Sentences with phrase «if labour»

But even if Labour can win the economic battle, it doesn't mean they will win the electoral one.

But if Labour does succeed in ousting Clegg, what would happen next?

Kinnock flying the Jolly Roger in this week's New Statesman, asserting Corbyn should be replaced if Labour's prospects fail to improve, on the surface is a statement of the bleeding obvious.

It's therefore in the country's interests that Labour recovers (or that if Labour won't or can't recover, that someone else step into their place, though that prospect looks even more remote).

Charlotte Leslie (Con, teenage boy) says thousands of lives could have been saved if Labour hadn't suppressed certain reports.

Fellow Labour MP Stephen Kinnock said yesterday that Corbyn's position will come under scrutiny if Labour flops in May.

This week he strongly suggested Brown should go if Labour was to have any hopes of electoral success.

If Labour and LibDem wish to lance the conservatives on the issue of civil liberties, then they need to find a way of tying these two seemingly disparate threads together.

But, if Labour continues to go along with Brexit and insists on leaving the Single Market, the handmaiden of Brexit will have been the timidity of Labour.

If Labour focuses on this, it could make a big difference to turnout and the overall vote.»

And if the Labour party ever wants to govern Britain again, some of its own politicians are going to have to have the courage to utter a similar heresy.

So if Labour's plan for jobs is to attack business — ours is to back business.»

Rhodri Morgan had promised to resign if Labour did badly in Wales but was saved after they remained the largest single party in the assembly.

In the question and answer session with the media after the speech, Corbyn got especially fired up when asked by the BBC's Martha Kearney if Labour was a tainted brand.

One word of caution however - even if Labour manages that, Ken Livingstone is likely to lose in London and the party could very well lose to the Scottish National party (SNP) in Glasgow.

If Labour can't win in Bristol and Hull there's no enthusiasm for the alternative.»

But if Labour loses this spring, the first decision could be its most important in opposition: whether to have an immediate leadership contest or leave it until after the first autumn conference.

If Labour loses, Gordon must stay!

Winning swing votes will be in vain if Labour has not also got its working - class vote out and reconnected with disillusioned liberal opinion, too.

If Labour goes straight for a contest, we would miss the debate we need.

If Labour can avoid an inevitable Tory backlash over the tax, it could be one of the flagship policies for the One Nation manifesto.

Not absolutely sure if Labour should stick to Tory spending plans, especially when they do want to shrink parts of the state, but I thought in terms of the cuts damaging us and our current approach, this piece was spot on.

If Labour wishes to restore the tax credits that Osborne has cut, it must learn to win again so that it can take such decisions.

If Labour were to stick to such arguments and ignore the party political side of this they might improve their credibility.

Let's see if Labour brings this business - like approach to the continuing gay marriage debate.

It is clear that, if Labour elects David Miliband as its next leader, it will be travelling the least distance from Tony Blair's legacy.

The Conservatives have said they will only rejoin cross-party talks if Labour agrees to include funding from trade unions in the # 50,000 donor cap, in what would be a financially crippling concession for the party.

If Labour are to quietly (and I stress quietly) prepare for a post 2015 relationship with the Lib Dems, they must view them as the party they are not the Party we wish they were.

If the Labour brand becomes so damaged by the Corbyn leadership that it can no longer defeat the Tories, it's not impossible that a new force could be created which could.

While speaking for the Labour candidate in Nottinghamshire on 16 June 1945, Laski said, «If Labour did not obtain what it needed by general consent, we shall have to use violence even if it means revolution».

After a speech yesterday, Mr Corbyn was defiant about his future and said he would stand again if Labour MPs brought about a leadership contest.

If Labour really wants to be part of one, then it had better start rehearsing some progressive tunes over the next two weeks.

A government incapable of dealing with snow is there for the political taking if Labour has policies worth voting for.

When asked what will happen if Labour doesn't win, he warned that Labour could be in the wilderness for 15 years while the Tories made «devastating» changes.

If Labour change leader and DO N'T call an election, they will face the hatred and wrath of the British public.

«At times it looked as if the Labour leader was actively sabotaging a campaign he was happy to see fail.»

Even if you take taking the government's paper majority as your guide (and its de facto majority is even higher), then it would take 39 coalition MPs to rebel to defeat the government, but only if the Labour frontbench was to vote with the rebels.

As the backbench MP Jon Cruddas, perhaps the party's most thoughtful figure on the subject of race and immigration, has said: «If Labour becomes the voice for this sour, shrill, hopeless politics it will die.

If Labour is to revitalise itself in opposition, it needs to look at why it lost.

If Labour politics were an American high - school drama, some on the right of the party must have felt as though they were once the jocks and the prom queens, but have been suddenly usurped in the pecking order by the emo kids and goths they used to pity or mock.

But for several weeks there was an elephant in the room: the fact that if Labour party conference was restored to a meaningful part in the policy making process, then we probably wouldn't be having this debate at all.

Ed Miliband has pledged to reverse changes to housing benefit which he calls the «bedroom tax», if Labour wins the 2015 general election.

Even if Labour did reform the laws governing party funding, does anyone believe that they are competent or honest enough to abide by them?

If Labour wants to show that it can select candidates who have experienced real hardship and have personal experience of the effects of violence against women, it could not have made a better choice.

The point in all this, about which I am sure we agree, is that if Labour was serious about a one - nation education system it would be discussing these different legal routes to bringing all state funded schools under democratic control.

Ed Miliband and Alan Johnson need to have a strong and close relationship if Labour is to succeed in opposition.

If Labour were to become a hard left party, and a new party could be formed which was genuinely centre - left and not left, and which could credibly appeal to the centre ground, I think it could beat the Tories.

And he said it would have been published by now if Labour had backed his party's earlier calls for an inquiry.

Ed Miliband has pledged to reverse changes to housing benefit which he called the «bedroom tax», if Labour wins the 2015 general election.

He told ITV's Peston On Sunday: «There is going to need to be a change if Labour is to step up to the plate for the general election and before and show that it has a vision for the future, which is actually about both uniting the country and also being able to shape this negotiation.