Sentences with phrase «labour party position»

«I want us to use the European elections to cause an earthquake in British politics, to change the Labour party position on the European referendum, for the Conservative party post the European elections, well you guys will have to decide whether you think Cameron is the right person to lead in 2015 or not,» Farage said.

Not exact matches

Criticism has been leveled at the U.K.'s opposition Labour Party for not enunciating its position on Brexit.

In a recent interview with Sky News, he said «God is not left - wing or right - wing» after it was implied he «takes policy positions close to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party».

If it isn't the Blue Labour position on migration, it is certainly a coherent position on migration - more than our party's current confused stance.

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.

Neither Labour nor the Conservative party has an official position on hunting - all the votes of recent years have been free votes, as hunting is regarded as an issue of conscience.

Emerging serious divisions within the Labour Party and his strategy of positioning the party on the hard left will not play well with swing voParty and his strategy of positioning the party on the hard left will not play well with swing voparty on the hard left will not play well with swing voters.

Then comes a question from Tory MP Michael Ellis, a member of the home affairs committee, who suggests Hague could use his surveillance powers to find out what the Labour party's position actually is.

Under the current Labour system, the National Policy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy positions.

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

A major speech on the issue yesterday was preceded by heavy briefing that the Labour leader would be taking a more aggressive position in 2017 and that party apparatchiks would «let Corbyn be Corbyn».

The party's strident, single - minded position suggests to me that most Labour politicians either do not realise or do not care about the political implications of the referendum campaign.

Instead, the current official position of the Labour Party is unqualified support for continued membership in the European Union.

For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.

After almost a decade of decline, during which the party has fallen from a position of complete political dominance into third place behind the all - conquering SNP and the rejuvenated Scottish Tories, Labour can't seem to get back on its feet never mind mount a serious electoral challenge.

Labour's official policy is now to stay in the single market and customs union for a transition period - a position backed by trade unions, business bodies and all opposition parties apart from the DUP.

«Because of the rather measured position that the hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) had to present on behalf of the official Labour party, it falls to me to be the first Member of this House to set out the case for why I believe... that it is in the national interest for the United Kingdom to be a member of the European Union, why I believe that we have benefited from that position for the past 45 years and, most importantly, why I believe that future generations will benefit if we succeed in remaining a member of the European Union.

But now Labour look all at sea in the new reality in Scotland and nationwide while Tim Farron attempts his own Sturgeon tribute act positioning the Lib Dems as the party of the 48 % post EU referendum.

While an MP might owe his or her place in parliament, or even cabinet, not due to patronage from above, but because he was an NUM MP, or had backing from the public sector unions, or the London Labour Party etc, s / he could enter into those discussions pre-vote from a position of real stregnth.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

The Sun's change on the issue hints at why Labour has not savaged the Liberal Democrats for the liberal position the party has adopted over recent months.

KR Lohse responded to Dan Hodges» piece wondering where Ed Miliband stood on the issue of Europe and a new EU treaty by roundly condemning the means by which the Labour leader was elected: «Ed's luck ran out the day the unions propelled him into a position that the majority of the party didn't want him in.

To win an election Labour also needs to steal a significant number of votes from parties positioned to the right of it on the political spectrum, and right now that's not happening.

At the height of the Tory Party's «majority status» position under Mrs Thatcher, it was said that «Conservatism swims like a fish in the sea» and any Labour vote is therefore a «deviant one».

The Labour Party first pledged itself to a Freedom of Information Act in its 1974 election manifesto, but the precarious positions of the Wilson and Callaghan governments made progress impossible.

Only by positioning itself as the party of efficiency, spending cuts where necessary and value for money can Labour turn on the Tories and ask voters: now that we have slimmed down the state, do you want the Tories to cut the basics, too?

This speech to the Fabian Society disproves Lammy's loyalist credentials unless he is making an inadvertent miscalulation in attacking Labour's record on social mobility — surely he must be in the wrong party to be deliberately exposing the divide between their aspiration and achievement from a position of government, and it beggars belief that a serious politician would undermine their own argument in this way after suggested he himself has been a beneficiary of the process.

Former Labour leader says Corbyn's position is untenable, while party's deputy Tom Watson seeks talks to avoid «civil war»

Meantime, they may look for opportunities to limit the fallout from Corbyn's reign, using the party's structures to try and stop Labour taking positions they deem particularly harmful.

Labour is currently trailing the Conservatives in the polls by 12 - 17 percentage points (depending on the pollster), an extraordinary position for a party seven years in opposition.

Corbyn's conception of what the Labour party is for also gives him confidence in his position.

[93] The Labour results were described as a success, with the party building on its performance the previous year in the north of England and Wales, consolidating its position in northern cities and winning control of places such as Cardiff and Swansea.

The Labour candidate expressed the position that the problems in accountability leading to the scandal had been fixed; his opponents noted that of the parties currently representing Britain in Brussels, only Labour has not yet disclosed their expenses (although Mr Vaughan states that the party will begin to do so soon) and Mr Griffiths furthermore declared that the scandal was part of a wider problem: the corruption of the political system by big business.

Jim Murphy's election as Scottish Labour leader two months ago did lead to a change in the party's fortunes in the polls, but he has more recently taken some interesting strategic positions.

The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the defeats suffered by the trade union movement, as well as the decline in influence of the British Communist Party, led to a strengthening of the position of Labour party members who were opposed to MarParty, led to a strengthening of the position of Labour party members who were opposed to Marparty members who were opposed to Marxism.

This is currently a UK rule book issue, but this needs to be looked at as part of a wider review of Scottish Labour's position in relation to the UK party.

The Barnsley East MP added: «It's the job of Jeremy and all of us in position in the Labour party to make sure that the Labour party gets back in touch.

Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, has called for Jeremy Corbyn to resign, saying he has lost the confidence of the party's MPs in parliament and his position has become untenable.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constitueparty, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constitueParty in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

For, judging by this year's local election results, Labour is now in dire straits in his own seat, Norwich South — while the Green Party is in pole position to gain the seat.

She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she has served as the Acting Leader of the Labour Party twice and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.

You and I are in the same position in relation to that but it is absolutely clear that your continued leadership is putting the Labour party's future in jeopardy... so I ask you to follow the strongest possible view of the parliamentary party and stand down.»

She has positioned herself in the centre, saying that «We need a Labour party that moves beyond the old labels of left and right».

So we will have to see whether Ken and his team now see this as an attempt to somehow assert a position as something of an «Independent Labour» candidate — or whether they will now want to make some substantive attempt to rebuild bridges with party activists and members in London.

The polls were predicting a tight race between Labour and the Conservatives for second place, although most commentators believed that Labour would just about hold on to its position as the largest opposition party.

The fact that Labour have got themselves into this position shows how much the party has changed since it was last in opposition.

But he welcomed the Lib Dems pledge to reverse Labour's plan for a 1 per cent increase in National Insurance «when resources allow» - claiming it was moving towards his party's position on the issue.

One source said: «His original plan was for the party position to be anti-bombing, even though Labour MPs would be given a free vote.

The manifesto is carefully calibrated not only to dodge the hostages to fortune of 2010, but also to offer plenty of scope for the Lib Dems to cut a deal with whichever party, Labour or Conservatives, are in a position to offer a second coalition.

Labour has been forced to insist its position on Brexit remains unchanged after frontbencher Emily Thornberry suggested the party was in favour of staying in the customs union.