Sentences with phrase «as labour member»

Blunkett said that a Conservative government that pursued that course of action would be threatening everything he has fought for in more than five decades as a Labour member.

As Labour Member of Parliament from 1957 for East Ham North, later Newham North East, he was a minister of state in Harold Wilson's first government at Education and Science (1964 — 1966), then as Minister of Public Buildings and Works (1966 — 1967), and finally was put in charge of the still - new Ministry of Overseas Development (1967 — 1969).

The deal seems to be that Karie Murphy is reinstated as a Labour member (which pleases Len McCluskey), that she withdraws from the contest for the Party's Parliamentary candidacy in Falkirk (which pleases Ed Miliband) and that Labour says that there is no proof of wrongdoing either by them or Unite - which will delight McClusky and embarrass Miliband, who denounced Unite's behaviour in Falkirk as «a politics that was closed.

«I've been with Jeremy the whole time as a Labour member of Parliament and he never went off on to one of these flights of fancy.

He said he was «content» at the reinstatement as a Labour member of the vice-chair of Momentum, Jackie Walker, who was suspended earlier this year after saying Jews were the «chief financiers of the slave trade».

As a Labour member since I was eighteen, I will be voting to...

The party's deputy leader, Tom Watson says he has evidence that members of the Socialist Party and the Alliance for Workers» Liberty are signing up as Labour members.

Mandelson and Blair's dominance of the political news just as Labour members received ballot papers fatally damaged the candidate whom they hoped to help, persuading enough undecided voters that it was time for everyone to move on.

and the YouGov poll wouldn't have even included all the Tory members masquerading as Labour members by paying # 3.

«That would have been an unfair removal for many people of the most important choice they get as Labour members.

«Rather than repeatedly talking down our party, and refusing to accept the outcome of this contest, Owen Smith should reflect on his use of such a divisive approach for the rest of this contest as Labour members won't appreciate his campaign's «Project Fear» or «Project Smear» tactics.

Not exact matches

Matt Kellway, the federal NDP Member of Parliament for Beaches - East York will be adding to Canadian efforts in Bangladesh as he accompanies media and labour reps from UNIFOR, CUPE, PSAC, the UFCW and USW there later this month.

For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.

ISEAL member standards are also working to tackle issues such as child labour, and to ensure workers receive fair wages and other benefits.

«These new members will continue to support the transformation of the palm oil sector by demonstrating innovation to implement RSPO existing standards as well as additional critical requirements, such as ending deforestation, the development of peatlands and gross labour and human rights violations.»

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

«It may not go down well in international diplomacy... but in the Labour party it will be welcomed as a rare flash of honesty from a senior member of the government,» Peter Kilfoyle said.

McDonnell has previously accused Smith of «blackmailing» Labour members with warnings of a party split, and today he repeated his description of the challenger as the «disunity candidate».

Dave Rowntree Best known as the drummer from Britpop band Blur, he has been a member of the Labour Party since 2002, chairing London's West End branch.

Abubakar said the gesture would reduce poverty, unemployment as well as help corps members establish small - scale enterprises and become employers of labour.

Team Corbyn's view is that with such a large base of members — more than 600,000 identified supporters, three times as many as Ed Miliband could rely on — a newly energised Labour can simply route around what they see as a uniformly hostile media using social media.

When he explained to Labour members why he was backing David Miliband for the leadership, left - wing figurehead Jon Cruddas specifically mentioned this as a major factor in his decision.

Some are members of the Commonwealth and the National Liberal Club but one senior Labour minister reckons: «That is an automatic ticket to being slagged off in the diary column of Tribune, when Stephen [Twigg] joined the NLC, it was used as a sign he was going to defect to the Libs.»

She helped save the Labour Party by voting as a member of Labour's national executive committee against the expulsion of Nye Bevan.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

The deputy Labour leader wrote in the run - up to a regional Cabinet meeting in Exeter: «This will be a chance for me to hear directly from you as party members in a private meeting to talk about the issues and campaigning activity.

As a long - standing, long - suffering Labour party member and activist said to me today — there are no rules.

The block affiliation of a union's members is seen as a fundamental part of the quasi-sacred Labour / union link.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaigAs a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaigas supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

He would also unite Labour MPs, members, trade unionists and the wider movement who want to come together and campaign properly on this as it matters so much.

The reason being that free movement of labour between member states (one the EU's four freedoms) permitted large - scale migration from East to West, which is alleged to have had impacts such as bidding down the wages of low - skilled workers, and increasing crime.

The leader's office asserting the man himself hasn't expressed a view doesn't mean he isn't listening to advice and Corbyn's said by those close to him to instinctively favour involving as many of Labour's 500,000 + members as possible in selecting candidates.

As Anthony says, whether the «Labour community» is only to be identified as «party members» can be debated when party membership is under 200,000 and party identification is many times thaAs Anthony says, whether the «Labour community» is only to be identified as «party members» can be debated when party membership is under 200,000 and party identification is many times thaas «party members» can be debated when party membership is under 200,000 and party identification is many times that.

I daresay this is just another ploy to tar Patriots and Conservatives as Fascists and racists... Mussolini - Italian Socialist Editor of Avanti Moseley - Labour Party member whose black shirts developed from the eerily familiar Green shirts I could go on.

When it comes the election next year, I will, as a Labour Party member in Tower Hamlets, campaign for Labour Party candidates.

As the London Labour party's email to members this week points out, the Conservatives have already won seats on the council.

Before becoming a Member of Parliament Jessica worked for two local MP's (Llew Smith in Blaenau Gwent and Huw Edwards in Monmouth) and served as General Secretary for the Welsh Labour Party.

There were no double - acts with members of the shadow cabinet such as Ed Balls, Harriet Harman, or Yvette Cooper — who many see at the Labour leader in waiting.

Corbyn's opponents hoped his history on the hard left of British politics would convince Labour members that he would be unelectable as prime minister.

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.

However, the 17 included the Chair, Jim and an unelected member of the House of Lords who appeared as a «representative» of the Westminster Parliamentary Labour Party.

Harriet Ruth Harman QC (born 30 July 1950) is a British solicitor and Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament since 1982, first for Peckham, and then for its successor constituency of Camberwell and Peckham since 1997.

A lot of progressive Labour members and supporters currently buy into this idea as well.

The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the defeats suffered by the trade union movement, as well as the decline in influence of the British Communist Party, led to a strengthening of the position of Labour party members who were opposed to Marxism.

Labour's shadow cabinet agreed on Monday that MPs would be given a free vote, despite Corbyn's public opposition to strikes, to avert a threatened rebellion by pro-bombing members such as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn.

The reality is that the Labour vote is going to be divided between the candidate imposed by the NEC Helal Abbas and Lutfur Rahman, the candidate chosen by Tower Hamlets party members, who is now standing as an independent.

As an audience member noted, this may totally rule out any Labour government — and Miliband said that was a price he was willing to pay.