Sentences with phrase «from labour supporters»

Probably the BNP takes votes primarily from Labour supporters, whilst UKiP picks up Conservative voters.

At the same time, Miliband was being warned by a number of senior advisers that he risked a reaction from Labour supporters, in particular, former Lib Dems who had recently switched allegiance.

We've heard from Labour supporters, now we need to listen to the public.

So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.

Her backing from Labour supporters remains solid in the new poll — at 37 per cent — and she has led the race since the series of polls began.

The new poll, carried out between June 30 and July 2, reveals his backing from Labour supporters has risen from 15 per cent to 22 per cent, leapfrogging Mr Khan, whose support rose more slowly, from 19 per cent to 21 per cent.

She won just 13 per cent backing from Labour supporters in the most recent poll, compared to a previous high of 23 percent.

Margaret Hodge recently saw her backing from Labour supporters climb from 10 per cent to a substantial 16 per cent.

He is now attracting 19 per cent backing from Labour supporters — and politicians always like to back a winner.

I think all of the criticisms are hot air and hogwash from Labour supporters jealous they didn't think of it first.

Not exact matches

And the election, and likely re-election, of Corbyn is very much part of that phenomenon: from reports, few of the enormous number of new Labour members and supporters are keen to become in the hard tasks of attending planning meetings or delivering leaflets.

From his boat, Farage - flanked by supporters including Ukip donor Arron Banks and Labour MP Kate Hoey - refused to hit back at Geldof.

While both Labour and Liberal Democrats supporters from other parts of the UK have been helping the «No» campaign, non-voting Conservatives (apart from Cameron himself) have been invisible.

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

Over the past month, Labour have faced an all - out assault from the Conservatives and their supporters in the press culminating in a series of attacks from Tory - supporting business leaders.

Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn have furiously dismissed the latest criticisms of the Labour leader from senior party figures.

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:

Building on experience gleaned from the inevitable secondment to the Obama campaign, he was poached by Miliband, for whom he successfully recruited young Labour supporters, and bloggers, to the cause.

Labour doesn't think twice about abandoning its core supporters, taking away from the most vulnerable, etc..

Probably because the parliamentary Labour party, which overwhelmingly backs Smith, still clings onto the illusion that no matter how obnoxiously the party behaves towards its core supporters, it is still entitled to millions of votes from poor voters who have no alternative.

Two years away from a general election 66 % of current Labour supporters say will definitely vote for the party, compared to 58 % of Conservatives supporters who say they will vote for their preferred party.

Faith comes from the Labour Party's founding principles of Christian socialism, and although many supporters don't have faith themselves we recognise the import influence of Christian social teaching on our politics.

- They used anti Terror legislation to ban an 80 year old Labour supporter from their own conference for shouting «Rubbish» at JackBoot Straw AND they used anti terror legislation against Iceland - funny how it sems to fit anything that Labour or the police want it to fit Huh?

«We're taken a bit of a beating here from the Labour Party tonight... A lot of our supporters have switched over and voted UKIP tonight, they have come within a whisker of taking seats here tonight.

My impression is that the vast majority of criticism has come from SNP / Yes campaign supporters eager to describe it as a problem for Labour, and to put prominent Labour women in the uncomfortable position of having to denounce his speech.

What's worth noting straight away is that, with a couple of exceptions (namely, that on the «objective measure» Labour supporters are more left wing than Greens and UKIP members slightly more left - wing than Lib Dems), the relative ordering on all three measures is the same: from left to right, it runs Greens, Labour, SNP, Lib Dem, UKIP, and Conservative.

Nevertheless, it does limit the potential for Momentum to encourage activism if they are only interested in certain kinds of Labour supporters, and if these supporters are then viewed with suspicion by other elements of the party and therefore likely to get a frosty reception from non-Momentum activists.

That's rich coming from a Nu Labour supporter.

The first is affiliated supporters, which consist of individual trade unionists who have indicated that they wish their party affiliation fees (funded from the political levy, a small sum of money in addition to normal union dues and used for political campaigning) to be paid directly to the Labour Party rather than via their trade unions as they have historically been.

Titled, «Questions all Jeremy Corbyn supporters need to answer», Jones argues Labour are heading for a disaster due to a lack of strategy from Corbyn's team, and asks supporters the following: How can the disastrous polling be turned around?

In the weeks leading up to the result I conducted some polling to compare the views of Labour members and union supporters with those of voters who moved away from the party at the last election.

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.

Labour sources privately suggested that tactical voting from Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters may have helped swing the vote further in their favour in what was acknowledged to be a two horse race.

She began her campaign by winning gushing plaudits from right - wing papers and is set to finish it with the support of little more than one in ten Labour supporters.

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.

And Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray directly addressed Labour MPs at risk of deselection from Corbyn supporters:

His comments provoked a positive response from numerous Labour supporters.

Speaking to the BBC on Monday from New York, where he works as president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, Miliband said last week's election result was «devastating» for the Labour party and its supporters.

The move helped him gain support from Corbyn's supporters when he fought Tessa Jowell, Diane Abbott and David Lammy to be Labour's candidate for the London Mayor.

Outside the committee room, Vaz told a reporter from ITN that he would not be standing down from Labour's national executive committee (NEC), which is closely tied between Corbyn supporters and his opponents.

It also provoked an immediate backlash from Tory and Labour supporters of the remain campaign, who variously condemned the comments as scaremongering, deranged and categorically wrong.

Serwotka, the head of the PCS union for civil servants, is among 3,200 people who have been prevented from voting on the grounds of not sharing Labour values, after he signed up as a supporter.

«Over the last three months, a lot of Labour party members and supporters have complained to me about the nature and number of the emails they have received from the party,» she says in the video.

At the meeting, it is understood Kendall made a proposal for anyone who had identified as a British National party supporter to Labour canvassers to be excluded from the ballot.

Today I have received an email from the Labour party saying: «We have reason to believe that you do not support the aims and values of the Labour party or you are a supporter of an organisation opposed to the Labour party and therefore we are rejecting your application.»

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.

But there are growing signs that Miliband has stepped back from plans to dilute the size of the union vote at party conference, and is instead focusing on a series of reforms designed to make local parties more dynamic, and open up the party to a wider group of Labour supporters.

As longtime supporters of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of Labour, we are heartened by the bold shift in tone from the party's leadership on immigration.

Crowning of Labour's new general secretary means there is little chance of shifting balance of power away from Corbyn supporters

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is set to face a new campaign from his supporters to significantly soften his stance on immigration.