Sentences with phrase «left of one's party»

Lisa Nandy MP from the soft left of the party called for Shah to be suspended pending an investigation, and that has now happened.

BES data confirms the leftist orientation of Green supporters: on a left - right scale running from 0 (far left) to 10 (far right), they place themselves at 2.76 on average — the furthest left of any party.

There are some on the hard left of the party like [John] McDonnell, and some on the right of the party, who have become fatalistic about that.

On the day of the vote the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign's press conference saw a platform uniting some of the traditional labourist right with others from the centre as well as left of the party.

If labour wants to win in 2020 it needs to recognise that to be a broad church you need the right, centre and left of the party working together because they believe what unites them is better for the country.

Others on the dormant left of the party, however, see it as a «trap» - a plan to destroy the Lib Dems as an independent political force and subsume them into the Cameron - led Conservative Party.

Farron has positioned himself on the social liberal left of the party.

«If he does not — and I don't believe he ever would — I would be very happy to fight him and his fellow travellers on the extreme left of the party by standing in his constituency of Islington North.»

From the traditional left of the party we saw John Gummer and Stephen Dorrell run the quality of life and public services policy groups.

In particular, supporters of Smith think that he is better placed than Angela Eagle to win a leadership contest because he was not in parliament for the Iraq war and has pitched himself on the soft left of the party.

«If Mayor de Blasio wanted to take him on, because Mayor de Blasio does have the support of the far left of his party, I think the governor knows he might be in trouble,» Cox said.

This change would make it significantly easier for a figure on the hard left of the party to take over from Corbyn, should he stand down.

Leonard was only elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2016, yet is a key figure on the left of the party in Scotland, and is one of the most experienced trade unionists in the country.

On the left of the party» that is, to the extreme left of the political mainstream of which the national party has in recent decades been the far left» such candidates are accused of selling out the principles of liberalism.

Shadow business is still an important job, but there's no way that this will be seen as anything other than a slap across the knuckles for the man whom many on the left of the party hope could one day succeed Corbyn.

He says: «My entry into all of this was because a number of us on the left of the party thought there ought to be a debate about the economic strategy and how we deal with the issue of austerity...

The comments come a month after supporters of Corbyn were advised on how to deselect their local MP in a new pamphlet said to be backed by senior figures on the left of the party.

For example, the left of the party would be as and more critical of Snowden and MacDonald as of New Labour, and 1931 is where a lot of the power of «betrayal» theses come from of course.

He was supported by the left of the Party, was too left wing to get a majority there and the supposed relevance of his policy doodles is insulting the meanest intelligence.

In another clear pitch to the left of the party, Smith also pledged to debate Corbyn in a «comradely, kind, gentle fashion».

Governor Andrew Cuomo, seeking a third term in office, is facing challenges both from the left of his party and from a new Republican candidate.

That will challenge both the right and the left of the party.»

Dissent is slowly being marginalised and, in the words of a source on the left of the party: «The inner Clegg circle is now in the «control the message», top - down phase of the early New Labour years.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, seeking a third term in office, is facing challenges both from the left of his party and from a new Republican candidate.

«He [Baldwin] might be a Blairite and a friend of Alastair Campbell,» says a shadow minister on the left of the party, «but he knows how to take the fight to the Tories.»

Lisa Nandy, who stepped down as shadow energy secretary on Tuesday, said bullying, intimidation, harassment and death threats had been «unleashed against MPs from the right to the left of the party».

The party's September conference will vote on a proposed measure to reduce the threshold to 5 % and in theory, make it easier for figures on the left of the party to run for the leadership.

His remarks will be seen as a rebuke to colleagues on the Left of the party — including Business Secretary Vince Cable and president Tim Farron — who have begun to complain publicly about coalition policies.»

I would urge everybody on the left of the party to do likewise to make it impossible for the purge - meisters ever to ban Momentum in the future.

Morris was one of a handful of Labour MPs newly elected in 2010 considered to be on the left of the party politically.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, seeking a third term in office, is facing challenges both from the left of his party and from a new Republican candidate.

Putting Johnson in charge of the Tory manifesto could also anger Tory backbenchers, who consider Boris» brother on the far - left of the party — not least because of his moderate stance on the EU.

Much like Owen Smith, she is on the centre - left of the party and, like him, recently resigned.

He is on the left of the party and still loyal to Corbyn, but without the baggage of some of Corbyn's inner circle.

David Cameron and George Osborne need to prove to the electorate that their cuts are necessary for recovery, not merely ideological, while Nick Clegg has to keep the left of his party convinced that their interests are served by lending their support.

In a clear appeal to voters on the left of the party, Smith said: «New Labour tried so hard to make sure it didn't alienate the powerful that I'm afraid too many people in our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challenge.

Her resignation is a body blow to Corbyn as McCarthy is thought to be on the soft left of the party.

Asked about which possible Labour leadership contenders people felt warmest towards, Greenberg said David Miliband was the favourite, followed by his brother, Ed, the likely candidate from the left of the party Jon Cruddas, and then the former schools secretary Ed Balls.

Many on the left of the party — including party grandees such as former leader Charles Kennedy — are likely to be further troubled by Clegg's message that under his leadership the party is no longer a natural home for disaffected Labour supporters.

Mr Bowyer reveals there are elements on the right of the party who, self evidently, would sooner Labour imploded rather than support a left of the party leader by taking the decision to abide by the result of the leadership election and attempt to nurture the enthusiasm of the influx of support.

The speech on Thursday at the thinktank Demos will be seen as Jarvis taking on criticism that he is too far to the right, positioning himself on the soft left of the party.

At a Fabian Society meeting, Chuka Umunna took aim at those on the left of the party who called out anyone who disagreed with them as red Tories.

Jeremy Corbyn, a prominent figure on the left of the party, made it on to the ballot with minutes to spare after MPs who do not intend to give him their vote nominated him in order to ensure a wider debate.

Though the business community has disagreed with Cuomo over the minimum wage bill and his recent executive actions raising the wage for fast food workers, Briccetti says she understand the governor has political considerations with the left of his party.

Cuomo, under pressure from the left of his party, pressed for a progressive agenda in the final weeks of his campaign that includes an abortion rights provision in a women's equality package, further increases in the state's minimum wage, and public financing of political campaigns.

The miners strike of 1984 — 85 over coal mine closures, which divided the NUM as well as the Labour Party, and the Wapping dispute led to clashes with the left of the party, and negative coverage in most of the press.

Chris Matheson, a former Unite official and on the left of the party who quit as a parliamentary aide to Labour's justice team today, said: «You can't reach out, it isn't working, we can't go on and make the same mistakes again.

Another senior Liberal Democrat on the left of the party says he is «very uncomfortable with the rhetoric from the party leadership.