Sentences with phrase «labour leave campaign»

The Labour Leave campaign is doing the same.

Alan Johnson would launch Labour's Euro - referendum campaign on 1 December, and members who complain about receiving messages from the «official Labour leave campaign» should be reassured that there is no such thing.

Not exact matches

Their campaign groups have managed to get through to the Labour leadership, having long had the sympathy of the Labour left that now dominates it.

Unless and until that happens, the full weight of Labour's left factions - which include not just Momentum, but the Labour Representation Committee, the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy and Labour Briefing - is behind Corbyn.

Gordon Brown is making the case later for Britain «leading, not leaving» the European Union, as Labour voices make a fresh push to take centre stage in the Remain campaign.

The leadership campaign was fought out amongst Oxbridge graduates, two of the candidates were sons of a left - wing historian with connections deep into North London Labour intellectual circles.

Ed rather misses out that his father was a leading left winger in Norfolk Labour politics and passionately campaigned for the abolition of grammar schools.

Labour's Chuka Umunna, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron and Conservative MP Nicholas Soames argue that Vote Leave will be «complicit in a campaign that is increasingly inflammatory in tone» if it does not call for the film to be withdrawn.

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposLabour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposlabour movement opposition.

Corbyn's campaign may only want votes from genuine Labour backers, but will welcome the support of the broad left in Scotland.

Former Labour leader has used a speech to attack claims made by the «Leave» campaign which he thinks are aimed at «wooing» Labour voters.

The big danger is that the left, because there is little interest in the EU, will allow the Labour In For Britain campaign, in the hands of Alan Johnson, to present something unimaginative and negative, stressing the threat to jobs and the loss of influence that would be a result of leaving, as the general In campaign will do.

To write to Alan Johnson calling for the Labour campaign to stake out a clear left - wing agenda based on opposing austerity and fighting for public services, workers» rights and migrants» rights.

But the failure to deal with this perception allowed it to become entrenched — leaving Labour to play catch - up in the final weeks of the election campaign, with big questions of credibility still hovering over it.

If the Labour leadership campaign has proved anything it is that there is need for a change in economic thinking if those policies to be offered in 2020 by all parties — but most especially those on the left — are to resonate with people anxious for change.

The following statement was published yesterday on Revitalise Scottish Labour, the website associated with the trade union left in Scotland and Scottish Labour activists involved in the Campaign for Socialism

The challenge for the Scottish Labour left is to put these socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.

The campaign to save lone parent benefit registered, as even those generally supportive of the government's strategy have acknowledged, a significant breakthrough for the Labour left because it successfully identified with and led public, extra-parliamentary political opposition.

The following statement was published yesterday on Revitalise Scottish Labour, the website associated with the trade union left in Scotland and Scottish Labour activists involved in the Campaign for Socialism Today's Scottish Executive (SEC) was, to put it mildly, something out of the ordinary.

Although just 10 Labour MPs and 138 Tory MPs supported the leave campaign; now, following the outcome of the referendum, a majority of MPs in both main parties favour Brexit.

I don't publish on Next Left every email received from the Labour Party, or from other campaigning groups either.

There has undoubtedly been a shift to the left inside the Labour Party on Corbyn's principal campaign issue of austerity.

The class struggle left — organised in the Keep the Party Labour umbrella group and the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs — took a clear position against the document and adopted tactics to maximise unity with any part of the soft left prepared to defend any aspect of party democracy.

For the left, the Party and the broader labour movement, now is the time to unite behind the Labour campaign, andstart to popularise policies that present real solutions to the cost of living crisis and a positive alternative to the Tories» ideologically driven austlabour movement, now is the time to unite behind the Labour campaign, andstart to popularise policies that present real solutions to the cost of living crisis and a positive alternative to the Tories» ideologically driven austLabour campaign, andstart to popularise policies that present real solutions to the cost of living crisis and a positive alternative to the Tories» ideologically driven austerity.

It is not isolated from Labour's individual membership — nearly 40 per cent of whom voted for Socialist Campaign Group candidates in last October's NEC elections and, for the first time since the early 1980s, the middle ground in the party is moving to the left.

Labour fought an insurgent campaign in which Corbyn deftly exploited his status as the underdog; the Labour party appears to have excited young people as well as so - called «left behind» voters in ways not seen for decades.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

Some forces previously on Labour's left have joined this campaign, calling for «tactical voting», i.e. not making the priority to maximise the Labour vote.

But Labour left it to the Lib Dems to campaign against the Tory VAT tax bombshell.

With jobs and pensions standing out as the key areas of debate, Labour sent former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who has fashioned himself into a campaigning machine since leaving the Commons, to the constituency.

The executive director of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign and son of Labour grandee Jack Straw had suggested that European Union citizens living in the UK could be sent back to the country they were born in should Britain vote to leave on June 23.

What I don't understand is how Labour are going to win back the votes of people who voted leave, by campaigning for a second referendum, and if we don't convince them to vote Labour we will not form a government in 2020.

These last days lifted the stone on archaic Labour attitudes — from left and right, Campaign Group to David Blunkett and John Reid.

The Corbynite ethos has been orientated towards the expressive (something shared, historically, with the majority of Labour members), yet there are interesting debates on the Labour left about what Corbynism means for Labour's tradition of «parliamentary socialism» when factoring in the place and role of Momentum, the campaigning organisation set up to support Corbyn.

It will claim to be the only campaign with a major political party backing it — Ukip — but also has cross-party support, including from Labour Leave and Respect.

Hard - left activists are using a pro-Jeremy Corbyn campaign group to try to take over the Labour party, Tom Watson has claimed.

Nevertheless, even the generalised Corbyn Leadership bid «outline policy aims» 0f both 2015 and now, expose that (despite the entirely bogus faux Leftist rhetoric of the utterly cynical Owen Smith campaign) the PLP majority, AND the majority of Austerity implementing Labour councillors can not and will, not fall in line with the Corbyn - led Party's Left policy direction.

One of the reasons Mr B's encounter with Labour MPs «went well» was that no member of the left - wing Campaign Group of MPs was called to ask a question.

[54] Livingstone joined the activists, on 15 July 1978 helping unify small hard left groups as the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory (SCLV).

Pro-Jeremy Corbyn campaign group Momentum are «aggressive and stupid», says Michael Dugher Momentum seeks to push left - wingers into key internal Labour positions Momentum «entryists» trying to take over Labour, claims Tom Watson

Jeremy Corbyn's «hard left» campaign for the Labour leadership has been dismissed by Rhodri Morgan, the former first minister.

[26] At the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Group.

The push from a left - wing group to bypass the need to win support from Labour MPs comes as Momentum warns potential dissenters it is «absolutely equipped» to back another Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign.

«Labour's loyal and dedicated team of activists had just spent weeks on the doorstep and on street stalls making the case to remain in the EU and countering leave campaign arguments.

It may not have been Corbyn's much - criticised detachment from the Remain campaign that led to the haemorrhage of Labour voters to the Leave camp.

The GMB resolution at the Labour Party conference stressed defending employment and social rights and not aligning with the Tories, and was a welcome starting point for what should now be a major issue for Labour's left, namely determining that Labour's campaign is distinctively left wing and not indistinguishable from the general In campaign.

The Leave campaign may also like to gloss over what happened when leading Labour Out campaigner Kate Hoey was asked yesterday to name an independent study showing that Britain will be better off if we lLeave campaign may also like to gloss over what happened when leading Labour Out campaigner Kate Hoey was asked yesterday to name an independent study showing that Britain will be better off if we leaveleave.

The 48 - year - old - whose job included planning Labour's campaign for the next general election - rose to prominence as chief of staff to Ken Livingstone when the left - winger was mayor of London.

Compass, the campaign for a democratic left, said the results signal the «death knell» of New Labour.

With 94 % of Labour MPs having campaigned to remain yet two thirds of the party's constituencies voting to leave, a different leader could have done little else.