Sentences with phrase «labour members including»

Obviously a cheery moment for Conservatives, but also one suspects, for many Labour members including some MPs.

Not exact matches

In addition to the normal representation of regional and linguistic interests, the commission included members from business, labour, the co-operative movement, the legal and academic communities, the public service and all 3 national political parties.

The Canada and Quebec delegation included representatives from Common Frontiers, the Council of Canadians, Réseau Québécois sur l'intégration continentale (RQIC), the Canadian Labour Congress, Unifor, the Canadian Union of Public and General Employees (CUPE) National, the United Steelworkers, Public Service Alliance of Canada, BC Teachers Federation, Fonds de solidarité (FTQ), Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), Centro international de solidarité ouvrière (CiSO), the National Farmers Union, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, many of which are member organizations of the TJN.

Jennifer facilitates the contribution of the Business Council of Australia's CEO members across a policy agenda that includes economic policy and competitiveness; regulation; infrastructure and sustainable growth; labour market, skills and education; engagement with Indigenous Australians, global engagement; healthcare policy; and innovation.

The B.C. Federation of Labour represents close to 500,000 members throughout British Columbia and includes many unions representing transit workers, including COPE Local 378, CUPE and BCGEU.

Recent speakers include some Labour cabinet members, Nick Clegg and David Cameron.

Those aligned to the Liberal and Labour parties condemned the firing strongly, this included Winston Churchill, who was still at that time a member of the Liberal party.

More than 100 MPs, including 83 Labour members, had signed a parliamentary motion expressing their «surprise and regret» the Casino Advisory Panel recommended rejected Blackpool's bid to host the first super casino.

The silly stunt from members including Fiona McTaggart, Mary Creagh and Kevin Brennan shows how far Labour is from being a proper opposition.

This puts him at odds with many on the left, including many Labour party members and politicians who are highly suspicious of critiques of immigration.

The Unite verdict this week prompted disappointment from members including Labour MP Jess Phillips and Smith campaign operations chief John Lehal.

The Party of European Socialists has attracted some rather unfavourable comment in the FT and The Economist (and much positive coverage elsewhere) on our manifesto for the 2009 European elections — agreed by all member parties including Labour at our meeting on December 1 in Madrid: check it out at http://www.pes.org/content/view/1457/72.

A Labour Party split will inevitably hasten a cross-party movement towards proportional representation, which the majority of members, including myself, support.

Is the implication that Labour members, including Bengali members, are against Lutfur on racist grounds?

However, the 17 included the Chair, Jim and an unelected member of the House of Lords who appeared as a «representative» of the Westminster Parliamentary Labour Party.

This is to speak to the wider electorate (including the 7m union members) and convince them of Corbyn's case as a Labour prime minister in waiting that is worth voting for.

The defectors, including members of the Labour Party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, thronged the meeting venue in Awgu council area with their party logo, which they later dropped.

Labour previously used an electoral college of MPs / MEPs, party members and trade unionists to choose its leaders, including Ed Miliband in 2010.

During the investigation various members of the Labour Party (including Tony Blair), the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats were questioned, and Labour's Lord Levy was arrested and later released on bail.

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.

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.

Instead 89 per cent consider Scottish Labour's result bad, including 88 per cent of members in Scotland.

«I think this is a reasonable, a sensible way forward - the Welsh government, and now the Welsh Assembly including Labour and Liberal Democrat members of the Welsh Assembly, agree with that.

Also there may be proposals to reduce the say of Labour Party members in general, including along the lines of David Miliband's proposal of «primaries» for candidate selections.

Many serving Labour MPs were parachuted into constituencies at the request of leading members of the last Labour cabinet, including Mandelson himself.

Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system.

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader has been warned by leading Labour figures including Dagenham MP Jon Cruddas that he risks missing a huge opportunity to make Labour more democratic and ensure ordinary party members» views are heard in planned reforms.

Several former members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party hold membership, including Erskine Holmes and Douglas McIldoon.

Mr Duncan Smith was also asked about this specific group of women several times, by Members on all sides, including Conservatives Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest) and James Gray (North Wiltshire), as well as Labour's socially conservative welfare reformer, Frank Field.

He had been a Labour councillor for 25 years when he defected to the Conservatives and has held a number of civic posts including chair of Housing, chair of Planning, chair of Recycling and Waste, Cabinet member for the Environment, deputy leader of the council and Mayor of Ealing.

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

Of the Labour GLC members, around 16, including Livingstone, were staunch leftists.

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman had told MPs to abstain, but 48 backbenchers voted against, including eighteen newly - elected members.

Several prominent members of Labour's 2015 intake, including shadow ministers, will support the move, which was tabled yesterday by Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey and has already been backed by several backbenchers.

Seventy - two percent of Labour members think Corbyn is doing well as party leader (compared with 66 % last November) including 43 % of those who voted for Yvette Cooper or Andy Burnham last summer.

Catholic Labour MPs, including at least three Cabinet members, had raised concerns with elements of the bill, which is designed to update existing regulations as well as strengthen Britain's position as a research centre.

Labour politicians employing family members include shadow cabinet member Kate Osomor and prominent backbenchers Jess Phillips, Caroline Flit and Michael Dugher.

The author rightly emphasises the commitment of the majority of members of the Labour movement — including the trade unions — to parliamentary democracy and the evolution of progressive politics.

Other recent critics have included former Labour Cabinet members Peter Mandelson and Alistair Darling as well as the Institute of Directors and Institute of Economic Affairs.

They include the 35 members of Labour's National Executive Committee and the 28 members of the shadow cabinet.

«Your fellow guests will include Jeremy Corbyn alongside senior Labour politicians and stars», stated a recent email to members.

«The reaction to me when I said perhaps we should accept ten Syrian families... for the hundred thousand people in Bassetlaw... it was 99.9 % against any immigrants and that includes Labour party members attacking me on social media for daring to suggest that ten more immigrant families should be allowed into this country.

John Mann, the Labour MP who lodged the original complaint about Miller, has been highly critical after the standards committee, which includes 10 MPs and three non-voting lay members, recommended that Miller should repay # 5,800 in expenses.

I'm the Conservative member of a small cross-party delegation that includes Des Browne for Labour and Lord Hannay for the cross-benchers.

The former Labour cabinet minister has been widely expected to take over from Boaden and his political background has led Tories including John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary, and Damian Collins, a member of the culture select committee, to argue that his appointment could jeopardise the BBC's impartiality.

On our figures, full Labour party members (including those paying the reduce student and unwaged rate) show Burnham defeating Corbyn by 50.5 - 49.5 % - a statistical dead heat; however, among those who have the vote in the current contest because they have paid a # 3 registration fee or signed up as a member of an affiliated trade union, Corbyn is well ahead, with 57 % of first preferences and a 69 - 31 % lead in the final round.

Under the proposals of an unelected committee chaired by Margaret Beckett, the PLP looks set to abandon a requirement that an incoming Labour PM include elected shadow cabinet members in the new cabinet.

The BBC reports that members of the Shadow Cabinet have put together an offer to let Mr Corbyn «retire with dignity», including a pledge for the next leader to pursue the Labour leader's focus on inequality and opening up the party.

Others including former Labour cabinet members David Blunkett and Tessa Jowell have also said that they have reached settlements, although News International would not confirm this.

In an interview with the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, the Momentum founder Jon Lansman suggested that members of Labour's ruling national executive committee, including Jeremy Cobryn, should attend a training course on «unconscious bias».