Sentence examples for formidable labour from inspiring English sources

I'll repeat what I wrote last week: Edwards will never be president, but he would make for a formidable labour secretary in any incoming Democratic administration.

His veneer of ecological concern and vague bohemianism cannot quite distract from all this, nor from the fact that his quietly formidable Labour opponent Sadiq Khan is engaging in a modern class politics, to evidently positive effect.

The only serious blow to Welsh Labour's election night equilibrium came in Rhondda, a totemic heartland seat housing a formidable Labour constituency operation that nonetheless fell to Plaid leader Leanne Wood's determined assault.

For almost five years, the formidable Labour ex-minister Margaret Hodge has duffed up bureaucrats and titans of industry, making real waves with her campaign against tax avoidance, which saw companies like Amazon given a very uncomfortable time, and, on one occasion, a top official from HMRC required to take the oath, when committee members became visibly impatient with his evidence….

After Tony Blair's election as Labour Party leader in 1994, Thatcher praised Blair in an interview as "probably the most formidable Labour leader since Hugh Gaitskell.

After another spell at the LSE, he graduated and, in 1950, joined the staff of the Transport & General Workers Union (TGWU), then under its formidable leader, Ernie Bevin, Labour's foreign secretary.

By the time of the second election of 1974, a formidable band of Labour stalwarts on the paper - John Cole, Ian Aitken, Jean Stead, Keith Harper - got together to keep him strictly in line.

When voters hear that Stella Creasy, a formidable backbencher and Labour deputy leader contender, is under deselection pressure in Walthamstow, north-east London, they must wonder.

But then, as the committee's formidable chair, former Labour minister Margaret Hodge, said, they didn't seem to want to look in the right place.

But "the Baroness", who was a formidable figure in Labour's wilderness years in the 1980s, was unamused when Cruddas voted in favour of the Iraq war, something he now deeply regrets.

Peppa's brand magic is now so formidable that the Labour party even tried to co-opt her to launch its families manifesto in 2010 – a stunt that backfired when she was pulled out to avoid seeming partisan.