Sentences with phrase «labour opened the campaign»

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Responding for the Open Britain campaign, New Labour architect Lord Mandelson said: «In terms of knowledge and experience of the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers is second to none in Whitehall.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

His Labour opponent's legal past and history of sharing platforms with unsavoury characters has created a small opening in what has otherwise been a lacklustre campaign.

Labour MP Chuka Umunna, a supporter of the pro-EU Open Britain campaign, said Fox «needs to understand that he is talking about people not poker chips».

A group of 53 Labour MPs, led by shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer, have sent a letter organised by the campaign group Open Britain demanding a «rigorous and publicly available cost - benefit analysis» to demonstrate why it would be the best option.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

McDonnell, an open Eurosceptic, denied suggestions he and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had not campaigned hard enough for a Remain vote, saying they had been honest with voters about their reservations.

David Davis has made an open bid for Labour voters in his unique by - election campaign over civil liberties.

A new poll of MPs, conducted by YouGov for the People's Pledge campaign, finds that there is a big gap between the percentage of Tory MPs supporting a referendum on Britain's EU membership and the percentage of Labour MPs open to such a promise.

At that year's Labour conference, he made what was widely interpreted as the opening salvo of a leadership campaign - with a speech appealing to the party's «soul» telling activists «we are best when we are Labour».

In his opening campaign salvo of the year, Labour leader Ed Miliband announced his party's intentions to run a strong grassroots campaign.

Open Britain, which is campaigning for a soft Brexit, released this response from the Labour peer and former European commissioner Lord Mandelson.

Imagine the boost to our campaigns, for elections soon after, if our candidates were selected in open primaries that require engagement with tens of thousands of Labour voters around the city even before the mayoral election gets under way.

The Open Britain campaign also seized on Alexander's «brilliant» attack on May, while BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the Labour MP was «on robust form».

High - level cabinet disagreements are starting to emerge over Labour campaign, including how open the party should be to the idea of a coalition with Liberal Democrats

Former Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander, of the pro-EU campaign group Open Britain, said: «Without this, it is genuinely not clear how Labour members, supporters and the public are meant to contribute to the party's policymaking on the biggest issue we face as a country.

Fellow Labour MP Ian Murray, a supporter of the Open Britain campaign group, added: «Any shift in Jeremy Corbyn's position towards resisting the Government's plans for a hard and reckless Brexit is welcome.

But - of course - his remarks were immediately seized on by pro-Europeans, with Labour MP Chris Leslie leading the charge on behalf of the pro-EU campaign Open Britain.

Events like these complement the main conference, open up politics and help develop a strong campaigning movement to elect a Labour government for the many not the few.»

Following on from the Labour «Yes» campaign publishing its supporters in an open letter to the guardian — the «No» to av camp has published a list of 114 Labour MPs who are «backing» the «No» campaign:

«Momentum is trying to help the Labour party become more democratic, participatory, more open and more campaigning,» he added.

The Labour leader has opened his campaign vowing to fight inequality, but the party leadership debate is only partly about policies.

Ed Miliband will open his campaign to win the Labour leadership today with a warning that the party needs to move on from the New Labour era and rediscover its «radical edge».

Labour's victory thus seems less based on the election campaign itself, and more on the fact they opened up a significant lead during the early to middle part of the parliament, a gap that was simply too large for the Conservatives to close.

The second has been the ground of the Labour campaign — whose 96 page manifesto does not once mention the SNP — and even opens with the words, «Now that the Tories are back....»

In his opening speech in the opposition day debate, which was peppered with angry heckles from the Labour benches, Salmond said Blair should be held to account for what was «very much a personal campaign, unbeknownst to cabinet and indeed to parliament», citing the memo sent to the then US president, George W Bush, from the prime minister saying: «I will be with you whatever.»

To revitalise the Labour Party by building on the values, energy and enthusiasm of the Jeremy for Leader campaign so that Labour will become an effective, open, inclusive, participatory, democratic and member - led party of and in Government;

But the decision was reversed after a campaign to keep the school open was backed by parents, the council and Steve McCabe, the Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak.

Setting out the education priorities for Labour in the election campaign, he called for all teachers to have qualified teacher status or to be moving towards it and to allow local authorities to be able to open new schools «on an equal footing with other providers».

More recently, a coalition of Canadian human rights, development, labour and faith groups, the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, has launched a campaign for strengthened corporate accountability, Open for Justice.