Sentences with phrase «labour members wanted»

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

The Labour leader faces a battle within his own party on the issue - with 87 % of Labour members wanting to remain in the single market according to a recent YouGov poll.

There was a poll on Labour home the other day (very unscientific) which seems to suggest a large number of labour members want the government to lose so they can elect leader who better fits their views.

But if any Labour members want to go on the mailing list, you'll be very welcome.

Not exact matches

Many grass - roots members want renewal along the lines of the UK's Labour Party, but would that work here?

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

«But if we are to go out and convince thousands of working class men and women that they want to sign up to be associate Labour Party members they will not be interested in the rule - book, or even the history.

Research by grassroots website LibDemVoice.org found 55 % of party members want either a coalition deal with Labour or a more limited «confidence and supply» arrangement in which the Lib Dems prevent a Labour administration from falling.

I think we'd be lucky if ten per cent of our current membership levels say yes, they want to be members of the Labour party.»

«If we are to go out and convince thousands of working class men and women that they want to sign up to be associate Labour party members they will not be interested in the rulebook, or even the history,» he told the annual Durham miners» gala.

«The Labour party has an opportunity for the first time in the process of selecting its candidate to go beyond just those who are signed up members to those who want to make a small contribution.

«The Labour parliamentary party also is so insular, they're actually ignoring their own members, their own members want Jeremy Corbyn but they're trying to oust that leader.

He would also unite Labour MPs, members, trade unionists and the wider movement who want to come together and campaign properly on this as it matters so much.

While 97 % of Labour members might wish to remain in the EU, polling shows that 27 - 33 % of people who voted Labour in 2015 want to leave.

If you made the donations run direct from individual union member to the party with the union just administering the donation - and each member allowed to donate to any party they want, ie not just Labour, then I can't imagine there being any complaint.

Momentum have insisted that members of parties other than Labour are not allowed to join their organisation, and denied they want to unseat pro-bombing Labour MPs.

I think it would be obvious that there is a difference between a person who wants to vote in favour of Labour being urged to vote tactically, and a Labour member pro-actively campaigning in favour of a specific opposition candidate.

First though, I want the blisters on my feet to heal and the many thousands of Labour members — our volunteer army of progressives and community builders, to get a well earned rest.

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.

«Some Shadow Cabinet members want to spell out specific cuts to show Labour is serious about tackling the deficit.

On 24 June 2011, it was reported that Miliband was seeking to change the decades - old rule that Labour's Shadow Cabinet would be elected every two years, instead wanting to adopt a system where he alone had the authority to select its members.

Labour assembly members want the living wage to be made statutory in London.

Labour's deputy leader turns his attention to socialist group that wants members to «intervene» in Labour.

Only ten per cent of Labour Party members support Brexit, but up to one - third of people who voted Labour at the last general election want to leave the EU.

Proposing the amendment, Labour peer Lord Alli said it was in line with official party policy and was what the majority of its members wanted.

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

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.

«I was previously a member of the party two decades ago and rejoined because I want to campaign for the new leader and for a Labour mayor of London.»

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.»

Trade union members who actively want to be part of the Labour family will be asked to make a conscious decision to opt in and then to affiliate.

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.

And he said that in many ways Scottish Labour was the «least modernised part of the Labour movement» and that he wanted his successor to be elected under a one member, one vote system.

What Corbyn wants to do is to make the Labour party more democratic, to give more power to the members, to make it into a mass movement.

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.»

Under New Labour, Ukip was subject to infiltration by members of the BNP (until, that is, the BNP started beating them regularly in local elections) and split between those who saw it as a group to exert pressure on the Conservatives, and those who wanted it to be an electoral force in its own right.

I want the Labour party leadership to be closer to our members.

Last night, both Middlesbrough and Rotherham elected Labour members as they have for many years, but those who wanted to go against the local grain — found it better to do so by supporting Parties our London obsessed media consider to be fringe.

«I want to underline the fact that there has been an important wave of immigrants that came to Great Britain from new member states and in many cases they came with aptitudes and a commitment, an involvement we haven't always seen in our labour force.»

Mr Prescott continued: «All I ever wanted was to get to the final hustings to put my case to the members on how I wanted to build on the successes that Labour have achieved.

As you say, the voters could be simply Labour members, it could be levy - paying union members and members of Labour - supporting societies like the Fabians, or it could be open to people who want to offer a minimum # 10 donation or so in return for a vote.

I suppose the last would give us the problem of how to exclude members of other parties (if we're sure we want to) but while that's an understandable worry, I doubt we need really fear Conservatives organising nationally to donate to Labour and elect Diane Abbott.

Coyne is arguing that Unite members «want a general secretary who spends less time trying to run the Labour party and more time looking after their interests».

Jeremy Corbyn speaks for the fifty percent of Labour party members and supporters who want an isolationist foreign policy, want Trident scrapped, believe in printing and spending more money, and believe in demonizing the business community.

What I am pondering is how many Labour members were voting Corbyn in order to send a message about Labour staying true to its roots and principles rather than actually wanting him as leader, might they recoil at the thought of him actually winning?

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

Labour's Deputy Leader wants the rules for shadow cabinet elections to be changed so that 50 % of members have to be female.

How many of the many decent Labour members are going to want to defend Gordon on the doorstep?

Mr Corbyn wants members to have a say, despite deputy Tom Watson's original plan being to bring back elections in their original form - by Labour MPs only.

The Labour leader also made clear that he wants to tighten the grip of grassroots members over the party's decision - making: «The Labour party should be run by its members and supporters.»