Sentences with phrase «forced the labour party»

The SDP forced the Labour Party to come to terms with reality.

On receipt of our letter, the Cabinet Secretary investigated the circumstances, identified a breach of Civil Service rules and forced the Labour Party to substantially change its website: «references there have now been amended to make clear [Backing Young Britain] is a government initiative»:

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The plan, which would for instance have prevented Labour being brought down during the Winter of Discontent, meant the combined force of all other parties would still not bring the Tories down, even if they could no longer enact legislation.

The welfare uprating bill will try to force Labour on the «wrong» side of public opinion, while encouraging party populists like Liam Byrne to get into a firefight with the more left - wing elements.

Forcing Labour and the SNP to actually physically go ahead and vote together while the issue was still undecided would be entirely in keeping with the party's approach.

In October 2013, Labour established a task force, headed by Khan, to look at how to deal with the threat posed by the Green party.

Politically, the two major political forces in Westminster, the Conservative and Labour parties, are in disarray about how to shape UK's ongoing relationship with the EU once we leave.

That explains yesterday's hubristic comments from Alex Salmond in declaring he will be able to force Labour to commit to spending that will benefit Scotland in the party's first Budget as a minority government.

According to our analysis of the 2002 election, a typical member of the labour force was only 4.7 percentage points more likely to vote for a center - right party if he was an insider than if he was an outsider (and this difference was not statistically signifi - cant).

Ministers were forced to abandon a key vote guaranteeing the passage of the Lords reform bill through the Commons over a 14 - day period after it became clear it would have been roundly defeated by Tory rebels voting with the Labour party.

The Labour Party manifesto in 1997 had proposed to remove all of the hereditary peers from the house, but in a departure from the Salisbury - Addison convention the Lords objected and prevailed, forcing the government to retain 92 of them.

But the pair then gave every indidcation that they wanted to join forces with Labour as they pledged to try to strike alliances with other left - of - centre parties to defeat the Conservatives.

an entirely obstreperous Lib Dem Party might force Labour to form a grand coalition with the Conservatives or at least agree to dissolve the government or lose all credibility themselves.

Ed Milband presented his party as a force for fiscal responsibility, promising that Labour's manifesto contained no unfunded pledges and that a Miliband - led government would eliminate the UK's budget deficit during the next parliament.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left foparty more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left foParty so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

In a sign of how low expectations had been managed, Labour's spokespeople have been out in force spinning this as a reasonable night for the party.

The local election results indicate more than ever that the antisemitism scandals under Corbyn are forcing Jews away from the Labour Party.

At its heart are the twin forces that would prove to be the party's undoing: the profound doubts about Labour's instincts on the economy and the surge of nationalism in Labour's onetime Scottish heartlands.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

I recall the 1995 local elections, in which the Conservative Party lost over 2000 seats to Labour and the Lib - Dems, and were nearly forced to third place.

Should Labour begin to lose its stranglehold on Wales, as it did so dramatically in Scotland in 2015, then the future for the party as a UK electoral force really will be looking bleak.

Labour MPs may be forced to vote against Britain's exit from the EU, the party's candidate in the upcoming Richmond Park by - election suggested today.

Indeed, Labour and the SNP joined forces in arguing that Mrs May is prioritising party political interests over those of the country with this election call.

While they should be celebrating the democratic revival within the party, for some reason a number of Labour MPs don't see it that way and have forced another leadership contest just 10 months after members last made their choice clear.

Labour has been forced to insist its position on Brexit remains unchanged after frontbencher Emily Thornberry suggested the party was in favour of staying in the customs union.

Because Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party and the welfare state, he confronts not merely a small class struggle minority, but also substantial forces rooted in the traditional structures of the labour movLabour Party and the welfare state, he confronts not merely a small class struggle minority, but also substantial forces rooted in the traditional structures of the labour movlabour movement.

Lea Ypi argues that the Labour Party is now a reinvigorated force.

However, left forces in the labour movement have not been extinguished, both inside and outside the Labour labour movement have not been extinguished, both inside and outside the Labour Labour Party.

Field nominated Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015, [23] stating that while he did not think Corbyn could win a general election, he hoped his candidacy would force the party to confront its «deficit denial».

With the party already at a financial disadvantage compared to Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are likely to face real difficulties in getting their message across to voters — especially when attention is paid to the two main parties and emerging forces such as UKIP and the Greens.

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

This will open the door to more coups and more provocations from the PLP and the party apparatchicks that will eventually see the Labour Party imploding never to recover as an electoral fparty apparatchicks that will eventually see the Labour Party imploding never to recover as an electoral fParty imploding never to recover as an electoral force.

There are forces within the trade union movement and the Labour Party that want to sever the link — elements of the right within the Party and groups on the left within the unions.

If it had succeeded, the Labour party would have been extinguished as a political force.

The two main political parties, Labour and Conservative, have been or shortly will be ousted from another part of the British union (they never were a force in Northern Ireland and are hardly one in Wales, the notional Welsh Labour party not withstanding).

Labour is distancing itself from a proposal by the party's policy review chief Jon Cruddas that benefit claimants could be forced to give their children the MMR vaccination - or face losing their payouts.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

The vote on gay marriage, in which Cameron was forced to negotiate with Labour to protect a bill which is widely despised in the party, did little to help matters.

The demise of the Liberal Democrats creates the possibility of solving David Marquand's progressive dilemma, the splintering of progressive forces one hundred years ago between the Labour and Liberal Parties, within one party, Labour.

Because he had few cheerleaders inside or outside the party, the Labour leader was forced to compromise on the four main planks of his political agenda.

In opposition MacDonald continued his policy of presenting the Labour Party as a moderate force.

[53] By 1977 by - election losses and defections to the breakaway Scottish Labour Party left Callaghan heading a minority government, forced to do deals with smaller parties in order to govern.

When he announced in 2001 he was «leaving Parliament to spend more time on politics» it was widely held to be judgement not only on the impoverishment of the British political system, but also a lament for the decline of his beloved Labour Party and the rise of the spin - obsessed forces of New Labour.

Speaking to Labour Uncut last night, Fox said: «No party has a monopoly on caring about and promoting the best policies for our armed forces.

'' «Our appeal is to all MPs of conscience: join us, vote against these unfair and unworkable changes and force the government to think again,» he told delegates at the Scottish Labour party's conference in Oban.

Sources close to Mr Clarke told the newspaper he wants to run a progressive campaign to force a debate on the future direction of the Labour party.

The Labour rebels broke the party line to support an amendment forcing schools who hoped to become self - governing trusts to first gain approval of parents through a ballot.

With mutterings of Clegg's removal, either by his own party, or by force of having to enter into coalition with Labour — who would be more likely to do a deal without him at the helm, and with Vince Cable or even Tim Farron instead — had some wondering if Clegg's forward - looking speech was a little unrealistic.

Jeremy Corbyn may have just been critical of the media in his big speech, but Labour MPs and lobby journalists were out in force to rub shoulders at the Mirror party on the last night of Labour conference.