Sentences with phrase «then labour leader»

The local Labour party had selected as their PPC the left - winger Peter Tatchell, who was disowned by the then Labour leader Michael Foot.

But they have been overcharging people for too long because of a market that doesn't work,» the then Labour leader said.

Last night he defended his decision to keep notes of meetings with fellow MPs and Ministers over nearly 15 years, starting on the day that then Labour leader John Smith died in May, 1994.

The published diaries begin on 12 May 1994, the day John Smith, then Labour leader, died.

Over in The Guardian, Matthew d'Ancona, is also heavily critical of the then Labour leader's manoeuvring in 2013:

Then Labour leader, Hugh Gaitskell, was quoted as saying that «his notable administrative gifts would have ensured him an important post in any future Labour government».

In 1998, Blair, then Labour leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, described the relation between social democracy and Third Way as the following:

And Cameron privately conceded that the then Labour leader, Ed Miliband, had him «on the run» over phone hacking, it says.

The cartoonist Peter Shrank notably depicted Blair as Antony when the then Labour leader was seeking to dilute trade union power early on during his time at the top of the party.

In Parliament, Field was made a member of the Opposition frontbench by the then Labour leader Michael Foot as a spokesman on education in 1980, but was dropped a year later.

The 2012 budget — dubbed the «omnishambles budget» by the then Labour leader Ed Miliband — is viewed as the nadir of Osborne's political fortunes.

In 2008, then Labour Leader Gordon Brown appointed Bassam to be Labour's Chief Whip in the House of Lords.

The establishment of an Irish Constitutional Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 centenary.

Not exact matches

These prompted him in 2008 to write to Gordon Brown, then Prime Minister and Labour Leader, warning that Labour must be wary of losing touch with its roots and alienating the country's six million Catholic voters.

Bryant then told presenter Jane Hill that he had asked the Labour leader which way he voted and «he didn't answer».

Then, following the referendum, Blunkett watched on from his seat in the House of Lords as a spectacular rebellion against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn stuttered and then, seemingly, stalThen, following the referendum, Blunkett watched on from his seat in the House of Lords as a spectacular rebellion against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn stuttered and then, seemingly, stalthen, seemingly, stalled.

If he keeps his seat then Lewis is fancied by many Labour supporters to be the next leader, with Guardian columnist Owen Jones among his key supporters.

The Labour leader then did his best to heap further pressure on the prime minister over her dealings with Donald Trump.

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).

Meanwhile, the idea of a new Act of Union to replace the 1707 original has been floated in the past by Dennis Canavan, the then maverick Labour MP who later became chair of Yes Scotland for the 2014 independence referendum; and more recently by the likes of former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell and former Labour Welsh Secretary Peter Hain.

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The best example is from the 2001 General Election when Labour simply mocked up a poster of then Tory Leader William Hague with the hair of Margaret Thatcher.

The oratorical flourish at the end of the debate on Syria was the most vivid example of defiance, but it was also Hilary who used a Today programme interview soon after Corbyn had been elected to politely insist that Labour policy was in favour of renewing trident and then to appear once again to express his support for the right of police to «shoot to kill», in both cases against the publicly declared position of his leader.

And the arch-blairite hazel blears is resigning to try and damage labour in the polls in the hope gordon brown will then be replaced as leader with someone to carry the arch-blairite torch.

The comments come after Labour MP Jack Dromey was filmed also criticising Corbyn's leadership — and then warmly greeting the leader when he showed up at the Labour leadership hustings in Birmingham.

When the leader of the country's largest union tells Labour's leader he's being dragged into a swamp, heading for certain defeat at the next election and presiding over the destruction of his party, then something's up.

That those viewers then swung in large numbers behind the Labour leader suggests the programme may have had an impact on the final result - particularly when just a few hundred votes in swing seats shifted June's outcome.

His Shadow Cabinet disintegrated; his Parliamentary Party passed a huge Vote of No Confidence against him — something that would have ended any other leader's time in office then and there — while large numbers of councillors, the Labour London Mayor and the Party's Leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, orleader's time in office then and there — while large numbers of councillors, the Labour London Mayor and the Party's Leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, orLeader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, or both.

Held by Labour's Elaine Murray, she is standing again in 2016, defending a majority of 3170 votes and 9.9 % despite having offered to stand down for then party leader Jim Murphy so he could be elected to the Scottish parliament.

«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.

The Labour leader then made the same move with caps on party donations, reiterating his call for David Cameron to come back to the negotiating table to set a limit on individual donations, probably around the # 5,000 mark.

One woman congratulated her leader for having committed to repealing the «bedroom tax» - and then said she had another 49 housing policies he wanted Labour to commit to.

The Labour leader has said that if he gets re-elected then the party will use digital technology to fight «the most visible general election campaign ever».

Then he made what appeared to be a reference Labour leader Jeremy Cobyn: «I think it is another parliamentary colleague that is known for his death stare.»

And if the commitment isn't made, then we're stuck at the end of your second paragraph: Brown resigns as Prime Minister, and probably as leader of the Labour Party, too, and there's no Prime Minister or PM - designate at all — which is the outcome all of this constitutional stuff is supposed to avoid.

Back in 1981, he was at the centre of the hugely divisive battle for the Labour deputy leadership between Benn and Denis Healey; seven years later, he organised Benn's doomed challenge to the then leader Neil Kinnock.

Charles Kennedy's own Scottish seat of Caithness and Sutherland has historically been a Labour seat, before it's then MP, Robert Maclennan, defected to the SDP in the 1980s, and was the party's last leader.

He went to university in his early twenties, studying politics at Hull, where he became leader of student Labour and then the party's youth officer.

If a man who had always been a staunch Tory could be trusted to become a Labour supporter overnight, then why can't the few Tories and the rest of the voters rejected by Harman be given the benefit of the doubt to vote for the leader?

By then the Labour Party will be a totally different beast and the next leader won't be McDonnell.

Labour's leader - in - waiting, Alan Johnson, yesterday restated his proposal for an election day referendum on the alternative vote plus system — the one recommended a decade ago by a commission headed by Roy Jenkins, but then shelved by the Blair government.

As was the position before Tony Blair resigned, we once again have a known unknown ahead of us — we know that in mid-December the Liberal Democrats will have a new leader, but we can't know until then what effect it will have on people's voting intentions — it may have none, it may see the Lib Dems taking support back off Labour, or off the Conservatives.

The prime minister recounted allegations from the Labour government era and then said the opposition leader was «just a bit late» with his questions, claiming the Fox bandwagon had moved on.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the Labour leader said the comparison with the Kinnock era was misleading as the electoral system then was different to the one under which he was elected last year.

In 2001, Loughton referred to then leader of the Conservative Party William Hague as «baldy and he has a funny accent» and compared him to former Labour Leader Neil Kileader of the Conservative Party William Hague as «baldy and he has a funny accent» and compared him to former Labour Leader Neil KiLeader Neil Kinnock.

I'm no Labour supporter but if I was then this article it would confirm the absolute necessity of keeping Jeremy Corbyn as leader.

While the Fabians have become an immensely powerful institution, wealthy, stable, competitive, king maker to Labour leaders and Prime Ministers, the foundation stone of one of our finest universities, the Bow Group has increasingly become an also - ran, first in wealth and stability, and then inevitably in thought and influence.

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.

Then they could they insist that Mandelson and Brown resign and a new Labour leader agree to create a government with Clegg as Prime Minister (the scenario Will Hutton advocates).

Mr Smith said he then called Mr Corbyn to be told the Labour leader «was very upset with what I'd said in the Guardian and wanted me to step down from the Shadow Cabinet».