Sentences with phrase «labours moving to the left»

But for god sake do not tell me Labours moving to the left because of course it's not.

Not exact matches

Have you people notice when wilshere and ramsay are moving forward they look pacey, but when they run back from a counter by the opposition they look laboured, both can not manage wengers formation because they want to continuously move forward, which makes the space smaller for ozil to operate in, ozil was more in the game when Ramsay and wilshere left the field.

An epidural leaves a woman unable to get up and move around, which can help labour progress.

When I did query what was going on (having unfortunately gone along with some the bonkers instructions because it tallied slightly with what I had read — don't try and get a woman who has been in labour all night, is exhausted and wants to sleep to walk down a corridor lads, it sounds stupid and it is stupid) I was asked to move to the end of the room (the implication being I would be asked to leave if I asked any more questions).

New Labour figures believe any move to the left makes the party unelectable, but many figures in the party think voters need a decisive break with the past if they are to put their faith in Labour again.

Do you see an Ed M victory as (most) likely to move Labour (closer) to the left - liberal position that you (and I) would like?

Labour made a net gain of just two from the Conservatives, whilst the Liberal Democrats collapsed in suburban England and their south - western heartlands as the centre - left vote fragmented and centre - right voters moved over to the Tories.

Many Labour figures remain beset by flashbacks to this 30 - year - old defeat, assuming, Blair - like, that any move to the left will lose votes.

In the last decades, the PvdA has moved to the center, opening up more space on the left for the Socialist Party as pure labour party and green parties such as GroenLinks and the Partij voor de Dieren).

Nicola Sturgeon will be absolutely delighted by a Corbyn victory; not because he is a kindred spirit but because a move left by Labour will allow her to consolidate the SNP's position on the centre ground of Scottish politics.

The move will leave Labour as the only mainstream party resisting demands for voters to have a say on the country's links with Brussels.

In reality, he belongs firmly in Labour's «moderate» soft - left camp — and his nomination success is a classic case of a candidate moving to the flanks to secure the endorsement before distancing himself from Corbyn and returning to the centre.

Former MP David Miliband spoke for many people when he argued that under his brother's leadership, Labour had hoped to «suspend the laws of political gravity» by moving somewhat to the left, yet continuing to believe victory was still possible.

Our argument is that Labour's move to the «liberal consensus» on the EU and immigration left many of their core voters out in the cold a long time before UKIP were an effective political presence.

Byrne singled out child - related benefits for foreign workers as something that Labour would seek to cut, explaining that «we just don't think it's fair that someone could move to London and leave their children in Paris or Prague, claim for family benefits and then send them home».

These rigorous analyses add support to the argument that those supporters who left Labour over immigration moved onto UKIP and that Labour to Conservative defectors are prime targets for UKIP

The problem seems to be that whenever a party loses an election, their first inclination seems to be to move in the opposite direction to the swing of the population, so when the Tories lost to Blair, they retrenched further right for two elections, and Labour assumed that New Labour was to blame for their loss in 2010, so publicly ditched that and moved left — when actually New Labour was the only time in history Labour have completed a second term, let alone a third.

Today labour has moved back to the left and the right wingers are not happy the talk of setting up new right wing parties to out do the left.

After more than a decade of retreat the time has come for the left wing of the labour movement to move forward.

It is not isolated from Labour's individual membership — nearly 40 per cent of whom voted for Socialist Campaign Group candidates in last October's NEC elections and, for the first time since the early 1980s, the middle ground in the party is moving to the left.

All of the points that Jon Lansman puts forward as a way to move Labour left are unachievable given the current party structure which was designed precisely for that purpose.

As the membership is considerably to the left of the parliamentary party, more internal democracy means that Labour and all its structural units will move to the left, which in turn means that British politics will move to the left as more left - wing ideas enter the mainstream of debate and discussion.

Contrary to the self - affirming assertions within Labour's online echo chamber of activists and wannabe MPs that the centre ground of British politics is moving left, yesterday's elections demonstrate something very different.

Like business leaders, they judge that Labour has moved to the Left, and that leading Labour politicians don't really mean it when they say they are pro-business.

If he's trying to move the Labour Party to the left, I'd give him full Marx,» he added.

At the time, the Conservative Party was perceived to have moved to the right under Margaret Thatcher and the Labour Party was seen as having moved to the left under the leadership of Michael Foot.

In his first post-election political move, Lord Mandelson has agreed to chair an inquiry into the future of globalisation for the left of centre thinktank the IPPR — an inquiry that is likely to be influential on Labour's policy review.

Replacing Howard with a leader who is seen as less extreme should help the Conservatives move people's perception of them closer to the centre ground, and once Labour's leader is a figure who is percieved as being on the other side of the psychological left - right divide they may be in a better position to win support back from Labour amongst right - of - centre voters, but either way you cut it they are still as by far the most extreme of the three main parties.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

Mr Blair took the unusual step of briefing the media about his concern that the Liberal Democrats would get nowhere if they moved to the left of Labour, demanded higher taxes and attacked his social exclusion initiatives.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

The left would be united, with Lib Dems moving en masse to Labour.

It was claimed that the explosive move was designed to damage the Labour leader by revealing his left - wing prospectus for the country early.

The respected journalist writes that a move left by Labour will allow Sturgeon to consolidate the SNP's position in the «centre ground of Scottish politics».

The move was highly divisive within Labour, with many on the left of the party opposed to the notion of fees in principal, believing they discouraged people from low income backgrounds from pursuing HE.

You can either assert that the basic tenets of the Left still enjoy widespread popularity, and that a party committed to them could still win power — or you can conclude most of the votes Labour needs to regain power are in the centre, so the party should move in that direction.

Mike Homfray, look at the Tories, they were against the state pension free education, the left introduced it, they conceded, moved on in45 they voted against he NHS, labour won the 1950 election, for the Tories to win in1951 ′ they conceded and moved on, in 1967 they were against labour a Keynesiasm, yet labour were popular, despite a few people telling Ted Heath be more right wing he conceded and moved on

Labour is moving leftwards, not necessarily far left, but my point is that there are many unknowns such as the McClusky / union ties, or any kind of policy which is in the public domain which are yet to play out.

In a statement to the Huffington Post he said: «The decision to leave Europe leaves the whole of the UK facing massive uncertainty and Labour now needs a strong and clear direction to serve as an effective opposition as we move forward, particularly if we face a general election in the next 12 months.

Ms Abbott, one of Mr Corbyn's closest allies in the parliamentary party, said the «left insurgency» which has seen the Labour membership jump to almost half a million was due to a desire to «move beyond neoliberalism».

They are accusing Labour of moving to the left, without providing any evidence for the claim — that is because there is no evidence.

Mr Corbyn spoke to the BBC's Norman Smith as he arrived to take part in an economics seminar in central London, shortly after former Labour leader Tony Blair warned the party against moving to the left.

Labour's direction of travel needs to be reversed which means uniting around the candidate most acceptable to the soft left, who will move Labour back into the realms of electability.

But he confirmed to ITV News that if supporting a Labour government would bring a halt to the UK's move to leave the EU he would find his loyalties divided.

In terms that will alarm some on the left of his party, who resent working with the Conservatives, the former Lib Dem leader admits that he was wrong to have pushed so hard for a deal with Labour after the 2010 election, when Nick Clegg was moving towards the Tories.

If he's trying to move the Labour party to the left, I'd give him full marks.»

Corbyn initially stood in the British Labour leadership contest to give the party's left wing a voice in the debate on how to move on from its crushing defeat in May's general election.

The Conservatives must not allow Labour to move Britain any further towards the statist Left.

Historically the AFL - CIO and other labour unions have supported the Democrats almost exclusively and fought fiercely against any attempt by unions to move to the left, arguing that independent campaigns divide the left and lead to Republican victories.

The reasons that Labour will have a chance in 2015 are Ed Miliband's sensible leadership, left - wing Lib Dem voters moving to Labour, the voting system, a split right - wing vote and the coalition's many mistakes on the economy.