Sentences with phrase «labour members do»

But on immigration 60 % of the general public think it is a major issue, 46 % of Labour voters do, just 17 % of Labour members do; 78 % of Labour party members think immigration is good for the economy, only 41 % of Labour voters do, only 29 % of the general public.

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.

In August, he told the Guardian that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary party to see the leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of debate.

He added that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary party to see the leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of debate.

Strangely, Nancy's email to Labour members does not mention that she is also good friends with Tory mayoral hopeful Ivan Massow.

Not exact matches

The unions didn't contribute any of their own capital to this so - called «labour - sponsored» fund, nor did they promote it to members.

A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.

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.

That is why the Chamber is crying about labour shortages now because they do not want their members to have to offer higher wages.

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

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.

The leap of logic I make here is that members of the public just won't bother to register if they don't share Labour's values.

«Many quiet, moderate members don't attend meetings at the best of times and are even more put off in the current climate,» a Labour MP told the New Statesman.

But thumbing through a list of Labour members who might support me in my recent bid for council selection, one familiar name did give cause for alarm: McBride, D.

We also show that the large electoral losses for the Social Democrats between 1994 and 1998 were much more pronounced among outsiders: according to our estimates, a typical member of the labour force became 18 percentage points less likely to support the Social Democrats if he was an outsider, but only 8.5 percentage points less likely to do so if he was an insider.

The leader's office asserting the man himself hasn't expressed a view doesn't mean he isn't listening to advice and Corbyn's said by those close to him to instinctively favour involving as many of Labour's 500,000 + members as possible in selecting candidates.

The evidence from the 2010 Labour leadership contest suggested that the vast majority of affiliated members did not vote.

I don't actually see how this story is scandalous for anyone other than Labour Party members.

Although registered as Labour Party members in Tower Hamlets at these addresses, the dossier alleges that they did not live there.

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

Fully 63 % of members believe Labour isn't doing enough to hold the government to account over Brexit and 53 % think Corbyn has handled the issue badly.

Since I believe I am allowed to do so under Labour Party rules, I plan to urge others to do likewise, and I can not understand how any Labour Party member could justify doing anything else.

These members may not have improved the party's electoral performance but they do shield Corbyn from the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Instead, when an audience member asked him: «Do you accept that when Labour was last in power, it overspent?»

Encouraging Labour members to help shape party policy, Corbyn said: «The media commentariat simply don't understand it.

This tactical taciturnity is necessary because many Labour members still think Corbyn is doing well, and many who see him stumbling still agree with him.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

How will you assure members and the public that Labour MPs will never again become so dissociated from reality and so institutionalised by Westminster that they do anything on a par with home flipping, expenses rigging, agree to lobby for money or do anything at all that brings the party into disrepute?

Stephen Cragg QC, representing the five members, argued that Labour's internal rules did not specify a distinction between which members could and could not vote.

I think the best bet for Labour here is for Ed Miliband to do what Harold Wilson did in the 1975 Common Market Referendum - allow Labour MPs, party members and shadow cabinet ministers to campaign for or against, or not at all, depending on their personal preferences.

This question, from somebody who wishes to remain Anon, but was a popular theme at Saturday's Fabian conference: «If you become Labour party leader, what will you do to ensure labour becomes more open and democratic in party structure, to ensure Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?&Labour party leader, what will you do to ensure labour becomes more open and democratic in party structure, to ensure Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?&labour becomes more open and democratic in party structure, to ensure Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?&Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?»

While they should be celebrating the democratic revival within the party, for some reason a number of Labour MPs don't see it that way and have forced another leadership contest just 10 months after members last made their choice clear.

Labour lessons on Acast: Paul Mason: What should new members do now?

Why — even after the turmoil of the past year — do Labour members (and # 25 supporters) still want Jeremy Corbyn to be their leader?

As the lead candidate on the Labour regional list, even if she does lose, Kezia will be a second place winner thanks to the Additional Member System.

Labour members now face an unenviable dilemma: do they dethrone the leader they put in place so emphatically (through all sections of the Party, not just the new registered supporters) and thereby accept that the PLP are the real decision - makers?

27th April 2016, New Statesman: Heidi Alexander's lukewarm response to the junior doctors» strike shows she doesn't understand Labour members

The bulk of Labour members 47 per cent think anti-Semitism is a problem, but no worse than in other parties, whilst 38 per cent do not think anti-Semitism is a problem within Labour.

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.

Even the Unite Union's Parliamentary branch for MPs» staff does not inform members, which may include Conservative and Lib Dem staffers that they are contributing to Labour Party coffers.

I just don't see what has changed about Labour — and as such I'm not convinced this influx of new members who were so happy to be morally superior to labour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise resLabour — and as such I'm not convinced this influx of new members who were so happy to be morally superior to labour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise reslabour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise restarts.

That might have something to do with the fact that roughly a third of the post-election joiners had been Labour members previously.

When asked to consider press coverage of Labour and anti-Semitism: 49 per cent of members think Labour does not have problem with anti-Semitism and that it has been created by the press and Corbyn's opponents to attack him, as against 35 per cent who think the party does have a problem with anti-Semitism but it is used by the press and Corbyn's opponents to attack him.

Add to this the understandable dejection and bitterness many Labour members and supporters would feel, if Smith were to win the Labour Right would be greatly strengthened, to the detriment of Labour offering a real alternative to the Tories (not to mention the fatal harm done to Labour's prospects of becoming a social movement).

Overall 67 per cent of members think Labour did well at the 5 May elections and 11 per cent think it did badly.

Why did they take that cheaper, lower - commitment option rather than going the whole hog and becoming full members of the Labour Party?

«Members also tell me that they don't think Labour MPs should be parading on the media to give a running commentary on our party.

He didn't seem a natural parliamentarian and was a key member of Labour's awkward squad.

In reality, Benn was desperately lucky to get as close as he did — and only did so because Labour's largest union, the TGWU, gave him their vote in the second ballot, against the wish of a clear majority of its members, who wanted Denis Healey.

However, former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke said: «I actually think the vast majority of members of the Labour party would quite like to see the party to stop being dependent on these millions from the trade unions, what is left of the trade union movement, that keeps trying to use that as political leverage which they do not want.»