Sentences with phrase «rebelled against the leadership»

In remarks immediately seized on by Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, the senior Tory said that the party's MPs have to rebel against the leadership because they face pressure from hardline associations.

Some leadership allies predicted more Republicans would now likely join the 20 GOP colleagues who have rebelled against leadership by signing the so - called discharge petition to force immigration votes.

For all the talk of Corbyn's integrity he repeatedly rebelled against the leadership of the party; he defied Kinnock, Blair, Brown and Miliband.

Not exact matches

It's anger than anyone would have the temerity to challenge the leader even though the leader was a challenger in the past and the aforementioned leader was a serial rebel against previous leaderships.

He was in Benghazi from the beginning of last year's uprising against Gadhafi, and forged irreplaceable personal ties with the top rebel leadership.

And the MPs who have rebelled against Corbyn's leadership clearly represent a majority within the parliamentary party, whereas the MPs who were expelled and went on to form the National Labour Organisation in 1931 and those who left to form the SDP in 1981 were in the minority.

Corbyn, who has rebelled against his party more than 500 times in his career, said MPs would not be «corralled» by whips into voting the same way as the leadership under a more consensual style of management.

The Conservative MP, who has only rebelled against the party leadership once in 29 years, wrote that it was with «the deepest reluctance» he had concluded he must do so again.

Tom Watson, the former deputy chair of the Labour party, warned that Corbyn may struggle to enforce discipline in light of his record as a rebel in the House of Commons against successive leaderships.

Forty - eight Labour MPs, including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and mayoral candidates Sadiq Khan, Diane Abbott and David Lammy, rebelled against their party whips.

Meanwhile, the party leadership is still keeping quiet on what disciplinary action — if any — those 13 frontbenchers who rebelled against the three - line whip at second reading will face.

Tory MP John Redwood, who has demonstrated his willingness to rebel against the Tory leadership this week with a letter to the Treasury on capital gains tax, appeared for the coalition government instead - although he was sourced privately.

Jubilation among rebel Labour MPs on Tuesday evening at Angela Eagle dropping out to give Owen Smith a clear run against Corbyn was followed by what felt close to a wake on Wednesday night after news 184,000 registered supporters had paid # 25 each, a figure subsequently reduced to a still considerable 140,000 after duplications and the overtly hostile were stripped out, to buy a vote in the leadership race.

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