Sentences with phrase «next labour leader»

Despite this, all polls on the Labour leadership have shown that Brown is still seen as the best choice for the next Labour leader, especially amongst Labour voters and Labour party members.

BURGONs odds with the bookies on being the next Labour leader have plummeted from 330/1 on BETFAIR to just 20/1.

After being in Parliament for less than two years, she holds a pretty senior shadow cabinet job and is being mentioned as the possible next Labour leader.

A SECOND senior Labour MP has joined the race to become the next Labour leader despite fears it will split the vote and allow Jeremy Corbyn to cling onto power.

Some thought that, even before Ed Miliband lost, Jarvis was seriously thinking of whether he might stand as the next Labour leader.

Owen Smith was tonight planning a bid to be the next Labour leader as Jeremy Corbyn continued to cling onto the job in the face of mounting calls for him to quit.

The primary task of the next Labour leader has to be to develop a political economy that addresses the fundamental inequalities and inequities that have blighted British society for so long - and which will only worsen as the Con - Lib coalition's doctrinaire spending cuts begin to bite.

As the battle over who should become the next Labour leader enters its final stages, the party's former director of communications has described the leadership campaign as «an unedifying mess».

Ed, the younger of the two Miliband brothers, has been heavily supported with Coral bookmakers in the last two days to be the next Labour Leader, and has been slashed in price to 13 - 8 (from 9 - 4).

did nt sing the national anthem etc hes done he will carry on for a few yrs but hes already been framed.My friends who are not really tory or labour do nt take him serious.in addition the U.k is not a socialist country anymore what we fight for is an acceptable form of capitalism... im sure the next labour leader will be in 2025 bcos Mrs May will win a second term she will modulate her policies and rid the tory party of the party for the rich tag..

The first scientific survey of the whole of Labour's electoral college tells us that the name of the next Labour leader will be Miliband, but not for certain which brother will win the prize.

William Hill said they had received more than 25 bets, each worth more than # 1,000, on who the next Labour leader would be within hours of Brown's announcement.

Following the Brexit victory in the EU Referendum vote in June 2016 and calls for the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn, could Tom Watson be the next Labour leader?

Launching his bid to be the next Labour leader, he told MPs and supporters at a college in his constituency that at the moment his party was «not on the pitch» but «on the sidelines» of politics.

And, though either could be the next Labour leader (or, more probably, Labour leader but one), some argue that Ed's the more likely.

For me the best choice is David Miliband and that is why I will be supporting him as next Labour leader.»

If the next Labour leader hopes at some point to lead a truly progressive administration and break with orthodoxies that have shaped Britain since the 1980s, he will need help from other parties.

Andy Burnham has vowed to involve Jeremy Corbyn in his team «from the outset» if he becomes the next Labour leader.

How the next Labour leader responds to the challenge will define his early leadership.

He suggests that the only way a big «No» victory could be prevented is if the next Labour leader threw his full force behind the campaign for AV.

It will be a close call for the next Labour leader whether to bring Clegg's dream to a close or help him to realise it.

But the next Labour leader, we suggest, must also be more distinctive, especially since he, David and Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham, three of his opponents, are Oxford - educated, fortysomething former advisers sharing a political gene pool.

Andy Burnham, one of the candidates to be the next Labour leader, says the party needs to be more courageous if it is to win the next general election.

At the moment there is no clearly identified alternative to Brown as the next Labour leader, but if one does emerge and the polls do not improve for Gordon Brown, he may yet face a true challenge for the top job.

In a piece that seems likely to further rumours Miliband is positioning himself as the next Labour leader, Sawyer says says she has «a friend who fancies» the foreign secretary.

Labour's Chuka Umunna has pulled out of the contest to be the next Labour leader, following Ed Miliband's resignation.

Expect further updates on the Tories» manifesto pledges and who the next Labour leader will be.

It is a common assumption that the next Labour leader will be drawn from limited ranks: the Milibands.

If Ed Balls says no and returns the backbenches, Alexander could still become a full - time campaign co-ordinator and Jim Murphy could take his job with a promotion for Dan Jarvis — a man many see as the next Labour leader.

The next Labour leader must be able to appeal to the general public rather than just party loyalists, Harriet Harman said as she criticised the process that led to Ed Miliband's election.

The next Labour leader is unlikely to be an Abbott, Balls or Burnham.

More recently, Goodman controversially claimed that Yvette Cooper was best equipped to be the next Labour leader due to her being a «working mum».

Blunkett is backing Andy Burnham to be next Labour leader.

Odds on Chuka Umunna becoming next Labour leader have been falling every day for the past week.

With the shadow Brexit secretary at 6 - 1 to take over from Jeremy Corbyn, there were also repeated references to Starmer being the next Labour leader.

The next Labour leader should be ditched in mid-parliament if the party looks set to lose the 2020 election, a newly elected Labour MP has warned.

With some bookies, Balls is now down to 33/1 to be next Labour leader while Clive Lewis remains the strong favourite at around 7/1.

Jeremy Corbyn has had his odds on being the next Labour leader slashed to 5/1 as private polling shows him to be ahead in the first round of voting.

He then gave his response to Alastair Campbell's comments in The Times that he will happily lead the charge to oust the next Labour leader should they fail to make an impact.

Writer, broadcaster and life peer I'm in at least four minds as to who should be the next Labour leader.

I don't think that John McDonnell will be the next Labour leader.

The disappointing ratings are reflected in a second ICM survey for the News of the World, in which 57 per cent of people said they held Mr Brown responsible for Britain's current pensions shortfall, while a further 44 per cent thought that the chancellor's handling of pensions would impede his chances of winning the next election if he becomes the next Labour leader as expected.

Former adviser to Tony Blair Speculation about the next Labour leader is predicated on expectations of defeat at the election.

The next Labour leader will need to articulate a new left - of - centre ideology, unite the rational left, see off the Blairites and be able to negotiate with and befriend other radical parties in this new era of politics.

Six and a half hours after Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt emailed MPs to say a secret ballot of the entire Labour parliamentary party would clear the air of doubts about Gordon Brown's leadership, Miliband — the foreign secretary and likely next Labour leader - made a statement which fell short of the full - throated backing offered by other members of the cabinet.

Thus, the most pressing and overwhelming challenge facing the next Labour leader and shadow chancellor will be in devising a compelling economic narrative of progressive fiscal responsibility, whilst resolutely holding on to our core principles of self - improvement, fairness and equality of opportunity.

«The next Labour leader,» argues Reed, «needs to listen to the marginalised, peripheral communities of our country as the United Kingdom «balkanises» in front of us».

Most commentators predicted that Miliband would not become the next Labour leader when Gordon Brown stood down in 2010.

To gain the support of the membership, the next Labour leader will need to advance a more left - wing agenda than his post-Blair predecessors.

This means that whoever will become the next Labour leader — Andy Burnham, Rachel Reeves, Chuka Umunna might be some of the contenders — will struggle to develop a credible response to the party's electoral challenges in England and in Scotland.