Sentences with phrase «labour supporters said»

In a survey of more than 2,000 adults, 79 per cent of Labour supporters said they wanted the policy scrapped, while 65 per cent of voters planning to support the Liberal Democrats in 2015 wanted it to be dropped.

47 % of prospective Conservative voters said they were «very enthusiastic» about their choice, but only 34 % of Labour supporters said the same and just 24 % of Liberal Democrats.

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.)

Two years away from a general election 66 % of current Labour supporters say will definitely vote for the party, compared to 58 % of Conservatives supporters who say they will vote for their preferred party.

As with other polls on Osborne, the answers to this are quite partisan, with a majority of Labour supporters saying Osborne should go.

Not exact matches

13:47 - Chris Bryant spreads the blame evenly, even citing privacy infringements by the Mirror, something he says shames him as a Labour supporter.

For example, when Maurice said that Labour should»em brace the supporters of the EDL» I would have thought that would be an ideal time for someone to speak up.

Yet Reg Freeson, the Labour MP who was ousted and replaced as MP by Livingstone said he did not consider the ex-London Mayor to be «anti-semitic» and as London's Mayor Livingstone supported Jewish festivals and was never short of Jews amongst his supporters.

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».

Specifically, the Times report says 95 % of Labour supporters back the Lab - Lib coalition, and Lab got 29 % of the vote.

At the same time, supporters of the Labour Party are more likely to say that colonial rule was a bad thing than those who back the Conservatives or UKIP.

The EU has to change if Britain votes to remain in the institution, former Labour leader and remain supporter Ed Miliband has said.

18 % of current Conservative supporters said they would, 30 % of UKIP supporters said they'd consider voting for Ed Miliband's party and a sizeable 46 % of current Liberal Democrat supporters said they would consider voting Labour as well.

... The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Labour Uncut blog, shows that a majority (53 per cent) of current Tory supporters believe their party has got better since the last election, with only 11 per cent saying it has got worse.

Labour MP Chuka Umunna, a supporter of the pro-EU Open Britain campaign, said Fox «needs to understand that he is talking about people not poker chips».

All of this is a way of saying, that while the Tories and Liberal Democrata hammer out whatever deal they can; while the Labour front bench has been told to keep quiet; and while Gordon Brown keeps a low profile, it would be a good use of Labour supporters» time to help promote and grow the Take Back Parliament Campaign.

For example, if convinced the battle locally was between Labour and the SNP, a half of Liberal Democrat (50 %) supporters and almost as many Conservatives (44 %) said they would back Labour instead.

Fifty - eight per cent of Labour supporters now say he is doing a good job compared to 45 % last month.

He said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.»

Labour Party general secretary Iain McNicol said anyone witnessing Labour members or registered supporter engaged in abusive or intimidatory behaviour, should report them to the party.

In fact, a quarter of Labour voters (and more than half of UKIP supporters) say either that they are satisfied with Cameron or that they prefer him to the alternative.

No less than 68 % of this group of Yes voting 2010 Labour supporters now say that they will vote SNP in May.

No matter what his supporters say, there is something strange and unsettling about the treatment of the Labour leader

Pollsters say Labour supporters need to back AV by more than two to one if the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign is to emerge on top.

He insisted that Labour would fight May's «extreme Brexit» and said he had been visiting local constituency Labour parties across the country and speaking to thousands of members and supporters, «so I know how strongly people feel about Brexit».

When Corbyn says he is against austerity and then votes against welfare cuts, Labour supporters understand that position and can choose to either back it or not.

Siobhain McDonagh MP, patron of Labour No to AV, said the ComRes poll showed Labour supporters hadn't been fooled by «Clegg and his cronies».

Lord Prescott, Mr Blair's former deputy, has said that Mr Miliband is pursuing a «core vote strategy» of appealing only to traditional Labour supporters and disaffected Liberal Democrats.

Speaking to the BBC on Monday from New York, where he works as president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, Miliband said last week's election result was «devastating» for the Labour party and its supporters.

In a memo to Labour supporters yesterday, Lord Mandelson said: «The headlines achieved by the Tories are an opportunity for us to show we have guts, that when the going gets tough we make tough and serious choices that put the country first.

Miliband couldn't wait to jump in and say Camerons judgement was suspect amongst many labour supporters and shadow ministers.

In their recent polls, the remaining Liberal Democrat supporters say they would prefer a Conservative government to a Labour -LSB-...]

Frontrunner says Labour must modernise and work out why so many former supporters voted Ukip in last election

«Of course we need to win back Labour supporters who voted Tory in May,» he said.

Alex Hilton, the editor of Labourhome, said: «It's a real concern that a small majority of Labour members and supporters want Gordon Brown to step aside, though this poll was taken before it was clear the role the Prime Minister had played in the merger of Lloyds - TSB and HBOS.»

The new clause would say the party exists to «bring together members and supporters who share its values to develop policies, make communities stronger through collective action and support, and promote the election of Labour representatives at all levels of the democratic process».

«Over the last three months, a lot of Labour party members and supporters have complained to me about the nature and number of the emails they have received from the party,» she says in the video.

«To some degree you are relying on people's honesty to tell you whether they are a Labour supporter or not,» he said.

He said: «For those who feel alarmed about the scale of differences between the old and new, there is only one Labour and it's bigger than leaders and deputy leaders, bigger even than its members and supporters

Today I have received an email from the Labour party saying: «We have reason to believe that you do not support the aims and values of the Labour party or you are a supporter of an organisation opposed to the Labour party and therefore we are rejecting your application.»

Once they have said yes to their union, they can be contacted by Labour to become an affiliated supporter with a vote in leadership elections and a right to attend constituency meetings.

Whoever does it though would need to spend some proper time down in the places, meeting the whole membership and also local Labour supporters and hearing what they had to say.

In a thinly veiled dig at Mr Corbyn's tendency to speak only to his supporters, rather than to the country as a whole, Mr Khan says he is desperate to win on Thursday to show Labour can become a party of government again.

Nor is there much to be said for closed primaries if byclosed primaries it is meant that registered Labour party supporters should be permitted to take part.

In a statement yesterday Mr Corbyn said: «I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60 % of Labour members and supporters.

In a statement last night, the Labour leader said: «I was elected by hundreds of thousands of Labour party members and supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics.

Richard Howitt, the Labour MEP for the East of England, has written an article for the New Statesman today about the abuse he has received at the hands of Ukip supporters after highlighting some of the things party figures have said about the disabled.

Supporters of Tony Blair, who welcomed the speech, hope that Labour will now have a significant advantage over the traditional pro-business Tories by saying that Miliband can provide greater certainty for investors.

Supporters of Tony Blair say that the stance adopted by Balls is reminiscent of the arguments deployed by Gordon Brown in the summer of 2009 during a row over Labour's spending plans.

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.