Sentences with phrase «fight for labour»

«FIVE candidates will fight for the Labour leadership after backers of the favourite, David Miliband, lent their support to less - fancied rivals.

David Cameron accused the home secretary and chancellor of using the issue of national security as a «political football» in their fight for the Labour leadership.

«England is where fight for Labour's future will be fiercest» — Jon Cruddas» Bevan speech tonight http://bit.ly/avoejR

Yet the fight for Labour's future needs to be seen not in terms of left and right alone, but between tribalists and their opposite, pluralists.

The Hackney North MP also made it clear that Team Corbyn think there is much to be gained from making Smith's lobbying background a key factor in the fight for Labour's future.

«Clearly I would have preferred to have got more votes than we did, but this was always going to be a tough fight for Labour - it's a seat that we've never won,» he said.

«I mean, well, there's five years before the general election, I think lots could happen, we are fighting for the Labour party for a Labour prime minister and Jeremy's the Labour party.»

Not exact matches

Coles said the time was right for a «new team» to lead Unifor and fight back against what he called attacks on labour by the federal government.

It refers to the Labour Party as a «movement» fighting for social justice and social equality.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

My strategy is founded on the fight against hatred, for the dignity of human labour.

Dearest Lord teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve thee as thou deservest; To give and not to count the cost, To fight and not to heed the wounds To toil and not to seek for rest, To labour and not to seek reward, Save that of knowing that I do thy will.10

Perhaps more important was that the conference marked out the ground on which the parties are likely to try and fight the next election — the Conservatives will ask for time to finish the job of fixing the economy, Labour will focus on trying to reduce people's cost of living.

Harriet fought for more Labour women MPs through «women - only shortlists».

The question of what type of inquiry would look into the scandal was fought out earlier at prime minister's questions with Labour pushing for a judge - led approach and the government a parliamentary inquiry.

But like the Lib Dems and Labour fighting for second place, we should look to the next election to see if websites haven't replaced newspapers in the pecking order by 2015.

What's more, the next election will also be fought on new boundaries and 50 fewer seats — unless Theresa May takes advantage of the turmoil in the Labour party and goes for a snap election in the autumn, as many are now expecting.

The resignations come at the worst possible time for the embattled leader, who is facing a tough fight with Labour in the Stoke - on - Trent Central by - election.

The Labour party faces a challenging three - way fight for a marginal northern seat after the shock...

The Nigeria Labour Congress National Executive Council is also meeting tomorrow and we have invitation to also attend the meeting and that is why today we have taken our position and there is no doubt that we are also going to fight for that reversal and we are not stopping on just reversal to N86.50 k, we are also going to further our struggle against the deregulation policy, against the privatization policy and the need for a political alternative and that is where we are going.

Scottish Labour, already badly wounded, might be finished off for good by the collateral damage caused by his fight for political survival.

In stark contrast, name one thing that the Labour movement has achieved without having to fight for it by way of direct action?

THere was me thinking the next few years were going to be miserable, and we were going to have to fight tooth and nail to maintain any semblence of quality to our lives, and it turns out all that needed to happen was that we should wait for some clean shaven, well groomed fabians and the labour party to come save us.

Business secretary Greg Clarke's former special adviser Meg Powell - Chandler will fight for Birmingham Northfield, where Labour has a majority of 2,509.

Responding to the poster today, Vote Leave chair Gisela Stuart said: «The Labour Party has a proud history of fighting for and securing workers rights - so I am deeply disappointed to see my party belittling what we have achieved.

And of course the bickering about Blair, Brown, Miliband and Balls fight for power, and the new fight within Labour to have another leader, will take all our minds off the fight about boundary changes.

The reason Labour voters are flocking to Ukip and the SNP is because they believe they will fight for them.

While Thatcher was a politician with the courage to divide Britain, her legacy was to make Labour fight for the centre ground if it wanted to regain power.

The bad news for Labour is that none of those in the running to succeed her is anywhere near as impressive as Kezia Dugdale, a self - effacing, clever woman who has had enough of the grief that comes with leading a party still fighting for its survival in Scotland.

For Jackson and McClymont, shifting the discourse away from «austerity» and public spending reductions will mean Labour can fight the election on their terms.

Labour's autumn conference is set to be the battleground for another internal fight between the party's left - wing and centrist wings, developments this week suggest.

While Labour ran away, the real progressive party in British politics was willing to go into the lions» den and fight for justice where it matters: in government.

Announcing the timetable for the election, Ms Harman said: «Our challenge now is to use this time to listen and learn, to elect a new leader and deputy leader who will rebuild the Labour party in order to take the fight to this Tory government and to stand up for Britain.»

To write to Alan Johnson calling for the Labour campaign to stake out a clear left - wing agenda based on opposing austerity and fighting for public services, workers» rights and migrants» rights.

Although Kinnock had a hard time laying the foundations for the changes in the Labour Party that Blair would finally push through, the one thing he had going for him when fighting his internal battles was the outcome of the 1983 election.

On abruptly resigning as work and pensions secretary, he called for Brown «to stand aside to give Labour a fighting chance of winning the next election».

The East London borough's party branch still remains deeply divided after Lutfur Rahman, selected to fight for the directly - elected mayoralty by Labour, was dropped by the party national executive committee, after one of his rivals made allegations of extremism against him — claims that were later found to be without foundation.

The Conservatives are up by 8 points and Labour up by 6 points in the polls since just before the 2014 local elections, when most the seats up for election this week were last fought.

Coverage of the latest general election news and events, including Gordon Brown's speech on Labour's fight for fairness

In a blogpost, the AWL's Cathy Nugent added: «We want to help Corbyn remake the Labour Party as a party that fights for the interests of the working class.

The former chair of the public accounts committee discusses five years of fighting for taxpayers - and the ongoing battle over Labour's future.

A large chunk of voters continue to blame Labour for this fine mess, leaving Balls and Miliband fighting for basic credibility.

Years of Labour dominance in Scotland are now at an end; under Kezia Dugdale, the party is fighting Ruth Davidson's Conservatives for second place in May.

It came at the culmination of a deeply unusual final day of the parliament in which Bercow fought back against Hague's manoeuvring by granting three urgent questions - buying him some more time for Labour MPs to rush back to the Commons to attempt to save him.

For the entire twentieth century the battles over policy in the labour movement have been fought within a unitary Labour labour movement have been fought within a unitary Labour Labour Party.

The challenge for the others, particularly Labour, is to fight for second place and close the gap to the Nationalists.

In BBC Keywards fought by all four parties, the correlation between the change in the UKIP share of the vote since 2010 and that for the Conservatives was very similar to that between UKIP and Labour: both close to -0.3.

The shadow chancellor warned of a Tory led Brexit for the elite few and said Labour would fight for a «people's Brexit for the many».

Labour fought an insurgent campaign in which Corbyn deftly exploited his status as the underdog; the Labour party appears to have excited young people as well as so - called «left behind» voters in ways not seen for decades.

Dear Shaun — The refusal of people like you to re-join the Labour Party is what makes it harder for us to fight against this sort of activity