Sentences with phrase «new labour supporter»

The MP is an ardent New Labour supporter with a majority of nearly 12,000 and has served since the 1999 by - election.

The results are difficult to quantify, though many Labour MPs claim that this campaigning style has started to attract new Labour supporters and activists.

-- An arts establishment filled by New Labour supporters is starting to court Team Cameron (Tory party) guardian.co.uk

Not exact matches

Former minister Stephen Byers has called on fellow supporters of Tony Blair to unite behind new Labour leader Gordon Brown.

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.

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.

A majority of Conservative supporters believe Labour will win the next election, according to a new poll.

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.

Labour supporters are turning on Jeremy Corbyn following his handling of the Brexit vote, new polling suggests.

Many seemed positively miserable about the influx of new Labour party members and supporters, reinforcing their image as a narrow Westminster elite concerned about their own careers above anything else.

Nor will he appear on today's new image, which is aimed at disillusioned Labour supporters.

The fact is that the New Labour governments were well to the right of the vast majority of Labour supporters, and clearly needed correction, but let that pass.

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 members now face an unenviable dilemma: do they dethrone the leader they put in place so emphatically (through all sections of the Party, not just the new registered supporters) and thereby accept that the PLP are the real decision - makers?

This would enable a Labour government to claim that there was no new funding to political parties, but also end any form of direct communication between Labour and its supporters in large swathes of rural and Tory Britain.

Corbyn's supporters are less motivated by the imperative of winning elections; they want to articulate their values and reject the New Labour legacy of Iraq and inequality.

I just don't see what has changed about Labour — and as such I'm not convinced this influx of new members who were so happy to be morally superior to labour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise resLabour — and as such I'm not convinced this influx of new members who were so happy to be morally superior to labour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise reslabour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise restarts.

Labour's Kate Hoey heads a new list of 20 seats where constituents voted to stay in the EU but their representatives are Brexit supporters.

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.

He told an audience of Labour supporters at the Trades Hall Club that it would be the new leader's job to set out a vision for the party and for the country, and the deputy's job to help them realise it.

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».

He was coordinating phone canvassing as a tsunami crashed through Labour politics, with new members signing up in droves — for full membership, or as «registered supporters», who paid # 3 to get a leadership vote.

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

Now, as a result of Labour's leadership election, we are in a position that other parties will eye enviously — more than 550,000 people will be able to help to choose our new leadership team, of which 120,000 are new supporters.

Crowning of Labour's new general secretary means there is little chance of shifting balance of power away from Corbyn supporters

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is set to face a new campaign from his supporters to significantly soften his stance on immigration.

She was seen as loyal to New Labour - she was one of the most committed of the party's modernisers and even in her time on Redditch Borough Council, she was a strong supporter of Mr Blair.

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.

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.

JC has probably brought up to # 15m into Labour with last years new members, the recent membership rush and the # 25 supporters.

[161] Blair and his supporters sought to reform the party by further expunging leftist elements and taking it to the centre ground, thus creating «New Labour», with Blairite Peter Mandelson asserting that hard left figures like Livingstone represented «the enemy» of reform.

And as one Labour MP noted: «It's strange when the fact that someone is a New Labour donor and supporter becomes an attack.»

But in a defiant statement within minutes of the result being announced, the leader 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.

I just can not see the party going for this all over again, and the attempts by the media and the respective supporters of Blair and Brown to re-run the fun of the new Labour years with brotherly in - fighting and strife brings out a windy sigh of, «Must we?»

The issues raised were of great intrinsic importance, in political terms the thinkers and politicians involved were trying to lay the basis for a way forward for the Labour Party that broke with Blairism and New Labour, renewing the party's appeal to its traditional supporters and providing a credible electoral framework for the next general election.

And they have to give a voice to the fifty per cent of Labour members and supporters who didn't back Labour's new leader.

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

They could anger union supporters, however, given they are already wary of the new Labour leader after he mooted plans to reduce their voting influence at party conferences.

A new poll of Labour - held Scottish seats suggests that support for independence is now the overwhelming reason why former supporters now back the SNP.

Sadiq Khan has provoked an angry backlash from supporters of Jeremy Corbyn after savaging the new Labour leader in a newspaper interview.

One of Jeremy Corbyn's key supporters in Labour's parliamentary ranks has spoken of the challenges faced by the party's new leader.

Poll for The Independent shows a major disconnect between traditional Labour voters and new Corbyn supporters

Remembering that the # 3 supporters idea was from the New Labour wing of the party, they must have thought there was there was more public support for them outside of the current membership.

Flattering his own supporters and infuriating Labour, the former marine and diplomat, who is tipped for a new role in the Balkan peace settlement, explains that Mr Blair likes to call his political approach the third way - «but actually it is liberalism, or at least that's what it will become».

In a defiant statement within minutes of the result being announced, the leader 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.

Shadow Former Home Secretary David Blunkett told BBC News Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters should split from Labour and create a new party.

Atul does not seem to realise that many moderate Labour supporters were alienated by New Labour and some of them will be voting first for Corbyn.

The new leader's performance at Prime Minister's Questions was a good deal more competent than many expected — even if, by politely reading out questions emailed in by Labour supporters, he had effectively appointed himself the moderator of a national weekly edition of Cameron Direct, the public meeting format in which the PM excels.

While this is dwarfed by the nearly 200,000 new members who have joined since May 2015, it suggests that there are dissatisfied natural Labour supporters who could make up the nucleus of a new party.

His appeal is directed mostly at longstanding Labour members and newer supporters who have joined «without an agenda».