Sentences with phrase «into electoral power»

For these and related reasons, the unions have major advantages over other groups, which can often translate into electoral power.

Not exact matches

That's the road of advance we have to return to if we're going to challenge the Tories for power and turn the huge growth in the Labour party into the electoral support we need across Britain.

On the reasons why the party lost the 2016 election, implicitly in agreement with Former President Mahama's assertion that the reasons are multifaceted, he said the electoral college constituted by the party and failure to monitor the process effectively led to malfeasance and manipulation of the process which usurped the power of the genuine supporters of the party which automatically, denied the party the opportunity of going into the election with some genuine supporters on its side.

And as a matter of fact, some of the battle men Buhari came into the warfront with may actually be more corrupt that those his electoral victory edged out of power.

Nor are Labour exempt from cynicism as they failed to implement any concrete electoral reforms to the way MPs are elected to the House of Commons whilst in power from 1997 to 2010 but now their leader wishes to be seen as the reformer though he is still so partisan that he refuses to be seen in the company of the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, I personally assume therefore this is more about driving a wedge into the coalition, opposing David Cameron and general point scoring than a real desire for electoral reform for Ed Miliband.