Sentences with phrase «labour members»

Likewise, it's hard to see how going to war with the majority of Labour members who voted for the current leader is a route to electoral success.

Most of those changes would be welcomed by many Labour members and supporters too, across the spectrum of opinion of much of the party.

His popularity with Labour members was at its height and he regularly topped shadow cabinet elections.

However, for most Labour members, we're a tired bunch.

Why do you think young Labour members are drawn to you and your campaign?

The poll was conducted over the weekend, so after Labour members will have started to vote.

The ideological distance between Labour members and MPs is in fact smaller than that between Conservative members and MPs.

We have a leader who, unlike the vast majority of Labour members including many of those who joined up in order to support him, has never been a European true believer.

Most of those volunteers are young people who aren't card - carrying Labour members.

For many Scottish Labour members it feels as if we are in a perpetual leadership campaign.

But in reality her views on many issues are much more in tune with the ordinary Labour member.

As sympathetic as individual Labour members undoubtedly are to the causes for the strikes, the party should oppose this industrial action.

Many Labour members appear more interested in controlling the party than entering government.

The left - winger also compared Labour members accused of threatening behaviour towards moderate MPs to the miners and their families who took on the «establishment» in the 1980s.

A lot of progressive Labour members and supporters currently buy into this idea as well.

Many Labour members disagree and this is something we need to debate.

If middle class labour members continue to push progressive policies they may even lose even more of the traditional working class vote.

His appeal is directed mostly at longstanding Labour members and newer supporters who have joined «without an agenda».

Labour members complain that the prime minister rarely answers their questions.

Earlier, the party had published the results of a survey of Labour members, which showed 75 % of them are opposed to bombing.

I think it had been mailed to most Labour members.

Hundreds of thousands of political levy - paying members won't become individual Labour members.

There are, however, very many Labour members and supporters who, over the years, have had dealings with the leadership contenders.

Corbyn won a huge mandate among Labour members in 2015, and almost 130,000 more people have joined the party since the referendum on Britain's EU membership, many of them thought also to be Corbyn supporters.

«Jeremy Corbyn is the only candidate who can draw on support from Labour members right across our country.

The researchers note that the greatest change in voting occurred among Labour Members of Parliament, who fall on the left end of the political spectrum; they showed a 20 % increase in support for the bombing missions from 2013 to 2015.

But the new mayor was not given an easy ride by Labour members on the panel, one of which presented him with a bicycle helmet asking him to promise to obey the law and wear it.

22nd August 2016, The Telegraph: Jeremy Corbyn to bypass critical MPs by polling Labour members on controversial policies

«It will be impossible for people such as me who want constantly to come forward with radical ideas from the right and for Labour Members who want to come forward with radical ideas from the left to wade through the dominance of the Liberal establishment in the other place.

Norman Atkinson (25 March 1923 — 8 July 2013 [1]-RRB- was a British politician who served as Labour Member of Parliament for the London constituency of Tottenham from 1964 until 1987.

«I think for Labour Members of Parliament who have said «I'm afraid we don't have confidence in your leadership», I suspect people will continue to hold that view,» he told Sky News.

Interestingly, northern Tories suggested more emphasis on the living wage was needed, while northern Labour members wanted more power devolved to local areas.

Corbyn's leadership rival Owen Smith may have accused him of failing to do enough to stamp out misogyny within the party, but a number of female Labour members do not seem to agree with that.

Corbyn has never seemed that keen on the customs union, but he has faced pressure both from members of his team — the shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer has played a key role — and the fact that the majority of Labour members support customs union and single market membership.

In the first direct shot in the leadership campaign battle, Diane Abbott said Labour members faced a «clear political choice» because Ms Eagle voted in favour of the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Euro - fanatic ex-Labour minister Lord Adonis not only wants a second referendum on the Brexit deal, but is now urging Labour members to have their own, separate «referendum» to help clarify party policy.

Toby Perkins, Liz Kendall's campaign manager, has released a statement: «These reports suggest Labour members realise that carrying on with a continuity leader will result in another defeat - the question is what kind of change Labour will embrace.»

Burnham was cited by 36 per cent of people, prompting his campaign chair Michael Dugher to email Labour members just in case they missed it:

Jeremy Corbyn hopes his efforts to give Labour members more power over the party will help him sweep into Downing Street.

Former Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander, of the pro-EU campaign group Open Britain, said: «Without this, it is genuinely not clear how Labour members, supporters and the public are meant to contribute to the party's policymaking on the biggest issue we face as a country.

The poll for the Times found that 66 per cent of Labour members believe that Corbyn is doing «well» — even higher than the 59 per cent who voted for Corbyn in September, with many of those who voted for Andy Burnham now getting behind the leader.

When Labour members across the country were taping up their letter boxes and cheering on postal workers who refused to deliver it, it was clearly a bad time for Ed be pictured with a copy.

While many Labour members now look on Clement Attlee as a secular saint, had it been a presidential contest Winston Churchill would have walked it.

Most Labour members know well that Labour was brought into existence by the Unions as a federal body.

Harman meanwhile is keen to distance herself from the calamitous # 3 registered supporters policy which has put the noses of many long - serving Labour members firmly out of joint.

Before Labour Members get a bit too excited by that revelation, as many have unfortunately done in the past, I should say that for the past three or four years I felt that the profession of banker was possibly the worst to have in the eyes of the public, but that was before I became a Member of this illustrious House.

Like Labour members before, the approach taken is often discomforting to rank and file Conservatives.