Sentences with phrase «british public»

One of the reasons why they are in such terrible danger is they are confusing the fact that a couple of thousand people turned up to a debate to hear Jeremy Corbyn with what the British public [want].

The # 3.6 billion a year that the BBC spends is seemingly immune from the harsh economising facing every other inch of the British public sector.

The then Shadow Attorney General was accused of alienating Labour from the British public and key target voters, which left the former party leader «angry».

Like just about everything else in British public life, defence policy is now stuck in limbo.

As Secretary of State for Health and Social Security in 1986, Fowler implemented the first official drive to educate the British public to the dangers of AIDS.

Progress has always been the part of the party most in tune with the British public, rather than Labour members or supporters, and has been unafraid to challenge Labour to engage with new voters, rather than preach to the converted.

Look if we don't de-select the New Labour MPs the British public will at the ballot box and that will be the end of the Labour Party.

And I believe the British public is ready to listen to what we have to say.

While 2010 brought the British public the first ever televised debates, the 2015 version saw seven leaders take to the stage together for the first time.

His research and teaching interests encompass British political ideas, British public policy, Conservative Party politics and political biography.

Peter Kellner considers the evidence as detailed poll finds EU still unpopular among British public (Comments: 24)

The British public overwhelmingly supports banning the burqa, a YouGov poll conducted in August found.

Increasing numbers of us are concluding that unless Labour MPs take a lead within Parliament, a new centre - left party should be formed outside Parliament that reflects the pragmatism and decency of the British public by rejecting the old divides of left and right.

Once again, it seems apposite to quote MP Denis MacShane's open letter to Michael Martin in May, in which he called for the Speaker to resign, but smugly predicted the Commons «will survive this scandal as it survived earlier scandals... The great historian Macaulay wrote that there was nothing «so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality».

Peter Kellner considers the evidence as detailed poll finds EU still unpopular among British public

The British public is in one of its fits of morality right now but this will pass.»

Peter Bone, the MP for Wellingborough and one of the architects of the document, said: «This is serious attempt to deliver policies that the British public really want.

«So the only way it can happen is if all the parties agree to work together, rationally, reasonably, sensibly on trying to deliver what I think the British public would see as, not a priority, but a perfectly sensible reform that we have people legislating in the House of Lords who are elected by right.»

Labour could switch its stance on Brexit if the British public change their minds about leaving the EU, Jeremy Corbyn's election campaign chief has said.

As politicians, Bob Geldof and the Catholic Church compete to entreat the British public to give up their spare room for a Syrian family, are we in danger of misreading where the real centre of gravity of British public opinion actually lies?

A large majority (69 %) of people thought that David Cameron was not too young to be Prime Minister, and 74 % thought that the British public would not be reluctant to vote for a Prime Minister who went to Eton.

«The truth is that Leave campaigners plucked an imaginary figure from the air and went around the country misleading the British public.

Official figures on the British public finances are no longer to be trusted - Chris Giles in the FT (#)

But to try and generalise in this way and to paint all British Pakistani community members in a certain light, I'm afraid that is simply something that can not be ignored and it is certainly not something that the British public at large will accept from Dominic at all.

The second message is that the anti-Ukip campaign appears to have had no significant effect on how the British public feels about Ukip or Farage.

He said the next eight months would be «an interview with the British public for one of the most important jobs in the country».

And sadly, both Labour and too many of the British public bought into this framing of the debate.

A new ComRes poll for The Sunday People reveals that most of the British public want David Cameron to delay the so - called «bedroom tax» due to come into force in April.

«I think the British public deserves better than this from the Electoral Commission.

Forgot to say that this might be the first major sign that the ordinary British public are realising that New Labour are, as Cameron says, taking them for fools.

He writes: «The Sun has always stood up for the British public against the tangled bureaucracy of the EU.

«He [the Prime Minister] is wedded to a system where you pay MPs to turn up and do their job... it's completely untransparent and I don't think the British public will accept that.»

As a result of both the London and Glasgow incidents, Brown chaired emergency COBRA meetings to review plans to protect the British public.

We have managed the majority of the British public that we should leave the EU - 55 % in the recent BBC Daily Politics Show.

Do we really want to deny the British public a clean, affordable, home - grown energy supply which could free us from dependency on unstable regimes and which would give a huge boost to our industry?»»

A ComRes poll reveals most of the British public want to delay the tax.

Yesterday, as he explained why emergency legislation was needed to protect the British public from paedophiles, terrorists and organised criminals, one felt like agreeing with him.

The British public also do not appear to relate the risk of contracting HIV / AIDS to their own behaviour and lifestyle.

Conservative MP Mark Pawsey raised the concerns of a constituent who believed it was important for the British public to be able to continue to pay their respects to fallen personnel.

In multiculturalism, as in so much else, the British public marches well ahead of the press and the political class, waiting for them to catch up.

He believes the British public will not thank Tories for tearing up the common sense of good housekeeping just 10 months after putting them in sole charge of the economy's purse strings.

These changes to the marriage route are needed urgently for three reasons: to protect women and girls from pressure; because the British public have a long - held commitment to fairness; and to ensure that the immigration system is one that we can be confident in.

But will the PM get the extra help he might need to win over the British public?

«The fate of the great British public rested with the Lib Dems.

In many ways there's nothing the British public enjoy more than a good political scandal, especially if it involves a high ranking politician.

«We must fight for the British public to have a final say on the government's deal with a chance to stay in the EU if the deal is not good enough.

The Libya operation also did little to convince the British public of the need for foreign interventions, with polls showing opposition to most military solutions to the ongoing killing in the country.

For the British public to make an informed decision, they need to see arguments debated aggressively — with policy proposals harshly scrutinised, supporters» motives questioned and promises evaluated sceptically.

«It's no coincidence that Westmonster is launching the day before Mr Trump's inauguration... It also marks a significant acceleration of Mr Banks's involvement in British public life.»

Immigration has cast a shadow over the legal standards of British public life.