Sentences with phrase «labour parties since»

The fact that this election has seen the biggest combined vote between the Conservative and Labour parties since 1970 is not then the result of lost voters returning to their respective political homes.

Forster, A. (2002) Euroscepticism in contemporary British politics: opposition to Europe in the British Conservative and Labour parties since 1945 (London: Routledge)

Dave Rowntree Best known as the drummer from Britpop band Blur, he has been a member of the Labour Party since 2002, chairing London's West End branch.

She have been a member of the Labour Party since she was a teenager and has been MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley since 1997.

Marxist - influenced democratic socialism has been indigenous to the Labour Party since its inception.

But Conor McGinn's sensational claims are just the latest twist in the most extraordinary week in the Labour party since the week before...

In 2006, The Sunday Times newspaper revealed that every donor who had given # 1,000,000 or more to the Labour Party since 1997 was given a Knighthood or a Peerage.

Angela has been an active member of the Labour Party since she first joined aged 17 in 1978 and has since held various positions in the party.

It is instead a more straightforward attempt to analyse the evolution of the Labour Party since its origins in late 19th century Britain, with the aim of explaining its development from a tiny sectional party to a major national one.

The group has been affiliated to the Labour party since 1920 and pledges to campaign «within the party and the wider community to support labour values within the UK, Israel and Internationally».

GMB union have reportedly donated over # 2.5 million to the Labour Party since Ed Miliband became leader in September 2010.

Do they believe the basic approach of the Labour Party since Kinnock was wrong?

On further inspection this division has existed within the Labour Party since its inception and when electoral reform has appeared on the political agenda in the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, it has prompted debate within the party.

The former shadow business secretary has faced unrest among activists in the Wallasey constituency Labour party since she indicated that she might challenge Corbyn.

It has been held by the Labour party since 1935, often with extremely large majorities.

Bryant's outbursts has heightened the bitter divide in the Labour party since leader Jeremy Corbyn was voted in.

The most substantial policy to have been announced by the Labour Party since Corbyn's election to the leadership a year and a half ago is what he dubs the «national education service», but very few details about the policy or how it will be implemented have since emerged.

Not exact matches

«Labour MP Damien O'Connor questioned National Party links to Chinese - owned company, which is one of a handful of New Zealand - based companies to get approval from China to export infant formula since China put tighter import rules in place in 2014.

Regarding the UK, the issue seems to have become more relevant since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party.

I fully understand how the party has changed in a way that some of the grandee generation do not - perhaps because they haven't really been in touch with the Labour roots since Tony Blair stood down.»

Figures from the Electoral Commission put him as the largest private donor to Labour - although in fact there has only been one other private donor since Ed Miliband became leader of the party.

The Labour party has effectively been in decline since 2001.

But Graham is even more fascinated by the Labour leader's most fervent supporters and the way that the party appears to have transformed since Corbyn arrived on the scene.

Trotskyist groups have been out in the wilderness since Militant was expelled from the Labour party in the 1980s, why wouldn't they support a leader who is comparatively sympathetic to their cause.

The Social Democratic Federation was a founding participant, and the tradition has since passed through the Independent Labour Party, the British Socialist Party, Cripps, Laski, Bevan and Benn, right through to current iterations such as Labour Briefing and the Labour Representation Committee.

The second is that the starting point for that analysis has to be that everything the Labour party has done since it last won an election in 2005 has been wrong.

Within the Labour party itself, a notable strain of Euro - scepticism has persisted since the 1970s, most memorably personified in the figure of Tony Benn, who saw the Union as a capitalist club that stood in the way of building democratic socialism in Britain.

The Blue Labour agenda is set out in an ebook from 2011, The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox (edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears and Stuart White), at the core of which is a powerful critique of Labour Party thought and policy since 1945.

This brings Labour level, the first time this has happened in a Mori since 2008, and will greeted with glee by the party, which still remains without a leader until September 25th, the eve of its conference.

The ad with its shout of «You've been Tangoed» was withdrawn amid uproar over copycat attacks in playgrounds and streets, but Labour's desperate to put recent troubles behind the party and regain the initiative since Corbyn's reinstallation with a slightly higher majority.

But they are not a risk to the working class, since New labour intend to become the New Thatcherite party.

«Looking at least from a top - down view, the state of play in Scotland remains bleak for Labour with the SNP's surge remaining firm since Survation's polling indicated crossover for the parties some months before the independence referendum,» chief executive Damian Lyons Lowe says.

If borne out it would be the first time a leader of the three main political parties has lost their seat in a general election since Labour's Arthur Henderson in 1931.

While having once forgotten the old maxim that the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marx, Tony Blair appears, since leaving office, to have repented of his coyness about «doing God».

The most important thing is that analysing past elections & predicting future elections is ridiculous, since electoral reform will hopefully change the political parties and the political process anyway, to make them more responsive to the genuine majority view, instead of the tribal attitude we see when Paul suggests that we should keep FPTP as the best way of electing a Labour government.

Copeland also represents the largest increase in a byelection vote for the governing party since Labour gained Hull North in 1966.

Fortunately, the formation of the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition has now given Labour a chance to reinvent itself in a more fundamental way than any since the party's formation.

[23][24] Since City of London Council elections in March 2017, the council has been composed of 95 independents and five Labour Party members.

[63] Hayek was defended by Professor Antony Flew who stated that the German Social Democrats, unlike the British Labour Party, had, since the late 1950s, abandoned public ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange and had instead embraced the social market economy.

Since the leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn has made it his priority to turn Labour into a democratic socialist party with the support of social movements.

However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

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.

George Galloway's Respect Party gained several seats a decade ago, which have since reverted back to Labour.

It just shows how laughable the Labour Party are at doing politics since TB and AC sailed off into the sunset.

He worked as a researcher for previous MP John Cummings since 1997, and was also Secretary of Easington Constituency Labour Party.

Ruth Kelly, who has remained silent on Labour politics since she quit as transport secretary during the party conference, agrees about the need for a more subtle approach.

Harriet Ruth Harman QC (born 30 July 1950) is a British solicitor and Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament since 1982, first for Peckham, and then for its successor constituency of Camberwell and Peckham since 1997.

Labour has been buffeted by events ever since a hubristic party conference.

If Ed Miliband were to announce that the next Labour Government would reverse this privatisation, then not only would he sweep the countryside that both Coalition parties have abandoned, but he would also stop that privatisation itself, since no potential buyer would take the risk.

Labour and Conservatives have long since removed any real power over party policy from the grassroots, activists, and party conferences.