Sentences with phrase «conversations with labour»

Apart from bitching about the Lib Dems, I had quite a few conversations with Labour activists about the state of the Labour Party.

For instance, he favours nationalisation of Britain's railways and some utilities over their present near - monopoly status, harbours a visceral hatred of many Tories, and has had several conversations with Labour MPs about wooing them over to the populist Momentum - style movement that he intends to launch in the coming months.

The Unite general secretary's intervention yesterday is a sign that he is not hearing what he wants in his private conversations with Labour's leaders.

But they said that Thornberry, who was the first MP to nominate Miliband for the party leadership in 2010, was surprised that her private conversations with the Labour leader in the wake of her tweet had been leaked to the press.

Uncut has focused on two questions in conversations with Labour campaigners to understand the situation on the ground:

On the other side of the fence, UKIP and the DUP seem culturally comfortable with the Conservatives and any conversation with Labour would be rather stilted.

Not exact matches

Through the course of the conversations, I and my colleague Dan Jarvis - Labour's shadow minister for the arts and creative industries — have been having with people in the industry it's clear that there are some themes emerging about what our vision should look like and I want to hear from you about what you think.

The conversation begins with the thought that Labour is doomed.

By showing that we are alive to people's concerns, this allows Labour to start having those crucial conversations with the public about what they are really upset about which are things that Labour cares about — pressures on local health and social care services; a lack of local investment and housing; not sharing the wealth and opportunity that London has; systemic inequality; culture; integration.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats» rocky relationship is becoming increasingly inconsistent, with conversations now revealed as having taken place at the highest level.

Danny Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, said Labour was not happy with the status quo but believed from conversations with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, that reform was possible without the threat of a referendum hanging over talks.

Commenting on our findings, the Labour MP and former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw said: «Under a functioning government, anyone who had allegedly broken the ministerial code could expect — at best — a difficult conversation with the prime minister.

The conversation ends with an aide rushing the Labour leader off the phone, saying he has to «go into a meeting».

«I had my own angry and intense conversation with Mr Brown,» she recalls, but even before then had had comments made about the Sun abandoning Labour.

«It is with deep regret that I walk away from this role, but no - one who has spent the last six weeks in daily conversations with voters in the North of England, as I have in Chesterfield, could be under any illusions about how urgently the Labour Party needs a change at the top.

At about the time that Labour's mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan, tweets that Livingstone's comments were «appalling and inexcusable», Corbyn is engaged in an intense conversation with the train inspector about everything from rail policy to the recent catch of a «record cod» to Tony Blair.

Work and Pensions shadow secretary Rachel Reeves went as far as to say she has had conversations with German, French and Irish officials who seemed to be supportive of Labour's migration plans, forgetting that the governments in Tallinn or Warsaw may have a very different view on the matter.

Here we see a conflicted Gideon Osborne (played by Steve Shepherd) in conversation with the Russian pro-free everything author, Ayn Rand, brilliantly portrayed by Ann Mitchell, who later tries to confront Theresa May on immigration and her inherently contradictive conservatism («how can you have a free market without free movement of labour?»).

[164] After a telephone conversation with his predecessor Tony Blair where Blair informed Brown that the election had shown that the British voters had lost faith in both him and the Labour Party and that the United Kingdom would not accept him continuing as Prime Minister.

Visiting Bristol yesterday as part of Labour's city conversation, to help elect Marvin Rees as city mayor, shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg highlighted the government's swingeing cuts with new build funding for schools slashed by a massive 57 %, against a general 30 % cut in most other spending areas.

The former foreign secretary David miliband, 44, told constituency supporters in South Shields that Labour had lost the election because «our conversation with the public broke down» while saying the priority in opposition was to reform, repair and rebuild.

While many express cautious optimism that Labour will win next May, the next conversation comes with predictions of electoral doom, as Lib Dem floaters return home and Cameron rallies.

In the spirit of Mad Men's Don Draper, we didn't like what was being said about Labour (that the party can't be trusted with public money), so we changed the conversation (by fronting up to enough cuts to create fiscal room for a set of policy priorities distinctly Labour and different from those of the Tory - led government).

«Even though we're all expecting Chilcot to be a very difficult read, for the Labour party, we need to get through this process so we can finally move on from that decision which was made over a decade ago,» he said, urging his colleagues to «try and have the conversation with a sense of moderation and respect».

And he launched a side - swipe at ministerial colleagues campaigning for the Labour leadership and deputy leadership: «I think it would be better to have a conversation with the public, Jon, than with each other.»

He asks her about an account in her book of a conversation with the former Labour minister Denzil Davies, who never supported devolution.

AM I STILL EMPLOYED: JOBS, JOYS, AND WHAT DO YOU DO LECTURE AND CONVERSATION Head of Research, Dubai Future Foundation Jessica Bland with Shumon Basar For hundreds of years, new waves of technology have motivated fresh fears of automation of human labour.

, ASC Gallery, London UK; Left Hand to Back of Head, Object Held Against Right Thigh, The Bluecoat, Liverpool UK (all 2016); The Place of the Scene, Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK; Artissima with The Gallery Apart, Turin IT; Conversation Piece, Part 1, Fondazione Memmo, Rome IT; And so we gape (solo public performance), curated by Nero, Rome IT (all 2015); Chronovisor: Archive, South Kiosk, London UK (2014); The Starseed Transmission, Enclave Projects, London UK; Hack the Barbican, The Barbican, London UK; Open Cube, The White Cube, London UK (all 2013); Cold Compress, Drei Gallery, Cologne DE; Punctuating (duo show), La Scatola Gallery, London UK (both 2012); Site of Flesh and Stone, Çağdaş Galeri, Istanbul TR (2011); To Look is to Labour, Laden Fuer Nichts, Leipzig DE (2010).

As Hugh Christie told our Legal Feeds blog, it started with a conversation with Ogletree's managing shareholder Kim Ebert in which the two got to talking about how conflicts were impeding cross-border growth for labour firms.