Sentences with phrase «do blanket opposition»

What we've got to do is listen to what people round the country said to us and recognise that we didn't get elected again and this wasn't a blip this was the second time we haven't got elected and actually what people don't what us to do, they don't want us to do blanket opposition, they want us actually to be specific about what we are going to be challenging and holding the government to account on.

«We can't simply say to the public you were wrong... We're not going to do blanket opposition because we've heard all around the country that whilst people have got concerns, particularly about the standard of living for low income families in work, they don't want just... blanket opposition to what the government are proposing on welfare.»

Not exact matches

The blanket opposition to hunting is one of the surprising reasons (to city - dwellers) that many rural people simply won't consider voting Labour: «they just don't understand our way of life».

Ms Harman said Labour would oppose some of the changes to tax credits, as well as the abolition of the child poverty targets, but that they wouldn't do «blanket opposition» because people don't want it.

When Harriet has to deal with a sobbing mum at a constituency surgery whose life has become harder because she has three kids, will that woman be comforted by bland assertions that «we could not offer blanket opposition» or that «we didn't win the election ``?