Sentences with phrase «labour party with»

But, ultimately, Kendall's best chance will — as one supporter puts it — come from «confronting the Labour party with the fundamental question: does it want to be comfortable or does it want to win?»

Unite has been accused of packing the Falkirk Labour Party with its own members in an attempt to get its favoured candidate selected.

But a Labour party with strategic sense and principle would do the opposite.

If you can only support a Labour Party with Tony Blair or David Miliband as its leader, f *** off and join the Tories, you'd make a better fit.

Against this terrific backdrop we should be ten points ahead of a Labour Party with zero economic credibility and a leader who was Gordon Brown's special adviser in the Treasury for more than a decade and a member of his catastrophic Government.

Miliband paid tribute to Lamont shortly after she announced that she intended to relinquish the leadership role, saying she had «led the Scottish Labour Party with determination».

What is more, policies in a left Labour Party with a left leader and left MP's will have a far greater appeal than the insignificant «Neo SDP» rump will have, no matter how much propaganda is used, and it will be used.

When Margaret Thatcher attempted to sever the link between unions and the Labour Party with the 1984 Trade Union Act, which required unions to regularly ballot members on whether they wished to continue pay - ing into their union's political fund, it was a direct attempt to cripple the Labour Party while reducing the influence of the unions on policy.

He ennobled Maurice Glasman, a great believer (and participant) in grass - roots democracy, and he hired Arnie Graf, the American veteran campaigner who had mentored Barack Obama in his early days as a young activist in Chicago, to inject the Labour party with the movement politics spirit.

[165] He also resigned as leader of the Labour Party with immediate effect.

When you consider the huge challenges our country faces, the Labour Party with its outdated approach is the road - block to progress.

Delighted that @YvetteCooperMP has announced she is standing to be Leader of the Labour Party with a strong message 4 future of country.

«When you consider the huge challenges our country faces, the Labour party with its outdated approach is the roadblock to progress,» Mr Cameron argues.

[23][24] On Saturday 25 September 2010, Ed Miliband was announced as the new leader of the Labour Party with Abbott eliminated in the first round of voting after securing 7.24 % of votes.

The decision to engage with the far - right party in a televised debate has divided opinion within the Labour party with some believing that sharing a platform with the group gives them dangerous credibility.

Whilst the existence of the document itself is cause for much cheer, it appears as if the leadership contenders are coming to the wider debate about the future of the Labour party with their direction already established.

After all, a Commons majority on the issue rests on the fact Corbyn adopted it as policy, thereby uniting the parliamentary Labour party with the exception, perhaps, of Kate Hoey, Frank Field and John Mann.

The main source of funding is the Short money, which in 2015 — 16 provided the Labour Party with # 5,777,232 (plus # 577,871 of «Cranborne Money» in the Lords).

On 6 January 2010, Field was one of the few Labour MPs to back Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt's calls for a secret ballot of the Parliamentary Labour Party with regard to the leadership of Gordon Brown.

Despite talk of a surprise win for Cooper it is still looking far more likely that Jeremy Corbyn will emerge as the next leader of the Labour party with all the polls still showing him well ahead.

This is not to deny, however, that there are many in the Labour Party with whom Liberal Democrats can find common ground.

What happens when you are elected leader of the Labour Party with a massive mandate but a small minority where it most matters?

David Lammy is absolutely spot on to identify the Labour party with hope and progression, the challenge now is to perform a similar re-engagement with the population - sparked hopefully by the optimism of Glenrothes.

The BMG Research poll shows Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party with a decisive lead on the Tories, gaining 4 points to reach a 42 % approval rating.

A leaked document purporting to comprise Unite's «political strategy» last week, suggested that the union «flood» the local constituency Labour parties with Unite members, which would be marshalled by central command, with the aim of delivering the union's strategy within the party.

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.

With only four seats to call, the Conservatives are ahead with 316, compared to 216 to the Labour PaWith only four seats to call, the Conservatives are ahead with 316, compared to 216 to the Labour Pawith 316, compared to 216 to the Labour Party.

The comments from Defense Minister Michael Fallon in an interview with the Daily Telegraph suggested that the ruling Conservative Party would not increase the top rate of income tax, striking a contrast with main opposition Labour Party.

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party party whip.

CNBC's Gemma Acton reports from the Labour Party conference, with comments from lawmaker Alison McGovern.

With banks refusing in recent days to accept the latest restructuring plan, May's senior ministers met around the clock, under pressure from the Labour Party and unions not to use taxpayer money to prop up the failing company.

«My party (Labour) hasn't been strong enough to push for red lines» and the May - led - government «answers to only a few Brexiteers» with the prime minister focused on «keeping her party together and win the next elections,» Dance added.

«With this Bill, this government has chosen to be bold and take a significant step in the world stage,» said the Progressive Labour Party's David Burt, Bermuda's premier and minister of finance.

After this (and with the installation of the Workers» Party in power in Brazil), support from beyond Fortaleza, notably from the National Secretary of the Solidarity Economy in the Ministry of Labour, made possible a network of community banks in Brazil on the Banco Palmas model.

So it is not surprising that the UK Labour Party proposal in the 2017 election to remove future student debt loads, and even perhaps to cancel prior student debts, was so popular, above all with the young.

Following the election, the Labour Party and New Zealand First formed a coalition government with support from the Green Party.

If a company can find a third party company which can provide cheaper labour, less regulation and fewer taxes, but also treats its workers fairly and provides them with a safe working environment and better quality of life, as many do, it can be an excellent option.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.

With results declared from 647 of the 650 constituencies on Friday morning, the Tories had 316, Labour 261, the Scottish Nationalist Party 35 and the Liberal Democrats twelve.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

This month we're also excited to bring you an exclusive interview with Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.

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».

But it seems that Farron is on good terms with at least one senior Labour MP touted as a possible future leader of the party.

I've spent a long long time in the Labour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thaLabour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thalabour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever that was.

Interestingly, the trend line is almost parallel with Labour's, suggesting that the parties are not competing for votes as much equally siphoning votes from Yesh Atid.

McDonnell has previously accused Smith of «blackmailing» Labour members with warnings of a party split, and today he repeated his description of the challenger as the «disunity candidate».

Labour would need an agreement with the SNP in addition to a coalition with the Lib Dems, while the Tories would need to group together several smaller parties, probably including the DUP.

«I've got Labour party membership forms with me... I left the Momentum forms at home,» he adds.