Sentences with phrase «british liberal left»

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British scholar N. T. Wright, who has engaged in debates with liberal Jesus Seminar leaders, wrote in the August 2001 issue that the huge U.S. success of the «Left Behind» series «appears puzzling, even bizarre» on the other side of the Atlantic.

At the 2010 election Liberal Democrat MPs, members and voters were all more social liberal than economic liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of Liberal Democrat MPs, members and voters were all more social liberal than economic liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of liberal than economic liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of centre.

In the long term, the Liberal Democrat entry into the coalition may create the conditions for a further realignment on the centre left of British politics, especially if the Liberal Democrats become inextricably identified with a small - state ideology; but Labour has to change significantly before that can happen.

Whereas the Conservatives are too right - wing and austere and Labour too left - wing and unreliable, the Liberal Democrats occupy the sweet spot of British politics, promoting liberal values they believe the majority of the populationLiberal Democrats occupy the sweet spot of British politics, promoting liberal values they believe the majority of the populationliberal values they believe the majority of the population share.

Of course the other British political parties don't want Juncker - he's not the centre - left candidate, or the liberal one either.

The outcome of the British election produced a collapse of the classic «centrist vote» represented by the Liberal Democrats and a polarisation to both the right and the left of the mainstream political parties.

The election result would indeed change British politics, although not in the way that Cameron intended: the obliteration of the Conservatives» Liberal Democrat coalition partners cleared the way for the referendum that set Britain on a path to leave the EU and ended Cameron's political career.

In interviews at the Lib Dem conference, Clegg, unsurprisingly, left the door open to a partnership with Miliband: «If the British people say that the most legitimate outcome of the next general election would be a Labour - Liberal Democrat coalition, of course I would be prepared to play my part in that.»

It was the soft left who told the Labour Party that the British people had moved to the left and we only needed to win with Liberal Democrat voters.