Sentences with phrase «by labour members»

Welsh Labour has responded to opposition criticism following a decision by Labour members of the Assembly's Health Committee to vote against inviting Ann Clwyd to give evidence.

Today a spokesman for Mr Corbyn signalled a direct vote by Labour members could be a different solution.

But the new mayor was not given an easy ride by Labour members on the panel, one of which presented him with a bicycle helmet asking him to promise to obey the law and wear it.

On salience, health and the economy are seen as two of the three biggest issues facing the country by Labour members, Labour voters and the general public.

Her comments come as Corbyn has said that policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party.

The candidate selected by Labour members in Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, that is, not the one rejected by Labour members in Tower Hamlets, Helal Abbas.

Having read Millibore's article, it is hard to see him getting elected by Labour members under this agenda, which can be summed up as Re - Heated Blairism [«more choice in public services»] etc..

Policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party, Jeremy Corbyn has said in a debate with his three leadership rivals organised by the Guardian.

«On the issue of anonymity, I sat on the Home Affairs Committee that examined this issue; it was of course a Committee in a previous Parliament, dominated by Labour Members, and very ably chaired by Chris Mullin.

Many of those who claim to be baffled by some Labour members» unwillingness to compromise on welfare wouldn't give way on other policies that might prove electorally popular.

Chick Young, a 57 - year - old BBC soccer pundit, had to be carried from the pitch after a nasty tackle by a Labour member of Parliament.

Miller said: «This has been a really difficult 16 months - because I was cleared of the central allegation made about me by a Labour Member of Parliament, I hoped that I could stay.

Ms Bailey claims she was raped by a Labour member in 20111 and advised by a senior party official not to report it as it could have damaged her career.

During the debate, Starmer argued that passing the papers initially to the Brexit select committee would be a prudent approach, not least as it has a majority of Conservative MPs, despite being chaired by a Labour member.

Not exact matches

The proposed «reasonableness» tests on the labour and financial contributions by adult family members leave too much discretion with the CRA, who will be able to change the tax attributes on these earnings.

Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist in the opposition Labour Party by a senior party member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers in parliament.

Embarrassingly, Labour's vote tally was actually lower than the total number of local members claimed by the party.

By the time the Legislature broke for its second spring break (aka â $ œconstituency weekâ $) on Thursday, opposition members were growing a little weary of Labour Minister Christina Grayâ $ ™ s party piec...

Paper commissioned by WWF examines factors reducing effectiveness of certification schemes, makes suggestions for improvements, while POIG member Musim Mas issues industry's first comprehensive labour assessment

«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.»

When announcing this policy, Labour made clear that «this would be underpinned by the right to obtain (under an obligation of confidentiality) financial and commercial information about the business and affairs of a football club,» though the board members wouldn't be able to block takeovers or change corporate strategy.

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.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, is set to hold a crucial meeting with the President and executive members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Abuja to resolve the strike action currently being embarked upon by the union.

But while Corbyn's triumph has been welcomed by many Labour party members and supporters keen to see a broad debate, many others would have preferred to see the anti-austerity candidate staying on the sidelines.

I think most Labour party members are saying look, you're damaging our campaign by the continuous carping.

The impressive Labour MP Chuka Umunna scored a great hit by revealing Barclay's meagre corporate tax bill, while the amiable Tory member Charlotte Leslie has been propelled to the centre of David Cameron's big society project.

The possibility of Galloway's return has been backed by Corbyn's close ally, the former Labour mayor of London Ken Livingstone, but has already caused outrage among other members of the party.

The key questions are whether the majority of Labour MPs and the significant minority of party members who oppose Labour's lurch towards far left politics are alienated enough by it all to leave (given that the alternative of an internal challenge has failed), and whether the unions, who still underwrite much of the party's finances, will eventually call time on the Corbyn project.

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.

But in surveys conducted over the summer by The New Statesmen, Labour's members were 75 % ABC1 voters, 57 % degree holders and 15 % London dwellers.

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

NB: The New Statesman's Stephen Bush, the foremost Labour Kremlinologist, writes that Cooper might be elected unopposed by Labour MPs, locking out left - wing members.

In 1993, Harriet was elected by a national ballot of Labour Party members to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party and was re-elected each year till Labour came into government and she became a minister.

The government in a statement on Monday said it has noted the attempt by some members of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Nigeria Union of Teachers to expose staff and students to danger arising from the ongoing court action against their members.

Research by grassroots website LibDemVoice.org found 55 % of party members want either a coalition deal with Labour or a more limited «confidence and supply» arrangement in which the Lib Dems prevent a Labour administration from falling.

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.

Andy Newman posts that «I think they have the argument spot on, perhaps they have limited this to Labour Party members in an attempt to steer the party away from the negative approach revealed by smeargate; but I am am sure that many progressive bloggers outside the Labour Party will also fully endorse their general argument.

Corbyn frustrated many Labour members by ordering MPs to vote to trigger Article 50 on 8 February.

In Mitcham and Morden in south London, Labour members are said to have voted for Owen Smith by 31 - 2.

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.»

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 campaign.

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.

The Party of European Socialists has attracted some rather unfavourable comment in the FT and The Economist (and much positive coverage elsewhere) on our manifesto for the 2009 European elections — agreed by all member parties including Labour at our meeting on December 1 in Madrid: check it out at http://www.pes.org/content/view/1457/72.

Jon Gower Davies, a former Head of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Newcastle and a Labour Councillor on Newcastle City Council for 20 years, has written a report for the think - tank Civitas, entitled «Small Corroding Words: the slighting of Great Britain by the EHRC», which advocates the abolition of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, currently chaired by Trevor Phillips, the ex Labour member of the London Assembly.

Keeley is a member of the Labour Friends of Israel, [3] she visited Israel in September 2007 on a trip funded by the Labour Friends of Israel and the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Many members were dismayed by the party leadership's decision to abstain on the recent welfare bill, and asked what Labour is for, if not to try to protect vulnerable groups.

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.

A majority of its members favour backing airstrikes in spite of the four conditions laid down by Labour's conference only two months ago not being met.