Sentences with phrase «between labour members»

If one side ends up with a thumping majority it could pass sweeping rule changes shifting the balance of power between Labour members and MPs.

The ideological distance between Labour members and MPs is in fact smaller than that between Conservative members and MPs.

Not exact matches

This jolly ride was made all the jollier by the stream of coarseethnic jokes flying between a very high Conservative and very old (and very left) Labour member, their jocularity intensified by the sheer naughtiness of concealingsuch behaviour from their respective constituents.

«People find the link between politics and lobbyists very distasteful... There's no issue close to Labour members» hearts than the NHS.»

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».

Crucially, the type of conservatism preached by Glasman, Rutherford, Cruddas and co. is a «radical conservatism», which seeks to resist the disrupting and commodifying tendencies of markets: ``... conservative in valuing relationships, work, family and community... radical in defending the labour interest, and sharing out power, resources and opportunities between members of society.»

We also show that the large electoral losses for the Social Democrats between 1994 and 1998 were much more pronounced among outsiders: according to our estimates, a typical member of the labour force became 18 percentage points less likely to support the Social Democrats if he was an outsider, but only 8.5 percentage points less likely to do so if he was an insider.

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.

(Although since then Scottish Labour has again left the field with Kezia Dugdale quitting the leadership for love triggering a leadership battle between Richard Leonard and Anas Sarwar that's increasingly unseemly even though left wing Leonard has already all but won thanks to the now normal Labour practise of signing up lots of union members on the cheap.)

I think it would be obvious that there is a difference between a person who wants to vote in favour of Labour being urged to vote tactically, and a Labour member pro-actively campaigning in favour of a specific opposition candidate.

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.

That can have major consequences if there is some ideological difference between MPs and party members — as there was in the Labour Party last year.

Back in September I co-authored an article in the Guardian with Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass, about the need for a «coalition of progressive ideas» between Liberal Democat and Labour members.

Stephen Cragg QC, representing the five members, argued that Labour's internal rules did not specify a distinction between which members could and could not vote.

The average age of party members is 57 for the Tories, 54 for the SNP, 53 for Labour, and 52 for the Liberal Democrats — and just one in 20 party members in the UK is aged between 18 - 24.

The bloodletting between Labour's left and right flanks will largely happen online, where disgruntled members will duke out years of anger in blog - to - blog combat.

In the period between now and when the voters, trade unionists and party members start to realise this, Blair will use the good will he starts out with to move as fast as possible — starting at this year's conference — to suppress the mechanisms whereby alternative policies could be expressed within the Labour Party.

The second problem is that Momentum has become a battleground between three groups within the movement: the traditional (and by now rather old) Labour left, sometimes referred to as Bennites; younger, politically - engaged campaigners; and members of the various small political groupings to the left of the Labour Party, such as The Socialist Workers Party, Alliance for Workers» Liberty and the remnants of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Labour members also clearly differentiate between England where the party made electoral advances and Scotland where the Blairites led the party to further defeat.

A poll of 2,010 Labour Party members and Labour - supporting members of affiliated trade unions was conducted between 3 and 14 September 2010.

Striking a difficult balance between those two positions, Mr Miliband told the audience that there would be times the leader of the Labour party and union members would disagree.

Under New Labour, Ukip was subject to infiltration by members of the BNP (until, that is, the BNP started beating them regularly in local elections) and split between those who saw it as a group to exert pressure on the Conservatives, and those who wanted it to be an electoral force in its own right.

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

The BMG Research poll for the Evening Standard suggests a wide difference of opinion between the public at large and Labour members, who look set to re-elect Mr Corbyn as party leader next month.

He was the Executive Member for Adult Social Care and Health in the Borough between 2006 and the local elections earlier this year, when Labour regained power at Camden Town Hall, at which point he replaced Andrew Marshall as Conservative group leader.

The party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International between 1923 and 1940.

• John Mann, a Labour member of the Commons Treasury committee, has accused the Bank of England of contempt of parliament following the release of email between the former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond and the Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker.

These accounts are also a representation of what we might understand as the tension between old Labour members and new Labour members.

The Falkirk scandal comes against a backdrop of the standoff between Miliband and the unions over the issue of party funding, as the Labour leader attempts to switch to a direct relationship with union members.

There are several lessons we must learn not just from the negotiations in May 2010 (for which Labour were unprepared) but also from relations between the two parties in the coalition and the continuing impact of coalition government on their members.

This also sparked squabbles between the four remaining (all Labour) constituent members of the Combined Authority on the way forward — showing how local leaders struggled to get on and work together, and raising concerns as to how and whether they'd make a devo deal work.

The row marks the first major public disagreement between the new mayor and Labour Assembly members after a relatively smooth start to his term.

Rather, Holloway drew jeers from Labour members and was taken to task by Stephen Doughty MP for «constantly blurring the lines and definitions between refugee, migrant, economic migrant and asylum seeker».

We know, from party sources, how Labour's selectorate divides between full party members and those who have signed up, either via their trade union or by paying # 3, to vote in the leadership election.

It was Tory - held between 1979 and 1987, but is technically now classed a Labour / Plaid marginal, with the Conservatives having come fourth with 11 % of the vote in 2005 - although the third - placed Independent, Peter Rogers, had previously been a Conservative Assembly Member.

The Shadow Health Secretary said it would be «easy to guess» the kind of exchanges going on between members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee.

When audience members at the fringe suggested that there were serious policy differences between Labour and the Lib Dems — such as the attitudes of the two parties towards civil liberties — Campbell's fellow panelist, former Labour home secretary Charles Clarke, joked that he was «surveillance master in chief».

The bond between Alexander and the younger Miliband deepened on a holiday in Ireland in 2000, which they shared with James Purnell, another member of the Next Labour generation who surprised his peers last month by announcing he is to stand down as an MP.

When it came to the vote, there were an unholy alliance between ultra-Lefts like Ted Knight who are, in practice, actively hostile to Labour (even if they are still members of it) and those who believe that Labour Party activity must take absolute priority.

The survey, carried out between Monday and Thursday as Mr Corbyn came under fire from MPs and suffered several resignations from his shadow cabinet, found 50 % of Labour members support him as leader but 47 % do not.

In the poll of 1,019 Labour members surveyed between Friday 15 July and Monday 18 July, 44 % said they would definitely vote for Corbyn, while a further 13 % said they would probably vote for him.

Between meetings, the representatives that make up the body liaise with the members, supporters and public who submit to Labour Policy Forum.

NUPENG had, in a release dated Jan. 31, given a 15 - day ultimatum to government over six labour issues between some of its members and their respective companies.

Most of Sandwell's councillors are members of the Labour Party, with the Labour party having run the council since the first election in 1973, apart from one year between 1978 and 1979 when the Conservatives had a majority.

We know from the Labour Party that as many as 200,000 additional members joined in that final week, around half last - minute union sign - ups and the other half divided between new # 3 members and new full members.

Between 2002 and 2010 the Labour Government banned tobacco advertising and sponsorship, prohibited smoking in all enclosed «public» places (including private members» clubs), introduced graphic warnings and passed legislation banning the display of tobacco in shops and outlawing tobacco vending machines.

As a consequence, those members and new supporters chose the candidate who had always stood apart from every Labour leader since he was elected an MP — from Neil Kinnock to Ed Miliband and everyone in between.

When Margaret Thatcher attempted to sever the link between unions and the Labour Party with the 1984 Trade Union Act, which required unions to regularly ballot members on whether they wished to continue pay - ing into their union's political fund, it was a direct attempt to cripple the Labour Party while reducing the influence of the unions on policy.

[60] However, in his account of Labour's negotiations with the Liberal Democrats, Andrew Adonis — who participated in the talks — writes that the general consensus among members of Gordon Brown's cabinet was that talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats would reach an impasse.»

In July, Ed and David were exactly equal amongst Labour party members, and in our latest poll David Miliband remains ahead amongst members on their first preferences, but in a final run off between the two brothers Ed Miliband would be 4 points ahead, 52 % to 48 %.