Sentences with phrase «influence labour policy»

If the unions are going to influence Labour policy as much as they clearly want to, fine — but all sides need to be open about it.

Not exact matches

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But they are likely to have more power to influence a Conservative - led government than a Labour one because the Con - Lib policy preference gap is greater than the Lab - Lib one, especially on Europe.

This week, former General Secretary of the CWU Alan Johnson has issued an unabashed attack on trade union influence within the Labour Party in an interview with Progress, part of an increasingly confrontational and destructive approach to dictating Labour Party policy from the Blairite wing.

But he made clear support for the changes would come at the price of increased union influence on Labour policy - to the extent that the party abandons its support of the bulk of the coalition's deficit reduction measures.

Therefore the second element of the re-organisation of British politics is to attempt to transform the Labour Party itself into a social democratic party on the model of other west European social democratic parties — which means qualitatively reducing the influence of the rank and file and the trade unions over policy and the parliamentary party.

Blair and Mandelson know that their political project — to eliminate trade union and rank and file influence from the Labour Party and move it towards coalition with the Liberals — and the government's economic policies, notably the goal of cutting social spending, will collide with successive layers of the labour movLabour Party and move it towards coalition with the Liberals — and the government's economic policies, notably the goal of cutting social spending, will collide with successive layers of the labour movlabour movement.

According to the Labour movement, the party lost because voters did not fully appreciate what it had achieved, they were influenced by the right - wing media, and although Labour had the right policies, it did not manage to communicate them effectively.

If party X break this agreement, Labour would lose their votes - but party X would lose all their influence, along with any chance of their policies being turned into law.

As Rick Muir, whose research at the IPPR think - tank has closely influenced Labour's policy development, puts it: «Instead of these budgets being salami - sliced at the centre, you pool the budget down to the local level and then they can make more rational sense of it.»

Grayling spent the day making a speech about how trade unions were influencing Labour party policy.

More fundamentally, Leanne's victory will shift Welsh politics to the left, keeping Welsh Labour under pressure to maintain and strengthen its «clear red water» policy programme and to resist the influence of the small but highly - placed number of crypto - Blairites seeking to drag the party to the right.

Show of strength in parliamentary Labour party makes clear they will fight for influence and warns Corbyn not to keep challenging existing policies

A leaked memo written by former Unite political director boasts of the influence the union has over Labour's business, regulation and wages policies.

Aides say the vote is a symbolic endorsing of the policy but accept it does not necessarily make the party more or less committed to it - reflecting the limited influence which the Labour conference actually has on policy decisions.

Continuing that theme, the 2015 manifesto's welfare pledges revolve around explaining how the SNP would exert its influence on this policy area if involved in supporting a minority Labour government.

When Margaret Thatcher attempted to sever the link between unions and the Labour Party with the 1984 Trade Union Act, which required unions to regularly ballot members on whether they wished to continue pay - ing into their union's political fund, it was a direct attempt to cripple the Labour Party while reducing the influence of the unions on policy.

The figures show that unions have stepped up their funding under Gordon Brown believing they now have a better chance of influencing Labour Party policy.

The hatred leads them to neglect alternative strategies, such as working with Rahman to implement the Labour Party manifesto (on which Labour and Rahman both stood for election) or influence his policies — although in other parts of the country Labour co-operates with other political parties to secure improvements, even from Tory administrations.

This outfit derives its resources from the liquidation of the Communist Party's assets built up over many decades by British workers (with a little help from their Soviet comrades) Therefore Progress can have no principled objection to another political tendency with impeccable socialist credentials and a much longer relationship with the organised labour movement to join them in the fraternal contest to shape the direction of Labour's policies and influence the selection of candilabour movement to join them in the fraternal contest to shape the direction of Labour's policies and influence the selection of candiLabour's policies and influence the selection of candidates.