Sentences with phrase «more labour leadership»

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than Tony Blair, and two more than Gordon Brown, was widely expected from the beginning of the contest, with Labour's self - styled «moderates» seemingly reliant on keeping Corbyn off the ballot paper, something they failed to do in July's NEC meeting.

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Not exact matches

From the 1970s, Harriet campaigned for increased women's representation in the Labour Party - more women Labour councillors, more women Labour MPs and for a Labour leadership team of three of which at least one should be a woman.

Prompted by the discovery of an old tweet sent by Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn, we ask if belief in homeopathy says a lot more about a politician than simply suggesting they may be a tad eccentric.

They would rather their leadership continue to negotiate and wait until the more prominent Labour - affiliated Unions are ready to either settle or join them on the picket line.

The Labour leadership contenders are spending more on their campaigns than the Green Party spent nationally in the general election.

Meanwhile, this prisoners» dilemma over the Labour leadership is becoming a bigger problem for Britain more generally.

It takes place whenever there is a gathering of two or more people who despair equally at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of Labour and Theresa May's navigation of Brexit.

See here for more on this - http://everydaysocialdemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/06/desirs-davenir.html A few of us worked together to try and open up the manifesto process last year, having been rebuffed by the Labour leadership.

Even if Cameron wins the referendum following a negotiation that brings little immediate practical change there will be calls for more reforms from those that lost and perhaps from a Labour leadership that campaigned reluctantly to stay in.

Burke provides other arguments about the need for representatives to have the freedom to exercise personal judgement and suggests they are somehow more able to see the bigger picture but I'd be interested in hearing your opinion on whether there is any knoweldge, information or argument about the Labour leadership contest or candidates that is the preserve of MPs only?

I agree with the above commenter - let's hear more from the Labour leadership candidates about how political the economic decisions are, and how they can be different.

In her speech during the Conservative leadership contest in the summer May also sounded even more radical than Labour's 2015 manifesto when she pledged: «We're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but employees as well.»

20th July 2016, Huffington Post: More than 180,000 sign up as «Registered Supporters» to vote in Labour leadership election

At Labour's national executive yesterday, Ed Miliband failed to deliver on his leadership campaign promise to give members more say in policy making.

According to the Financial Times: «his views — higher taxes, mass nationalisation, more welfare, more borrowing — are seen as toxic by New Labour veterans, who prophesy a repeat of Michael Foot's disastrous leadership in the early 1980s that led to a landslide 1983 election victory for Margaret Thatcher».

Not surprisingly, given the above, half (49 %) of Labour's new members believe the membership should have more say over policy, with the figure rising to 54 % and 65 % respectively among those who joined during and after the leadership election.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

YouGov's poll indicates that those who have joined Labour's leadership electorate since its 2015 election defeat are significantly more likely to support Corbyn than those who have been long - term members.

Leftwinger said his life has been a «moral opposition to nuclear weapons», as he seeks to retrain Faslane workers for more peaceful endeavours to protect jobs Labour leadership's team rejects accusations of antisemitism and says north London MP is «proud to represent a multicultural constituency»

Sadly, I expect we'll hear an awful lot more of this type of talk from Labour MPs in the coming weeks as they battle it out to challenge Corbyn's leadership.

They may soon gain more political clout, as Ed Balls is running for the Labour Party leadership.

He revealed that the leadership bid had employed a campaigning system modelled on that employed by the Labour party, but given more freedom to its activists.

Now, as a result of Labour's leadership election, we are in a position that other parties will eye enviously — more than 550,000 people will be able to help to choose our new leadership team, of which 120,000 are new supporters.

Labour's shadow Europe minister Pat Glass is also seeking to frame Boris Johnson's decision as one that «says more about the Tory leadership contest and Boris» own positioning than what is in the best interests of Britain».

Owners of homes worth # 2million or more should pay a «mansion tax» to help the poor, Labour leadership contender David Miliband said yesterday.

«There is no doubt in my mind that the Labour leadership, including the National Committee, should have acted more swiftly.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour leadership election by a landslide, easily taking more than the other three candidates put together.

For the Labour leadership, the choice is simple - take a principled view that they support an elected House of Lords and so ask their MPs to vote with the Government, saving it from possible defeat; or take a more pragmatic view that their job is to break up the Coalition and so ask their MPs to vote against the Bill.

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

But Mr Blair may well feel less well disposed to a more distant Liberal Democrat who is likely to make his mark in the leadership campaign with swingeing attacks on Labour.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg faced more questions over his leadership, whilst Labour leader Ed Miliband pledged to listen to voters on the issue of immigration, as Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship reports:

Charles Kennedy's Liberal Democrat leadership campaign gathered more momentum yesterday after Don Foster, the only other candidate in favour of the party's continued cooperation with Labour, stood down from the contest.

Viner, it was thought, might take the Guardian more to the left, though the paper backed Yvette Cooper, not Corbyn, in the 2015 Labour leadership election.

General secretary, Fabian Society More important than who should lead is how Labour could get its next leadership election right.

But much more importantly, Labour has abandoned its near out - and - out support for public servants whose recent strikes were tacitly support by the party leadership and who were joined by leader Ed on the so - called «March for the Alternative».

The shadow home secretary and Labour leadership contender called for the UK to be true to its values and history by taking in more refugees.

The shadow justice secretary discusses Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the need to make more of New Labour's record — and fitting in with the shadow cabinet's facial hair trend.

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.

So why did Diane Abbott only make it onto the ballot paper through the intervention of David Miliband, who himself only backed her in an attempt to create a more diverse Labour leadership race?

Owen Smith's campaign team has appealed to Momentum to get Jeremy Corbyn to agree to more debates as part of the Labour leadership election.

What is clear, though, is that we need less chatter from assorted Labour voices as to the way ahead and more national leadership from Miliband.

The whole strategy of the Conservative leadership seems to be to go for an even more image based version of the one that Tony Blair used in 1997, the pledge by Labour in the 1990s followed a situation in which the whole economic strategy of the then Conservative government had fallen apart to the point where things that had happened by accident were being described as policy and Kenneth Clarke commented that he went into a cabinet meeting in a situation in which the government no longer had an economic policy.

He has already worked on Jon Cruddas's bid in 2006 - 07 for the deputy leadership of the Labour party and Ken Livingstone's unsuccessful re-election bid last year for London mayor, managing to raise more money in eight weeks than the Labour party normally does in a year online.

For the second, I suspect any data is fatally flawed by the public's low awareness of the candidates — right now, polls about the Labour leadership are little more than name recognition contests.

The other, more immediate, race is the Labour leadership election.

While Labour's leadership contest has been attracting more headlines, the two Lib Dem leadership candidates have attended 25 hustings, more than 100 campaign events and covered about 20,000 miles between them.

On economic competence, Labour's lead is down to 8 points compared to 22 points at the general election and, perhaps surprisingly given the Conservative party is in the midst of a leadership campaign, while both parties are seen as divided, more people think Labour is divided than the Tories (70 % compared to 58 %).