Sentences with phrase «labour members before»

The YouGov survey shows 63 % of 491 people who were Labour members before the 2015 general election picked the Welsh challenger

Although Mandelson says moderates in the party can not begrudge Corbyn his success, he claims only a third of Corbyn's support came from people who had been Labour members before May.

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

Not exact matches

For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.

The four will take part yet more hustings, before facing a vote among Labour members and supporters.

The leadership, like Ferguson, believe that «Labour members won't forgive mayoral candidates who put their ambition before the party».

Before becoming a Member of Parliament Jessica worked for two local MP's (Llew Smith in Blaenau Gwent and Huw Edwards in Monmouth) and served as General Secretary for the Welsh Labour Party.

One legacy has been a membership sharply polarised by when they joined the party: in a recent YouGov poll of Labour members, Corbyn's net approval rating was -46 among those who joined before he became a leadership candidate in 2015 but +36 among those who joined after he declared — and this latter group constitutes 60 % of the total membership.

So, you post it on here 2 days before the deadline and expect Constituency Labour Party members to respond in time?

«In proof of the maturity and responsibility of the labour unions in our State, the organised labour has consistently met with members of our administration under different fora designed to identify and address possible areas of tension and disagreement before they fester into open conflicts.

But now that former shadow business secretary Angela Eagle has triggered a leadership contest (before stepping aside for Owen Smith), Labour members have to consider whether somebody else should carry its new leftist banner.

Labour members had been longing for someone like Corbyn before he was even on the ballot paper [re-posted on 14th March 2016 by Guido Fawkes blog: Seen elsewhere]

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.

In fact, many of those members we surveyed in May 2015 were included in YouGov's poll of Labour members conducted just before the leadership election.

Labour members had been longing for someone like Corbyn before he was even on the ballot paper, LSE British Politics and Policy blog

We have written previously that older Labour members (those who joined pre-2015 GE) had been longing for someone like Corbyn — even before he was on the ballot paper.

Ultimately, what matters more to Labour members, it seems, is having a leader who, as well as being a good communicator, is in touch with ordinary people and has strong political beliefs — something that is especially true for those who joined after rather than before the last general election.

Tony Blair's personal fundraiser Lord Levy, Des Smith, a head teacher and member of the specialist schools and academies trust, and businessman Sir Christopher Evans who lent Labour # 1 million before the last election, were arrested by the police as part of the cross-party probe.

Other Labour members are also said to be disappointed that the announcement was made before the committee finished its scrutiny.

Alex Hilton, the editor of Labourhome, said: «It's a real concern that a small majority of Labour members and supporters want Gordon Brown to step aside, though this poll was taken before it was clear the role the Prime Minister had played in the merger of Lloyds - TSB and HBOS.»

But then, without notice to Lutfur or even its own members, without presenting any written evidence, without any investigation, with total disregard for the principles of natural justice, and just three days before the close of nominations, the Labour national executive removed Lutfur as a candidate and replaced him with Helal Abbas who had come third in the selection.

97 # If the Scottish Labour Party are taking back rule breakers I cant see them knocking back somebody that hasnt been a member before.

A Labour Party spokesman told the paper that Murphy's membership was «technically in arrears» before issuing a statement which said he is a «fully paid up member».

Labour accused the Lib Dems of already being intent on joining with the Conservatives, while Lib Dem sources suggested senior members of the negotiating team had no interest in a coalition, despite Gordon Brown's sacrifice the day before.

Meanwhile, Labour was hit by a fresh row today after its ruling NEC said union members will not be able to vote in the leadership contest unless they joined before January 12.

These figures accord with media reports that Labour had 200,000 members before the election, and that the leadership - electorate is around 300,000, with 50,000 having joined as full members and a further 50,000 registered via the trade union or # 3 route.

Only 44 % of those who have been members since before Ed Miliband became leader in 2010 gave their first preference to Labour's new leader.

The letter has already been signed by 23 members of the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and is expected to attract more signatories before being sent to the leader today.

The poll also found 63 % of long - term Labour members from before the 2015 general election picked Mr Smith, one of the only groups to do so.

For the first one, we need a poll of Labour party members, and we don't have a recent one (there is some data from a YouGov poll of party members for Tim Bale & Paul Webb, but that was done straight after the election before the candidates were clear).

Robert Harris, writing not long before the election was called in the New Statesman, «can't quite understand how the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party can sit there day after day, month after month, year after year, knowing that they're simply heading towards a kind of mincing machine at the next election.»

The tweet referred to an ongoing party procedure that decides whether the sitting Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, has to win a vote among members of his local party before becoming the Labour candidate for the 2018 - 22 term.

I further speculate that when Harriet Harman tried on The Andrew Marr Show to badger Michael Gove into guaranteeing that the next head of Ofsted would be a woman before the selection process had even begun, the few who agreed with her were all members of the Labour Party.

Brandon Lewis: Will she confirm that, despite what has been said, my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) is right: there were 12 fuel duty rises under the Labour Government, and six more were set to come into force before they left office and would have done in the next few years?

My message to all of you here today and Progress members across the country is a simple one: Labour needs you — now more than ever before.

Labour party activists have endorsed an emergency motion calling for a UN resolution to be in place before party members support the expansion of British bombing of Isis targets in Syria.

The group now plans to hold a members» meeting on the subject of the trade union link before the end of August, and it is understood that a similar motion will now be put before the Young Labour National Committee by London rep Ben Butterworth.

Since the general election Labour has swelled its membership numbers by 13,000, and the party hopes to boost numbers further before 8 September - the cut off date for new members.

It also emerged last night that Ray Collins, general secretary of the Labour party, has received a complaint from NEC member Peter Kenyon about apparent anomalies in who is put before Brown's so - called «star chamber» to investigate and discipline wrongdoing over expenses.

An unusual situation arose in this ward where the sitting Labour member (and previously a member of Dyfed County Council since 1981) announced shortly before the close of nominations that he would not stand and pledged his support to the Plaid Cymru candidate.

He arrived at Labour's London HQ 10 minutes before the meeting, forcing his way through a media scrum and ignoring reporters» questions to take up his place on the NEC's 33 - member panel.

As the party was meant to be concentrating on a series of new policies announced before the conference, shadow cabinet members had to spend time denying that Labour still has a negative culture.

Before entering parliament Johnson was a member of Labour's National Executive Committee.

He was also a member of the influential Society of Labour Lawyers, chaired the home affairs group within the parliamentary Labour party before he joined the government and chaired the House of Commons jazz club.

Some senior figures who worry about the unions» grip on the party fear that a move aimed at diminishing organised - Labour's influence could end up handing them even more power than they had before: although they will lose their block votes, some fear that the unions will use their formidable organisation machines to register large numbers of associate members, and then attempt to influence their votes.

Balls on «pressure» The former children's secretary Ed Balls told Channel 4 News that he would talk to party members tomorrow before announcing if he would also challenge for the Labour leadership.

The Labour candidate started swaying on his feet in front of worried audience members before collapsing in front of presenter Ellie Pitt and his opponents on Made in Bristol's programme, Decision Made.

Under Labour's plans, from the end of 2014 new members of unions affiliated to the party would have to opt in and pay a # 3 fee to Labour before they got a vote.

The day before the strike began, the Administrative Labour Tribunal (Essential Services Division) declared which essential services LANEQ's members must maintain during the strike, which included applications for postponement.

The following analysis focuses on two unrelated cases before the Ontario Labour Relations Board (hereinafter the «Board»), which consider whether it is an unfair labour practice to expel a member from a trade union after that member has joined another Labour Relations Board (hereinafter the «Board»), which consider whether it is an unfair labour practice to expel a member from a trade union after that member has joined another labour practice to expel a member from a trade union after that member has joined another union.