Sentences with phrase «kind of party labour»

A difficult debate on leadership - election reform is looking fundamental to deciding what kind of party Labour will become.

Not exact matches

I think the really abject weakness of the Labour party in Cheltenham clearly played some kind of part.

In a statement trumpeting her Corbynite credentials, she declared: «Jeremy Corbyn has opened the door to a new kind of Labour party, one which sticks to its principles, opposes neoliberalism and utilises the knowledge and experience of its members.»

This uncompromising opposition to the appalling displays of racism and xenophobia witnessed across the country in the last week, is exactly the kind of leadership we need from the head of the Labour Party.

It has been 18 months since Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as leader of the Labour party, promising «a new kind of politics».

OTOH, I think there are still a lot of decent people in the Labour party who want to make it the kind of party I could support again.

He said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.»

Nevertheless, it does limit the potential for Momentum to encourage activism if they are only interested in certain kinds of Labour supporters, and if these supporters are then viewed with suspicion by other elements of the party and therefore likely to get a frosty reception from non-Momentum activists.

Patrick Diamond assesses the Labour leader's performance as an opposition leader according to five criteria, and concludes the risk of a Labour schism between «principles» and «power» — of the kind that rivened the party in the early 1980s — is considerable.

He then invited Ed Miliband to give his personal views on those issues and invited him to confirm as a matter of fact that «the Labour party does not solicit votes or membership of financial contributions on religious grounds and that it does not offer any kind of privileged access or dialogue to faith groups of any kind».

The irony here is that for once, Corbyn is far more in touch with the public and with the kind of voters Labour needs to win back than his parliamentary party is (the most recent ICM poll, for example, suggests that the voters Labour's lost since 2015 break about 4:3 for Leave).

The public — and the financial markets — are unlikely to look kindly on a party that plunges Britain into an era of instability by refusing to do any kind of deal with either Labour or the Conservatives.

Diane Abbott has never held any kind of ministerial post so lacks experience, she only stood because she wanted to give voters in the Labour Party an alternative.

So what kind of party is Paul Kenny, the General Secretary of the GMB, shaping when he warns Labour delegates against engaging in «wine bar gossip»?

Chuka Umunna, Labour MP for Streatham and leading anti-Brexit campaigner «Neither major party can treat these results as any kind of endorsement.

It had few kind words to say about «good» Labour Party Conference moments, and reserved plenty of triumphalism for Tory moments.

Primaries are of two kinds — open (whereby anyone on the electoral register can have a vote to selecta Labour party candidate), and closed (whereby only party members or supporters can have a vote).

Labour made limited progress, but failed to produce the kind of surge that would allow the party to claim it is a government - in - waiting.

In a statement yesterday Mr Corbyn said: «I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60 % of Labour members and supporters.

I was elected by hundreds of thousands of Labour party members and supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics.

In a statement last night, the Labour leader said: «I was elected by hundreds of thousands of Labour party members and supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics.

It wishes to see this chamber elected on territorial basis — presumably the kind of «nations and regions» approach that is now being championed by sections of the Labour party.

But in a defiant statement within minutes of the result being announced, the leader said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.

Naturally, Labour seized on comments with Ian Lavery, a Labour MP and the party's national campaign coordinator, stating the «This kind of comment shows Jacob Rees - Mogg really is the dictionary definition of an out - of - touch Tory.»

Diarist and former Labour politician Chris Mullin was sceptical about MPs producing their own literature covering what they've been doing in office, telling the room that his successor (MP for Sunderland Central Julie Elliott), «publishes a brochure, from party funds» but this kind of thing is «vanity publishing» and «doesn't advance your knowledge very much... [but] I wouldn't object to anything pretty basic and bland.»

On the specific issue of «window dressing», the increased role of women in New Labour seems to me correlated not with some kind of feminist victory within what's left of the historical Labour Party (that, I think, is a myth unfortunately) but rather with the growth of «affective labour» in the workLabour seems to me correlated not with some kind of feminist victory within what's left of the historical Labour Party (that, I think, is a myth unfortunately) but rather with the growth of «affective labour» in the workLabour Party (that, I think, is a myth unfortunately) but rather with the growth of «affective labour» in the worklabour» in the workplace.

«If people like you were to get behind Jeremy and the kind of politics that he represents, the Labour party might have a fighting chance on a national and local level of being able to change this country for the better.»

Jeremy is going to have to make a transition very quickly from being a backbencher, where he had a kind of modus operandi, to being leader of the Labour party and being under constant scrutiny.

Some loyalists are trying to offset it with the fact that Labour staved off defeat in Stoke — as if retaining a rock - solid seat against a carpetbagging, tweed - wearing fantasist counts as some kind of triumph rather than the minimum ask of an opposition party in midterm.

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.»

In a defiant statement within minutes of the result being announced, the leader said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.

I'm not a labour party supporter specifically, dislike any kind of tribalism.

But an internal survey has reportedly found 75 % of Labour party members opposed intervention of this kind.

I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.

«We won because the British people did not trust Ed Miliband to manage the economy and so it is unbelievable now to see the Labour party has been piratically captured in a kind of social media twitstorm by what Harold Wilson once called a small group of politically motivated men and I know these people, my friends

It might mean a re-worked system of intergovernmental relations, or even some kind of quasi-federal system, possibly involving realigning the House of Lords as a chamber of the nations and regions of the UK — something Ed Miliband first raised at the Labour Party conference in September 2014.

But it is a curious myth that Unite is some kind of monolith controlling the Labour Party and pulling it to the left.

In a defiant statement, Mr Corbyn said last night: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.

She said she found her leader «decent, principled and kind», but added: «However, it is increasingly clear that your position is untenable and that you are unable to command the support of the shadow cabinet, the parliamentary Labour party, and most importantly the country.»

«I was elected by hundreds of thousands of Labour party members and supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics... I am not going to betray the trust of those who voted for me — or the millions of supporters across the country who need Labour to represent them.

In this light, Corbyn is seen as a refreshing change, to all that spin, the real deal, in the traditional, Tony Benn, Old Labour Party way, (apart from his potential, Islington, Margaret Hodge kind of legacy), not the Hilary Benn, slippery fish, blarite, New Labour nonsence, that voters have now woken up to.

And notably, in part due to the grim row over anti-Semitism not being tackled in the Labour Party quickly enough, Labour did not make the kinds of additional gains in London boroughs they had suggested, even though in some of those critical parts of the metropolis, they ran the Tories extremely close.

But now, we need to start building the kind of Scottish Labour Party which Scotland deserves and which Scotland needs.»