Sentences with phrase «forcing a labour retreat»

«It delighted the Conservative troops and resonated more broadly, forcing a Labour retreat.

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Depressingly, the Labour leader has been forced to retreat from her sensible position after Len McCluskey accused her of «running up the white flag» and the leadership candidates Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper joined Jeremy Corbyn in undermining her.

Corbyn's biggest victory by far came this week, however, when Labour forced the government to retreat on their planned cuts to tax credits.

So, Labour, if it follows Labour Uncut's advice, and avoids this dastardly trap by our Etonian masters, will have accepted social cleansing, greater inequality, etc, not merely as some sort of forced defeat by parliamentary arithmetic, but as a conscious decision, perhaps justified by some notions by some of a «tactical retreat» (don't laugh).