Sentences with phrase «shortly after labour»

The only good thing about it, as plotters they're f ****** useless,» McDonnell said, shortly after Labour's National Executive ruled that Corbyn will automatically be placed on the ballot.

Shortly after Labour's landslide victory in 1997, for some perverse reason I invited Ken Clarke to attend one of our monthly Tribune dinners in the Gay Hussar restaurant, that old canteen of the Labour Left, in London's Soho.

There is an unlicensed homebirth midwife in the USA who has lost 9 babies during or shortly after labours she attended.

Not exact matches

Back in the late 90s, shortly after the Scottish Tories were wiped out in the 1997 Labour landslide, Sir Malcolm Rifkind used to make a little speech in which he claimed that up to 40 % of Scots voters were potential Conservatives.

Shortly after the 2014 conference, private polling conducted by James Morris and Stan Greenberg showed Labour doing slightly — but not dramatically — worse than published polls suggested.

This brought him to the attention of party leader Tony Blair, and shortly after his defeat by the SNP he was welcomed at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness where he spoke immediately before Blair in the critical debate on abolition of Clause 4.4 of the Labour Party Constitution.

Shortly after the email's existence was revealed by the Guido Fawkes website, lobby journalists received an official statement from the Labour press office:

Although most Labour Party members are now focused mainly on working for a Labour victory in the general election, there are some important internal party elections shortly after 7 May.

Yet, just one point ahead at present, Labour have not enjoyed as much as a five point lead in the polls since last April, while the Conservatives have not been seven points ahead since shortly after the last election.

Shortly after the leader's speech, Diane Abbott was asked if peace had broken out in the Labour party, She replied: «I wouldn't go as far as to say that.»

McIntosh said after the declaration shortly before 4 am: «The coalition met with interest and approval on a lot of doorsteps, but really this result is a verdict on 13 years of Labour misrule.»

The ageing Attlee contested his final general election in 1955, which saw Labour lose ground, and he retired shortly after.

Addressing House of Representatives correspondents shortly after leaving the chambers, the PDP caucus in solidarity with members of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and Labour Party, LP said they were heading back to court to seek reinterpretation of the Supreme Court judgment on member's defection especially when there is no division in his or her political party.

Shortly after the comment, Labour leader Ed Miliband demanded the prime minister distance himself from Mr Gove's statement, but David Cameron insisted his minister had made «an important point».

But shortly after the grants were received Labour began accepting donations from property developer David Abrahams which had been channelled through intermediaries.

The Labour leader made his exit shortly after speaking at around 1030 pm.

Shortly after Harman's comment emerged, Corbyn was given a standing ovation and sustained applause by Labour MPs as he walked into the Commons chamber.

Shortly after Ed Miliband quit as Labour leader and the various candidates for leader were declaring, dithering or bottling, I bumped into Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons.

And the silly outtakes that occurr shortly after another lamentable media outing leave me aghast at how stupid the Labour Party under Corbyn think we, the electorate are.

Then initially all the talk was that Labour couldn't win, that the Conservatives were the permanent government and Labour the permanent Official Opposition, then shortly after the Conservatives were written off and Labour was supposedly virtually assurred of being able to form a government, even during the election campaign itself, but it didn't work out that way.

Mr Corbyn spoke to the BBC's Norman Smith as he arrived to take part in an economics seminar in central London, shortly after former Labour leader Tony Blair warned the party against moving to the left.

When, shortly after Tony Blair's third election victory, the Fabian Society began polling the voters who had left the party between the 2001 and 2005 elections, many expected that Iraq or tuition fees would loom large among the reasons given for giving up on Labour.

Shortly after that tweet, he added: «The shadow cabinet's concern about Labour's economic stance is about to become a story».

Former Liberty boss Shami Chakrabarti took a peerage from Jeremy Corbyn shortly after performing a review into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party earlier this year.

Miliband paid tribute to Lamont shortly after she announced that she intended to relinquish the leadership role, saying she had «led the Scottish Labour Party with determination».

Mr Corbyn refused to rule out the deselection of Labour MPs by their local parties - shortly after one of his closest allies said there was a «legitimate argument» for it.

Shortly after the comedian Eddie Izzard visited Labour's campaign headquarters to endorse Bain, the international development secretary, Douglas Alexander, came close to confirming that he expected Labour would win.

So much has changed in this period, from the fall of the Labour Government shortly after the project's launch, to the dramatic revision of the National Curriculum and the overhaul of GCSEs and A Levels over the last four years.

Shortly after he was elected as leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn asked Lord Bach to carry out a comprehensive review of legal aid, considering civil, crime, family and social welfare law.