Sentences with phrase «labour parties who»

BBC Newsnight has found out of 50 chairs and secretaries of local Labour parties who supported Mr Corbyn in the last leadership election, 45 would back him again.

Khan, a politician from the opposition Labour Party who is also chairman of TfL, has long criticized Uber's British management and backed the regulator's decision Thursday.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a politician from the national opposition Labour Party who has criticized the firm in the past, said on Monday he had asked Transport for London to be available to meet CEO Khosrowshahi.

He slammed the media for trying to damage Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and spoke of a «right - wing» element of the Labour party who can not accept the new direction it is going in.

Readers of this blog, and especially prospective students in PPE and History and Politics, should see this on - going exchange between my colleague Bruno Leipold, a diehard Corbynista (and expert on Marx), and myself, a defender of what he calls «the embittered sliver» of the Labour Party who want rid of him, as a showcase of the good natured and humoured discourse that goes on here at the university.

Having previously struggled to think on his feet at PMQs, Corbyn then reacted sharply after May argued that «it is the Labour party who will take the advantages of a good education for themselves and pull up the ladder for other people».

However, Clegg launched a scathing attack on the Labour party who he claimed would «wreck the economy» if they were allowed back into the power.

And now there are siren voices in the Labour party who are in effect arguing that we should return to the politics of our own election winner, Tony Blair.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

OTOH, I think there are still a lot of decent people in the Labour party who want to make it the kind of party I could support again.

Those in the Labour Party who think that Wales is a model for a return to power in Westminster should take note.

We have surveyed 2,026 members and registered supporters of the Labour Party who joined it after the May 2015 general election.

The SNP topped the poll but returned only 2 MEPs, the same number as Labour Party who finished (for them) a poor second.

«This is simply lip - service from a Labour party who have no intention of actually delivering.»

After years of Blair and Brown, most of the leading figures in the Labour Party who might be strong candidates — David Miliband being the most obvious example — are too Blairite / Brownite to appeal to an electorate that backed Corbyn in such overwhelming numbers.

«What's interesting, when you break down the analysis, for example, is people joining the Labour party who support Jeremy Corbyn — it's not clear to me that the people who should feel most angry about their situation and the people joining are the same people.

And he said those from within the Labour party who've been less than supportive of his campaign are, and I paraphrase, has - beens.

It's a message not only important in reassuring backers of the coalition and Nick Clegg, but also in reassuring those liberals still in the Labour party who fear their leader is turning them into a party of protest and dogma.

«Sadiq Khan supported Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party who wanted to BAN prime minister Modi from visiting the UK,» it claims.

Ken's contribution is welcome because it shows that there are some in the Labour Party who do respect democracy and are principled.

It looks like those within the Labour Party who want a No to AV vote on May 5th finally have an organisation to take - on Labour Yes.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS [1](3 January 1883 — 8 October 1967) was a British statesman of the Labour Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

The vast majority would like England to remain English but not, the Labour Party who are even now enshrining actual racist anti white employment laws for the Public Sector.

But it is the Labour party who will be most concerned by the poll, which - if its results were reflected in a general election held tomorrow - would see David Cameron established as prime minister with a majority of 62.

Yes, we do still take some very big donations because we have to compete with the Labour Party who can literally pick up the phone to three unions and get the money, but we have massively broadened the number of people giving # 50,000.»

Given a choice between a cost - cutting Tory government and a Labour Party who still have a large amount of Blairite MPs, it seems a clear vote for Labour would be in order.

Mr Corbyn indicated he would not hold grudges against critics in the Parliamentary Labour Party who have sought to oust him, saying: «I have an ability to very conveniently forget some of the unpleasant things that are said, because it's not worth it.»

«The extent to which the court should err towards inclusiveness in an action inevitably depends on the facts but in this case the court finds that Mr Corbyn is a member of the Labour Party who is particularly affected and particularly interested in the proper construction of the rules, and his interest in that regard is of a significantly different quality than that of other members,» she added.

«He has been undermined and beset by elements in the Labour Party who want to go down the path to disaster.»

The biggest benefactors were the Labour party who regained the 11 seats they had lost in the 2007 Local Elections thus increase its share to remain the largest party.

[4] However the council was run by the Labour party who governed with an agreement with the Liberal Democrats.

The Darlington MP was one of the first Labour politicians to speak out on the scandal, saying to reporters: «For years it has been members of the Labour party who have been on the receiving end of vicious briefing campaigns...» This episode, he continued saying, has «inflicted huge damage on the Labour Party.»

He told Channel 4 News: «There's a group within the Labour Party who have a right - wing conservative agenda.

Not exact matches

The prime minister's Conservative party critics, who are already unhappy with her leadership on Brexit, are poised to speak out against her leadership should Labour make major gains across the country.

In his Sunday Times interview, Sugar, who famously quit the Labour Party in 2015 over its anti-business policies, called Corbyn a «poor leader» and said the Labour Party in «hopeless disarray.»

However, May's sincerity was questioned by Labour's Lisa Nandy, who reminded her of three previous occasions when, as Home Secretary, she had been failed to act on information suggesting that incriminating evidence against individual MPs was routinely used by whips to enforce party discipline.

Unlike Khan, who significantly outperformed the Labour party in his own constituency during the mayoral election, Goldsmith did only about as well as a generic Conservative candidate.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leader, who has expressed ambivalent views about the EU in the past, was not seen as a particularly strong voice for the Remain campaign.

«It is right that Rebekah Brooks has finally taken responsibility for the terrible events that happened on her watch, like the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone,» said opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, who had been demanding that she quit.

«Piecing together Breivik's various posts on the Internet, many media reports have characterized the terrorist — who says he was upset over the multiculturalist policies stemming from Norway's Labour Party — as a «right - wing, Christian fundamentalist.»

The Labour Party would be able to recruit only its own members for any job it chooses, but Catholic Schools may have to employ those who openly defy its teachings.

Most of those MPs will come from either the Conservative Party, who are currently in government, or the Labour Party, who are currently Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

Former British Labour Party MP Kevin McNamara, who has died aged 82, probably did more during his long political career than any other British politici -LRB-...)

The Scottish MP, who chairs Westminster's All Party Parliamentary Group on Infant Feeding & Inequalities, has already secured cross-party support from MPs in the Conservatives and Labour as well as other parties in the UK Parliament.

The link between Labour and many of its traditional voters — who defied the party leadership to vote Leave — was also fractured, perhaps permanently.

The phrase «the working class» appears more often than it would in the memoirs of a true Blairite (as in the other Blair), always as the description of a group in modern Britain who are downtrodden and defended by the Labour Party.

Lib Dems, as this sentence makes clear, like to think they are pursuing a decent economy (unlike Labour, who can't be trusted) without being cold - hearted business types (unlike the «nasty party» Tories).

This is worth bearing in mind when you see the countless vox - pop interviews with working class voters who used to support Labour, saying they feel the party's MPs are nothing like them.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.