Sentences with phrase «victory for labour»

The polls were favouring a victory for the Labour Party (LP) led by Neil Kinnoch.

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy told GMTV this morning: «It was a dramatic victory for Labour.

Just a few weeks ago, Khan won the biggest election victory for the Labour party in over a decade.

«We are going to have a historic victory for Labour here in Croydon,» said the Labour leader Tony Newman as he won his own seat early on Friday morning.

In London it is difficult to know how much voting patterns are down to the party and how much they are down to the politicians running for the mayoralty — was it a victory for Labour, or for Sadiq?

The only way back to victory for Labour is working across the soft left to the centre to build an electoral block that can challenge for 35 - 40 % of the votes.

«This is what will make the difference between a slender victory for the Labour party at the next election or a substantial working majority.

Still, analysts say that entrepreneurs may generally prefer a May victory over a victory for the Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn, a self - described socialist.

Victory for Labour in either of these would be hailed as a major success for Corbyn and an equally big setback for May.

Barring an upset in Oldham, 2011 should be a year of electoral victories for Labour.

Both announcements were victories for labour and anti-poverty groups, which have been advocating for this change for years.

Not exact matches

He then gave a passionate victory speech that sketched out a stronger global role for France and promised to waste no time making the national economy a much more business - friendlyplace, with controversial labour - market, pension, education and constitutional reforms, not to mention tougher measures on crime and immigration.

I labour for nothing yesterday night around 9:30 pm after login on again and wrote a comment on Arsenal victory over Chelsea.

The decision to extend the session is another key victory for Mr Miliband, who has already secured several of his demands — including the cancellation of the BSkyB bid and Rebekah Brooks» resignation — during a tremendously successful period for the Labour leader.

«This is a victory for people up and down this country who have been appalled by the revelations of the phone hacking scandal and the failure of News International to take responsibility,» Labour leader Ed Miliband said.

Having dramatically taken away its support for Labour at the party's autumn conference and given its backing to David Cameron, the electorate suddenly became churlish enough to deny the Tories an outright victory.

This view, closely reflected in a recent piece by Labour List editor Mark Ferguson, is that potential candidates should «work for a Labour victory before working for their own.»

And the world is duly transformed for Labour at 11:30 when Jeremy Corbyn romps home to victory for the second time in less than a year with an increased majority.

Instead Labour's success in London has only proved a saving grace for the national party of opposition, helping reduce the impact of Ukip's national victory.

It does not matter how this state of things is brought about; whether the sword of victory hew down the liberty of the captive, and thus compel him to labour for his conqueror, or whether the sword of want extort our consent, as it were, to a voluntary slavery, through a denial to us of the materials of nature...»

Labour's unexpected victory in Hammersmith and Fulham was heavily dependent on a campaign against the downgrading of Charing Cross hospital, for instance.

Miliband's announcements represent a victory in the shadow Cabinet for shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who had been calling for Labour to integrate health and social care.

I look at the particular challenges for Labour in reconnecting to disillusioned liberal - left voters as part of the task of rebuilding the broad electoral coalition which won it three election victories.

Instead of dismissing the coalition as a victory for the right, Labour ought to be challenging its claim to be progressive.

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.

For Labour, setbacks in the Midlands and a failure to live up to sky - high expectations in the capital, where it had set its sights on Wandsworth and Westminster, took the shine off an unexpected victory in Plymouth.

Labour's candidate for the Oldham West and Royton seat won the by - election — and party leader Jeremy Corbyn is hailing it as a victory.

If Labour delivers victory for Cameron in his referendum we will be able to say goodnight to Corbyn's little renaissance and watch helplessly as the pasokification of the Labour Party recommences and comes to completion.

Former MP David Miliband spoke for many people when he argued that under his brother's leadership, Labour had hoped to «suspend the laws of political gravity» by moving somewhat to the left, yet continuing to believe victory was still possible.

Despite Callaghan's protestations that she should go back to university, she campaigned for his victory alongside Neil Kinnock (the future leader of the Labour party), Glenys Kinnock and Rhodri Morgan, whom she would marry in 1967.

16:42 — Labour call the decision a «victory for parliament», and begins pressure against the government in the debates to come.

Putting the Liberal Democrats to one side for the moment, the election results for Labour and the Conservatives are not at all unusual, and in no way indicate a certain Labour victory at the next election.

It's a safe seat, so I tell the story of Labour's Emma Lewell - Buck, just leaving gaps for the victory speech and results.

A bullish Jeremy Corbyn insisted that he can guide Labour to general election victory as he launched his campaign for re-election as party leader.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

Why do you think you are better able to lead the Labour Party to victory than your comrades standing for election?

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

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.

For a similar reason, the Tories see victory in London as an early chance to drive a stake through Labour's heart.

It will not do as the basis of what the government actually does however.I suspect most of us will grit our teeth and campaign as best we can for a Labour victory in spite of our disagreement with many aspects of the manifesto including the central thrust of the economic approach.

Jeremy Corbyn rushed to Manchester for a victory rally after Labour's Andy Burnham was elected mayor - but Mr Burnham himself failed to show up.

According to the Financial Times: «his views — higher taxes, mass nationalisation, more welfare, more borrowing — are seen as toxic by New Labour veterans, who prophesy a repeat of Michael Foot's disastrous leadership in the early 1980s that led to a landslide 1983 election victory for Margaret Thatcher».

The result concluded a byelection clean sweep for Labour after comfortable victories in the Manchester Central and Cardiff South and Penarth votes.

The intervention, which was the latest in a long line of Labour establishment attacks on Corbyn, added that a victory for Jeremy would be a «car crash» for the party.

A victory for Khan would be seen as a major boost for Labour after a difficult start to Corbyn's leadership.

If borne out in May, it would be the largest victory for any candidate since the London mayoralty was set up and a major boost for the Labour party.

Let's get Sadiq elected as London Mayor and start building the momentum for a Labour victory at the next General Election.

His subsequent decision to stand as an independent, followed by his crushing victory over the New Labour machine still counts as the biggest strategic success for the Labour left in recent decades.

Jeremy Corbyn has secured a significant victory after Labour's ruling body agreed to proposed changes that will make it easier for a leftwing candidate to run for the party leadership.

The landslide victory is a boost for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who earned mixed reviews for his first showing at the ballot box, with critics warning «the clock is ticking» on his leadership.