Sentences with phrase «campaign with labour»

An early success was pension supplements campaign with labour partners.

I went campaigning with Labour the day before the vote and TBH I didn't really know myself, except that Labour were supporting remain.

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Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who is half - heartedly campaigning for the U.K. to remain the E.U., is almost certainly another closet Brexit supporter, a Socialist who sees the E.U. as the stooge of global capitalism, eroding workers» rights with its neo-liberal focus on the Single Market.

Already the Canadian Labour Congress is pressing ahead with its One Million Climate Jobs campaign.

«Consumers should reward companies with ethical integrity in their supply chains and continue to demand that worlds largest chocolate companies answer the question of how consumers can be assured their chocolate is not produced using exploited child labour,» says Tim Newman from ILRF's campaigns department.

Members of Parliament are also behind the campaign, with Labour MP, Andy Burnham, particularly outraged at the recent appeal against their release.

Information for the submission was drawn from Baby Milk Action (marketing of breastmilk substitutes, water pumping in São Lourenço, Brazil), International Labor Rights Forum (child slavery and labour in the cocoa supply chain, Labour rights abuses in Colombia), Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farlabour in the cocoa supply chain, Labour rights abuses in Colombia), Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farLabour rights abuses in Colombia), Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farLabour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farmers).

Labour strategists fear that partnership with an «establishment» campaign including Conservatives would alienate their core support — as it did in Scotland.

Campaigning Labour MP Tom Watson will confront News Corp shareholders with fresh allegations at the company's annual general meeting later.

But just as people have argued that Labour has a problem with anti-semitism, the Brexit campaign clearly has a problem with racism.

I am a Labour supporter, and have been for many years, but my problem with any established political party is they don't keep the promises they make during election campaigns.

She was a member of the leadership team with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown re-shaping the Labour Party and preparing the successful 1997 election campaign.

I wanted to talk about that Conservative campaign before the election, which slammed Labour's «death tax» and published that poster with the image of a grave inscribed with RIP OFF.

How to campaign enough to ensure Labour supporters get out and vote without looking to be in partnership with those who seem to regard these very supporters with contempt?

I spoke to a contact who admitted that he and one other guy, also now working for the government, came up with the idea of the campaign over a drink while they were reading a story about Labour's policy in the Guardian.

But I have no doubt that the Blue Labour agenda would not be possible in practice without radical, democratic, campaigning feminism and that its thinking would have been deeply impoverished without a sustained engagement with feminist thinking.

Gordon Brown has kick - started the campaign for next year's Scottish parliament elections with a speech in Edinburgh - but made no mention of the Labour leadership crisis.

Huge resources have been poured into the Tory election campaign, with the party expected to outspend Labour by up to three to one over the coming months.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

The Tory victory looks like evidence of how little the public is now willing to tolerate compromise of any sort: the message that hit home hardest during the campaign was the threat of constitutional chaos if a minority Labour government had tried to cling to power with the support of the SNP and a host of other minor parties.

The leadership campaign was fought out amongst Oxbridge graduates, two of the candidates were sons of a left - wing historian with connections deep into North London Labour intellectual circles.

The row over Corbyn's non-call to drive Labour back to the Austin Allegro and British Leyland by restoring Clause IV and slick campaign videos - Burnham playing Cameron happy families, Kendall offering a Blairite message in a John Lewis advert - blend traditional dirty politics with a modern setting.

The government's new lobbying bill has very little to do with lobbyists, and everything to do with restricting the ability of trade unions to campaign for Labour.

Labour should campaign in favour of AV - and try to mend fences with the progressive wing of the Lib Dems in the process.

It showed four moderate Labour MPs wrangling with an election that saw them start the campaign fearing for their jobs and end it with gigantic majorities courtesy of a leader they all regarded as a nincompoop.

With Labour and Conservative viewed as neck - and - neck in the polls, the horserace narrative dominated 2015 campaign coverage.

The clues were there on the website: it had the Labour party logo in the corner, and in small print at the bottom it said: «The Labour party and its elected representatives may contact you about issues we think you may be interested in or with campaign updates.»

Corbyn must use all the fizz of his leadership campaign and get Momentum to hit the road, get out there and sell the vital message with honesty, integrity and Labour values.

He is indeed reconnecting with the Labour heartlands, as his EU referendum campaign showed.

His Sky News clash with Labour's Andrew Gwynne was a campaign highlight.

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposLabour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposlabour movement opposition.

Lord Mandelson, Labour's election strategist, immediately warned in a campaign memo that «voters who flirt with Nick Clegg are likely to end up married to David Cameron».

As anticipated, the Conservatives began the «short» campaign with attacks on Miliband's leadership and Labour borrowing, but Miliband's team were buoyed by the Tories» failure to gain traction.

With campaigning kicking off for the London Mayoral Election it would be easy to forget that Labour's manifesto is yet to be written.

«Where Labour needs to learn lessons is that twice now — and I say this with no personal animosity to either, I respect them both greatly, they're remarkable people — but twice in a row now we've gone into a general election campaign with leaders that we knew to be unpopular with the public, and people weren't prepared to speak out, and when they did they were attacked for disunity,» he says.

Toby Perkins, Liz Kendall's campaign manager, has released a statement: «These reports suggest Labour members realise that carrying on with a continuity leader will result in another defeat - the question is what kind of change Labour will embrace.»

But the failure to deal with this perception allowed it to become entrenched — leaving Labour to play catch - up in the final weeks of the election campaign, with big questions of credibility still hovering over it.

Labour's election campaign, orchestrated by Miliband but with no single person in control, was an unmitigated disaster.

If the Labour leadership campaign has proved anything it is that there is need for a change in economic thinking if those policies to be offered in 2020 by all parties — but most especially those on the left — are to resonate with people anxious for change.

His Labour opponent's legal past and history of sharing platforms with unsavoury characters has created a small opening in what has otherwise been a lacklustre campaign.

The following statement was published yesterday on Revitalise Scottish Labour, the website associated with the trade union left in Scotland and Scottish Labour activists involved in the Campaign for Socialism

At the carefully stage - managed Labour women's training conference in mid-July, defence of the proposals by Baroness Hollis and new Labour MP and ex-NUS president Lorna Fitzsimons as not pleasant but «necessary» contrasted with a well attended and heated Labour Women's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent benefits.

Miliband launched Labour's campaign for the 2012 local elections with a speech in Birmingham, accusing the coalition government of «betrayal», and claiming that it «lacked the values» that Britain needed.

Labour believed they could dominate two full days of the campaign with the non-dom proposal, but the Conservative campaign director, Lynton Crosby, countered with a trademark «dead cat» strategy — a tactic best summarised by Boris Johnson as follows: «There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table — and I don't mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted.

With news on the proposals getting through to Labour Party members over the summer, LWAC, together with Labour women MPs, took the initiative to launch the Save Lone Parent Benefit umbrella campaWith news on the proposals getting through to Labour Party members over the summer, LWAC, together with Labour women MPs, took the initiative to launch the Save Lone Parent Benefit umbrella campawith Labour women MPs, took the initiative to launch the Save Lone Parent Benefit umbrella campaign.

The challenge for the Scottish Labour left is to put these socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.

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.

«I think Jeremy Corbyn indicated in his speech that it's not just on the Labour side, it's also on the Tory side, and people with wide military experience, that the increased threat of terrorist attacks here must be a significant possibility given what is likely to take place, that Britain will be taking part in this military campaign in Syria.

The campaign to save lone parent benefit registered, as even those generally supportive of the government's strategy have acknowledged, a significant breakthrough for the Labour left because it successfully identified with and led public, extra-parliamentary political opposition.

He launched the campaign with a speech that aimed to highlight Labour's pro-business credentials.