Sentences with phrase «mp at the last party»

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He warned that the party faces «existential» threats and suggested it had failed because while it increased its number of MPs it had lost votes at the last election despite an «empty, voiceless, vacant and uncontested» space at the centre of politics.

The Labour Party was opposing the full devolution of income tax until the last moment, based on a fear that this would be fatal to Scottish MPs» powers or numbers at Westminster.

Last Monday at 6 pm, Cruddas and most of the other remaining 231 Labour MPs (26 fewer than a week before) crammed into committee room 14 in the House of Commons to hear Harriet Harman, the acting leader, attempt to lift the depleted, demoralised parliamentary party off the floor.

Labour MPs and activists have not yet forgiven Ed Miliband for the devastating defeat the party suffered at the last general election.

The MPs - who make up nearly two - thirds of the parliamentary Labour party - all represent constituencies which voted Leave at last week's EU referendum.

«It's a new parliamentary party since the election thank goodness, with lots of new Conservative MPs so we're able to look at this again, not entirely through the prism of the 2013 vote, which was a vote on a slightly different basis and which of course predated the Isil surge across Iraq last year.

The second is that others who retired as MPs at a relatively young age, such as Francis Maude, also regret their decision, although Mr Maude strongly denied this when I put it to him as we sipped the Pol Roger at the Spectator party last week.

Jeremy Corbyn may have just been critical of the media in his big speech, but Labour MPs and lobby journalists were out in force to rub shoulders at the Mirror party on the last night of Labour conference.

I've talked to two Conservative MPs in the last week in parliament who are now talking about the threat of annihilation of the Conservative party at the next election.»

«We talked about it in a two and a half hour meeting of the parliamentary party last week and yes of course there were a range of opinions but at the end there was unanimous support from all of the MPs at that meeting for my continued leadership,» he said.

He retreated at a meeting last week with the small group of Labour MPs who see him after the weekly gathering of the parliamentary party.

The MPs also warned party activists that the Tory campaign at the next election could not possibly be as inept as it was at the last election.

I've heard similar talk within the last six months - but, although Cameron's leadership has been at risk since the boundary review, 17 MPs is only about 5 % of the Parliamentary Party.

Corbyn who was voted in with 121,000 (49 %) of full party members obviously has grass roots support but the Labour party is not yet run by a dictatorship and it needs to be remembered that MPs represent not just Labour party members but the 9 million poeple who voted Labour at the last election.

Despite losing 48 of their 56 MPs at the last election, leaving them as the fourth biggest party in the Commons, with only eight MPs, the Lib Dems have 101 members in the Lords — with 11 new Lib Dem peers appointed by David Cameron in the dissolution honours list.

Tory MPs offered strong support last night for Cameron, who made a point of reaching out ostentatiously to colleagues at all levels of the Conservative party throughout the day.

Last night, after the Conservatives overturned a 5,000 Labour majority to win the Norwich seat by 7,348 votes, Labour MPs gave warning that, unless the party did more than peddle scare stories about possible Tory spending cuts, it faced a wipeout at the next election.