Sentences with phrase «give labour members»

In the campaign, he promised to give Labour members a much greater say in the party's policymaking process, in a move that could sideline MPs.

Laying down the gauntlet to the Labour leader, Mr Mills — who donated # 1.6 million to Labour since 2010 — adds: «He should understand the imperative to give all Labour Members of Parliament — including those in the Shadow Cabinet, as the Conservatives have done — a free vote allowing them to campaign to leave the EU if they want to.

Not exact matches

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

Doesn't seem very plausible that the Tories would accept that - or, for that matter, that Labour would accept the Tory / Lib Dem calls to give union members the option to fund other political parties, too.

The key questions are whether the majority of Labour MPs and the significant minority of party members who oppose Labour's lurch towards far left politics are alienated enough by it all to leave (given that the alternative of an internal challenge has failed), and whether the unions, who still underwrite much of the party's finances, will eventually call time on the Corbyn project.

This would give the voter the choice: perhaps s / he would seek support from a Conservative on a matter relating to local business, a Labour member on the NHS and a UKIP representative on immigration.

Shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis, another close ally of Corbyn, was similarly open to the prospect of certain MPs being given their marching orders if Labour members demanded it.

But thumbing through a list of Labour members who might support me in my recent bid for council selection, one familiar name did give cause for alarm: McBride, D.

Many of those who claim to be baffled by some Labour members» unwillingness to compromise on welfare wouldn't give way on other policies that might prove electorally popular.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

Labour has tried to park the issue through promising to hold a constitutional convention next year, but shadow cabinet members have struggled in media interviews to give a clear response.

Labour's shadow cabinet agreed on Monday that MPs would be given a free vote, despite Corbyn's public opposition to strikes, to avert a threatened rebellion by pro-bombing members such as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn.

He was reputed to favour a Lib - Lab deal and, given his SDP background, was a member of Labour's negotiation team that attempted to form a government with the Liberal Democrats.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

He demanded union party members should be given the right to choose Labour candidates in constituencies, have an «equal say» in the election of the party leader and the «right to a level playing field in the party where their views and votes count as much» as other party members.

At Labour's national executive yesterday, Ed Miliband failed to deliver on his leadership campaign promise to give members more say in policy making.

Not surprisingly, given the above, half (49 %) of Labour's new members believe the membership should have more say over policy, with the figure rising to 54 % and 65 % respectively among those who joined during and after the leadership election.

A new liaison committee was established with members of the TUC General Council, the NEC, and the Labour Shadow Cabinet, which gave the unions direct access to policy making.

19th May 2016, Labour List: Tony Lloyd: We must give members a voice — that means rethinking the selection process for Greater Manchester mayor

As noted in a previous post, this follows rule changes turning the Labour leadership contest into a fully «one member one vote» process, and giving voting rights to «supporters» who signed up for just # 3.

In London alone, on any given Sunday, there will be more than three times as many people in church as a there are members of the Labour party nationally.

«Members also tell me that they don't think Labour MPs should be parading on the media to give a running commentary on our party.

In reality, Benn was desperately lucky to get as close as he did — and only did so because Labour's largest union, the TGWU, gave him their vote in the second ballot, against the wish of a clear majority of its members, who wanted Denis Healey.

In any case I resent the fact that neither I as a member of the Labour Party, other Party members nor the Country's voters were given the democratic right to elect our leader and Prime Minister.

Committee chair Keith Vaz said he had received complaints from members of the public claiming the Labour leader gave inaccurate or misleading responses.

Members of affiliated unions will be asked to give positive consent if they wish some of the political levy to go to Labour.

He added: «Members also tell me that they don't think Labour MPs should be parading on the media to give a running commentary on our party.»

These reservations are shared widely in the Liberal Democrat Party, and have given rise to separate reports that Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who is a former member of the Labour Party, was deeply unhappy at the time of the deal being struck and made last ditch appeals to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an attempt to strike a Coalition deal with Labour.

What Corbyn wants to do is to make the Labour party more democratic, to give more power to the members, to make it into a mass movement.

On the donations we've given the party over the last year, and has now asked for some more, I wonder how many labour members angry at our own party for spending money we didn't have in the late 2000's which has seen this recession be worse than it need be, feel obliged to give to our party additional money,

Labour's leadership election rules, for example, Mandelson claims gave a deciding voice to union organisers, many of whom were not Labour members.

However, non-affiliated members would still be paying into the political fund; these reserves could be given to Labour as top - up donations or might, as Dennis Skinner warned, go to rival parties.

Once again the Welsh Labour Government is asking Assembly Members to pass legislation without being given the full details or implications within that legislation.

Blair would co-opt what voters (and some members of his Party) saw as traditional Tory policies or values and give them a New Labour sheen.

Whether it's the derisive attitude towards Corbyn's supporters, the repeated attempts to exclude Labour members from voting, or Owen Smith's comments about the potential expulsion of Momentum from Labour, Corbyn's opponents have repeatedly given him exactly what he was looking for.

It's great if he can give a speech to Labour members - he'd better start writing one.

I suppose the last would give us the problem of how to exclude members of other parties (if we're sure we want to) but while that's an understandable worry, I doubt we need really fear Conservatives organising nationally to donate to Labour and elect Diane Abbott.

And to the disgust of many angry SNP members, she decided to give the Labour MP the benefit of the doubt.

And they have to give a voice to the fifty per cent of Labour members and supporters who didn't back Labour's new leader.

Surely Abbott's TV profile, not to mention the fact she is the only woman and the only black person running, should have given her some sort of boost, if not among MPs, then among the media and Labour members?

Only 44 % of those who have been members since before Ed Miliband became leader in 2010 gave their first preference to Labour's new leader.

We gave Ed the option of whether or not to answer questions — in this Labour leadership interview — from people who clearly weren't Labour members or supporters.

Jeremy Corbyn has accused Labour officials of suspending members without letting them know why or giving them the chance to appeal, as tensions surrounding the party's leadership election intensified over the weekend.

James Forsyth, the political editor of the Spectator, said that in a year or two Miliband ought to scrap Labour's complex leadership electoral system — which gives affiliated union members one - third of the vote — in favour of a one - member, one - vote arrangement.

The row is politically difficult for Jeremy Corbyn, who was elected as Labour leader on a pledge to give its members more of a say in policy - making.

Thousands of Labour members have emailed the party demanding to be given a say on its Brexit policy amid concerns that Jeremy Corbyn is ignoring their views.

Labour MPs have demanded that the party's members be given a direct say on its Brexit policy in a major challenge to Jeremy Corbyn.

«Labour is to look at broadening its electoral base by offering the chance for Labour sympathisers, and not just members or union levy payers, to be given a vote in the Labour leadership election.

But the new mayor was not given an easy ride by Labour members on the panel, one of which presented him with a bicycle helmet asking him to promise to obey the law and wear it.

Appearing on the BBC's Daily Politics, she broke cover to give a frank assessment of why Labour members so dramatically overlooked her for the leadership.