Sentences with phrase «join with labour»

«If the Liberal Democrats choose - and of course it's their decision - if they choose to join with the Labour Party then we will probably end up with someone as prime minister who didn't go through the process in the general election of scrutiny by the electorate.

On 31 October 2012 Mark Reckless, the Conservative MP who has since defected to Ukip was credited with masterminding the coalition's first Commons defeat leading 53 Tory rebels to join with Labour to back a motion demanding a real terms cut in the European Union budget.

The only example of legislation like this is under the Pinochet regime so I think there might be some crossbenchers who will join with Labour to oppose it.»

Around a dozen Conservative MPs have signalled they could join with Labour to back membership of a customs union with Brussels after Brexit.

Unlike Tim Montgomerie, I don't believe that the formation of the Coalition was a mistake, for one reason: if the Liberal Democrats had forced a second election, David Cameron wouldn't have won it on present boundaries (any more than he won that of May 2010); and if they hadn't forced such an election, they would simply have joined with Labour to vote down radical Tory legisaltion in any event.

Not exact matches

«If you're physically able to work — as people are today with better health outcomes — a lot of people are just choosing to join the labour market,» says Francis Fong, an economist with TD Bank.

While I laboured in our home to give birth to another tiny - barely - there - baby that we would not hold in this life, my burning tears were tasted by a mouth that only spoke tongues for those long hours, my heart somehow in a groaning along with my body, for the joining of grief and worship and trust.

I joined the Conservative Party in 1996 at the height of New Labour's popularity, so these manuals really grated with me at the time.

Born in Warrington in October 1970, Liam joined the Labour Party when he was 15 and today lives in Birmingham with his wife Sarah and three children, Alex, John and Elizabeth.

The author revels in the details of the tale by noting how, having sent British newspapers into a frenzy, the Labour MP made it to Australia with two new identities and settled down in the suburbs of Melbourne, where «he applied to join the local jazz club».

But the pair then gave every indidcation that they wanted to join forces with Labour as they pledged to try to strike alliances with other left - of - centre parties to defeat the Conservatives.

«Working closely with the local Tory leader and Boris» muck - raking hack - for - hire Andrew Gilligan, they've repeatedly joined forces to scupper Labour policies»

Perhaps the most famous act of opposition to Section 28 came when Shaun Woodward, a Conservative MP with a transgender sister, defected from the Conservative Party and his seat and joined the ruling Labour Party in opposition to the Conservatives» continued support of Section 28.

Building on a successful Policy Network fringe event, at which Liam Byrne, Peter Kellner and Fiona MacTaggart joined the authors in discussing the research, The Independent and The Economist carried pieces on Southern Discomfort, with columnist Mary Ann Sieghart reflecting on the implications of this «fascinating new research» for Labour's future.

The challenge for the Scottish Labour left is to put these socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.

Support was twice as high among those who thought the party was right to join a coalition with the Conservatives as among those who thought the Lib Dems should have stayed in opposition or formed a coalition with Labour.

«The public will rightly take a very dim view of the Labour frontbench joining arm in arm with the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg and other Brextremists to vote for a Brexit which will cost jobs, damage living standards and leave our public services with less investment.»

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

I wish the new Labour leader well and would ask him to join us on the streets with the working class people who are taking a stand against social cleansing but for now it remains to be seen whether the rest of his party will follow his lead.

«Last week we announced our intention to limit access our labour market for Bulgaria and Romania when they join the EU in January next year and work is under way to introduce a points system to ensure that only people with the skills we need from outside the EU can come to this country.»

Indeed, Labour and the SNP joined forces in arguing that Mrs May is prioritising party political interests over those of the country with this election call.

To be frank his views made what should have been an easy decision into a difficult one.I don't trust Smith and will back Jeremy again but I am concerned.Having sensible views on immigration and defence is ethical and doesn't turn me into a raging right winger or closet racist and is probably in line with what most potential Labour voters want.I'd like to think that more will join our party and that Corbyn will continue democratizing it, giving us the opportunity to shape policy ourselves.

The idea that the Liberal Democrats would join forces with Labour is fanciful, they never have in the past and they never will in the future.

But the government could lose the vote on a «programme motion», which limits debate on the bill in the Commons to 14 days, because Labour will join forces with as many as 100 Tory rebels.

Not surprisingly, given the above, half (49 %) of Labour's new members believe the membership should have more say over policy, with the figure rising to 54 % and 65 % respectively among those who joined during and after the leadership election.

The Independent article showing that a substantial majority of electors oppose Osborne's cuts programme contrasted with New Labour «s failure to join the majority.

Ms Thornberry's comments came amid a separate Labour row over the party's Brexit stance, with more than 40 peers this afternoon expected to defy Mr Corbyn to back a House of Lords amendment that seeks to get Britain to join the European Economic Area (EEA).

Combined with a slight boost from new members that joined during the Labour leadership election, Leonard took the first spot on the Central Scotland regional list, bypassing all incumbent Labour MSPs.

Following the 1997 election, with Labour now in power, Field joined the government led by Tony Blair as its Minister for Welfare Reform, working in the Department of Social Security.

Ultimately, what matters more to Labour members, it seems, is having a leader who, as well as being a good communicator, is in touch with ordinary people and has strong political beliefs — something that is especially true for those who joined after rather than before the last general election.

The Labour leadership candidate, who has built his campaign on his ability to attract votes from the Liberal Democrats, said he would «make sure he is punished at the ballot box» for joining government with the Conservatives.

The Labour shadow health minister said the party was danger of entering into a «downward spiral» with the Tories on immigration, after Australian election strategist Lynton Crosby joined David Cameron's team.

Nothing to do with a Hung Parliament, and the Tories or labour he might join, if labour comes out tops then he will lean with brown, if it's Cameron he'll kiss the butt of Thatcher.

Some Lib Dem backbenchers had threatened to join forces with Labour in a bid to block the changes in Parliament.

With a hung parliament looking increasingly likely, an opportunistic Salmond has ruled out joining any formal coalition with Labour or the TorWith a hung parliament looking increasingly likely, an opportunistic Salmond has ruled out joining any formal coalition with Labour or the Torwith Labour or the Tories.

In a highly unusual development, Labour, the official opposition, joined forces with one arm of the coalition, the Lib Dems, to vote down a proposal (Dominic Raab's amendment) that was branded illegal and unworkable by the dominant Conservative arm of the coalition.

Tory rebel joins forces with Labour's Chuka Umunna to warn Theresa May against seeking a «hard Brexit».

It is utterly depressing that Labour did not join with the Liberal Democrats to kill off the cuts to Tax Credits completely.

Pro-European Conservative MPs could join forces with Labour to block the kind of Brexit Theresa May wants, a Tory rebel has warned the PM.

In a highly unusual move, the Tory former education secretary Nicky Morgan joins forces with her previous Labour shadow Lucy Powell and the Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to condemn the plans as damaging to social mobility, ideologically driven and divisive.

When I read the email from Ed Miliband to all party members yesterday afternoon, I thought Left Futures should run a competition with a prize for the first person who could identify «Paul», the possibly mythical figure who it is said has joined the Labour Party because of the «reforms» now backed by Labour's national executive: I -LSB-...]

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

David Cameron was met with cries of «racist» in the House of Commons as he joined attacks on Labour's London mayoral candidate after he claimed that Sadiq Khan had links to a supporter of Islamic State.

No 10 had hoped to reduce the rebellion when the government announced the withdrawal of a «programme motion» earlier in the day when it became clear that Labour would join forces with the rebels to reject the measure.

The Chairman, Patricia, is an ex-Labour councillor who became disillusioned with Labour and joined us.

With a huge groundswell of support from the several hundred thousand people who have joined the party since the last election, the radical democratic socialist has snatched Labour from under the noses of the establishment.

Come and join the authors Howard Reed and Stewart Lansley, with Ursula Huws, Shadow Chancellor John Mcdonnell, Labour MP Jonnie Reynold and Baroness...

Tom Watson went down badly with his «Comrades» opening line which is a bit too old school «scary» for the kids and his plea for everyone to join Labour brought the inevitable left - wing reaction from Maeve Mckeown raging against Labour over Iraq, tuition fees and the usual Blairite crimes.

Over the past year the Labour party has turned into a mass movement, with hundreds of thousands of new members joining the party.

The shadow health secretary has big plans to join social care up with health - but this could make Labour some enemies