Sentences with phrase «how labour members»

She 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.

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.

Not exact matches

That was a high hurdle for members to get over, but the votes provided regular ammunition for the press to talk about how chaotic and left - wing Labour was.

The silly stunt from members including Fiona McTaggart, Mary Creagh and Kevin Brennan shows how far Labour is from being a proper opposition.

I don't actually see how this story is scandalous for anyone other than Labour Party members.

Since I believe I am allowed to do so under Labour Party rules, I plan to urge others to do likewise, and I can not understand how any Labour Party member could justify doing anything else.

How will you assure members and the public that Labour MPs will never again become so dissociated from reality and so institutionalised by Westminster that they do anything on a par with home flipping, expenses rigging, agree to lobby for money or do anything at all that brings the party into disrepute?

My ears should've been burning because the bar's regulars recounted with undisguised glee how Labour's triumphant members of the House of Lords mockingly inquired if I'd be writing an adulatory piece praising an institution I regularly mock as the House of Cronies.

The chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, Jeremy Newmark, explained how a Jewish Labour councillor had been verbally abused by other members of his local party and told that «you are responsible for the slave trade» just days after Jackie Walker's Facebook comments.

Look at how members from across the non-Corbyn left, from Progress to Open Labour, have rallied to Owen Smith.

How many Labour Party members are trade union members?

The underhand ways unions are adding to their political funds are quite shocking and demonstrate how they and the Labour Party are prepared to treat union members as cash cows.

He insisted that Labour would fight May's «extreme Brexit» and said he had been visiting local constituency Labour parties across the country and speaking to thousands of members and supporters, «so I know how strongly people feel about Brexit».

It dramatised how far from the left New Labour had come, from union members to tennis.

Rosa Prince is particularly good at describing how almost by chance Corbyn became the candidate of the left for the leadership and the momentum he gained through a widespread rejection by many Labour Party members of the «establishment» candidates and the influx of the new Momentum membership.

Today Jeremy Beecham, the former head of the Local Government Association (LGA) and a member of Labour's national executive committee (NEC), said the reports were «outrageous» and amounted to state interference in how political parties work.

Our children are going to have to pay higher taxes for years as a result of irresponsible spending by the last government - and in case you think I'm biased - I was a card carrying Labour party member until I found out how much we are in debt due to overspending on such things as CTF.

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,

How about that guy who stood for election on the basis that we «need a living breathing party ``, who thought last time round «Labour felt as if it was in government despite its members, not because of them ``?

And how curious «Labour Member» doesn't turn his / her «green [with envy]» gaze onto his / her Party and the fact that their last leader - B - Liar - went to the Eton of the North in the Athens of the North [that is Fettes College, Edinburgh].

This also sparked squabbles between the four remaining (all Labour) constituent members of the Combined Authority on the way forward — showing how local leaders struggled to get on and work together, and raising concerns as to how and whether they'd make a devo deal work.

Mr Prescott continued: «All I ever wanted was to get to the final hustings to put my case to the members on how I wanted to build on the successes that Labour have achieved.

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.

We know, from party sources, how Labour's selectorate divides between full party members and those who have signed up, either via their trade union or by paying # 3, to vote in the leadership election.

At the same time, one in three Labour members said they were not sure how they would vote in either scenario, or whether they might take their vote to a different party altogether.

What I am pondering is how many Labour members were voting Corbyn in order to send a message about Labour staying true to its roots and principles rather than actually wanting him as leader, might they recoil at the thought of him actually winning?

How many of the many decent Labour members are going to want to defend Gordon on the doorstep?

Mr McBride, Gordon Brown's chief spin doctor, has published his memoirs as Labour's conference gets underway, which detail how he briefed against colleagues and cabinet members.

We're fighting hard for a majority, who knows how things will turn out, I think, look, very many Labour Party members, voters, supporters, would find that very difficult and some Liberal Democrat voters would find that very difficult as well, but we'll deal with the situation as we find it.

Rather than apologising for a mistake made by someone else over a decade ago, Jeremy could have told Labour members how he proposes to face up to his own leadership failures.

Robert Harris, writing not long before the election was called in the New Statesman, «can't quite understand how the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party can sit there day after day, month after month, year after year, knowing that they're simply heading towards a kind of mincing machine at the next election.»

At this stage support for Corbyn among Labour party members doesn't really seem conditional upon how well the party does electorally.

This is how low we've got in the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn: a non-Jewish member of the Parliamentary Labour Party calling out Jews for being anti-semitic.

«How dare they ignore my vote and Labour's members?»

The Labour leader has written to the party's general secretary, Iain McNicol, about a spate of suspensions warning: «The online and press speculation around the reasons for suspension and how these are being dealt with are raising concerns about whether members are being treated in a consistent and proportionate manner,» he said.

GMB — the third biggest union affiliate with 617,000 members and a levy of more than # 2 million — announced it will ballot members on how much it donates to Labour.

Labour Party members, even those on the right of the party, will be wondering how two Labour Shadow Cabinet members can justify attending such a party and whether they can now keep their positions.

Our survey sample is composed of 1,236 members of the Labour selectorate, with the representation levels of difference membership types (member / supporter / union affiliate) based on how each group turned out in the 2015 leadership election.

The Labour activist who famously turned up at the Crewe and Nantwich by - election in top hat and tails to play class war against Cameron was on the phone to local Tory Chairmen, advising on how they could best motivate their members to campaign on this issue.

«How dare he whip up fury about the Labour party, which has acted swiftly and thoroughly when allegations of racism among members is made in sharp contrast to his party's behaviour.

Given the potentially economically catastrophic vote to leave the EU last Thursday, an outcome that most Labour Party members, and most Labour voters opposed; and which was opposed by the overwhelming majority of affiliated trade unions; then it is essential that the Labour Party quickly develops a policy of how to deal with the fall out.

It's therefore perhaps not surprising how many Conservative (and indeed Labour) Members of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly Members are content with AMS, a semi-proportional system, for whom it is now the status quo.

Indeed, the reduction in the GMB's affiliation payment was based on the union's estimate of how many of its members would opt in to contribute to Labour under Miliband's proposals — 7.7 % of its membership.

How democratic is a system where one person, who isn't necessarily a member of the Labour party, has a number of votes, depending on how many trade unions or socialist societies they are members How democratic is a system where one person, who isn't necessarily a member of the Labour party, has a number of votes, depending on how many trade unions or socialist societies they are members how many trade unions or socialist societies they are members of?

And when it happened another Labour Club member said how appalled he was.

How do you respectfully honour those members of the Labour Youth League who were brutally murdered in order to satisfy a twisted political agenda?