Colm Keaveney — Irish Politician born on January 11, 1971,

Colm Keaveney is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was elected as a Labour Party Teachta Dála for the Galway East constituency at the 2011 general election, He sat as an independent TD after losing the Labour whip in December 2012. He resigned from the party in June 2013, and joined Fianna Fáil in December 2013. He is a former Chairman of the Labour Party... (wikipedia)

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.
There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.
If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.