Sentences with phrase «labour voters in the country»

One of the ideas I didn't have space for here was a Labour Country pressure group within Labour, perhaps with a seat on the NEC, pressing the priorities of Labour voters in the country.

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These prompted him in 2008 to write to Gordon Brown, then Prime Minister and Labour Leader, warning that Labour must be wary of losing touch with its roots and alienating the country's six million Catholic voters.

But although most Labour voters backed us we did not convince millions of natural Labour voters especially in those parts of the country left behind.

I mentioned Jeremy in this interview only once, when I respectfully suggested that he had a challenge to reach out beyond his comfort zone and his own constituency to traditional Labour voters across the country.

The appearance of Blair and Brown so close together (Blair on Friday, Brown sometime in the next two months) will reinforce the continuity of the Labour government in voters» minds - something Labour strategists could do without in a country where the very concept of «change» is becoming increasingly attractive.

Furthermore, in describing a country that is mired in poverty as a result of callous Government cuts, many Labour voices describe a world that does not ring true to C1 / C2 voters — people that are not poor but not rich and that carefully watch everything they spend.

Most voters — including two fifths of those who say they would vote Labour tomorrow — fear Labour would spend and borrow more than the country can afford, and has not learned the right lessons from its time in government.

Six in ten swing voters, and a third of those who currently say they will vote Labour, worry that Labour have not learned the right lessons from their time in government and that they might spend and borrow more than the country can afford.

And there is a contradiction in telling Ukip voters in Thurrock that you share their pain about west Africans and expecting those same west Africans to vote for Labour elsewhere in the country.

In Labour's safest seat in the country at the 2010 election, 28 % of voters still supported other partieIn Labour's safest seat in the country at the 2010 election, 28 % of voters still supported other partiein the country at the 2010 election, 28 % of voters still supported other parties.

In a clear appeal to voters on the left of the party, Smith said: «New Labour tried so hard to make sure it didn't alienate the powerful that I'm afraid too many people in our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challengIn a clear appeal to voters on the left of the party, Smith said: «New Labour tried so hard to make sure it didn't alienate the powerful that I'm afraid too many people in our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challengin our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challengin our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challenge.

In any case I resent the fact that neither I as a member of the Labour Party, other Party members nor the Country's voters were given the democratic right to elect our leader and Prime Minister.

«Owen is standing in response to calls from ordinary members, Labour voters and Labour councillors, MPs and MEPs from across the country and from all wings of the party for him to do so.

As the BBC's political research editor, David Cowling, points out, in Labour's safest seat in the country at the 2010 election, 28 % of voters still supported other parties.

Tackling the BNP is about recognising that there are hundreds of thousands of hard - working families in northern mill - towns, the once - smokey bits of the Midlands, blue collar estates in the Thames estuary and pockets of post-industrial Britain around the country who feel let down by the Establishment and are turning to the only party that talks about their concerns (Incidentally, they aren't necessarily core Labour voters, they are mostly long - standing, fed - up non-voters).

But Labour in the new parliament will also need a deputy leader who can reach those parts of the electorate untouched by the current leadership, and who will also be trusted by our core voters as we engage that new country.

He did so after stressing to Labour voters that he had spent most of his life in Scotland and that he had made a «positive choice» to live in the country.

Voters also turned away from Labour at the last election because of a fear that «a Labour government would spend and borrow too much» and a sense that the country had been moving in the «right direction» under David Cameron.

However, in order for us to bring about the change in this country that so many Labour voters so desperately need and want to see, the party needs to be united and ready for an early general election.

Yesterday Bassetlaw MP John Mann said he was echoing the views of many Labour voters in his area by calling for Brown to stand down for the good of both the country and the party.

The SNP would junk all attempts to reform the welfare system — even though they have the support of most voters in this country, and indeed most Labour voters.

My polling has found that Tory voters are twice as likely as Labour voters, and UKIP voters three times as likely, to say that defending Britain's interests in Europe is one of the most important issues facing the country.

In a menacing world in which many voters do feel threatened, Labour will say that the country needs experienced and gritty leadership that is ready and able to make hard choiceIn a menacing world in which many voters do feel threatened, Labour will say that the country needs experienced and gritty leadership that is ready and able to make hard choicein which many voters do feel threatened, Labour will say that the country needs experienced and gritty leadership that is ready and able to make hard choices.

«In constituencies like mine, as in many parts of the south and south east of England, Labour must appeal to a broad spectrum of voters and I think David has the breadth of vision for our country and my party to attract their support.&raquIn constituencies like mine, as in many parts of the south and south east of England, Labour must appeal to a broad spectrum of voters and I think David has the breadth of vision for our country and my party to attract their support.&raquin many parts of the south and south east of England, Labour must appeal to a broad spectrum of voters and I think David has the breadth of vision for our country and my party to attract their support.»

Miliband said it is not too late for Scottish voters to back Labour and instigate change in the country.

Media smears, too, can land: one middle - aged voter in Trafford, previously Labour, yelled at me that Jeremy Corbyn was a Russian spy who would make the tsar ruler of the country, and that he needed «shooting».

The former health secretary said he wanted Labour to «speak for everyone and for the whole country» and address voters» aspirations the way it did in 1997.

We believe Labour should be a sign post party, not a focus group obsessed, weathervane party, so that every voter in this country knows exactly what we stand for and who we are are standing up for.

«There is a debate going on, but we're in a situation now where we will see in the council elections there could be a real danger to Labour because in parts of the country Labour voters have been disillusioned by some of our views, not just on the EU but on other issues and they've been moving away from us.»