Sentences with phrase «grassroots members»

A group of grassroots members, with some help from powerful funders, attempted to take over the national organization.

There is no ambition amongst grassroots members for cuts in education and health and there is also a concern to invest in infrastructure spending.

The deputy leader, who was elected by grassroots members last September, gave an interview to the Guardian where suggested «Trots» are trying to use Labour as a «vehicle for revolutionary socialism», are not «remotely interested in winning elections» and don't have the «best interests of the Labour Party at heart».

A few weeks ago, Theresa May was regarded by Tory grassroots members as their star player in Westminster.

A series of run - offs will begin on Tuesday as MPs whittle down the hopefuls to two, who will fight it out for the support of grassroots members in a series of hustings before a postal ballot.

Mr Gibb is well - known and liked on the back - benches and could prove useful in garnering support from grassroots members of the parliamentary party.

ConHome surveys of grassroots members show Cameron, the Coalition in general and policies, in particular, all enjoying strong support.

But despite this support for Rennard from many in Westminster, the large group number of grassroots members behind the letter are now demanding that he lose his seat on the party's benches in the Lords and its influential federal policy committee.

But it did not affect his standing among Tory activists, with Raab having recently risen up the league table of Tory MPs who grassroots members would like to be the next leader.

The Labour leader also made clear that he wants to tighten the grip of grassroots members over the party's decision - making: «The Labour party should be run by its members and supporters.»

We continue to ensure everyday grassroots members are heard by the party leadership, and that the NDP is held to account for its disastrous policies.

This was clearly demonstrated when Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest on a wave of support from grassroots members despite having minimal backing among MPs.

Since then, Conservative grassroots members» views on Europe appear only to have hardened — and, as a new report from the Project published yesterday by the Mile End Institute shows, they are one of the many things that set the Tory rank and file apart from the members of other political parties.

While at least eight out of ten Labour, SNP and Lib Dem grassroots members favour a second referendum on Europe, just one in ten Tory members agrees.

There was also some unhappiness that Saj Karim MEP, a recent defector from the LibDems, was «toplisted» as a Conservative European elections candidate without grassroots members being given a say.

A recent ConservativeHome «cabinet league table» showed that Tory grassroots members made Patel third favourite to be the next Conservative leader behind David Davis and Boris Johnson.

Michael Howard wanted to end the decisive role that grassroots members play in the election of Tory leader.

In different circumstances grassroot members unhappy at Project Cameron would have filled this meeting to voice their anger at the Tory leadership.

Most grassroots members, and Mr Corbyn himself, are fiercely opposed, while a majority of Labour MPs are in favour of replacing the subs.

The Conservatives will have a range of political allies if they move to recriminalize aspects of prostitution activity, and not just among religious groups or their own grassroots members who last month voted in favour of a «specific plan to target the purchasers of sex and human trafficking markets through criminalizing the purchase of sex as well as the acts of any third party attempting to profit from the purchase of sex.»

It's also grassroots members, through their state associations of REALTORS ®, that initiate requests for national RPAC contributions to federal candidates.

The REALTOR ® Party Member Involvement Committee encourages grassroots member participation by... Read more

ConHome's poll of grassroots members shows that most agree with David Davis.

But despite this support in Westminster, the large number of grassroots members behind the letter are demanding that he lose his seat on the party's benches in the Lords and its influential federal policy committee.

One of their concerns is an apparently widening gulf between the Tory leadership and the party's MPs, MEPs and grassroots members over climate change.

They have now been joined by defence and schools - both of which are also prioritised by grassroots members.

We have changed our rules and codes of conduct at every level, from grassroots members to parliamentarians so that everyone involved in the party is aware of their rights and responsibilities.

The charts below summarise the main findings of the latest ConHome poll of Tory grassroots members, conducted in association with The Independent and Radio 4's Westminster Hour.

A new survey of grassroots members by ConservativeHome shows that the justice secretary is their top choice for leader for the third month running.

Grassroots members of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) decisively backed the party's decision to enter into another «grand coalition» government with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), thus bringing to an end months of uncertainty following September's general election.

«The policies of the United Conservative Party must be developed democratically by its grassroots members.

«But if the grassroots members decide not to go in that direction, I would respect their mandate, as well as the mandate I have as PC leader.

Our unique public policy committee structure balances the priorities of our grassroots Members with the strategic direction set out by our board of directors, policy council and management team.

This should be an issue of great interest to the NPP because, as it stands now, there are a lot of agitations among the grassroots members of the party, who claim they do not «feel» the victory they fought to secure for the party.

David Cameron has today been named leader of the Conservative party after taking more than two thirds of the votes of grassroots members.

At 1:30 p.m., senators, Assembly members and grassroots members of the Riders Alliance rally to protect MTA funding in State budget, Assembly staircase, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Our annual conferences — and, therefore, us, the grassroots members and activists — continue to make...

4th January 2018, Independent: More than half of Tory activists support death penalty, finds landmark survey of grassroots members

But the bridge can only be built if new members will accord as much weight to the opinion of ordinary voters as the new leader has accorded to the opinion of grassroots members.

Just after Labour lost last May's general election, we surveyed its grassroots members as part of a study of party membership in 21st Century Britain.

Whoever stands in the next leadership contest will have to face its grassroots members, large numbers of whom joined the party to help elect Jeremy Corbyn in 2015.

As part of our project on UK party membership in the 21st Century (PMP), we surveyed nearly 1200 grassroots members of the Conservative Party just after last year's general election.

As the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), struggles to recover from its defeat in the 2016 elections, grassroots members of the party in the Ketu South Constituency in the Volta Region, have waded into the blame game by accusing Former President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, as being the major cause of their defeat.

However, perhaps it is worth taking at face value the claim by Peter Mandelson in his plea for «no more Falkirks» that he is «trying to defend the rights of grassroots members of the -LSB-...]

Corbyn has long sought to give greater power over party policymaking to grassroots members, and he is expected to seek to boost their representation at a «democracy day» in November.

This CLP notes from the experience of the US that primaries: drive up the cost of seeking selection; favour wealthy candidates; reduced the input of grassroots members; and strengthened the influence of right wing media in candidate selection.

While in Ashanti Region, Mr. Awuku made known that he would work closely with all the party's organizers and the grassroots members, who are very important, regarding the party's electoral fortunes.

Freedom from state dependency will mean that trade union bosses will better reflect and respond to the wishes and views of the grassroots members.»