Sentences with phrase «former labour supporters»

But speaking to the BBC, Mr Corbyn insisted that the leadership election process was «very democratic» and was drawing the attention of a large number of former Labour supporters and young people.

In asking Labour / former Labour supporters of their views on a number of issues they categorised those supporters by asking, «Which of the following do you think best reflects that the Labour Party should stand for»: «anti capitalist»; «representing the working class»; «building a fairer society».

@ Peter: Yes, there are a lot of former Labour supporters like yourself who now vote Lib Dem.

Leanne Wood has made a pitch for the votes of former Labour supporters against a backdrop of Ukip by - election victories and the possibility of a hung parliament at Westminster in May.

The party saw huge numbers of their supporters reject their calls to back the union, with much of the shift to «Yes» in the final weeks coming from current and former Labour supporters.

Rod Liddle, a former Labour supporter turned associate editor of the Spectator, likewise tells the Sun's readers: «I'm proud of the fact that we invented almost everything that matters».

Gillian Lazarus, a former Labour supporter in the borough, told the Observer: «I've always voted Labour and have been a member off and on.

Not exact matches

Former minister Stephen Byers has called on fellow supporters of Tony Blair to unite behind new Labour leader Gordon Brown.

Standards in public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

Former adversaries Gordon Brown and John McDonnell today joined forces as Labour steps up it efforts to persuade its traditional supporters to reject leaving the EU.

For Labour to turn its back on Scotland and the demands north of the border would be to condemn itself to precisely the sort of Tory - lite message its former supporters accuse it of.

After defeating former Labour MP Terry Rooney to enter parliament in 2010, Ward - an outspoken supporter of Palestinian causes - made a string of remarks that brought condemnation from party colleagues and Jewish organisations:

Supporters The Labour MP Jon Cruddas; Jonathan Rutherford, academic and chair of the Compass Good Society working group; Neal Lawson, chair of Compass; and Madeleine Bunting, Guardian columnist and former Demos director.

The EU has to change if Britain votes to remain in the institution, former Labour leader and remain supporter Ed Miliband has said.

Supporters David Marquand, historian and former Labour MP.

Despite this unpopular economic message, the Tories maintain a lead in the polls due to the right wing and unpopular policies that Labour has pursued in government that have alienated significant elements amongst its former supporters.

But it's not just former Tory voters who want to give all the parties a kicking; many traditional Labour supporters are also tempted to vote «none of the above».

A former (note former) Labour supporter, Charles Dunstone, the Carphone Warehouse founder.

4.25 - Labour MP and former soldier Dan Jarvis is receiving extremely warm responses for his speech backing action in Syria, both from Labour and Tory supporters and MPs.

Lord Prescott, Mr Blair's former deputy, has said that Mr Miliband is pursuing a «core vote strategy» of appealing only to traditional Labour supporters and disaffected Liberal Democrats.

Many on the left of the party — including party grandees such as former leader Charles Kennedy — are likely to be further troubled by Clegg's message that under his leadership the party is no longer a natural home for disaffected Labour supporters.

Frontrunner says Labour must modernise and work out why so many former supporters voted Ukip in last election

At a separate rally, organised by Labour First, Angela Eagle, the former leadership candidate and minister, accused Corbyn's supporters of allowing a culture of abuse of MPs and Labour party staff which could lead to a form of «populist authoritarian rule».

In the seven - minute address, the former Labour leader calls on Mr Corbyn's supporters to «wake up» or the see the party face electoral wipeout.

The former Scottish Labour leader's decision to spend three weeks filming on location in Australia while the Scottish parliament was in session attracted criticism from across the political spectrum, including from some previously stalwart supporters.

My typical candidate pessimism often prevents me believing the poll leads, but there are plenty of fed up, former Labour Party supporters out there.

In the seven - minute address, the former Labour leader calls on Mr Corbyn's supporters to «wake up» or the party faces electoral wipeout.

In the former category there is only one Labour supporter - the Party has one out of 57 councillors.

Sixty - one per cent of all voters said the former Labour leader was an «electoral liability» with even 47 % of all Labour supporters agreeing.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair sent 46,000 troops to the Gulf for the U.S - led invasion, a war that became deeply unpopular in Britain and still rankles with supporters of the centre - left Labour government.

The former Labour leader is said to have pointed to analysis by pollsters Ipsos MORI stating that 2.9 m «lazy Labour» supporters failed to make good on their intentions to turn out to vote.

A new poll of Labour - held Scottish seats suggests that support for independence is now the overwhelming reason why former supporters now back the SNP.

To compound the confusion, Labour appears to have been badly damaged by the behaviour of former Lib Dem voters and Ukip supporters, which didn't match Miliband's game plan for the election.

Flattering his own supporters and infuriating Labour, the former marine and diplomat, who is tipped for a new role in the Balkan peace settlement, explains that Mr Blair likes to call his political approach the third way - «but actually it is liberalism, or at least that's what it will become».

«Rather than finding imaginative ways for Labour to present a united front and get its message across to wavering supporters, Corbyn vetoed a planned event featuring all Labour's former leaders.

Shadow Former Home Secretary David Blunkett told BBC News Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters should split from Labour and create a new party.

A YouGov poll published today shows that backing among Labour supporters for the Tottenham MP has crept ahead of former shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan.

Former Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander, of the pro-EU campaign group Open Britain, said: «Without this, it is genuinely not clear how Labour members, supporters and the public are meant to contribute to the party's policymaking on the biggest issue we face as a country.

While the Tories» share is down 9 points in these seats since the election (with UKIP again the main beneficiaries) the Lib Dems» is down 10, as former supporters have moved to Labour.

Mandelson is caricaturing Ed Miliband's position but the former Climate Change Secretary has certainly called on Labour to tilt more towards its core supporters.

This is particularly true for many (former) Labour supporters who have been left behind by the global economy and technological change — people who left school early and lack academic or vocational qualifications.

In a desperate appeal to Labour members and supporters, the former prime minister urged them to set aside their opinions about his three terms in power and save the party from self - destruction by rejecting Corbyn's politics.

However, Stephen Byers, a former Cabinet member and Blair supporter, who is very close to Mr Milburn, told BBC2's Daily Politics: «The Labour Party is not the Royal Family, we don't go in for coronations.

In February 2018, Peter Walker, a former Labour councillor for Figges Marsh who was suspended by the party in October 2017, claimed that the local Labour Party was excluding supporters of the national party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from becoming councillors.

He notes that UKIP support stands at only 1.5 % in recent Populus surveys and that the «the real danger for the Tories is among former Labour and LibDem supporters who might return to their earlier party loyalties if they conclude that Mr Cameron is not providing a strong enough lead or clear enough direction.»

The group includes some former remain supporters but its founding members are largely made up of those involved in the Brexit campaign, including Tory former chancellor Nigel Lawson, Tory donor Peter Cruddas, Digby Jones, who is a former head of the CBI, and David Owen, the former Labour foreign secretary who went on to help found the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

The former schools secretary, who launched his campaign this week, has only 20 declared supporters among Labour's 258 MPs.

But supporters of Mr Smith say the campaign group Save Labour have encouraged thousands to sign up and vote for the former shadow Cabinet Minister.

Other supporters include Labour MPs Tom Harris and Gerald Kaufman and former senior Tory ministers in the Coalition such as Oliver Heald, Sir Edward Garnier and Bob Neill as well as Sir Peter Tapsell, the Father of the House of Commons.