system that had allowed the Corbyn
campaign to flourish.
The Conservative Party needs to try everything to end this
Labour nightmare, i really think it is time for the June Elections to be turned
into a de-facto General Election
campaign.
Tom Watson, leading defender of FPTP in the past, made this clear in the AV
campaign, and he was a crucial figure in putting the AV commitment
into Labour's manifesto when Gordon Brown proposed it (not because he believed in it, but because, utterly wrongly, he thought constitutional change was the right response to the MPs» expenses scandal).
Though in recent days even she has been forced
into pointing out the flaws in Corbyn's
campaign; accusing him of trying to drag
Labour back to the 1970s.
Leader of
Labour's in
campaign says his party will «remorselessly» throw itself
into campaign now May elections are over
Its supporters insist that it wants to transform
Labour into an outward - looking, mass
campaigning party that can tap the energy and idealism of social movements and pressure groups to promote a more equal and socially just society.
And Momentum reportedly sent a «spy»
into Conservative HQ during the London mayoral
campaign between Tory Zac Goldsmith and
Labour's Sadiq Khan.
He came out too slowly, he was very half - hearted about his attempts to
campaign and
Labour voters simply didn't get the message and we're now moving
into a really tumultuous time, there are going to be really difficult decisions to be taken on behalf of the British people.