Sentences with phrase «attempts by the labour»

The last Labour leadership election was beset by rows over attempts by Labour officials to strike off registered supporters who did not «share the values and aims of the Labour party».

In April, The Observer reported claims from a former minister that Rupert Murdoch tried to persuade Prime Minister Gordon Brown early in 2010 to help in resisting attempts by Labour MPs and peers to investigate the affair, and to go easy on News of the World in the run - up to the UK's general election of May 2010.

An attempt by Labour to try to make itself a movement with broader appeal is particularly acute as the parties all await a report into funding due to be published in October by the committee on standards in public life.

The failed attempt by Labour to make class an issue in the Crewe and Nantwich by - election, with activists dressed up in top hats and tails, stands out as an example of their enthusiasm for the subject.

He also survived an attempt by his Labour enemies to ban him standing in last year's General Election after he said that Mr Corbyn was «unfit for No 10».

A Conservative spokesperson said: «This is a pretty cheap attempt by a Labour - linked union to distract from the overwhelming evidence of antisemitism in Labour that has emerged in recent weeks.

A source within the SNP hit back at what she called a «poor attempt by Labour to deflect from its own campaign».

This is a cynical attempt by Labour politicians to brush evidence about underperformance and failure in the Welsh NHS under the carpet.

Health select committee chair Sarah Wollaston says ministers should act before attempt by Labour to force release of documents

Not exact matches

Ministers should tell councils not to force flood - hit families to pay their council tax, Labour has said, in its latest attempt to gain political capital out of the crisis faced by underwater Britain.

The Blairite former health secretary caused a sensation this January when she and Geoff Hoon attempted to bring down Gordon Brown by urging Labour MPs to vote in a secret leadership ballot.

The government in a statement on Monday said it has noted the attempt by some members of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Nigeria Union of Teachers to expose staff and students to danger arising from the ongoing court action against their members.

Andy Newman posts that «I think they have the argument spot on, perhaps they have limited this to Labour Party members in an attempt to steer the party away from the negative approach revealed by smeargate; but I am am sure that many progressive bloggers outside the Labour Party will also fully endorse their general argument.

He attempts to get a US congressman to table a «favourable» motion (about independence) to «snooker» the Foreign Office, tries but fails to persuade the former (Labour) first minister Henry McLeish to back independence (he «is clearly torn between loyalty to party and country»), and tries but fails to win the Scottish Sun's backing (on September 7th Murdoch is still prevaricating; by September 16th he has opted for «benign neutrality»).

Though, in recent decades, Labour has desperately sought the approval of wealthy business owners in an attempt to drop its «anti-enterprise» image, the party is somewhat protected from these financial pressures by its links with the trade union movement.

The Major government recognised this problem, and froze alcohol duties in its final years in an attempt to stem the tide of duty evasion, a policy continued by Labour.

The current proposals are bound to meet a largely partisan reception, and will be depicted by some as a politically motivated attempt to create difficulties for a future Labour administration (though it should be noted that Labour's catastrophic performance in Scotland in the general election alters the territorial political dynamic that underpinned debates about EVEL quite considerably), and by others as an attempt to diminish the role of Scottish MPs.

In an atmosphere where talk of deselection is rife, any open challenge to Corbyn could lead to an attempt by London activists to replace Khan as Labour's candidate in 2020.

Politically, the move has been questioned by opposition MPs who see it as an attempt to shore up the government's majority in the Commons and to cause havoc for any future Labour government.

Labour peer Lord Adonis criticises plan as desperate attempt by May to boost fragile position in upper chamber

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

Labour's Angela Eagle described the plan as a cynical attempt by a government with an overall majority of just 12 to use procedural trickery to manufacture a very much larger one by knocking the SNP out of select votes.

Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, is seeking urgent talks with Corbyn in an attempt to broker a compromise that would prevent the party plunging into a snap leadership contest, as Angela Eagle prepares to launch a challenge by the end of the day.

Any attempt by the media, or politicians from either inside or outside Labour Party to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and the policies he represents flies in the face of what is clearly an overwhelming democratic mandate.

The sudden, synthetic fury we're seeing from the Labour party is nothing more than an attempt to distract people from the most important change coming into effect: the tax cut for ordinary working people delivered by the Liberal Democrats.

Guy Standing's attempt to imagine a «Precariat Charter» to address inequalities of power and material insecurity in the contemporary labour market includes proposals for basic income and, as also suggested by Angela Cummine, to develop and use Sovereign Wealth Funds in a manner akin to a Citizens» Trust.

At the time, we had been shortlisted for «Best Agency» by Research magazine — the most prestigious award in the market research industry — so I was a bit alarmed at first to receive a letter from Labour peer Lord Joffe, possibly frustrated that his attempts to change the law on assisted suicide had failed yet again, expressing unhappiness with the wording of a question.

Maintaining those circumstances is the reason for Labour Party cash hand outs and and attempts to stop the spread of capital by taxing it at death.

12:16 - Labour MPs pick up where Ed Miliband didn't leave off by attacking the government for attempted hospital closures in London.

It came at the culmination of a deeply unusual final day of the parliament in which Bercow fought back against Hague's manoeuvring by granting three urgent questions - buying him some more time for Labour MPs to rush back to the Commons to attempt to save him.

«This publicity stunt by Plaid Cymru is a crude attempt to weaken our strong and historic link with the Labour Party and to deprive trade unions of a legitimate political role.

Any attempt to suggest otherwise was merely an attempt to smear the Labour leader which was, in the words of Walker, being «aided by a media that is rabidly anti-Corbyn».

Personally I can't forget Littleborough and Saddleworth, because I spent the full five weeks of the campaign in that Yorkshire seat as - in the first significant by - election under Blair - Peter Mandelson attempted to personally mastermind a Labour shock win, and came close.

The 2011 elections also suggest that it is unlikely that this region will contribute to attempts by the Tories to overtake Labour in opposition.

In London, Blair's attempt to stop Livingstone being selected as Labour candidate for mayor suffered a setback when the regional party conference voted almost unanimously for a motion saying that all candidates nominated by 10 CLPs should be automatically shortlisted for an OMOV ballot to select the candidate.

Even by its own limited standards Labour's move to the Right failed, since the endless attempt to triangulate in search of the «floating voter» erodes trust and alienates Labour's base; 5 million lost voters over the New Labour years is testament to that.

When the Labour governments elected in those years squandered their political support by wave after wave of pay restraint and finally IMF - inspired cuts in public spending, Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 and made a last ditch attempt to stem the Tory decline.

Front page articles by John Blevin extolled the virtues of Labour into Power claiming the document was «a genuine attempt to strengthen and extend internal democracy» (7 February) which «has come down firmly in favour of a rebuilt partnership between membership and leadership» (31 January).

When rightly obstructing the attempt to reduce accountability by reducing the number of MPs but not of Ministers, Their Lordships demonstrated that Labour, the Crossbenchers and assorted others outnumbered the two Coalition parties.

Labour's attempt to stop the «granny tax» proposals came to nothing today, when it was roundly defeated by government MPs.

This is a clear attempt by Cameron to put the pressure back on Labour and Miliband in the aftermath of what has been a bruising few months for the prime minister.

She also made a calculated attempt to seize and redefine a term that's being argued about by Labour leadership contenders, although amongst them «aspiration» is often code for a return to the kind of politics seen under Tony Blair.

Labour's Sadiq Khan said a smear campaign by the Tory leadership - which repeatedly attempted to link his Muslim faith with Islamic extremism - had been «negative, desperate and divisive».

Conservative attempts at tackling this have so far proven unsuccessful: Ukip has held steady in the polls, topped May's European Parliament elections, and on Thursday Douglas Carswell won the party's first (elected) seat in parliament by 35 points over his former party, and nearly 50 more than Labour.

Writing in a Guardian article, Bob Kerslake made one of the strongest attacks on a government by a retired senior civil servant, saying the bill marked a «partisan and disproportionate» attempt to improve the position of the Conservatives at the expense of Labour.

The peer and novelist, who boasts on his website that he has «never had a proper job», will attempt to win support for the bill in the upper chamber, where it may run into trouble as it is opposed by both Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

One senior Labour source told PoliticsHome that the research showed why Jeremy Corbyn - accused by many within the party of a lacklustre attempt to persuade voters to back Remain last week - needed to be replaced.

[15] This created an association called the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), meant to co-ordinate attempts to support MPs sponsored by trade unions and represent the working - class population.

The future direction of Labour is set out clearly by Owen Smith, who recently in the New Statesman, described the reforms as a «historic attempt to make Labour a true people's party once more».

This strategy is by now a standard attempt to appeal beyond conventional constituencies: Labour wants to be the party of capitalists as well as workers, the Conservatives desire social liberals in addition to their traditional base, and the Liberal Democrats target people who don't fit in but want to be liked.