Sentences with phrase «about labour party»

Back when he was the first Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband did his bit for climate optimism with an anecdote about a Labour Party member who reminded him that Martin Luther King never said: «I have a nightmare»; it was the «dream» that motivated people.

Pledging to unite the party, Mr Murphy said: «There is so much that has to change about the Labour Party and so much that has to change about our country.

The fact that so many MPs want to be measured for ermine tells us two huge things about the Labour party at Westminster today.

What does it say about the Labour party that the leader of its biggest affiliate and two prominent NEC members can simply disregard the due process of law and condemn the judge's decision out of hand?

It asked: «Thinking particularly about the Labour party and the Labour campaign in the referendum, would you say that this made you more or less likely to vote Labour or has it made no difference?»

«How dare he whip up fury about the Labour party, which has acted swiftly and thoroughly when allegations of racism among members is made in sharp contrast to his party's behaviour.

Comments about the Labour Party have been less than complementary, as for the Liberals (Who?).

There has been much speculation in the papers (here for example) over the last few days about the Labour Party parachuting in Jack Dromey to replace Harry Cohen (who is retiring from the House of Commons) as the party's prospective parliamentary candidate for Leyton and Wanstead.

But having watched their clash again, I'm not entirely convinced about the Labour Party's attempt to get a «Hell Yes!»

One shadow minister told PoliticsHome: «Jeremy has shown this morning that he doesn't care about the Labour party and, more importantly, the country.

You are making assumptions about Labour Party economic policy, that are not justified.

Jack: Ethnic minorities overwhelmingly back Labour throughout the country, despite the often negative statements about the Labour party made by members of the ethnic minorities.

It is about the Labour Party's very existence».

Cristina Odone for example does not tell us anything about the Labour party.

Serious and professional about the Labour Party and her job, and a great person too.

«One thing I think as someone coming from my working class background always got my gut about the Labour party is they're prepared to abandon people on large estates, happy to see them on a life of dole, happy to see them getting a substandard education.

I am under no illusions about the Labour Party, their current response is to oppose the «severity» of the coalitions reforms and the «pace» of cuts, rather than the concept of privatising and slashing public services.

Mr Benn also spoke to Andrew Neil about the Labour Party conference starting this weekend in Brighton, and its standing in the opinion polls.

Spare a thought for the poor hacks paid to write about the Labour Party.

I have to say I think this is all about the Labour Party trying to detract from the point we have been making about the deal that they would have to do with the SNP, which is going to cost people in this country a lot of money and is not something I think that we want to see - it would result in more debt, more borrowing, higher taxes.

If Jeremy Corbyn and his cultists really cared about the Labour party and the working class and down on their luck people Labour is meant to represent they would immediately resign, but they don't, they care far more about their own ego and positions than they do about the Labour party, they could not care less that they are leading it to ruin.

«Increasingly James has been thinking about the Labour party and the labour movement and he's moved to a different position where, for instance, he supports a living wage, but that was something that when he was a cabinet minister he said he opposed.

The question about the Labour Party is the big one for me.

A public debate about the Labour party's future direction, and how to forge an effective response to the Conservatives, could prove both more important, and rather healthier, than the fevered anonymous briefings about possible plots.

I'd have to echo Nick at 91: the very best one can say about the Labour party at the moment is that the jury is still out.

Earlier this year, Graham told Total Politics that he was working on a new play about the Labour party and a new TV drama series set in Downing Street.

Last week I received a dossier about Labour Party members in two wards of Tower Hamlets.

Graham hopes that his play about the Labour party will be done and dusted soon - and hitting the stage in around ten months» time.

Thank you for writing to me, on behalf of the Baby Feeding Law Group, about the Labour Party's policy on infant and young child feeding.

Not exact matches

Yanis Varoufakis: Isn't it astonishing that after Jeremy Corbyn was being described as «the longest suicide note by the Labour Party» about a year ago, today there is an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led government.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

Unlike Khan, who significantly outperformed the Labour party in his own constituency during the mayoral election, Goldsmith did only about as well as a generic Conservative candidate.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leader, who has expressed ambivalent views about the EU in the past, was not seen as a particularly strong voice for the Remain campaign.

I was sympathetic to the Alberta Party when it came out, but when I began to talk to members about issues concerning organized labour I found that they didn't have any policies.

A Christian Labour MP tells Premier the party is enthusiastic about winning the election in June - even... More

«There's a solidarity about this which is right and proper coming from a group of Christians in the Labour Party, it's what you would hope for.»

The Labour party was undone in the recent British election by a combination of Scottish nationalism, concerns about immigration, and opposition to EU integration — each a version of identity politics.

I've spent a long long time in the Labour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thaLabour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thalabour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever that was.

I'm not sure what the Labour Party constitution says about it, but there is certainly no legal requirement for the Prime Minister to be party leParty constitution says about it, but there is certainly no legal requirement for the Prime Minister to be party leparty leader.

Jarvis» well - documented military background taught him all about refusing to back down when confronted by the enemy — and is one of the reasons why he is regularly touted as a future Labour leader by many on the party's moderate wing.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

The thing I very much liked about Ed's candidacy was that he offered the Labour Party the best opportunity to move on from the Blair and Brown era and it has to do that.

The (UK) Labour party has had a lot of anti-semitism issues in the news recently, including an mural which included caricatures of two Jewish bankers, two separate council candidates posting holocaust denial content, and a former London mayor making repeated revisionist statements about Nazi Germany (though he doesn't deny that the holocaust happened).

Telling the truth about tough issues is now impossible in the modern day Labour Party.

«But the Labour party has shied away for too long from listening to, talking about and seeking to address the concerns of people who were worried about the impact that unskilled migration has had on many of our communities.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

The Labour leader has had precisely nothing to say about foreign affairs during his time at the head of the party so he will have to forgive us now for not taking his late concern about events overseas particularly seriously.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

Nigel Farage tweeted: «Telling the truth about tough issues is now impossible in the modern day Labour Party.»

Under the current Labour system, the National Policy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy positions.