Sentences with phrase «hope for labour»

Clive Lewis is probably the best hope for labour in 2020.

Suddenly, there might be some hope for Labour.

03:02 - Glimmer of hope for Labour as they take their first seat off the Tories.

If there is a glimmer of hope for Labour, it is that the recent polls, which showed them at real risk of losing their grip on Wales, turned out to be bleaker than reality.

The best hope for Labour is to try and develop an anti-racist, left - wing and less exclusionary form of populist politics — and to provide convincing answers to voters» genuine problems.

Those hoping for Labour to mount a fierce opposition to the austerity measures contained within George Osborne's Budget yesterday are set to be disappointed.

Jones has previously described Lewis, who recently resigned from the shadow cabinet, as «one of the great hopes for Labour's future».

But there are also hopes for Labour gains here.

In a further headache for the ruling party, the poll also showed most Scots hoping for a Labour defeat at the Glasgow - East by - election.

Not exact matches

Environment Secretary Michael Gove urged the Prime Minister and Chancellor to listen to independent bodies that review public sector pay, after a week in which Labour attacked a government «shambles» for initially raising, then playing down hopes that the cap could be lifted.

Christ in us the HOPE of Glory in Jesus name: I am His workmanship for His Glory: God is nothing like us, that is why Paul said we need to have Christ formed in us: Little Children; I labour in birth again until Christ be formed in you: Read what I have up on Zender's site and if you still don't understand it, that means it was not meant for you to understand: Thank - you Gary; In Jesus Name Alexandria:

«There's a solidarity about this which is right and proper coming from a group of Christians in the Labour Party, it's what you would hope for.»

Now it gets difficult, Santi Cazorla, his injury probably ended our title hopes this year, we missed his incisive passing and quick feet in midfield this year, once he was out of the side every attack seemed so slow, laboured and uninventive, there will be rumours all summer about him returning to Spain, and the sale of Santi would go some way to pretty much pay for Xhaka's transfer, the only thing that would go against him is his defensive contribution is not as great as our other options.

GMB hopes this will be a Labour commitment for the next election.»

Ken Clarke's departure from the government would be a disaster for the future of civil rights in this country and for any hope of clawing back some of the rights lost under a succession of deeply illiberal New Labour home secretaries.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

Hopes that the Labour leader's radical moves to end his party's reliance on the trade unions might pave the way for a deal were dashed as the debate descended into bitter exchanges in the Commons chamber.

Instead of the siege mentality which has marked recent conferences, Labour will be able to welcome a new leader who will hope for a honeymoon period, with a looming backdrop of the government's spending review.

Labour have high hopes for Tory scalp in this this key marginal.

The people Nuttall is hoping to target — long - term Labour voters who're dissatisfied with the current state of affairs and looking for change — are unlikely to feel particularly fondly about his reheated Thatcherism.

«I would hope that it would be completed in time for the new leader to be in post by the time of the Labour party conference.

Labour had been hoping for an enraged nation to rise up and cast off the chains of its austerity - obsessed oppressors.

Much of the nervousness is a hangover from last year when both the polls and bookies also predicted a Labour government, only for their hopes to be crushed on polling day.

In his book Power Trip, Damian McBride recalls his frustration — and sneaking admiration for — Tony Blair's annual conference Houdini act: «Each year we'd come in with Tony under pressure, probably assisted by some unhelpful splashes from me in the Sunday papers; Gordon would make an ecstatically received speech appealing to Labour's soul and adding to the pressure; and Tony would then deliver an even better - received speech dashing Gordon's hopes and putting him back in his box.»

The town which ended Labour's hopes for government can tell it where it went wrong.

Tory high command believes Labour is trying to «switch channels» and write off the economic legacy it left, and it's felt that by accepting Conservative budgets in the future, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls hope they can escape the blame for the past mess.

Yet my time spent plucking feathers from the yellow bird of freedom makes me a natural choice to suggest how Labour can rebuild our hopes for a «progressive alliance».

Mrs May will be hoping that she can compensate for these electoral risks with large Conservative gains against an exceptionally weak Labour Party.

I'm sorry for using such a morbid analogy, but as a longstanding Labour supporter I'm finding that hope is in short supply.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

I hope so, because this is the only person in Labour with the right package of common sense, intellect, and boldness to make it a party worth voting for.

Abolishing the 50p rate costs ministers political pain in the months after it was cut and by refusing to join Labour in re-introducing the 50p rate - Labour hopes this decision will cause more pain for David Cameron and George Osborne.

I watched us beating the Tories by 3 or 4 points on local and European election nights, and poured scorn on the psephologists who said the gains weren't really enough for Labour to hope to win.

Labour will, of course, seek to blame Osborne and Cameron for these cuts and Tories are anxious about a «severed legs» strategy where Labour make headline - grabbing cuts wherever they have power, hoping to inflict maximum damage on the Coalition in Westminster, while Tory councils, for example, make responsible cuts.

Hoping for a 1.6 % swing and one additional seat to win Barnet from no overall control, Labour instead saw the council move into the Conservative column.

One morning early in July, after it became clear that Owen Smith hoped to challenge Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership but before most Labour voters had any real idea who he was, Smith set out his position in a brief series of tweets.

Former MP David Miliband spoke for many people when he argued that under his brother's leadership, Labour had hoped to «suspend the laws of political gravity» by moving somewhat to the left, yet continuing to believe victory was still possible.

That has seemingly left some Labour MPs hoping that, with Khan as London mayor, they would have a figurehead for internal opposition to Corbyn.

So Labour dissenters put up with Corbyn and hope for something better one day.

As things stand, worried Labour MPs might have to settle for surviving a general election, rather than hoping for their party to win one outright.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

I said that social democrats - maybe the Labour party in Britain especially - had gradually reduced their use of various tools for increasing equality - trade unionism, income redistribution, changes in ownership structures - and as a result looked increasingly to education to carry their egalitarian hopes.

Many Labour activists seem to hope for a return to 1950 (or possible 1983).

In a night of mixed fortunes for the two major parties, Labour took Plymouth from the Conservatives but was unable to seize Tory «crown jewel» authorities in London, where it had hoped to make gains.

The Labour Party offers the best hope for ordinary working people and their families at the forthcoming 5 May elections.

About 1996, when I finally decided to apply for a no hope Labour seat.

Labour have no hope of government until they recognise that the majority of the population do not like an ideological left wing government, but if they can have a government that supports business, and success, but also cares for people by maintaining the NHS and necessary public services, and taxes fairly.

We already knew the Tories and Labour weren't fit for purpose; now we know most in the LD's are just about as bad, we can only hope for something different to come about at the next GE.

The best the Parliamentary Labour Party can hope for is that the Roundhead majority in the membership gets a bit reduced.

It also means thinking, for the first time, about what it can hope to get from negotiations with a minority Labour government.