Sentences with phrase «labour movement figures»

Discussing the pamphlet on Facebook, Osland also told friends that it «had the blessing of senior Labour movement figures».

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That thought is why we find these ideas expressed by leading figures of political movements — like workingmen's parties, land reform movements, and labour organizations.

The strategy, dubbed «Let Corbyn be Corbyn» aims to portray the Labour leader as an anti-establishment figure and hopes to build on recent populist movements that have set themselves up in opposition to a political and media elite.

Even senior Labour figures are now talking of the need to change freedom of movement rules in terms that will cause further alarm in Brussels.

Lansbury, the Labour leader until the 1935 election in November, became notorious for his personal commitment to pacificism but other high - profile figures in the Labour movement didn't share his commitment, hence the very personal attack on him by Ernest Bevin, who was a leading personality in the trade union movement at the time — if you check out his Wikipedia entry.

In the Labour movement itself I have trouble seeing any John The Bapist figures partly because, like the fascists, its true father, there is no political creed discernible only a mania for media control and a brutal instinct for power.

[117] However, the result prompted Labour figures and those in the trade union movement to question the future of his leadership.