Sentences with phrase «only labour leader»

Although Blair's standing has fallen in the UK in the wake of the Iraq war and reports of his growing business interests, he is the only Labour leader to be elected prime minister at three consecutive elections.

The article was also amended to clarify that Blair was not the only Labour leader to win three elections, but the only one to win three consecutive elections.

Tony Blair's the only Labour leader in modern times who won elections.

He remains the only Labour leader to date who's won three elections - and in a row, too.

Not exact matches

Only 18 % of those questioned said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is handling the matter well.

The Labour leader stated the OBR forecast showed Mr Osborne's to eradicate the deficit fully was nothing much more than an extremist ideological experiment that would demolish community solutions, insisting that borrowing was the only liable way to fund roadways and property developing schemes with no hitting the NHS.

But it may only be when Jeremy Corbyn is removed as Labour leader that his party's troubles really begin.

The Labour leader is backed by only 16 % of voters, while more than a third (35 %) say they can't choose between them.

Figures from the Electoral Commission put him as the largest private donor to Labour - although in fact there has only been one other private donor since Ed Miliband became leader of the party.

A spokesman for the Labour leader also shot back at Smith's EU comments: «These kinds of smears only show how little Owen Smith has to offer.

Not only is the former Tooting MP Labour's most senior elected figure, he also appears to be the Labour politician most likely to be popular as a party leader.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

- He confirmed discussing the looming Iraq War with Tony Blair in March 2003, but says he only met the New Labour leader two or three times a year, on average.

Passion and feeling are desired qualities in the next Labour leader, but the party will only regain office if it fuses these attributes with smart policy shaped in co-operation with external voices.

The Labour leader only really comes alive during elections - whether they are internal attempts to unseat him or national contests.

Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but its leaders did as much as David Cameron and George Osborne to brand Labour as spendthrift and irresponsible — Nick Clegg by playing up the comparison between the UK and Greece, David Laws by brandishing the now - notorious note from Liam Byrne.

Only a few dissented: Churchill, Macmillan, a young Heath and several leaders of the Labour Party.

First elected in 1982, when only three percent of MPs were women, Harman entertains in reminiscence of Labour leader Michael Foot.

Personally, I also think we ought to introduce two deputy leadership roles: that would be the only way in the long - term to guarantee that, whoever was Leader, we could always have some gender balance in our top team, which I think is an important expression of Labour values of gender equality.

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

As with Kinnock, Corbyn spent years refusing to serve on the front bench, but only one Labour leader has had as much ministerial experience as Corbyn (that is, none): Blair.

But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory general election victory apart from John Smith.

She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she has served as the Acting Leader of the Labour Party twice and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

Labour leaders have unwillingly relinquished office only through death, and indeed, the only party leaders to have died in the last century were Labour ones: (Gaitskell in 1963, Smith in 1994).

According to a recent YouGov survey, only 14 % of voters think Labour can win a general election if Corbyn remains leader.

The core problem of the Labour Right isn't only a lack of a potential leader — but the fundamentally crap Tory - lite neoliberal politics they all espouse.

In the UK, Labour party leader Ed Miliband has framed his agenda of a fairer country and a more responsible capitalism in a context where there is less money to spend, arguing that «it's Labour's responsibility to find a new approach for tough times» and that he wants to «demonstrate once and for all that Labour is a party for all times, not only a party for good times.»

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Only the Conservatives or Labour can supply the leader who'll have the keys to 10 Downing Street.

The problem, as described by Lewis Minkin in The Blair Supremacy (Labour First «s secretary Luke Akehurst's «book of the year» in 2014), was that «Blair, despite a huge victory in his election as leader, had in practice only a narrow base of committed supporters of his full political project» [p663].

But I would be willing to bet that most of the Labour Party members and union members wish that they had more say in the choice not only of the leader, but of the cabinet as well.

«Weak is attacking Murdoch and then posing with a copy of the Sun newspaper only to apologise a few hours later,» he informed the Labour leader, not unfairly.

It is fair to say that only two Labour leaders since the war have stuck to a personal position on European integration: Michael Foot against, John Smith for, and neither became prime minister.

Recent research by YouGov found that, though 72 % of Labour members support Jeremy Corbyn as leader, only 47 % think it's likely he can win the next general election.

This is the Welsh Labour leader who runs the only UK health service where funding is falling.

Mr Murphy said he left no legacy of bitterness for anyone in the Labour Party, and the only person he was angry at was the person who blamed Scottish Labour for the party's UK - wide general election defeat - a reference to Unite leader Len McCluskey.

Corbyn's foes retain wreckers without a plan or a candidate and Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, is determined to fight the disgruntled when Jezza deserves more time after only eight months in the job.

He said: «For those who feel alarmed about the scale of differences between the old and new, there is only one Labour and it's bigger than leaders and deputy leaders, bigger even than its members and supporters

He was asked about Labour leader Ed Miliband, and appeared uncomfortable answering the question, saying «Well, you know there's only a certain amount you can say really without saying too much».

Of this group, only 17 % thought Labour prime minister Gordon Brown had come across best overall in the debates, and 61 % thought he had performed worst; 31 % thought David Cameron (then the leader of the opposition) had won, while 34 % thought him the loser.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

Keir Hardie, who had taken a leading role in getting the party established, was elected as Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (in effect, the Leader), although only by one vote over David Shackleton after several ballots.

Labour can withstand these attacks in the future only if its next leader is a strong and credible figure.

On the Labour right, and one of only two MPs to tell Michael Foot that he should stand down as leader, Kaufman found the party to move in his direction during the «wilderness years».

After all, some in the press had suggested that the Labour leader would struggle to oppose a measure that only penalised the top 15 per cent of earners.

The Prime Minister has called on the Labour leader to make clear whether he would support measures to stop Scottish MPs voting on matters that only affect people in England.

Jowell had been elected to the Commons as MP for Dulwich (later Dulwich and West Norwood), in 1992, only two years before Blair's election as leader, but she had previously acquired 15 years of political expertise as a Labour councillor.

I wonder how many Labour MP's watched the programme on Thatcher last night, and are considering if the only way to keep out the Hezzer / Cameron is for the leader to step down before the vote...

William Rees - Mogg argued on Monday that a female leader is Labour's only real chance to change the political weather.