Sentences with phrase «labour party had»

The new shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt earlier signalled that the Labour party had dropped its opposition to the Conservatives» free schools policy.

[1] The Labour Party had been led by Michael Foot since the resignation of James Callaghan in 1980.

After the last election in 2004 the Conservatives controlled the council with 29 councillors, while the Liberal Democrats had 13 seats, independents had six and the Labour party had one seat.

The rest of the Labour Party had decided already whether they wanted to be in or out.

After Corbyn triumphed against Owen Smith in a leadership challenge, his team had produced «no roadmap» for overcoming Labour's plight, Harrop wrote, while the wider parliamentary Labour party had become «barely audible».

I think there was a tendency among political commentators to regard what happened in 2015 in the Labour Party as if it was a political nervous breakdown, as if everybody in the Labour Party had lost their minds, or it was a takeover of the party by entryists.

Little did they know that Blair's Labour Party had already jettisoned many of Hutton's ideas for a «stakeholder economy» on the basis that they might concede too much power to the trade unions.

In order to revive its electoral fortunes the Labour party had to abandon much of its socialist baggage and pledge not to reverse changes brought about by 18 years of conservative government.

In a bid for political understatement of 2016, Eagle noted that the Parliamentary Labour party had enjoyed some «robust exchanges, but I don't have a problem with that».

The Labour party had lost the plot a bit at that stage.

Ms Thornberry argued the Labour party had changed «for the better» in the past year because of Mr Corbyn's influence on austerity and housing issues.

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

He now needs to do the same in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where years of infighting, and poorly thought through interventions from the Labour Party had led to a febrile increasingly combustible mix.

Throughout the election the Labour Party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a Labour majority before the election day.

The Labour Party had the largest number of seats in the House of Commons, but not an overall majority.

The Liberal Democrats remained the second largest party by total seats and percentage vote, while the Labour Party had the largest net gain of five seats.

The parliamentary Labour party had had its little bit of fun and been comfortably seen off.

In the mid 1950s membership of the Conservative Party stood at around 3 million while the Labour Party had around 1 million members.

Following the unveiling of the scandal the Labour Party had to repay the loans and was said to be in financial difficulty.

Tony Blair had famously never held a government position before becoming Prime Minister, as the Labour Party had been out of power for the entire duration of his career as an MP.

The Electrician's Union threatened disaffiliation in 1976 as the Labour Party had not acted on the report by Reg Underhill on Trotskyite activity in the Party.

Over the next few days stories were printed which stated that the Labour Party had borrowed # 3.5 million from private individuals during 2005, the year of a general election.

Just as the Labour party had to go through a painful exercise of political reinvention in response to social and economic change, so unions must embark on a similar journey or run the risk of continued marginalisation and eventual irrelevance.»

As the results of the Local elections began to trickle in on Thursday night it soon became clear that the Labour Party had done well, gaining 824 councillors.

In that post-1922 and pre-1997 period when every Tory leader made it to PM, the Labour party had four Prime Ministers but six party leaders (Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Hugh Gaitskell, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith) who were never Prime Minister.

The Labour Party had just lost John Smith and elected Tony Blair as its new leader.

Within two years, that Labour Party had ousted Blair and had installed Brown.

Islington is now so closely associated with the politics of Jeremy Corbyn that it can be easy to forget that the area was a crucible for the development of New Labour and for a time seemed to reflect the way the post-Clause-IV moment Labour Party had «grown up».

The Labour Party had a tradition of fighting local elections on party lines whilst the Conservatives didn't see local politics as party political, although many independents were Conservatives in all but in name.

The Labour Party had decided it no longer wanted to be a serious political party.

Yet in the weeks leading up to the election, the opposing Labour party has managed to gain an advantage.

Many Social Democratic and Labour parties have jumped on the bandwagon of finance capital, not recognizing the need to rescue industrial capitalism from dependence on neofeudal finance capital before the older conflict between labor and industrial capital over wage levels and working conditions can be resumed.

The Labour party has rejected claims it would cut funding to faith schools and attempt to phase them out of the education system.

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.

The manifesto of the Labour Party has football more front and centre; while neither English football nor Labour are as uncomplicatedly working class as they once were, you're still far more likely to find a football fan on the red side of the argument.

Gambling firms should be banned from football shirt sponsorship deals, the UK Labour party has said.

The Labour Party has been a strong supporter of breastfeeding as it ensures a healthy start for infants, and promotes women's health.

Far from gaining politically from the «crisis of capitalism», the Labour party has been left utterly disorientated.

But this Labour party has a plan to put it right.»

The (UK) Labour party has had a lot of anti-semitism issues in the news recently, including an mural which included caricatures of two Jewish bankers, two separate council candidates posting holocaust denial content, and a former London mayor making repeated revisionist statements about Nazi Germany (though he doesn't deny that the holocaust happened).

«But the Labour party has shied away for too long from listening to, talking about and seeking to address the concerns of people who were worried about the impact that unskilled migration has had on many of our communities.

If they deliver, on electoral reform, for instance, I'd be really encouraged by that because in some ways they're dealing with things the Labour Party would never go near and still won't.

More generally, the Labour Party has has always been a coalition of different ideologies and interests, and has never been a wholly liberal party, but it has often been an important advocate and vehicle of social liberalism.

If he'd been PM, the Labour Party would have been a «broad church» with its members feeling comfortable with the role they were playing.

Their current leader, the untypically - Tory Ruth Davidson, helps in this respect, while the collapse of the Scottish Labour Party has sent thousands of voters searching for a credible alternative.

The popularity of the Labour party would slip three per cent if Blair returned as leader, a poll has revealed.

«Over the summer, the Labour party has to come clean on its commitment to reform and the Tory party have to work out... how they deliver the deal,» Hughes added.

The Labour party has effectively been in decline since 2001.

In «The Political Animal» Paxman one points out how much more dynastic the Labour Party has been than the others Its easier for shall we say, a Toynbee, to be keen on redistribution.

In recent years, for the sake of electoral advancement, the Labour Party has compromised on public spending, welfare, private sector involvement in public services, nationalisation, and so on.