Sentences with word «leftwinger»

CCL is a great cause for leftwingers looking for a cause.

In a sign of the deep divisions within Labour, Burnham will also criticise opponents of the veteran leftwinger for misjudging the political mood by issuing dire warnings about the danger posed by Corbyn's success.

«The free - thinking Labour leftwinger Jon Cruddas rules himself out of the Labour leadership race, saying he does not have the personal qualities for the job.

In an article for The Times, Ms Abbott compared the treatment of leftwingers Mr Sanders and Mr Corbyn by their parties and the media.

With their semi-official website, The Big Society Network, is discussing participatory budgeting, pioneered in Porto Allegre and long and fruitlessly lobbied for by leftwingers and liberals when New Labour was in office (for example, the Power Enquiry ran an experiment to show it could work in the UK).

Yesterday Michael Foster, a Jewish Labour donor likened the embattled leftwinger's supporters to Nazi Stormtroopers.

Spotlight falls on Miliband brothers as free - thinking leftwinger says he lacks personal qualities required to fulfil party's hopes

Philadelphia made several significant moves in the summer — re-signing leftwinger John LeClair to a five - year, $ 45 million contract, adding steady free - agent defenseman Eric Weinrich and landing the rights to elusive Czech center Jiri Dopita in a trade with the Panthers — but none had the power to heal like dealing a once - in - a-generation talent such as Lindros to the rival Rangers for defenseman Kim Johnsson, winger Jan Hlavac and forward prospect Pavel Brendl.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told he can not cast ballot after publicly backing leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn

The new museum is expected to celebrate Eurosceptic heroes who challenged Britain's EU membership, ranging from Labour leftwingers Peter Shore and Tony Benn in the 1970s to Tory Maastricht rebels such as Bill Cash and Teddy Taylor in the 1990s.

So a few eyebrows were raised this week when Labour leftwinger Laura Pidcock was notably absent from an emergency debate on universal credit — 48 hours after being spotted boarding an easyJet flight to Venice from Edinburgh Airport.

The poll suggests that any coup attempt would lead to Corbyn or a fellow leftwinger being returned to office.

He is not the only leftwinger to back the older Miliband — Paul Flynn, MP for Newport West, nominated him — but most Leftwingers will hope he is the last.

Membership rose to 407,000 when Tony Blair became prime minister in 1997 but soon after went into decline, as disillusionment set in among leftwingers, turning into mass desertions over Iraq.

He was an unremittingly traditional leftwinger, a fierce critic of high defence expenditure, the hereditary membership of the House of Lords and the establishment of academy schools.

Scottish Labour is now gripped by a leadership contest between insurgent leftwinger Richard Leonard and the candidate of the old guard, Anas Sarwar.

It was in defending Shah, who defeated the controversial leftwinger George Galloway at last year's general election, that Livingstone made a series of remarks that were widely considered antisemitic, including suggesting Hitler had supported Zionism, «before he went mad and ended up killing 6 million Jews».

The veteran leftwinger has surprised observers by collecting 40 nominations from local parties, just eight less than the bookmakers» favourite, Andy Burnham.

The new Prime Minister hit out at the embattled leftwinger, arguing he was making his MPs «double their workloads» and «exploiting the rules» to further his own career.

A clean sweep for the left will give Corbyn a decisive majority on the NEC, helping him to push through the rule changes he and his supporters want, including to the way future leaders are elected, to make it easier for leftwingers to take over when he goes.

A couple of weeks later and the Labour leftwinger has secured his place on the party's leadership ballot paper with just seconds to spare before the midday deadline.

During that trip Savage, who had been a leftwinger his entire NHL career, was shifted to the right side on a line with Vincent Damphouse and Martin Rucinsky.

Icardi is not even a leftwinger.

Iwobi is a leftwinger, Alexis doesn't enjoy playing there and Walcott is of more goal - threat than all other options for RW.

Despite his conciliatory tone towards Corbyn, Watson appears to hold some policy positions that could sit uneasily with the leftwinger.

The incident saw the leftwinger embarrassed after CCTV footage showed he walked past empty seats on what he described as a «ram - packed» train.

In a sign that the veteran leftwinger is building up huge momentum in his campaign, the CWU general secretary, Dave Ward, announced that he is to follow in the steps of the Unison and Unite unions to endorse Corbyn.

As a result, the hashtag #ToriesForCorbyn, has been adopted to call for people to vote for the leftwinger.

Mr Corbyn also took flak from his own side in the Commons when Labour MP Jamie Reed mocked the leftwinger's opposition to renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent.

But Mr Corbyn's spokesman said there was «no question» of the leftwinger resigning and urged the party's MPs to rally around him.

The leftwinger has embarked on a slight change of tactics, in which he will flesh out more of his policy plans this week, after mistakenly believing that the leadership contest would move down a gear in early August to allow Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to take time out to be with their young children.

A Labour source outside the Corbyn campaign said that the idea for a change of gear was made by the leftwinger at the Local Government Association's Labour leadership hustings in Harrogate in June.

As Neil Kinnock and Peter Mandelson found rare common ground over the weekend to warn of the dangers posed by a Corbyn victory, the leftwinger made it clear that he would focus on the future as he pledged a return to the «sound economics of public investment».

Mr Corbyn's spokesman said there was «no question» of the leftwinger resigning and urged the party's MPs to rally around him.

He made his plea in an article for the Guardian after a YouGov opinion poll suggested Corbyn, a veteran leftwinger, is heading for a landslide victory, with Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall having failed to enthuse the electorate.

Chris Mullin portrayed a leftwinger unexpectedly swept to power in his 1982 novel A Very British Coup.

The Tory victory in the Cumbrian seat meant the leftwinger became the first opposition leader to lose a by - election since 1982, when Labour lost Mitcham and Morden.

Anas Sarwar confirmed he would stand against Richard Leonard in a contest that will be seen as a tussle between Labour's moderates and leftwingers, fuelled in part by accusations that Sarwar comes from the New Labour wing of the party.

Famously, Jeremy Corbyn could not have entered the Labour leadership contest without the nominations of MPs who wanted a leftwinger in the race, although they had no intention of voting for him.

Among the politicians who they exposed for being gay or for having affairs, the leftwingers easily outnumbered the occasional stray rightwinger.

They are, as John McDonnell — the leftwinger who is standing but won't win — put it «the sons of Blair and sons of Brown».»

John McDonnell, the leftwinger and virtually the only MP who has tried to challenge Brown for the leadership, has criticised Hoon and Hewitt.

I get the impression that although he is not on The Left, he is somebody who leftwingers could work with.

Miliband and the others made their move after another leftwinger, John McDonnell, withdrew from the race.»

Her message to leftwingers was similar to that of Mr Umunna, the former shadow business secretary, who warned that a lack of unity on Europe could play into the hands of Ukip.

Speaking to the Today programme this morning, she warned that some of the thousands of people who have joined Labour since the leftwinger took over were only interested in Mr Corbyn, rather than the party itself.

Labour MPs are in the process of voting for a candidate to take on the veteran leftwinger, with one of Mr Smith or Ms Eagle expected to drop out when the result is announced on Wednesday evening.

She'd been a leftwinger all her hard, struggling life, and though she never joined the Communist Party she was later, in common with many leftist writers and artists, briefly surveilled by the FBI.

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