Sentences with phrase «labour eurosceptic»

In other EU news, Labour Eurosceptic Kate Hoey has quit its Labour offshoot amid yet complaints about Dominic Cummings» behaviour.

Labour Eurosceptics of the 1970s feared that the Common Market was a big «capitalist club» that would undo the steps towards British socialism — not everyone thought that was an oxymoron at the time — that Labour had made since the great post-war administration of 1945 - 51.

Not exact matches

For example, MPs with an agricultural background are less Eurosceptic, as agricultural interests are likely to lose out from Brexit because of a loss of CAP payments and EU migrant labour.

While senior Labour politicians seem to feel comfortable speaking to pro-EU middle - class voters who have seen the visible gains of EU membership, they have little to say to Eurosceptic working - class voters who have suffered on the other end.

The former arch eurosceptic has been accused by some Labour MPs of not campaigning hard enough for a Remain vote.

The comments, which came as an aside during a case won by the government, triggered outrage among eurosceptics on the Tory backbenches, who said the UK had been tricked into believing it had an opt - out from the convention when Labour signed up during the Lisbon negotiations.

Indeed, as EU observers have been noting, the more extreme eurosceptic Conservative noises off from Westminster have been anticipating — in the event of a «Yes» win - the end of Cameron, a caretaker leader until the May 2015 general election and a Labour victory.

The failed EU referendum bill was a «bit of Valium designed to calm down» Eurosceptic Conservatives, a Labour peer has claimed.

Labour now finds itself presented the problem of how to manage a core vote that has emerged as a radically Eurosceptic, conservative, insurgency and is forced for the first time to take seriously the tradition - orientated ideals, habits and orientations of the people who have supported it over generations.

On the Labour side, rebellious MPs have tended to be from Eurosceptic wings of the party, either from the Socialist Campaign Group wing (e.g. Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell) or from its conservative communitarian wing (e.g. Kate Hoey, Frank Field).

Both Labour and the Lib Dems are getting nervous with the toxic Europhobic atmosphere that is quickly spreading from Westminster to the rest of the country and have started to mutter reserves about the EU by using language that is rich on Eurosceptic iconography.

McDonnell, an open Eurosceptic, denied suggestions he and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had not campaigned hard enough for a Remain vote, saying they had been honest with voters about their reservations.

Conservative eurosceptics have combined with Labour to hand David Cameron a bitter personal defeat on the EU budget this evening.

Eurosceptics on the government benches could not have beaten a frantic whipping operation without the support of the Labour party.

Corbyn has always been on the Eurosceptic wing of Labour although it's never been a particularly core issue to him, hence his ambivalence during the referendum.

Tory Eurosceptic rebels are stating that Labour MPs are supporting their motion rather than them supporting Labour opportunism.

Labour may be being opportunistic today but I saw a vision of a Eurosceptic and fiscally responsible Labour Party that should frighten every Tory.

With both Labour and the Liberal Democrats still opposed to a referendum on UK membership and with uncertainty lsurrounding Cameron's ability to re-negotiate any significant powers from Brussels, the momentum continues to shift further towards the Eurosceptic camp.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

Either way, recalling how recently Miliband, Balls, Alexander et al forced the European ConstitutionLisbon Treaty on the British people without the referendum they had promised, I find it difficult to subscribe to the idea that they and their Labour colleagues are suddenly all now committed eurosceptics.

Moving with a clarity that poses a campaign challenge to Labour, David Cameron on Tuesday pointed the Conservative party in a more markedly Eurosceptic direction than ever before in his pre-election reshuffle.

But Eurosceptics in the Labour party were disappointed.

One of the alliances that Number 10 has most feared is between Eurosceptic Tory backbenchers and the Labour Party.

I was there on the ground and was amazed at how much of their vote seemed to be coming from working and lower middle class voters, eurosceptic and socially conservative people, many of whom will have voted Labour at some point in the near past.

The suggestion, which was made today in a report from Eurosceptic think tank Open Europe and a version of which has already been aired by Labour's Rachel Reeves, would mean low - paid workers from EU countries lose an average of # 55 per week.

Theresa May is fortunate in that the Labour official opposition is in permanent turmoil and the rebellious Eurosceptic right of UKIP and the Conservative Party are, at present, both sated and quiet.

The new museum is expected to celebrate Eurosceptic heroes who challenged Britain's EU membership, ranging from Labour leftwingers Peter Shore and Tony Benn in the 1970s to Tory Maastricht rebels such as Bill Cash and Teddy Taylor in the 1990s.

But other voices say the Tories need to build bridges with the eurosceptic party or risk splitting the right - wing vote and letting Labour in.

Most polling returns a figure somewhere around the 50 per cent mark for people wanting to leave the EU, and with Labour edging close to the Tories» eurosceptic rhetoric — which in turn has been egged on by the tub - thumping of Ukip — the Lib Dems remain alone in being unashamedly European.

Labour was Eurosceptic in the 1970s while the Conservatives were pro.

This afternoon it was announced that Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry will also be tasked with being Labour's Brexit spokeswoman, opposing Tory eurosceptic David Davis.

But everywhere else Labour is struggling, and this often coincides with places where people are more eurosceptic.

John Redwood, a leading Eurosceptic, expressed hope that Labour's motion «would not be opposed», though the opposition day debate and vote is non-binding and has no effect on government policy

They have also shown that by putting some of their better candidates and strongest efforts into opposing Eurosceptic Conservatives in seats the Conservatives can win, they may give us more federalist MPs by tipping the balance in favour of the pro-EU Liberal Democrat or Labour candidate.

That is a political move that will chime with Tory Eurosceptics and could help mobilise her ground base when she attempts to wipe Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party off the map in 2020.

That would fairly make labour the most eurosceptic, and thus you would be actually endorsing other rpo EU withdrawal parties to split the tory vote.

An «in or out» vote has traditionally been demanded by Conservative Eurosceptics, But some pro-Europe Labour figures, who believe the public would vote to stay in, are promoting the idea as a way of settling the question for a generation.

Balls said he respected Osborne, his old Commons sparring partner, for facing down the Eurosceptics in his own party, comparing it to his own decision to refuse to back joining the euro when Labour was in government.

Tory eurosceptics combined with Labour's MPs to defeat the government and demand that the UK actually push for a reduction in the total size of the budget.

In 2012 the budget debate pitted the Conservative leadership (for the budget settlement) against the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative party and Labour who opposed it.

Both Labour MPs and eurosceptic Tories expressed anger at the list, which some considered unfairly slanted towards pro-EU figures.

Conservative eurosceptics and Labour tacticians should beware.

He says he was Europe spokesman for Labour in the Commons at the time of the Maastricht debates in the early 1990s, and at the time Labour made alliances with the Tory Eurosceptics.

But, in reality, it appears that when Labour said our Eurosceptic promises were all hot air, they were right; that when Heseltine said that in government every Conservative Prime Minister is Europhile, he was right; that when UKIP said Conservatives were not to be trusted on Europe, they were right; that when I and others said that the Conservative Party had changed, and that Cameron and Hague were genuinely convicted Eurosceptics who understood what must be done and would not let us down, we were wrong.

Butrecriminations are already flying within Labour about whether the party, and in particular its instinctively Eurosceptic leader, have fought hard enough to try to keep Britain in the EU.

«The founder of UKIP has launched a Eurosceptic centre - left party to challenge Labour and provide an alternative for those who feel his old party has become «racist» under the leadership of Nigel Farage.

But Labour MP Graham Stringer, who is also in favour of Brexit, said while he was not surprised by Mr Corbyn's intervention, his party leader was still a eurosceptic at heart.

Eurosceptic Labour MP Kate Hoey told BBC News Jeremy Corbyn has not reneged on his anti-EU views despite making the case for remaining in the bloc during a speech in London today.

Their main function is to split the Eurosceptic and centre right vote and therefore they allow more pro-EU Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians to prosper.

The Labour leader this morning adhered to calls from within his party to make a significant intervention in the EU referendum debate, as concerns mounted that he still harbours eurosceptic beliefs.