Sentences with phrase «among ordinary party members»

An MP in the Ed Miliband campaign tells me they had predicted exactly the PLP section vote, and quite closely the Union and Affiliates section vote, but they were disappointed with the Members section vote, as their figures had shown them winning more among ordinary party members.

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Apparently, David's lead among the parliamentary third of Labour's electoral college was not big enough to compensate for his relative weakness among the other two sections, which are ordinary party members and affiliated trades - union members.