Sentences with phrase «labour members now»

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?

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

Labour in the City, a networking club for people who work in the UK financial services industry and are supportive of the party, now boasts 600 members.

While the Labour frontbench feigns disinterest, the vulnerability of all private members» bills now comes firmly into play.

(Although since then Scottish Labour has again left the field with Kezia Dugdale quitting the leadership for love triggering a leadership battle between Richard Leonard and Anas Sarwar that's increasingly unseemly even though left wing Leonard has already all but won thanks to the now normal Labour practise of signing up lots of union members on the cheap.)

There are now around 325,000 members, more than the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties put together, and more than Labour has had since 1999, when Blair was still an asset.

The reality is that the Labour vote is going to be divided between the candidate imposed by the NEC Helal Abbas and Lutfur Rahman, the candidate chosen by Tower Hamlets party members, who is now standing as an independent.

So we will have to see whether Ken and his team now see this as an attempt to somehow assert a position as something of an «Independent Labour» candidate — or whether they will now want to make some substantive attempt to rebuild bridges with party activists and members in London.

When he sat down, he was cheered to the rafters by many of the same people who are now complaining that Labour has too many members.

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.

Although most Labour Party members are now focused mainly on working for a Labour victory in the general election, there are some important internal party elections shortly after 7 May.

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

One member of the Labour Party's centre - right wrote to Jon Lansman that: «we find it strange that the winning candidate in a Labour leadership election would sustain the life of the campaign after winning, rather than seeing their role now as having responsibility to unite the whole party.»

In the period between now and when the voters, trade unionists and party members start to realise this, Blair will use the good will he starts out with to move as fast as possible — starting at this year's conference — to suppress the mechanisms whereby alternative policies could be expressed within the Labour Party.

A majority of members (53 per cent) think Labour is now on course to be in government in 2020, but if Corbyn was replaced only 42 per cent think Labour would win the next general election.

The second problem is that Momentum has become a battleground between three groups within the movement: the traditional (and by now rather old) Labour left, sometimes referred to as Bennites; younger, politically - engaged campaigners; and members of the various small political groupings to the left of the Labour Party, such as The Socialist Workers Party, Alliance for Workers» Liberty and the remnants of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

«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.

Members must now decide who is best placed to unite the parliamentary party and the wider Labour movement.

However we view the decisions of the Spring Conference, there is a challenge for all now to show that Labour is relevant to trade union members.

You have seen that with Murdoch and child abuse and now he wants to work full - time with the members to get the Labour party elected.

Why do some shadow cabinet members think now's the time for Labour MPs to engage in a war with the membership

Do party members think that Andy Burnham, chief secretary to the Treasury in the Labour government on the eve of the crash, is best placed to overcome the Conservative onslaught and convince voters that Labour can now be trusted on the economy?

On the donations we've given the party over the last year, and has now asked for some more, I wonder how many labour members angry at our own party for spending money we didn't have in the late 2000's which has seen this recession be worse than it need be, feel obliged to give to our party additional money,

One member of the audience told us his vote has now changed as a result of the debate: «I think Vince Cable came out on top... I was going to vote Labour, potentially Tory, but now I'm definitely going to vote Lib Dem so for me it worked.»

The Labour party has always fought for equal treatment, and against prejudice and discrimination, but, in their desperation to steer the party in a certain direction, and get their favoured leadership candidate elected; many party members are now betraying their own ideals and values.

The answer most Bristol Labour party members will be looking for, as they start to receive their all - postal ballot papers any day now, is why should a Bristol Labour party member vote for you to be their Labour mayoral candidate?

When I read the email from Ed Miliband to all party members yesterday afternoon, I thought Left Futures should run a competition with a prize for the first person who could identify «Paul», the possibly mythical figure who it is said has joined the Labour Party because of the «reforms» now backed by Labour's national executive: I -LSB-...]

We can only hope that efforts will now be made to re-unite the party and retain or re-admit to membership Lutfur and any Labour members who supported him.

However, the unions are expected to have less influence on this year's contest now that Labour has moved to a one member, one vote system for choosing its leader.

We both bitterly opposed Section 28 which discriminated against people because of their sexuality... Thanks to pioneers like Chris, Labour now has 19 openly LGBT MPs and Parliament has a record high of 45 members — the highest of any legislature in the world.»

Now Labour has told members that Hazarika will «host a unique and inspiring chat show style event» at this year's Labour conference.

The New Labour architect claimed that 30,000 long standing members had left the party and argued that «there are now two Labour parties».

Now, the former shadow transport secretary claims she was told to «f *** off» by her own local party members in Nottingham after explaining why she was backing Owen Smith to be Labour leader.

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.

«A lot of Labour party members are shocked now, not necessarily because the new system is benefitting one candidate rather than another but because it diminishes their role and contribution.

Now the government wants them to be elected by party, with Conservatives voting for Conservative members and Labour voting for Labour members.

It was Tory - held between 1979 and 1987, but is technically now classed a Labour / Plaid marginal, with the Conservatives having come fourth with 11 % of the vote in 2005 - although the third - placed Independent, Peter Rogers, had previously been a Conservative Assembly Member.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

Blue Labour, for its part, needs to be a little less «agitational» and a little more shrewd at using language which will appeal to Labour party members — it's broken into mainstream debate now, no need to overuse provocative language just to get noticed.

That opened the floodgates as other senior members of the Church rushed to widen the attack, which now includes fundamental pillars of the Labour government.

And today the BBC has reported that Unite members will now debate terminating its relationship with the Labour party at its upcoming conference in July.

Asked what he would say to colleagues who are frustrated by Corbyn leadership, Watson said: «MPs are very important leaders within the Labour party, but our members lead the Labour party now.

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.

«To those FBU members who are now in a Labour - affiliating union for the first time, I look forward to extending a warm welcome.

Labour Party members, even those on the right of the party, will be wondering how two Labour Shadow Cabinet members can justify attending such a party and whether they can now keep their positions.

Labour lost the election and it is appropriate that the more left - leaning members of the party now have a chance to present their ideas to the electorate.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

I have been a member of labour for a long time I called it a day in 2010 I see my self as being to the left, disabled and now sick, what does labour see me as Scrounger because in 2010 that is what Labour office tolabour for a long time I called it a day in 2010 I see my self as being to the left, disabled and now sick, what does labour see me as Scrounger because in 2010 that is what Labour office tolabour see me as Scrounger because in 2010 that is what Labour office toLabour office told me.

The labour party your now a member of is one of the biggest threats to the Unions the party takes the cash but has not been a left leaning party for a long time the Unions are now actually giving cash to the right wing of the labour party as we all saw in the Falkirk mess.

This last point nearly scuppered the whole deal as the contest for seats on Labour's ruling body is now almost entirely seen in terms of whether the new member will support or oppose Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.