Sentences with phrase «compared labour members»

The left - winger also compared Labour members accused of threatening behaviour towards moderate MPs to the miners and their families who took on the «establishment» in the 1980s.

Finally, look at Chuka Umunna, who betrayed a contemptuous attitude in his Newsnight interview in which he compared Labour members and supporters to «petulant children».

Not exact matches

Just over half of Tory party members support the death penalty compared to under ten per cent of Labour and Lib Dem members and a fifth of SNP members.

For instance, 71 % are men, compared with 53 % of Labour members, 57 % of SNP members and 63 % of Lib Dems.

On the economy, 11 % of Tory members agree that austerity has gone too far, compared with 98 % of Labour members, 93 % of SNP members, and 75 % of Lib Dem members.

An overwhelming majority of Tory members (84 %) believe that schools should teach children to obey authority, compared with 31 % of Labour members and 38 % of SNP and Lib Dem members.

But the averages disguise some significant differences — not least that 44 % of Tory members are aged 65 or over, compared with 29 per cent of Labour members, 30 % of Lib Dem members and 32 % of SNP members.

Profile of Conservative members compared to general picture across the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, SNP and Greens

In fact, some 40 % of the new members think that the current Labour leadership respects ordinary members «a lot» compared to only 16 % of older members believing that was the case in May 2015.

In the weeks leading up to the result I conducted some polling to compare the views of Labour members and union supporters with those of voters who moved away from the party at the last election.

Seventy - two percent of Labour members think Corbyn is doing well as party leader (compared with 66 % last November) including 43 % of those who voted for Yvette Cooper or Andy Burnham last summer.

Just 2 1/2 years ago, Lutfur Rahman was selected as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets with 433 votes compared with 251 for local London assembly member, John Biggs, and 157 for council leader, Helal Abbas.

Compare and contrast with Momentum: an organisation containing a large number of non-party members; which holds a party conference in competition with Labour's own during the same week, so as to draw away the crowds; and which channels funds from undocumented sources to undocumented political uses.

There were no polls, for example, of Labour party members when Ed Miliband had been in the job for a few months that we can compare to see if David Miliband supporters had rallied round the leader or all still wanted Ed to resign.