Sentences with phrase «labour party did»

JON SOPEL: Now you went into the last election, the Labour Party did with a very clear manifesto and unless I'm very much mistaken I don't think there was any reference to nationalising key parts of the industrial and financial sectors, getting rid of nuclear weapons, slashing defence spending and higher tax rates for the better off?

Love it David, If Labour is to succeed it has to change, Margaret Thatcher said back in the 80s that she was going to roll back socialism, what we in the Labour Party did not know then was that it would happen from within as well as outside.

The Labour party did not pay a penny for it, and it had not been stored on a Labour party drive.

The paradox is that the Labour Party didn't need a mass membership when it had one.

The Government have made it clear that they want to try to protect key spending, for example, on the NHS - the Labour party did not want to do that - and schools.»

«It's disappointing the alternative deal offered by the Labour party didn't work.

Moving on to calls for another defence review, Mr Cameron added: «I would simply say that for ten years the Labour party did not have a defence review, but now it wants two in a row.

The Parliamentary Labour Party did not stop voting against re-armament expenditure until 1937.

«Take this with the sarcasm with which it's meant, the Labour party did very well getting their postal vote out.»

In addition it was increasingly clear during the negotiations that many senior members of the Labour party did not want a coalition with us and preferred the option of going into opposition.

For the moment, the way UK political parties use our personal online data is fairly primitive — bombarding people with spam, as the Labour party did with me, is not likely to have much of an effect.

Firstly, the Labour Party didn't hang the Parliament.

«For me, if the secular left suggests is allergic to any public role for faith, it seems to me to risk misunderstanding its own history - given that the foundation of the Labour Party did owe more to Methodism than Marxism - and to turn down the opportunity to build new alliances for social justice today.»

If Jeremy Corbyn is elected Labour leader, what does the Labour party do next?

MattGB, the Labour party does not have anything resembling a primary at all.

Herbert Morrison once argued that «socialism is what the Labour Party does».

«We are going to be in lockstep together arguing for an effective, united Labour party doing its job as Her Majesty's Opposition in opposing this government,» was all she would say on the subject.

A party that cares about post-tax incomes, as the Labour Party does, should ensure that similarly - situated citizens anywhere in the country get similar life chances.

What are local Labour parties doing to try and actively engage and help new joiners like @lisariemers?

He then invited Ed Miliband to give his personal views on those issues and invited him to confirm as a matter of fact that «the Labour party does not solicit votes or membership of financial contributions on religious grounds and that it does not offer any kind of privileged access or dialogue to faith groups of any kind».

If the Labour party does not do that then it is worth nothing.

The 2008 Labour Party Conference was the first at which affiliated trade unions and Constituency Labour Parties did not have the right to submit motions on contemporary issues that would previously have been debated.

Is it a threat to Britain if the leader of the Labour party doesn't sing the national anthem?

Until the leader of the Labour party does, Labour will remain in the political wilderness.

«If you want to lead the Labour party I don't think what you do is defy what the collective position was and split the party.

«It's perfectly clear the shadow chancellor and the leader of the Labour party don't speak to each other at all,» Cameron crowed.

Socialism, Herbert Morrison once helpfully summarised, is what the Labour party does.

I glad corbyn is doing well and if, as a union member, I get a vote, I will vote for him because the labour party does need to shift leftwards.

«It has been a disappointment to me that fewer and fewer people seem to have a real understanding of what the Labour party does, what it is for and what its real aims are,» he said.

«I do think the Labour party does have a problem of announcing very small policies that they're trying to get a daily headline out of and actually the problem is they don't really capture the public's imagination,» he told the BBC.

The debate will give us all a chance to reflect on what the rest of the country thought about the Budget — which is: not a lot — and the fact that only three Labour Back Benchers have turned up to support the Government's final Budget suggests that the parliamentary Labour party does not think much of it either.

«The leader of the Scottish Labour Party doesn't serve at the grace of Len McCluskey, and the next leader of the UK Labour Party should not be picked by Len McCluskey.»

The campaign has shown that the mainstream of the Labour Party does not want to change the electoral system for Westminster.

Right that's it, we'll have to sing at some Labour party do complete with enormous black wigs, tattoos and satin gloves.

However, the Labour party do seem to have correctly identified David Cameron's potential weakness — 36 % of people agree that David Cameron «flip - flops» and 63 % agree that «David Cameron talks a good line but it is hard to know whether there is any substance behind the words» — that includes 51 % of Tory voters.

Stephen Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown have allegedly been In talks about forming a new centre party if The labour party doesn't change direction, If true this is the most extraordinary turn of events, in re alignment of the left for one Hundred years.

Wales needs to have a strong Independent party, as many have discussed here, there is now a huge vaccum, which the Labour Party doesn't fill anymore.

But Mr Murphy told the BBC: «The fact that Unite are an important part of the Labour Party doesn't give them a right to behave in a macho way of doing their politics, of a way that belongs in the past.

A Labour spokesperson said: «The Labour Party does not of course endorse these comments.

«The Labour party doesn't support a second referendum.

Not exact matches

«It's pretty clear the Labour party is going to do well in London,» said Curtice.

Leaders of both the Conservative and Labour parties, which don't normally agree on much, have ruled out the possibility of holding a «second referendum».

Unlike Khan, who significantly outperformed the Labour party in his own constituency during the mayoral election, Goldsmith did only about as well as a generic Conservative candidate.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

I was sympathetic to the Alberta Party when it came out, but when I began to talk to members about issues concerning organized labour I found that they didn't have any policies.

If a company can find a third party company which can provide cheaper labour, less regulation and fewer taxes, but also treats its workers fairly and provides them with a safe working environment and better quality of life, as many do, it can be an excellent option.

The Labour Party, it seems, does not.

Former British Labour Party MP Kevin McNamara, who has died aged 82, probably did more during his long political career than any other British politici -LRB-...)

Doesn't seem very plausible that the Tories would accept that - or, for that matter, that Labour would accept the Tory / Lib Dem calls to give union members the option to fund other political parties, too.

Despite his reputation for spin, Blair's book offers the fullest discussion of what New Labour was trying to do to change Britain, particularly his recognition that the party had to appeal to aspirational voters (a battle that may have to be re-fought within Labour now).