Sentences with phrase «by labour supporters»

Mr Benn is also disliked by some Labour supporters for voting in favour of extending airstrikes against Islamic State to Syria last year.

The new leader's performance at Prime Minister's Questions was a good deal more competent than many expected — even if, by politely reading out questions emailed in by Labour supporters, he had effectively appointed himself the moderator of a national weekly edition of Cameron Direct, the public meeting format in which the PM excels.

It was not, it's fair to say, universally welcomed by Labour supporters and there was particular criticism of it being backed up with a couple of poll questions showing people agreed with a statement «We must live within our means so cutting the deficit is the top priority».

The row looks set to carry and Baldwin's intervention will doubtless be welcomed by Labour supporters who are baffled by the Tory bias claims.

She was regarded a good local MP by Labour supporters, one said simply, «the feeling is if anyone can, Angela can».

Both Blair and Mandelson were widely criticised by Labour supporters in recent months after attacking Labour's apparent leftward direction.

A video posted by the party suggested a slightly different story: one car, apparently driven by a Labour supporter, reversed into a vehicle driven by one of the Respect faithful.

Not exact matches

The reaction: Union supporters were dismayed to learn the products on offer are not, as a rule, made by unionized labour.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

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.

13:47 - Chris Bryant spreads the blame evenly, even citing privacy infringements by the Mirror, something he says shames him as a Labour supporter.

Having been rejected by Labour as its candidate, something he and his supporters regarded as a «political fix», he went back on a pledge not to run as an independent, claiming that he was defending «the principle of London's right to govern itself».

The MP is an ardent New Labour supporter with a majority of nearly 12,000 and has served since the 1999 by - election.

Yet Reg Freeson, the Labour MP who was ousted and replaced as MP by Livingstone said he did not consider the ex-London Mayor to be «anti-semitic» and as London's Mayor Livingstone supported Jewish festivals and was never short of Jews amongst his supporters.

By the time historically Labour supporters cast their «yes» votes, they had been led to conclude that support for independence was incompatible with support for the Labour Party.

Hi Anthony, Not clear what you mean by «registered supporters» for Labour selections?

But Graham is even more fascinated by the Labour leader's most fervent supporters and the way that the party appears to have transformed since Corbyn arrived on the scene.

From his boat, Farage - flanked by supporters including Ukip donor Arron Banks and Labour MP Kate Hoey - refused to hit back at Geldof.

If he keeps his seat then Lewis is fancied by many Labour supporters to be the next leader, with Guardian columnist Owen Jones among his key supporters.

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.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is seen by a large swathe of her supporters - particularly those voters who have abandoned Labour - as a socialist standard - bearer.

It has been described by party sources - and by the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign - as the first part of a «Labour fightback» against Brexit, amid concerns that the party's supporters will not vote in sufficient numbers for Remain.

They fear many Labour supporters will either stay at home on June 23 or be seduced by Nigel Farage's crude populism.

Labour supporters were devastated by the result, which was far worse for the party than opinion polls had been predicting.

Liz Kendall's campaign chief has expressed his disappointment over an intervention in the Labour leadership race by a supporter of Yvette Cooper.

As fresh claims of abuse by Mr Corbyn's supporters emerged, one of Labour's biggest donors left the party.

However, by the end of the month, the lead has fallen to just 6 points, with YouGov analysis showing a big shift in support among Labour supporters.

Building on experience gleaned from the inevitable secondment to the Obama campaign, he was poached by Miliband, for whom he successfully recruited young Labour supporters, and bloggers, to the cause.

Labour's main enemy would have been complacency so Sawford and Miliband continually urged their supporters to turn out, even in the face of polling by arch-Tory Lord Ashcroft, showing Labour with a 22 point lead.

Similarly she advocates Labour and Green supporters both vote Liberal Democrat in contests dominated by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

... The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Labour Uncut blog, shows that a majority (53 per cent) of current Tory supporters believe their party has got better since the last election, with only 11 per cent saying it has got worse.

By contrast Polly Toynbee in the Guardian on Thursday made a well argued case for classic anti-Tory tactical voting by Green and Labour supporterBy contrast Polly Toynbee in the Guardian on Thursday made a well argued case for classic anti-Tory tactical voting by Green and Labour supporterby Green and Labour supporters.

It follows a campaign by Momentum and other supporters of Jeremy Corbyn to decrease the threshold after Corbyn, unpopular with most MPs, struggled to pass it during the 2015 Labour leadership election.

Labour's natural supporters were unimpressed with the austerity - lite alternative offered by the Labour Party.

This follows in the wake of an ongoing campaign by Labour moderates to publicly discredit Corbyn and his supporters, including the threat of a potential political «coup» in the event of his victory.

For those living in constituencies where Labour and the Liberal Democrats are expected to share first and second place, tactical voting by Conservative supporters in favour of the Lib Dems increases the chances that another Con - Lib coalition would have a majority.

Miliband's supporters claim that one of his achievements has been to heal the divisions of the Blair / Brown years, but Labour in 2010 wasn't a party divided by ideology, but by ego and personality.

So Labour's loss to UKIP is partly hidden by its supporters having gone through other paths prior to arriving at UKIP.

The Labour government was detested, even by many of its own supporters.

He said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.»

Low - April 9th: Tactical votes - Lord Adonis, Labour's transport minister, stepped right into vulnerable Lib Dem territory, by calling for Lib Dem supporters to vote Labour where only they can take on the Conservatives.

The idea that UKIP are picking up old Labour supporters is also not supported by evidence on the social class of their intended voters.

The last Labour leadership election was beset by rows over attempts by Labour officials to strike off registered supporters who did not «share the values and aims of the Labour party».

Labour supporters often point to the social rights provided by the EU as evidence of the need to stay in.

Meanwhile, a number of Corbyn supporters on Twitter also insisted that Labour's low standing under the current leader is a result of what they call the «chicken coup» — a reference to the flurry of resignations that was triggered by Hilary Benn standing down as shadow foreign secretary on 26 June.

16th April 2017, Labour List By Tim Bale, Paul Webb, Monica Poletti The true picture of Labour members and supporters and their election campaigning

Nevertheless, it does limit the potential for Momentum to encourage activism if they are only interested in certain kinds of Labour supporters, and if these supporters are then viewed with suspicion by other elements of the party and therefore likely to get a frosty reception from non-Momentum activists.

The problem, as described by Lewis Minkin in The Blair Supremacy (Labour First «s secretary Luke Akehurst's «book of the year» in 2014), was that «Blair, despite a huge victory in his election as leader, had in practice only a narrow base of committed supporters of his full political project» [p663].

19th July 2016, The Conversation blog by Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb Here's what we know about Labour's # 3 supporters — and whether they'll pay # 25 to help Corbyn again [Republished by the Independent, The Staggers blog (NewStatesman), NewsWeek magazine, and by the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) blog]