Sentences with phrase «labour party feel»

But so many in the Labour Party feel the need to play a part in the hope of connecting with those they want to vote for them.

Conversely the left of the Labour party feel pretty hard - done - by and accuse the BBC of unfair treatment.

Like the worst type of students» meeting — which is what the Labour party feels like at the minute.»

Not exact matches

Spokesman for Christian on the Left (which supports Labour), Stephen Beer told Premier why he felt it had been a «tough night» for the party.

This is worth bearing in mind when you see the countless vox - pop interviews with working class voters who used to support Labour, saying they feel the party's MPs are nothing like them.

We feel that it is important for you to dissociate yourself from these comments, and we call on the Labour Party to reaffirm its best traditions of anti-racism, equality and compassion for all people in our country.

If he'd been PM, the Labour Party would have been a «broad church» with its members feeling comfortable with the role they were playing.

Shipman relates how a divided and weakened Labour Party under Corbyn, who was really a Brexiteer, was unable or unwilling to deliver the Labour vote, which felt aggrieved and marginalised.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

This group of voters became dissatisfied with the Westminster government during the Thatcher era, felt forgotten by New Labour, and voted Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) en - masse in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

Passion and feeling are desired qualities in the next Labour leader, but the party will only regain office if it fuses these attributes with smart policy shaped in co-operation with external voices.

They run from the centre - left to the hard right, from Remainers who feel betrayed by Labour's Brexit support to Brexiters who feel the party is too soft on the issue, from those outraged by the anti-semitism scandal to those aghast at Labour's flirtation with Putin - orchestrated conspiracy theories about events in Salisbury and Syria.

Former Deputy PM Nick Clegg moved first in the autumn of 2013 (his penultimate party conference as leader) and the Labour leader felt compelled to follow.

When Sunny Hundal told me he personally was thinking of pulling out of it, and in fact I suggested that it was worth taking a bit of time and that getting a sense of what the independent civic society / journalists on the panel thought would be important as I didn't feel it should be a partisan or Labour party political response, and wanted to get a broader view.

But given that this doesn't break the law or parliamentary rules, I don't see why there's any reason for non-members of the Labour party to feel angry or betrayed.

-LSB-...] Politics, Labour Party News Sunder Katwala and a cohort of other left - bloggers have laid out a declaration of ethics and principles that they feel should guide their participation on the internet.

The Green party may not emerge from the general election with more representation in parliament but it is on course to win its highest - ever vote — and it will be Labour and the Liberal Democrats who feel its impact the most.

No, Jarvis won't be wearing a blue rosette any time soon, but Labour should still take the time to ponder why he, and many progressives like him, doesn't feel at home in either party

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

A lot of Labour people voted for UKIP because they feel alienated by the party and by Westminster in general.

At 9.55 pm on election night, in Labour party headquarters at Brewers Green in Westminster, the party felt that it had charted a clear, if perilous, path to power.

But - aided by a floundering Scottish Labour Party which continues to struggle to find a way back into the affections of voters - Sturgeon has cause to feel confident.

As a Conservative party spokesman for the whole of the north - east put it to politics.co.uk earlier this month: «The most common theme we are hearing on the doorstep is that people feel that they have been taken for granted by Gordon Brown and Labour and they do not want more of the same.»

If people feel so strongly that despite there wish to vote Lib Dem of Green they wish to support the Labour Party on the basis that they hate the Conservatives they are at liberty to do so (too much Liberty which a PR HOL would address).

«We feel that Jeremy Corbyn's realigning of the Labour Party towards the principles of social justice and wealth distribution, which the party was first founded on, affords the best opportunity to improve everybody's lParty towards the principles of social justice and wealth distribution, which the party was first founded on, affords the best opportunity to improve everybody's lparty was first founded on, affords the best opportunity to improve everybody's lives.

So Sunder how proud do YOU feel of YOUR Labour Party and their armed wing - The Met!

I'm left - leaning but I don't feel any tribal affiliation, though I would love to see an effective Labour Party in opposition.

I left the Labour party after forty odd years, because in 1990 I had to go on benefits after breaking my back in work, and snapping my spinal cord, I now feel guilty for taking benefits when I should be safe and proud.

Few would query the proposition that constituency Labour party groups should have a voice in how their parliamentary representatives cast their votes, but what has caused very considerable ill - feeling has been widespread suspicion that Momentum, a recently - formed group of Corbyn supporters, orchestrated a campaign to pull MPs into line — with the threat of deselection if they failed to do so.

Five years ago, Ed Miliband decided to stand for the leadership of the Labour Party because he felt the global financial crisis had opened the way to a centre - left moment.

If there is one party that should feel aggrieved at media treatment it is the Liberal Democrats, who are constantly squeezed out by coverage of Labour and Tory affairs.

The Meeting felt strongly that the Labour Shadow Cabinet needed instead to rally behind the union link, as the unions were not only crucial historically to the success of the Labour Party (electorally and financially) but would continue to be so in the future.»

Perhaps because so many Labour MPs feel betrayed by a party they saw as their natural ally, they launch much more anger towards the Deputy Prime Minister than they do towards David Cameron.

Ok I am biased as a Green Party member but I am not convinced that the Labour Party is democratic enough for members to have any real say and I certainly feel that the Labour left has wilted.

However, he was not aware it broke party funding laws and did not feel the need to tell Labour's national executive committee (NEC).

«It has sent a message that it is putting its trust in a One Nation Labour Party and middle England is turning away from David Cameron and the Conservatives because middle England feels let down by David Cameron and the Conservatives.»

He insisted that Labour would fight May's «extreme Brexit» and said he had been visiting local constituency Labour parties across the country and speaking to thousands of members and supporters, «so I know how strongly people feel about Brexit».

We need a commanding narrative which is going to persuade our voters - they're just fed up that they don't feel the Labour party is strongly enough supporting their interests, and I think they're right.»

«What's interesting, when you break down the analysis, for example, is people joining the Labour party who support Jeremy Corbyn — it's not clear to me that the people who should feel most angry about their situation and the people joining are the same people.

She tells ITV News: «I ask myself if I'm going to be stood on the doorstep over the next few months, if I'm going to be sat in TV studios, could I hand on heart say that I felt Jeremy was the best person to be leading the Labour party in developing the answers that the country is now demanding.

No Labour Party member — Corbyn - supporting or otherwise — feels anything other than misery at the thought of another five years of Tory rule.

Asked about which possible Labour leadership contenders people felt warmest towards, Greenberg said David Miliband was the favourite, followed by his brother, Ed, the likely candidate from the left of the party Jon Cruddas, and then the former schools secretary Ed Balls.

On the donations we've given the party over the last year, and has now asked for some more, I wonder how many labour members angry at our own party for spending money we didn't have in the late 2000's which has seen this recession be worse than it need be, feel obliged to give to our party additional money,

If political tribe comes first in a country that no longer feels tribal, only 65 % voting for either old party, Labour will be lost in a future that is transformed, for much the better, into multi-party pluralism.

«I've always felt it's the Labour party or nothing for me.

The changes that Ed Miliband has outlined in the Guardian are at once an incredibly dramatic alteration to the way the Labour party is structured and will operate, and at the same time seem so simple and obvious it feels like they should have always been there.

In particular it will say whether Labour's members are thinking more about internal party politics or the feeling of the wider electorate.

She said quitting Labour would be «horrific», but said she no longer felt welcome by «huge swathes of people» now in the party.

She added: «I think it's truly because people have awakened to the fact this Westminster establishment has not been serving them and the Labour party in Scotland has not been serving them, and they must've felt that Douglas Alexander wasn't serving them.

Labour activists fighting the Green Party in Brighton Pavilion will probably feel aggrieved, as will those Liberal Democrat councillors fighting for their party's future in Labour heartlParty in Brighton Pavilion will probably feel aggrieved, as will those Liberal Democrat councillors fighting for their party's future in Labour heartlparty's future in Labour heartlands.