Sentences with phrase «top labour job»

Mr Miliband, who was elbowed out of the way for the top Labour job by «Red Ed», also warned of the danger of the party «lapsing into long - term opposition».

Chuka Umunna, Labour's shadow business secretary, has laughed off a question about whether he intends to run for the top Labour job.

Not exact matches

Notwithstanding the formidable talents of Lord Mandelson, whose experience of stopping coups has already come in handy, the most obvious way to turn Labour's fortunes around is a change of leader - after all, Gordon Brown had a notable honeymoon, even though he was not polling well before taking over the top job.

Labour should emphasise tax justice, a living wage, secure jobs, a resolution to the housing crisis, and shifting the economy from one rigged in favour of those at the top in favour of working people.

The 44 - year - old politician revealed how Labour is ready to introduce new quotas for the police, judges and top civil service jobs to combat racial inequality.

But he later ruled himself out of the top job, saying his principal aim was to become Labour's candidate for Mayor of London in 2016, saying «my strengths are in London and the south».

Labour leadership favourite David Miliband will put tackling the «jobs deficit» at the top of his agenda when he publishes his manifesto for Britain today.

And so, in a matter of days Wood emerged both as her party's heroine — after dramatically clinching a Welsh assembly seat in Rhondda from Labour — and as a controversial figurehead, following this nomination for the top job.

So, Alan Johnson is too old, at 64, to contemplate a run at the leadership of the Labour Party even if the top job: the prime ministership may be there for the taking just ten months away.

Ken Livingstone may not have taken a plum job in Jeremy Corbyn's top team, but Labour's new leader still appears committed to bringing back the Ken era.

Jones did not name any potential successors to Corbyn in his column but allies of the Labour leader are concerned that the well - read Guardian columnist was implicitly endorsing Clive Lewis for the top job.

The Stoke - on - Trent Central MP revealed he was considering running for Labour's top job during an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics.

Blair, as Jeremy pointed out, the days of chancellor, home sectretary foreign secretary being recognized as the top jobs are over, and Norman baker was a thorn in the side of May, Danny Alexander thorn in the side of Osbourne, and labour vote went up more in 2015 than the Tory one, and them winning in 2015 isn't relevant to theft they didn't win in 2010

He announced his intention to challenge for Labour's top job between cups of tea with ally Vernon Coaker and chats about Nottingham Forest with supporters.

Shadow business secretary tipped for Labour's top job struggled with Andrew Neil's interrogation

Shadow international development secretary, the fifth candidate for party's top job, says Labour has failed to understand people's aspirations

Ministers accept that that post would have to go to a Labour candidate between now and 2014 because of the deal with the European Parliament in 2009 [over top EU jobs] when Cathy and Herman Van Rompuy, [centre right president of the European Council], were appointed.

With Balls shadowing the treasury and the more «user - friendly» Miliband in the top job, Labour is strengthened.

Mr Corbyn's allies want to impose a time limit on Mr Watson's term as deputy leader, and then change Labour rules so that next time a woman must be given one of the party's top two jobs.

The race for the top job will conclude just days before the Labour party conference in Manchester, where the new leader will be unveiled.

At the moment there is no clearly identified alternative to Brown as the next Labour leader, but if one does emerge and the polls do not improve for Gordon Brown, he may yet face a true challenge for the top job.

Mr Hain, who was one of the Labour leader's earliest backers in the battle for the party's top job, indicated that he may take on a new role away from Westminster.

Party sources say the ex-Health Secretary will get the required backing of 33 Labour MPs before Wednesday's deadline to be the fourth and final contender for the top job.»

Labour MP and former shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith is also set to launch a bid for the top job, PoliticsHome revealed last night.

The Tories have helpfully waded in with a press statement after anti-Trident Emily Thornberry took Labour's top defence job.

Well, despite Brown's popularity most Labour voters still seem to think that Blair would be better at the top job, by a margin of 56 % to 37 %.

The frontrunner, David Miliband, may not have been to private school (he went to a north west London comprehensive, as befits his impeccable left - wing credentials), but he was at Oxford University at the same time as David Cameron, and Education Secretary Michael Gove, not to mention the other leading contenders for Labour's top job.