Sentences with phrase «carrying labour members»

Most of those volunteers are young people who aren't card - carrying Labour members.

An organisation supporting the Labour leader was ostensibly asking me, a card - carrying Labour member, to protest the Parliamentary Labour Party.

That signifies a greatly more worrying development that the average card - carrying Labour member knows or realises.

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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.

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.»

Mike Gapes, the Labour MP for Ilford South, referred directly to Mr Corbyn when he said: «Can I remind her and the right honourable member for Islington North that it was a Labour government, with Robin Cook as Foreign Secretary, which carried out air strikes in Iraq under Operation Desert Fox in 1998 without a UN resolution, it was a Labour government that restored President Kabbah in Sierra Leone without a UN resolution, that it was a Labour government that stopped the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo without a UN resolution, and that there is a long - standing and noble tradition on these benches supporting humanitarian intervention.»

But now that former shadow business secretary Angela Eagle has triggered a leadership contest (before stepping aside for Owen Smith), Labour members have to consider whether somebody else should carry its new leftist banner.

Our children are going to have to pay higher taxes for years as a result of irresponsible spending by the last government - and in case you think I'm biased - I was a card carrying Labour party member until I found out how much we are in debt due to overspending on such things as CTF.

Ruth Serwotka, whose profile picture carries an I've Voted Corbyn banner, tweeted: «Mark been prevented from voting in a Labour Movement election as an affiliated member.

In the weeks since I posted, I've probably spoken to 150 people who used to be labour supporters and maybe 30 % of those were card carrying members at one time.

On Wednesday night, John Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, who has previously called for the election to be suspended until proper checks can be carried out on the tens of thousands of new members, suggested that Labour MPs should renominate and choose their preferred candidate from Burnham, Kendall and Cooper to challenge Corbyn in a head - to - head contest.

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.

Conservative Philip Davies used the press conference for the publication of the report to launch a personal attack against Labour MP and fellow committee member Tom Watson, saying «some people are getting carried away».

Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell, a member of the Commons Members Estimate Committee which carried out its own review of MPs» expenses last year, said MPs would debate the proposals and «have the opportunity if they so wish to amend them».

The program is also very labour intensive, however this does not add to costs as all the work is carried out by BCR volunteer members and helpers.