Sentences with phrase «wing labour leader»

The departure highlights the split in the leader's office over how left wing the Labour leader should be.

A left - wing Labour leader the parliamentary party feels was foisted upon it, ongoing ideological warfare, and a fear of impending electoral Armageddon.

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.

However, given that Corbyn is the most left - wing leader Labour has had in decades, it seems more implausible to think that hard left organisations wouldn't seize this opportunity to try and influence mainstream politics.

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.

Labour's left - wing leader has stuck two 68 - year - old fingers up to power and the establishment - but has he echoed the darling of the right?

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

The prospect of left - wing frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn becoming Labour Party leader is shaking up Britain's political establishment.

«It is vital Labour's leaders now get on the high ground and offer a much bolder, more radical alternative to what is an old right - wing Tory agenda that failed in the recessions of the 1930s and 1980s,» says Peter Hain, who served in both Blair's and Brown's cabinets.

I think British political leaders through out history can be fitted into the following 4 types, when it comes to the role of the state: Big Redistribution + Centralised State Big Redistribution + Decentralized State Small Redistribution + Centralized State Small Redistribution + Decentralized State The modernized wing of the labour party fit's basically in the first category, particularly post Credit Crunch.

It was never likely that ordinary voters would put such a left wing and strange looking Labour leader as Ed Miliband into Number 10.

He is quick to make clear that his plays are by no means the «art wing» of the Labour leader's political vision.

Having shed its most centrist leader in history just eight years ago, Labour may be about to get its most left - wing helmsman of all time.

In short, under Tony Blair's time as leader, Labour's right wing economics and neo-conservative international agenda lost Labour four million votes in general elections, despite economic growth at the time.

Left - wing activists flooded into Labour to vote for Corbyn, with the unprecedented consequence in British politics that a parliamentary party was left with a leader which it did not support.

Foot, the Labour Leader in 1981, was on the anti-nuclear, anti-European wing of the party.

The key questions here are these: could a left - wing leader of the Labour Party ever receive more even - handed coverage from broadcasters or less vitriolic treatment from the press?

To gain the support of the membership, the next Labour leader will need to advance a more left - wing agenda than his post-Blair predecessors.

Norcott's house building metaphor, seeking to highlight the need for both a left and right wing, lands some weighty blows on Labour's new leader.

Simon Danczuk told LBC that Labour MPs would «not put up» with the «crazy left - wing policies» Corbyn plans to pursue as leader.

15.26 - Snap verdict: this was probably the most left - wing speech from a Labour party leader in a generation.

But there was fury from Labour figures as the party still lost councillors - the first time in recent memory that's happened in a leader's first year - despite opposing «the most right - wing Tory government ever».

He will make clear the policies he would pursue as leader and will show why he appeals to a new generation of people desperate for a left - wing Labour government.»

The former Prime Minister on dealing with the right - wing press, New Labour's alleged obsession with celebrities and how he wished he had reformed the party to ensure that Jeremy Corbyn could never have been leader

The established dislike of Miliband resonates with the right - wing media portrayal of the Labour Leader as «Odd Ed» or «Red Ed» — a portrayal which has solidified into conventional wisdom across the media.

It's because the old educational establishment — the left - wing local authorities, the leaders of the teachers unions, the Labour party theorists — stood in the way.

It was claimed that the explosive move was designed to damage the Labour leader by revealing his left - wing prospectus for the country early.

Hodges says the Labour leader should take decisive action to tackle the problem, including winding up the left - wing Momentum group.

The 17 - year - old's «fandom» was set up in April as a stand against the right wing media's portrayal of Labour's then leader.

Wendy Alexander has become the leader of the Scottish Labour party after a rumoured left - wing challenge failed to materialise.

If the Jeremy Corbyn bandwagon rolls on to 12 September and the left wing MP is elected Labour leader, what does the party do next?

Our earlier research showed that Labour's selectorate was keener on picking a leader who shared their, mainly left - wing, views rather than someone who was likely to lead Labour to victory in 2020.

Writing in The Times, Falconer remarked that: «Neither Yvette nor Liz can steer the Labour party through the challenging few years ahead when we need a leader who can reach out to all wings of our party and provide unity.»

Despite opposition from its left wing the Labour party supported British nuclear weapons but opposed tests, and Labour Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell and shadow foreign secretary Aneurin Bevan agreed with Sandys on the importance of reducing dependence on the American deterrent.

30 % of current Labour voters would go with the Corbyn wing of Labour in the event of any split — if Corbyn stays leader they will vote Labour, if the Corbynites left they would vote for his rival party.

Sixty - seven Labour MPs broke ranks with their leader — and defied a campaign of abuse by left - wing trolls - by backing military action.

Nonetheless, it is when Labour has a left wing leader that active debate on the left is most vital.

Voting gets under way in the Labour leadership election, as David Miliband becomes the latest senior Labour figure to warn of the dangers of electing as leader the left - wing backbencher, Jeremy Corbyn.

Listening to him, you'd never believe he nominated Comrade Corbyn for leader: it won him enough Left - wing votes to see off «uber - Blairite» Labour rival Tessa Jowell in the contest to be Mayor.

A Labour leader would be strengthened and not hindered by alliances with other parties, the progressive wing of the Liberal Democrats and Greens.

Remarkably, she was supported in this complaint and desire for Scottish Labour to be the party of Scotland, independent of Westminster control, by her right - wing predecessors as Scottish leader — Henry McLeish and Jack McConnell.

The differences over Trident, aired in the city where Labour's only pacifist leader, George Lansbury, failed to persuade trade union leaders of the need to disarm in 1935, go to the heart of the differences between Labour's two wings.

it depends the definition of left wing in relation to being pro the EU, for social reasons rather than economic ones Richard Gadsen, yes, very unlikely, but the PLP may form its own opposition of Jez wins, in September and we have a different leader of the opposition to the leader of the labour party, hope this doesn't happen

Snubbed by Tony and Gordon, Diane endeared herself to the left wing of the party by denouncing those Labour leaders who send their kids to private school.

The membership revolution in the Labour party means the next leader will be very left wing.

Left wing MP Jeremy Corbyn has the backing of the UK's two largest trade unions after Unison followed Unite in endorsing him to be Labour's next leader.

This made me curious: Labour are only polling a couple of points behind the Tories, so is the «Corbyn is a vote loser» line actually true, or does this narrative continue to be a fiction created by centrist and right wing media and politicians to undermine the new Labour leader?

It doesn't necessarily mean that Labour will find itself forced left by its members, nor that members will vote for a more left wing leader after Gordon Brown — just because Labour members are more left wing, doesn't mean they don't realise that elections tend to won from the centre and will vote for a leader more centrist than themselves, as they did with Tony Blair.

After weeks of expectation that the Labour leader was going fundamentally to change the unions» grip on policy - making, he was accused of backing down at the TUC conference... «There is no question that this is a retreat,» a senior figure on the Blairite wing of the party claimed — The Times (#)

Eagle is being presented as the «unity» candidate, where unity means members accepting the PLP's wishes and selecting a leader closer to, but crucially not seen as from, the party's «New Labour» wing.