Sentences with phrase «engage with labour»

If the No camp is serious about winning this vote, it needs to actively think of ways to engage with Labour voters and this needs to happen sooner rather than later.

In an interview on the Progress website, McGovern makes it clear that she expects Jeremy Corbyn to engage with Labour's Blairite tendency and says the party should not «waste time» looking inwards.

Connect moved quickly to offer the first training course for public affairs professionals on how to engage with Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.

«While a recent poll showed that the Lib Dems have lost support since axing Charles Kennedy, the SNP are moving forward as we engage with Labour in a head to head contest for the 2007 Scottish election,» Mr Salmond said.

It also offers ideas on how to deeply engage with labour and how to move and use your body so that labour is more comfortable and manageable.

«We'll be engaging with Labour's consultation on their National Education Service and their other policies which affect young people.

Not exact matches

In 1960, 24 per cent of the labour force was engaged in manufacturing — good - paying jobs, with benefits, even for those without a college education.

I had EFM when I arrived at the hospital in labour with my first after my waters broke and there was meconium (and no dilation and the head wasn't engaged and baby was post-dates).

Some saw his comments as dog whistle politics, whilst others saw it as Labour engaging with the issues that voters care about.

The Health Minister designate also pledged to engage labour union within the health sector to amicably address their concerns and where need be propose at least six months within which time issues that may arise will be dealt with.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

He adds: «There is a disconnect with what is going on in the Labour Party and in the minds of many Labour Party members and in the heads of the electorate who are not engaged in this at all and who are onlookers, often bewildered sometimes bemused and sometimes contemptuous....

Scruton is certainly a thinker Blue Labour likes to engage with.

«At a time when Britain is led by a government which appears unable to recognise, let alone overcome, the enormous challenges facing it, Labour needs to be outward - looking, united and engaged with the issues that matter to voters,» said Progress.

However, I predict that Labour's unwillingness to engage with a left - wing Euroscepticism could lead to the alienation of the roughly one - quarter to one - third of Labour voters who oppose British EU membership, leading many of them to turn away from the party at the next general election.

The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) is currently engaged in an ongoing struggle with its leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

Labour may not be willing to engage in the drug debate, but you can see that it no longer considers it a club it can beat political opponents with.

Labour's reforms introduced the principle that claimants of sickness benefit had a right to expect help with getting ready to return to work, but had a responsibility to engage with the support on offer as a condition of continuing to receive benefit.

It was really good stuff and engaging seriously with human rights issues sets him apart from too many Labour MPs.

Talking to PAN about Labour's relations with his group, Simpson asserted that «they have genuinely engaged with us».

During PMQs today, Ed Miliband and David Cameron engaged in a bitter war of words over the issue, with the Labour leader accusing the prime minister of being out of touch with the public.

It said that Labour and the Lib Dems were just going through the motions when they engaged in talks earlier, and Nick Clegg had already decided to work with the Conservatives.

I'm not looking for someone Normal I'm looking for someone extraordinary — someone who can engage with people old or young, someone who can can and has grown the Labour Party membership beyond recognition, someone who is principled and who's politics is honest and transparent.

10th March 2016, Vice: «People are just not turning up» Why Labour's new members aren't engaging with the party

«We know, for example, that some Labour activists worry that engaging with Englishness means making concessions to racism and xenophobia.

Ed Miliband has announced that to counter the Conservative party's financial advantage during the 2015 election campaign Labour will outnumber them in supporters out on the streets engaging with voters — and will benefit accordingly.

The conference was a success, bringing together Labour policy makers and front bench spokespeople with progressive and left economists as well Labour militants keen to engage with economic policy.

Someone who although a staunch Labour supporter, would happily put aside his tribal allegiances and engage with those on the other side of the political fence.

Under your leadership, Labour has no hope of winning power because you simply don't engage with the typical person on the street and you don't inspire belief among the public at large.

He said the agency conformed with the International Labour Organisation's (ILO's) set standards on employment to ensure that all beneficiaries worked in a decent and safe environment, had equal employment opportunities and treatment and also received adequate earnings while they engaged in productive work.

Eric Pickles review recommendations to include engaging more with young people after Labour surge cost Tories in election

Why do some shadow cabinet members think now's the time for Labour MPs to engage in a war with the membership

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

The victims of this government need to engage with Your Britain if Labour is to have a manifesto that truly stands up for the many and not the few.

After a debate, the 129 delegates passed Hardie's motion to establish «a distinct Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour.&Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour.&labour.»

Last year I wrote about Labour's thoughtful commentariat - the sensible lefties willing to accept the fact that cuts do need to be made, and willing to engage with the real political debate - as opposed to those irresponsible voices on the left who would condemn anything the Coalition does as «out of touch» «Tory cuts» made by a «Cabinet of millionaires», and so on.

The idea of four New Labour ministers engaging in a turgid, managerial debate in public for a number of months, would not have offered the real debate the party needed, and filled me with dread.

Many rank - and - file Lib Dems have been vocal in criticising what they see as a cosy and consensual relationship with Labour, especially those in areas where the two parties are engaged in cut - throat local politics.

The decision to engage with the far - right party in a televised debate has divided opinion within the Labour party with some believing that sharing a platform with the group gives them dangerous credibility.

As it reached the end of its term in office, Labour learnt the hard way that energy policy must engage with the real world concerns of consumers and citizens alike.

As a farming community which engages in cocoa and crop farming and also share borders with la Cote d'Ivoire, the first lady called on the people of Bia West to join forces with government to work together to ensure that farms are not worked by any labour that is believed to be trafficked or involving child labour.

Yet clearly, only a very small minority of Labour BME members engage with BAME Labour.

These are people that need to be properly engaged with if Labour has any ambitions of securing a majority however properly engaging and pandering to their views when wrong or speaking about labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same Labour has any ambitions of securing a majority however properly engaging and pandering to their views when wrong or speaking about labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same thing.

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.

He said Labour were leading the way in creating an «open, democratic and engaging» debate which is helping to «re-engage» generations of people with politics.

Andrew Gwynne, Labour's shadow health minister has said that the government is out of touch with the «immediate care crisis», hoping that the coalition will engage in cross party talks such that a proper agreement is made.

There is a great danger that the response to this challenge will sound something like this: Labour's internal democratisation simply empowers «good» working class people — plainly, those who are receptive to a left - wing political agenda — while there is in any case no point in engaging a dialogue with the «bad» working class people who hold socially conservative views, resent immigration and see UKIP rather than Labour as the «party of work.»

Rather than collectively discussing ways of reforming the union - Labour link with the 15 affiliated unions, Miliband engaged in «dog - whistle» politics by quickly responding to the taunts of the Tories and the mischief making of the Blairites.

This is a campaign which has been got up by the Labour party which decimated the bingo industry and put taxes up and up [on beer]... I would suggest they actually try and engage with the Budget, because they haven't got anything sensible to say about it yet.»

Labour needs to engage more with liberal / ecologist thinking in my view.