Sentences with phrase «resigned from the labour»

In January 2016, McGovern resigned from Labour's policy review on child poverty and combating inequality, as a protest against Progress being described by shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as having «a hard right agenda».

And Progress, the Blairite group within the Labour party, is backing a petition saying Shawcroft should resign from Labour's national executive committee.

Labour's Emily Thornberry has resigned from the Labour front bench over a tweet she sent during the Rochester and Strood by - election campaign.

Labour's Emily Thornberry resigns from the Labour front bench over a tweet she sent during the Rochester and Strood by - election campaign.

Shadow minister covering the Cabinet Office, Scotland and Justice Wayne David has just resigned from Labour's frontbench.

Shadow minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned from the Labour frontbench, telling the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, that she could not reconcile herself to the party's three - line whip to vote for triggering article 50.

Lyn Brown, Kevin Brennan and Liz McInnes tonight became the latest shadow ministers to resign from the Labour frontbench, taking the total to more than 50.

Much attention has been focused on Labour MP Emily Thornbury's social media gaffe, which saw her resign from the Labour front bench for tweeting a picture of a home in Rochester decorated with English flags.

Cllr Amadi subsequently resigned from the Labour Party and currently sits as an Independent Councillor.

The sitting MP, Eric Joyce, resigned from Labour after admitting assaulting four people in a House of Commons bar.

This led to me join the Conservatives in January 2006, having already resigned from the Labour party.

[1][2] Both Dobson and Field had been elected as Labour Councillors but resigned from the Labour Group and whip in February 2017 to stand as independents.

Elected originally as a Labour Councillor, Dobson resigned from the Labour Group in October 2017.

[6] A final change came in February 2007 when David Tomlin resigned from the Labour party after being convicted for falsely claiming benefits.

These councillors have now resigned from the Labour Party, describing north east Labour's region as being like North Korea.

Clockwise from top left: Chuka Umunna, Tristram Hunt, Peter Mandelson and Liz Kendall have all resigned from the Labour front bench Photo: AP / Rex / AFP / The Telegraph

Shadow Ministers Jonathan Reynolds, Stephen Doughty and Kevan Jones have all resigned from Labour's front bench this morning.

Clockwise from top left: Chuka Umunna, Tristram Hunt, Peter Mandelson and Liz Kendall have all resigned from the Labour front bench

Mr McDonnell criticised Progress on Wednesday after three Labour MPs resigned from the Labour front bench in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle appointments.

* Eric Joyce was elected as a Labour MP but resigned from the Labour party in 2012 after pleading guilty to four charges of assault.

In 1972 the sitting Labour MP Dick Taverne resigned from the Labour party and from Parliament to re-contest his seat as an Independent Democratic Labour candidate - the last instance of an MP resigning to contest their seat under a different party label and winning until Douglas Carswell repeated the feat in 2014.

Not exact matches

Following New Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.

to joint favourite with Keir Starmer to be the next Labour leader after resigning from the Shadow Cabinet.

Over the past year, Reed has been one of the Labour leader's most vocal opponents in Westminster, having resigned from the shadow frontbench almost immediately after he was first elected in 2015.

Blair had resigned in 2007, replaced by his eternal rival Gordon Brown, with many of those within Labour seeing him as more traditionally left - wing and able to rescue the party from its decline.

Christine Shawcroft, the Labour official at the centre of an anti-Semitism row, has resigned from the party's ruling body.

The 47 Labour MPs who voted against ranged from backbench MPs like Audrey Wise, Ken Livingstone and Diane Abbott, together with Roger Berry, Ann Clwyd and Gwyneth Dunwoody, through to five holders of office, who consequently either resigned or were sacked from their posts (Alice Mahon, Malcolm Chisholm, Gordon Prentice, Michael Clapham and Neil Gerrard).

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

He also said that he would resign from the Shadow Cabinet if Labour supported leaving NATO, something which Jeremy Corbyn had talked about.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

The Labour leader responded to 12 departures from his shadow cabinet in 20 hours, by insisting that he would not resign and vowing to stand in any leadership contest.

Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed back a Labour MP who resigned from the shadow cabinet less than a month ago.

Although it might be subject to argument, this would probably apply even if those breaking away simply called themselves «Independent Labour» rather than legally splitting from the existing Labour Party and resigning their membership.

A Labour MP has said Andrea Leadsom should resign from the Government and accused Tory whips of «spin», following reports John Bercow called her a...

I therefore call on Jim Murphy to resign without delay, and give the membership of the Scottish Labour party the chance to determine their own way forward in rebuilding from Thursday's ruins.»

Gordon Brown said it would be a «great loss» if Mr Hain had to resign from his Cabinet positions over the latest funding row to beset the Labour party.

His announcement firmly ends speculation he would resign today or tomorrow to mark the tenth anniversary as prime minister - and deflect from Labour's likely losses in the forthcoming elections.

«I call on Jim Murphy to resign without delay, and give the membership of the Scottish Labour Party the chance to determine their own way forward in rebuilding from Thursday's ruins.»

Elsewhere, Labour MSP Neil Findlay MSP, who stood against Mr Murphy for the leadership of the party, has resigned from the Scottish shadow cabinet.

Labour MP Jess Phillips has said she could resign from the party if Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership contest.

More than 60 Labour frontbenchers resigned in the wake of the EU referendum in a bid to force Mr Corbyn from office.

Mr Yousaf has called for Mr Dempster to resign as a councillor, and to be expelled from Scottish Labour.

Margaret Hodge spoke out after weeks of Labour MPs resigning from Mr Corbyn's shadow ministerial team and the Labour leader losing the support of the vast majority of his parliamentary colleagues.

Labour leader says «goodly number» of MPs who resigned from his frontbench earlier this year now «want to make it work»

A Labour Party spokesperson stated «She is resigning from something that doesn't exist», as the initiative had not been confirmed or launched yet.

The writ has now officially been moved in Parliament for a by - election in Norwich North on 23rd July to replace Ian Gibson, who resigned in the wake of the Labour Party banning him from standing at the general election.

He resigns not just from the cabinet but from the Labour whip in the House of Commons declaring: «Robin Cook has just made the worst decision in the history of British foreign policy.»

The Labour leader has faced a tumultuous week in which he comprehensively lost a vote of no confidence, saw more than 50 shadow ministers walk out, and rejected calls for him to resign from leading figures.

An insider was resigned to the fact they'd need a major upset to snatch the seat from Labour but insisted: «It'll be a big hit.»

James Purnell resigned from the cabinet in part because of his frustration that Brown was attempting to frame the next election as a choice between Labour investment and Tory cuts.