Sentences with phrase «new labour spin»

First the New Labour spin supremo drafted a speech that Jeremy Corbyn could use to announce a change of Labour's position on Brexit.

Watch: The shadow chancellor and the New Labour spin supremo went head - to - head on Peston on Sunday.

And she finished with a swipe at Corbyn's team: «We are apparently in the era of «straight - talking, honest politics, as opposed to all that New Labour spin and media management.

Not exact matches

Despite his reputation for spin, Blair's book offers the fullest discussion of what New Labour was trying to do to change Britain, particularly his recognition that the party had to appeal to aspirational voters (a battle that may have to be re-fought within Labour now).

Jimmy Reid's Power Without Principles motivated me to try to stick to my socialist principles when elected to Parliament and to challenge New Labour's spin.

11:49 - George Eustice, the Tory MP who used to be Cameron's spin doctor in chief, bugs the now very long - winded Ian Davidson for being part of the «better late than never» group of Labour MPs who belatedly opposed New Labour's plans to join the euro (Labour Against The Euro, you see).

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Iannucci has not spoken about Tucker's views on the subject but the sweary spin doctor is widely believed to be based on New Labour communication supremo Alastair Campbell, who is a fierce opponent of Brexit.

We hoped spin like this had gone with New Labour.

Substance Not Spin, the new book by the former Labour minister Nick Raynsford, is an altogether different beast.

When he announced in 2001 he was «leaving Parliament to spend more time on politics» it was widely held to be judgement not only on the impoverishment of the British political system, but also a lament for the decline of his beloved Labour Party and the rise of the spin - obsessed forces of New Labour.

In this light, Corbyn is seen as a refreshing change, to all that spin, the real deal, in the traditional, Tony Benn, Old Labour Party way, (apart from his potential, Islington, Margaret Hodge kind of legacy), not the Hilary Benn, slippery fish, blarite, New Labour nonsence, that voters have now woken up to.

«The full extent of the explosive feuds at the heart of New Labour are revealed today in a new book by Alastair Campbell.Tony Blair's former spin doctor discloses furious shouting matches between the ex-PM and Gordon Brown that left both men «with purple faces».&raqNew Labour are revealed today in a new book by Alastair Campbell.Tony Blair's former spin doctor discloses furious shouting matches between the ex-PM and Gordon Brown that left both men «with purple faces».&raqnew book by Alastair Campbell.Tony Blair's former spin doctor discloses furious shouting matches between the ex-PM and Gordon Brown that left both men «with purple faces».»

In short, Angela Eagle represents everything New Labour was: the introduction of tuition fees, cuts to welfare, the invasion of Iraq, an anti-democratic culture and endless spin and deception, culminating in an embrace of austerity.

A new organisation that has been set up to oppose Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership is receiving funds from Tony Blair's former spin doctor, Electoral Commission documents show.

This is a new form of spin — I thought this lot had learned very little from the abuse we all suffered under Labour, but maybe I was wrong.

The rapid response team is taken directly from the spin machine of New Labour that gave us for example the «unequivocal evidence of WMD» in Iraq where the «threat was real imminent».