Sentences with phrase «leadership challenger»
A "leadership challenger" refers to someone who is competing against the current leader or trying to take their position of power. Full definition
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he would like to see Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith return to the top team.
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Labour leadership challenger Angela Eagle's constituency office in Wallasey attacked overnight.
Backbencher touted as potential leadership challenger signals concern over current strategy but also criticises Blair's tactics
Writing in The Guardian, the Labour former leadership challenger Owen Smith said he was prepared to «swim against the tide».
Though leadership challenger Owen Smith is standing on an anti-austerity platform, many party members fear that Labour will pivot rightwards if he's selected.
Too much talent is still wasted when the likes of Lisa Nandy, Lucy Powell and even leadership challenger, Owen Smith, remain outside the shadow cabinet.
Cable is leading the fight against further cuts to the welfare budget, but the Treasury also faces opposition from potential Conservative leadership challengers including defence secretary Philip Hammond and environment secretary Owen Paterson.
Hostilities resumed in the battle for the soul of the Labour party at its conference in Liverpool on Sunday as Jeremy Corbyn's critics insisted they would not be silenced, just a day after he won a convincing victory over leadership challenger, Owen Smith.
Smith said on Sunday that Labour needed to decide quickly on a single leadership challenger, between himself and Eagle, arguing that whoever got more support among MPs should be left to stand against Corbyn.
Several big beasts, such as former leadership challenger Yvette Cooper and former shadow foreign secretary Hillary Benn seem out of place on the backbenches.
He insisted he was referring to a small group in the party who had never accepted Corbyn's leadership and not leadership challenger Angela Eagle.
Meanwhile another Blairite minister who is seen as a potential leadership challenger appears to be keeping his options open in regard to standing against Mr Brown.
As the fall out from last week's tuition fee vote continued, Tim Farron, the Lib Dem president and possible future leadership challenger, raised eyebrows by claiming a pledge to abolish the fees in some form could still feature in his party's next election manifesto.
The Scottish Labour leader said he had urged the party leadership challengers to allow him and Welsh leader Carwyn Jones to join the body that formulates policy» — The Scotsman
Labour leadership challenger Andrea Eagle says she is determined to win the party's leadership contest, after the National Executive Committee ruled that Jeremy Corbyn would automatically be on the ballot.
Elsewhere, fellow former leadership challenger Liz Kendall criticised the left wing of the party for not being enthusiastic enough about remaining in the bloc.
Labour moderates fear last night's vote will end hopes leadership challenger Owen Smith can defeat the veteran leftie.
It now leaves the path clear for likely leadership challenger Angela Eagle to take a lead in ending the deadlock.
Just ask Peter Hain, who this week emerged as a potential leadership challenger to Gordon Brown because of his ardent opposition to the government's plans for Royal Mail.
Labour leadership challenger Angela Eagle has told Peston on Sunday that she is fighting to save her party.
In particular, supporters of Corbyn have been accused of being behind a brick attack on former leadership challenger Angela Eagle's constituency office.
Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith will make three pledges relating to gender balance in the party, The Guardian reports.
The former Treasury minister and one time Labour leadership challenger is to examine modern British life including work, home ownership, education and inequality in the tome to be titled «The New Serfdom».
The Labour leadership challenger will see his Pontypridd seat in Wales effectively merged with Ann Clwyd's Cynon Valley constituency.
Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith has said he will withdraw from the contest if Angela Eagle - who has also launched a bid to replace Jeremy Corbyn - secures more support from colleagues.
The interview with the leadership challenger Owen Smith suggested that he has only one positive quality and three rather substantial negative ones.
Meanwhile, leadership challenger Angela Eagle today called on Labour members to back her calls for the contest to be held in a civil manner.
Rachel Reeves, the former shadow work and pensions secretary, called for investment to be excluded from tax - and - spending targets; and Dan Jarvis, who has been touted by some as a potential leadership challenger to Corbyn, said the party must take a closer look at the risks of globalisation for jobs and wages.
Eighteen months ago I wrote a column backing Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership challenger.
Potential leadership challengers, such as Dan Jarvis and Angela Eagle, are prepared to work together to decide which candidate has the best chance of toppling Corbyn.
It came as ex-leader Ed Miliband issued a second desperate call for voters to back Mr Corbyn's leadership challenger Owen Smith.
Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith has been heavily criticised for calling on his party to «smash» Prime Minister Theresa May «back on her heels».