Sentences with phrase «labour supporters agreed»

Those polled were dismissive of the reasons offered for not holding a referendum, with 52 % saying that politicians who did not support a vote did so because they thought it would not give them the result they wanted, while 46 % of Labour supporters agreed — despite this being their party's policy.

Sixty - one per cent of all voters said the former Labour leader was an «electoral liability» with even 47 % of all Labour supporters agreeing.

Not exact matches

He believes the opinion polls are probably over-emphasising the Remain vote and agrees that Labour supporters have not been motivated to vote to stay in the EU.

This makes the focus of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party on rail fares somewhat confusing: Corbyn's supporters and detractors alike agree he has shifted the party to the left, to concentrate on the party's «real» voters and issues.

Turning to Ed Miliband, only 28 % of people agreed with a statement that Ed Miliband had the right qualities to become Prime Minister, 60 % disagreed (amongst Labour's own supporters 51 % agreed).

30 % of people (and 49 % of Labour supporters) agreed with a statement that Ed Miliband was the right leader for the Labour party.

Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system.

The committee also has agreed that Register Supporters who signed up for the last Labour leadership election will have to sign up again and pay # 25 to vote.

The motion set four conditions for the Labour party agreeing to air strikes against Isis and is now being cited by both supporters and opponents of air strikes as justifying their stance.

It was not, it's fair to say, universally welcomed by Labour supporters and there was particular criticism of it being backed up with a couple of poll questions showing people agreed with a statement «We must live within our means so cutting the deficit is the top priority».

And it is — I'm sure we all agree — important to properly understand why Labour lost, and which supporters abandoned it.

59 % of people agreed that Labour had «seriously lost touch with ordinary working people» (including 30 % of Labour's own supporters), 70 % that «Labour need to make major changes to their policies and beliefs to be fit for government again» (including 50 % of Labour voters), 61 % agreed that «Labour still haven't faced up to the damage they did to the British economy» and 50 % agreed that «If Labour returned to government they would put the country into even more debt».

Mr Brown agreed to stand aside but the details of the deal haunted the New Labour project as supporters fought over what had exactly had been agreed.

Yet some of his strongest supporters, who agree that a quieter strategy of «consolidation» would risk making the government look as though it has run out of steam when it seeks a new electoral mandate, also worry that Labour's parliamentary divisions will place a brake on future reform.

Dixon ended the speech with a quote from the German philosopher Leibniz, that many supporters of legal AI and automation will no doubt strongly agree with: «It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation, which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.»