Sentences with phrase «confident labour party»

«But I think if it happens I am quite confident the Labour Party will be able to conduct that debate properly and sensibly.»

But with a more confident Labour party or a different parliamentary arithmetic the Act can be a significant constraint on the PM.

A more confident Labour party might have decided not to support the PM's election call.

Not exact matches

On the one hand, it shows he is confident enough to reach out from beyond the party's core support into what is seen as Labour territory.

But Labour insiders are now increasingly confident that the party can see off Nuttall after a disastrous few days for the Ukip leader.

He's confident that politics as we knew it will return «because things right themselves and the pendulum turns», but when it comes to the Labour Party, Blunkett agrees there is not an obvious route to return to politics as before.

«But more than this we heard confident and fresh thinking from the Labour leader about how this party will repair our nation but also prepare us for the challenges ahead.

But - aided by a floundering Scottish Labour Party which continues to struggle to find a way back into the affections of voters - Sturgeon has cause to feel confident.

Those most recent joiners are almost most confident that a Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn will win the next general election.

Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellor who is backing the Soubry amendments, said there was a good chance the government would be defeated as he was «reasonably confident that the shadow cabinet and rest of the parliamentary Labour party» supported staying in the customs union.

I am confident that most potential Labour voters want to see both a more diverse Labour party in parliament, and also a Labour government radically different from the last one.

Mr Miliband is quietly confident of a win Labour would hail as a return to two - party politics.

Over the next few weeks as she expands on how she will deliver a Labour victory that puts the country first, we are confident that she will be seen as the fresh start the Labour Party needs.»

Only when Labour candidates are confident they can appeal to a representative mix of voters, and only when Labour MPs don't try to defend the idea of people in the Wirral having nearly twice as much voting power as those in Bristol, only then will the party have truly turned a corner.

The Labour Party, confident that this was very much a «safe seat», lost by more than 10,000 votes.

I am confident that, for at least the next few years, it is best for me and for my community that I work within the Labour Party.

She added: «I'm confident more people will sign up and get involved in the Labour party and get out campaigning.»

The Fine Gael - Labour government, alongside the main opposition parties, said it was confident Ireland would vote yes despite strong campaigning in the past few days by those opposed to same - sex marriage.

No sober Labour person looks at the party's opinion poll ratings and sees in them reasons to be entirely confident that they will win on their own at the next election.

So confident were they that Labour would oust the Tories from government that, with the exception of Unison, they failed to encourage individual union members to join the party.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has said he is confident he can lead his party to victory at the next general election.

Ed Miliband has said he can deal with personal criticisms levelled at him and is confident he can lead the Labour Party to a general election victory.

Her talent, experience and commitment to the Labour and trade union movement makes me confident she will play a crucial role in building on last year's inspiring general election advance and taking our party forward to victory.

This doesn't mean anyone is about to revive the Lib - Lab pact any time soon (and Clarke said he was confident that the current turmoil in the Labour party would not lead to any Labour MPs defecting to the Lib Dems, in the way Brian Sedgemore did).

Cameron pointed out that there was one party which explicitly opposed increasing NHS spending at the election - Labour, quoting Alan Johnson - and that he was «confident» the Coalition would deliver the increase as promised.

Labour seems most confident in parading our values in debating with the Tories but we should be less abashed in doing so when squaring off against the Greens, UKIP and the SNP, while being more confident in our capacity to present ourselves as a more competent party of government than the Tories.

While the Liberal Democrats only occupy 8 seats in the House of Commons, Farron said that he was confident that the party's 106 peers would have enough Labour and crossbench support in the House of Lords to oppose an attempt to repeal the 1998 law.