Sentences with phrase «when labour leader»

The wheels came off Ed Miliband's efforts to pick up votes in Newcastle — when the Labour leader picked up a parking ticket instead.

His speech was also well structured and delivered, which is more than can be said for Jeremy Corbyn's on Friday afternoon, when the Labour leader offered little more than platitudinous applause points clumsily bolted together and delivered with all the zeal of a bowling club captain.

The day of the emergency debate on phone hacking in the Commons, and after PMQs, when Labour leader Ed Miliband called for Rebekah Brooks to consider her position as chief executive of News International.

Less so when the Labour leader school and shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald then posed with children on a bus...

Sex workers were filled with a sense of relief and hope when Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn recently signalled his evidence - based support for decriminalisation.

On a day when the Labour leader needed to be picking up votes, Gordon Brown was forced to issue a succession of apologies after a gaffe in which he referred to a Labour - supporting Rochdale voter as «bigoted».

The event on 16 June hopes to recreate the magic of last summer's Glastonbury festival when the Labour leader addressed his adoring crowd, who serenaded him with the anthemic «Oh Jeremy Corbyn» song.

It first became apparent last summer when the Labour leader sought to position himself as an international statesman over Syria.

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

When the Labour leader finally did emerge from his holiday on Tuesday he did little better.

Not exact matches

Jarvis» well - documented military background taught him all about refusing to back down when confronted by the enemy — and is one of the reasons why he is regularly touted as a future Labour leader by many on the party's moderate wing.

John Reid today raised the odds that he might stand as Labour leader when he set himself out as a strong and powerful leader at the party conference in Manchester.

Forgot it was not long ago labour back Gaddafi was that when the leader was making his black book on future contacts

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing, Harold Wilson once claimed — though it's notable that he did so when it was in opposition and before he was leader.

But it may only be when Jeremy Corbyn is removed as Labour leader that his party's troubles really begin.

When a Tory Prime Minister faces a nightmare a Labour leader should be living the dream.

When Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader in 2015, he was immediately written off and ridiculed by Conservative - supporting public affairs professionals, while the industry's hefty contingent of diehard Blairites were often even more scathing.

The Labour leader also made light of his tweet upon the death of Bob Holness, when he mistakenly said he worked on «blackbusters».

The first is that the analysis of Labour's defeat can not end on 12 September, when the new leader is crowned.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

Labour leader Ed Miliband highlighted the issue in his response to the Queen's Speech when he pointed out former health secretary Andrew Lansley had said he thought children ought to be «protected from the start» from «glitzy designs on packets».

These began on Monday evening and immediately after the cabinet meeting when Gordon Brown announced that he would stand down later this year as Labour leader and Prime Minister.

Let us allow ourselves to reminisce and go back to the early 1990s, when Tony Blar had just been elected leader and the New Labour saga was about to begin.

The confirmation that Ed Miliband will attend the Royal Wedding in a morning suit, such as trade union leaders used to wear to Royal Ascot in the days when they were always justly and often technically known as barons, confirms that he is True Labour rather than New Labour, as surely as David Cameron's vacillation on the subject confirmed his desire to be the Heir to Blair.

In May's General Election, when the SNP won Jim Murphy's East Renfrewshire seat, it did not just topple the leader of Scottish Labour, it took a constituency that epitomises middle Scotland.

It's now clear what happens when a shadow Cabinet minister publicly expresses their difference of opinion with the Labour leader: They either get sacked or they get told to shut up, as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has been.

Fewer MPs for Labour can mean more for Jeremy Corbyn when the leader's office sniffs an opportunity in a crisis.

The Labour leader also plumped for shortbread when asked the staple Mumsnet question about his favourite biscuit.

The Labour leader, never an EU enthusiast, is a Dr Dolittle pushmi - pullyu when John McDonnell's leading him into seeing Brexit as an opportunity for socialism in one country while another of Jezza's influential comrades, Diane Abbott, tugs him to sustain free movement.

Prior to Theresa May's anointment as Conservative leader — when the Tory party was undergoing its own post-referendum civil war and the inept, inexperienced, uber right - wing Andrea Leadsom was looking like a plausible contender — Labour was still polling seven points behind.

Some of the shine was taken off that choreography, however, when pesky Jeremy Corbyn — and even more pesky John Bercow — agreed while the PM was on his way to Wiltshire that the Labour leader should be allowed to ask an urgent question in the Commons.

When Lord Ashcroft polled the seat in November last year, he found the Lib Dem leader three points ahead behind Labour.

They have long memories in Buck House and they still smart from the constitutional crisis that ensued when the governor - general of Australia, John Kerr, dismissed the Labour administration of Gough Whitlam in 1975 and invited Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser to form a government.

First elected in 1982, when only three percent of MPs were women, Harman entertains in reminiscence of Labour leader Michael Foot.

He was lucky when Labour chose Ed Miliband as leader and so he faced a weak opponent in the 2015 general election.

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.

The Labour leader also failed to get an answer when he asked: «Will the children in these feeder primaries get an automatic place in the grammar school, or will they be subject to selection?»

In that post-1922 and pre-1997 period when every Tory leader made it to PM, the Labour party had four Prime Ministers but six party leaders (Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Hugh Gaitskell, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith) who were never Prime Minister.

Therefore many of Labour's most radical leaders, including Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan, and Tony Blair, have been conservative when it comes to Lords reform.

What happens when you are elected leader of the Labour Party with a massive mandate but a small minority where it most matters?

«Where Labour needs to learn lessons is that twice now — and I say this with no personal animosity to either, I respect them both greatly, they're remarkable people — but twice in a row now we've gone into a general election campaign with leaders that we knew to be unpopular with the public, and people weren't prepared to speak out, and when they did they were attacked for disunity,» he says.

Andy would have been the best leader we never had last time, he's not right this time, incidentally your choice for Mayor Diane Abbot comes out with her usual nonsense regarding, her 24,000 majority compared to Khans 2,000 majority, When she was first elected in 1987 ′ she had a swing against her, even though, any really after the 1983 election, it would be expected, that a labour politician would have a swing towards them as 1983 was our all time low, and I could be said her swing against her at the time was due to racism, but Paul boeteng stood for the first time, next to her in 1987 ′ he never had a swing against him,

This is especially true when New Labour leaders also lied about invading Iraq and started a war that cost tens of billions of pounds.

It is an endearing feature of the Labour Party that it is reluctant to tell leaders when their time is up.

The prime minister's defense cut little ice, particularly with Mr. Miliband, the Labour leader, who called it «a catastrophic error of judgment» and brought hoots of approval from Labour backbenchers when he said of Mr. Cameron, «He just doesn't get it, Mr. Speaker.»

How can I support a Labour leader who doesn't want to form a Labour government when working people, the old, the young, the poor, the country, need a Labour government above everything?

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

When asked to choose the greatest British Prime Minister, Miliband answered with Labour's post-war Prime Minister and longest - serving Leader, Clement Attlee.

When the time comes to construct the pantheon of Scottish Labour leaders, Ken Macintosh MSP will surely stand shoulder to shoulder with Jim Murphy at its highest point.

When Labour HQ called its Manchester leader, Richard Leese, and asked him to bad - mouth Osborne's speech, he is said to have told them to get lost, with an expletive.