Sentences with phrase «successive labour leaders»

The unions have always been its main source of funding, but successive Labour leaders have attempted to assert the party's independence and broaden its appeal by seeking alternatives.

Successive Labour leaders, from Neil Kinnock in the 1980s onwards, have tried to introduce one member, one vote only to give up in frustration.

Just as successive Labour leaders and MPs have ignored and dismissed grassroots support for nationalisation, high income taxes and an aversion to fiscal prudence.

So Ken has been afforded incredible latitude by successive Labour leaders.

Sue Nye Respected for her long - suffering loyalty to successive Labour leaders and unfairly fingered for Gordon Brown's Mrs. Duffy encounter («It was Sue» squealed the nark).

The foreword to this book by the campaigner and critic of successive Labour leaders is written by Tony Benn.

Miliband himself is MP for Doncaster North (and is, incidentally, the sixth successive Labour leader to represent a mining seat, or former mining seat).

Not exact matches

Whatever you think of the man, he won three successive elections for the party - something no other Labour leader has ever managed.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Windrush debacle was «a crisis made in the Home Office by successive Home Secretaries».

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who called for the UK to remain in the EU but was accused of a lukewarm campaign, said poorer communities were «fed up» with cuts and felt «marginalised by successive governments».

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has celebrated a third successive victory for her party in Scottish Parliament elections, while Labour was beaten into third place in Scotland.

One only has to recall the difference between the aura of power of Tony Blair in 1997, and the lack of authority of successive Tory leaders of the Opposition to see how authority has passed from Labour to the Coalition.»