Sentences with phrase «for those labour mps»

And it is those experiences, he says, which makes him «so concerned about the state of the Labour Party now and so worried for Labour MPs and what's being said and done to them, including online in new ways unthought of 30 years ago, in their constituencies.

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.

Either way, the immediate task for those Labour MPs opposed to their leader is to unify around one figure to overthrow him.

As the pamplet says: «The rebellion rate for coalition MPs collectively is way above all other first sessions in the post-war era (the previous record was 28 %, for Labour MPs in the 2005 - 6 session, as the party entered its third, and most troublesome, parliament under Tony Blair)».

In comments released before the weekly meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday evening, Corbyn insisted it was now time for Labour MPs to work together against the Government.

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

She is thought to have wanted more concessions for Labour MPs who oppose the sell - off.

With Nick Clegg adopting his usual sullen neutral «this isn't happening» look, it should be a session for Labour MPs to make the most of.

It is also far from ideal for those Labour MPs who are publicly supporting Formby, such as Andrew Gwynne, Laura Pidcock and Chris Williamson...

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt also welcomed the comments made by both Mr Blair and Mr Brown, saying it was time for Labour MPs to put behind them the «damaging divisions of the last week» and get on with governing.

But there are also some positives for Labour MPs at the coalface.

For some Labour MPs, the fact that Milne is «on leave» from the Guardian suggests a lack of long - term commitment.

Speaking to HuffPost UK, the Tory politician was also keen to stress her admiration for Labour MPs Meg Hillier and Margaret Hodge, whose book she just read.

19:13 - This is obviously a rather bizarre occasion for some Labour MPs.

I'm speaking to McGovern in her parliamentary office at the end of a long week for Labour MPs, during which Corbyn reshuffled his team to remove the likes of Michael Dugher and Pat McFadden.

However, a series of «seminars» for Labour MPs and concessions made by education secretary Charles Clarke convinced enough members to approve the bill.

That was despite a last - ditch attempt by shadow cabinet members Diane Abbott and Barry Gardiner for Labour MPs to be allowed to abstain on the crunch vote.

It has proved hard enough for Labour MPs to decide for themselves to get rid of Brown; making the change at the behest of a rival party would be even harder.

The Home Secretary denied the party would «dump» freedom of movement - but left the door open for Labour MPs to try to «block» triggering Article 50 in the House of Commons

For Labour MPs the boundary changes take place against a different background and MPs who have opposed Jeremy Corbyn may face difficulties in selections if there are local boundary changes.

Foreign secretary David Miliband has called for Labour MPs to support Gordon Brown in the wake of growing anger over the abandoning of the 10p income tax band.

There has been much speculation that Corbyn will reintroduce mandatory reselection for Labour MPs, especially with boundary reforms due to reduce the number of Commons seats to 600.

The selections of Ken Livingstone for Mayor, John Cryer, Lisa Nandy, Emily Thornberry, Katy Clark, Linda Riordan for Labour MPs took place inside the party.

It comes amid a row over the three - line whip imposed by Jeremy Corbyn for Labour MPs to back the bill at its second reading — with one frontbencher quitting and others vowing to rebel.

David Cameron is also seen as more centrist than his party's MPs in general (+35 as opposed to +53), but not to the same extent as Tony Blair (+4 as opposed to -27 for Labour MPs).

The line about the WhatsApp group for Labour MPs made me laugh — my own phone was buzzing with WhatsApp messages throughout.

An easy task for those Labour MPs who had been opposing their party for the last 13 years.

Not exact matches

Even if Labour gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of principle will hold out.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

Editorial from The Salvation Army Newspaper The War Cry for 5th April 08 Headlines of a prime ministerial change of mind on allowing Labour MPs a conscience vote when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embryos.

Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, has tabled an Early Day Motion (used by MPs to publicise a particular cause and to gain support in the Commons) calling on the government to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms.

For example, MPs with an agricultural background are less Eurosceptic, as agricultural interests are likely to lose out from Brexit because of a loss of CAP payments and EU migrant labour.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

The Combining All Our Strength alliance for civil society organisations, in which OurKingdom is a key player, this week held a high - level seminar on the prospects for change, involving electoral experts and Labour and Lib Dem MPs.

Two Labour MPs who will definitely not be around for much longer are Jamie Reed and Tristram Hunt, both of whom are quitting their seats to take jobs outside parliament.

In the Commons, the Labour leader lashed out at his own MPs for «indulging in internal factional manoeuvring» against him.

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

After a series of terrible polls for Labour in recent days, Corbyn told MPs he planned to enthuse people to vote for the party through the use of «online media».

«Donations to the Labour party buy votes at your conference, candidates and MPs in this House and pay for the votes that gave him his job,» Cameron replied.

Jarvis has a warning, however, for those on the far - left who threaten to deselect Labour MPs who they believe do not show Jeremy Corbyn enough loyalty.

The Lib Dem MPs chose not to support an EDM from Labour MP Pat Glass, which has been tabled for a week.

The former Prime Minister spoke to MPs Wes Streeting and Ruth Smeeth for Progress, the Labour group often characterised as «Blairite» in outlook.

From the 1970s, Harriet campaigned for increased women's representation in the Labour Party - more women Labour councillors, more women Labour MPs and for a Labour leadership team of three of which at least one should be a woman.

11:49 - George Eustice, the Tory MP who used to be Cameron's spin doctor in chief, bugs the now very long - winded Ian Davidson for being part of the «better late than never» group of Labour MPs who belatedly opposed New Labour's plans to join the euro (Labour Against The Euro, you see).

For most Labour MPs and council leaders 2016 has been a depressing year.

Over the past few months Labour MPs have repeatedly called for the Conservatives to adopt what they refer to as «plan B».

By the next day, Labour MPs were as unconvinced by their leader as they were before phone - hacking while a much - hyped public Q&A event provided yet more material for his critics to comment on how odd he is.

The Mail on Sunday reports that both Conservative and Labour MPs are for the deal and intend to vote for it in parliament in the new year.

He also sought to exploit the news that Labour MPs Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram and Luciana Berger were bidding for elected mayoralships, He jibed:

However, I consider the claim made by many on the left that Labour's 2010 manifesto represents a mandate or commitment from Labour MPs for such reform to be rather optimistic.