Sentences with phrase «labour supporters in»

Some 30,000 new members have joined in the few days since Miliband's resignation, and unions are expected to mount an intense drive to encourage thousands of their members to become affiliated Labour supporters in order to have a vote.

YouGov surveyors have even built this thinking into its polling of the views of Labour supporters in their recent Labour Tribes poll.

So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.

84 % of Labour supporters in 2015 said that it was «very likely» that they would vote, compared to 86 % of Conservative supporters, while in 2010 the figures were 87 % and 90 % respectively.

She won just 13 per cent backing from Labour supporters in the most recent poll, compared to a previous high of 23 percent.

Both Blair and Mandelson were widely criticised by Labour supporters in recent months after attacking Labour's apparent leftward direction.

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

Gillian Lazarus, a former Labour supporter in the borough, told the Observer: «I've always voted Labour and have been a member off and on.

He was a Labour supporter in his youth, defecting to the Liberals after serving as mayor of his birthplace, Rochdale.

He is a Labour supporter in the UK.

Not exact matches

Parliamentarians and socialists in the UK and Europe are calling on Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party and a longtime supporter of Venezuela's leadership, to denounce the Venezuelan government in light of recent events.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

In third place was a piece which pointed to Labour's row with the BBC over the on - air resignation of Stephen Doughty as an example of how Corbyn's supporters are allowing conspiracy theories to obscure bigger issues for the party.

And the election, and likely re-election, of Corbyn is very much part of that phenomenon: from reports, few of the enormous number of new Labour members and supporters are keen to become in the hard tasks of attending planning meetings or delivering leaflets.

This Derbyshire constituency ought to be safe Labour territory but we're told the Tories are going after one of Jeremy Corbyn's keenest supporters in the hope of a «Portillo moment» of their own.

The 2015 election could well - produce situations where, for example, the SNP has a pivotal vote or one of English Votes for English Laws [EVEL] in which Labour supporters are disenfranchised in the way the Scottish electorate has been in the past.

Labour supporters might point to Tony Blair's three election victories in a row, but that ignores the fact that they were won partly due to moving to the centre ground, and partly due to the disintegration of the Conservative Party.

How to campaign enough to ensure Labour supporters get out and vote without looking to be in partnership with those who seem to regard these very supporters with contempt?

So every party can poll its full support everywhere - including supporters of minor parties, and supporters of large parties (eg Tories in the north - east, Labour in south - west) where they are weakest.

However, we could adopt a closed primary system where registered Labour supporters (of which there are a considerable number in each constituency - 1000 or more in many cases) could take part.

It comes as 180,541 people have applied to become registered Labour supporters to take part in the party's leadership election - netting the cash - strapped party a cool # 4.5 million.

Ed must know better than the old, PR will let the BNP in... To be honest, I've never quite understood how any Labour supporter can oppose PR.

Standards in public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

His shaky strategic vision remains uncertain and may not show up before polling day at all, hitting voters» confidence in him but also the effectiveness of Labour supporters on the doorstep.

Supporters - they will be people on Labour Supporters Networks - but these are gathered in a variety of ways including on the doorstep.

This is the highest level yet of dissatisfaction with Corbyn among Labour supporters since he became leader in September 2015.

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

They would just have to sign a declaration that they were a Labour supporter say a week in advance of the selection (but I wouldn't be overly concerned if it was on the day either.)

Coalition talks are on the agenda again at the moment as Andrew Adonis, a prominent Labour supporter of an alliance with the Lib Dems, publicises his new book Five Days In May: The Coalition And Beyond.

... Those aside, I think you may have misrepresented Maeve McKeown's anti-Labour comments a bit, in that (if I'm remembering correctly) she didn't mention Iraq (et al) as an example of Labour «selling out», she mentioned it as an example of them not listening to their supporters - which puts the «they need to come to us» in a slightly different context, I think?

But the Labour leader's bold comments risked being drowned out in the subsequent media coverage as a handful of supporters booed and hissed the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

In the end it wasn't shy Tories that won it, but unconvinced Labour supporters that lost it.

Over the past month, Labour have faced an all - out assault from the Conservatives and their supporters in the press culminating in a series of attacks from Tory - supporting business leaders.

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.

In traditional working class areas, the story that Labour betrayed its supporters is now gospel.

It has been described by party sources - and by the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign - as the first part of a «Labour fightback» against Brexit, amid concerns that the party's supporters will not vote in sufficient numbers for RemaiIn Europe campaign - as the first part of a «Labour fightback» against Brexit, amid concerns that the party's supporters will not vote in sufficient numbers for Remaiin sufficient numbers for Remain.

Earlier in the day Mr Keal urged Labour supporters «to vote tactically to help deliver a shock result in Thirsk and Malton».

After defeating former Labour MP Terry Rooney to enter parliament in 2010, Ward - an outspoken supporter of Palestinian causes - made a string of remarks that brought condemnation from party colleagues and Jewish organisations:

Shaven - headed Scouser Nuttall recites the standard Ukip talk of going after Labour voters in Northern England but the social conservative, a supporter of judicial executions and opponent of abortions, will struggle to walk the talk..

Significant numbers of Labour supporters may be willing to vote tactically for the Lib Dems in seats where the Conservatives are the second largest party, the poll found.

I'm sorry for using such a morbid analogy, but as a longstanding Labour supporter I'm finding that hope is in short supply.

Liz Kendall's campaign chief has expressed his disappointment over an intervention in the Labour leadership race by a supporter of Yvette Cooper.

That would mean not only that fewer constituencies were Labour - winnable, but that there were simply fewer potential Labour supporters registered in 2020.

2) Association with the Lib Dems — this was always going to make it into something of a referendum on Nick Clegg and makes it very hard to have a coherent Yes movement when Labour supporters of AV are furious at the Libs and they in turn are arrogantly insulting to Labour.

Speaking for myself I am a labour member, and PR supporter, who publicly opposed AV when labour put it in their manifesto, and opposed it at this referendum.

However, by the end of the month, the lead has fallen to just 6 points, with YouGov analysis showing a big shift in support among Labour supporters.