Sentences with phrase «more labour mp»

The best estimates are that there will only be a handful of Conservative MPs willing to vote against the government's position while there will be significantly more Labour MPs willing to defy Jeremy Corbyn's position and vote for action in Syria.

Three more Labour MPs have announced this week that they won't be fighting the fight at the next election:

Advising those looking to get a new face in the Commons, Osland states: «The top priority for the labour movement right now is to secure the election of more Labour MPs at the next general election.

«It's long overdue, we are the party of equality We've got more Labour MPs than all the other parties put together and we've just got to do it.

Fallon hopes to persuade more Labour MPs to defy Corbyn in the coming days and weeks.

If Benn had won, more Labour MPs, councillors and activists would have joined the SDP, who'd have usurped Labour as the second largest party.

With several more Labour MPs in marginal seats having announced their intention to retire at the election in recent days, below is a list of the 46 Labour and Lib Dem MPs (so far) in the most winnable seats for the Conservatives who have opted not to defend their seats at the general election.

More Labour MPs have been «testing the waters» and «consulting colleagues» over their chances of replacing Ed Miliband as party leader.

I think there will be more Labour MPs voting with us at third reading if, as we fear, the government does not accept any of our very reasonable amendments.

However, Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart of the Centre for British Politics at the University of Nottingham have a new post up on the NottsPolitics blog, which shows more Labour MPs have defied the whip than have Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs.

During that period of results of the early morning I even began to believe several more Labour MPs in marginal seats would even lose to the Conservatives.

Not exact matches

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MPs» pay rises are in peril this week, as Labour leader Ed Miliband reportedly mulls ruling out anything more than a one per cent pay rise after the next general election.

Harriet fought for more Labour women MPs through «women - only shortlists».

From the 1970s, Harriet campaigned for increased women's representation in the Labour Party - more women Labour councillors, more women Labour MPs and for a Labour leadership team of three of which at least one should be a woman.

By the next day, Labour MPs were as unconvinced by their leader as they were before phone - hacking while a much - hyped public Q&A event provided yet more material for his critics to comment on how odd he is.

Conservative peers are usually more socially liberal than Labour MPs.

The intervention triggered an immediate backlash from Labour MPs, with more than 20 calling on Corbyn to take immediate action against his close ally.

More than 100 MPs, including 83 Labour members, had signed a parliamentary motion expressing their «surprise and regret» the Casino Advisory Panel recommended rejected Blackpool's bid to host the first super casino.

There are more Tories and DUP MPs than there are all the others, so even if Labour convince the other parties to back them, it won't pass.

Fewer MPs for Labour can mean more for Jeremy Corbyn when the leader's office sniffs an opportunity in a crisis.

More is sometimes worse, wider is often shallower, incoherence usually brutalising and the alacrity with which labour MPs snatch their own children form schools struggling with eight languages shows that none of this is a hopelessly nebulous when its your own.

The silence was slowly replaced by more and more noise from Labour MPs.

Let Labour declare that in the most rural third of constituencies both in the country and in each of the 10 mainland regions outside London, unless one of its own MPs were seeking re-election, the Labour candidate would be drawn from a household in the social groups C2DE within the constituency, and at least preferably within the more rural half of wards.

Labour believes it would be a «huge shock» if more than 50 Labour MPs backed airstrikes, although a fair few are likely to abstain.

Whereas Conservative MPs have seldom baulked at ridding themselves of leaders who proved to be liabilities, Labour's more collectivist political culture meant it was averse to defenestration.

Nicholas Watt of the Guardian is tweeting Labour sources as saying that more Conservative MPs have voted against the Prime Minister than with him.

McDonnell says that ordinary Labour members will have more power, however much MPs may resist.

Johnson said he was open to backing a more proportional voting system, closer to what Clegg wants, but another Labour electoral reformer, Peter Hain, told the Guardian that proportional systems break the link with constituencies and so make it more difficult to sack corrupt MPs.

As a matter of policy, many early Labour MPs such as Will Thorne and Herbert Morrison spurned the Liberal Party's support of free trade, «frankly recognising that control over imports represented a more logical policy for a socialist government than free trade» (Pugh 2010: 29).

Osborne aimed more fire at his own colleagues than the Labour side, but he still had a few digs up his sleeve for those opposition MPs who attended the dinner.

However it is undeniable that the scheme in the Labour Party has increased the number of women MPs and done some good to make Labour more representative of women.

Burke provides other arguments about the need for representatives to have the freedom to exercise personal judgement and suggests they are somehow more able to see the bigger picture but I'd be interested in hearing your opinion on whether there is any knoweldge, information or argument about the Labour leadership contest or candidates that is the preserve of MPs only?

While his performance may not have seen substantial elevations in his or Labour's poll ratings, he has emerged from the scandal with a visibly more confident demeanour and the backing of his MPs.

That establisment includes those Labour MPs who are attempting to sabotage Labour's efforts to build a fairer, compassionate, and more secure and prosperous country.

It came at the culmination of a deeply unusual final day of the parliament in which Bercow fought back against Hague's manoeuvring by granting three urgent questions - buying him some more time for Labour MPs to rush back to the Commons to attempt to save him.

Another way of putting it is that Lib Dem MPs are more likely to hold on to their seats — other things being equal — than the Tories or Labour.

Whether it is still possible to meaningfully talk about a Labour mainstream connected to the bulk of its MPs is even more uncertain.

The combination is difficult for a leader to cope with, much more so than the overt disapproval of stroppy Labour MPs, not fully formed politically, who brief against Corbyn around the clock, seeming cleverer than they are.

In other cases, however, Labour MPs will surely ask: who's the candidate more likely to cause David Cameron trouble?

In the last parliament, with the Labour party looking more divided and disloyal than ever, some consultants adopted a strategy of picking off moderate MPs and Blairite factions within the PLP in a bid to get support for an issue or policy.

Perhaps because so many Labour MPs feel betrayed by a party they saw as their natural ally, they launch much more anger towards the Deputy Prime Minister than they do towards David Cameron.

Similarly, Labour and the Conservatives would be able to elect more MPs in Scotland — currently the first - past - the - post system exaggerates the popularity of the SNP.

Only 32 MPs need to vote against the government to wipe out its majority of 63, but canvassing carried out by the leftwing organisation Compass indicates that more than 100 Labour MPs will send a warning to ministers when they sign an early day motion opposing the move to part - privatise the Post Office when parliament returns on 12 January.

«MPs such as Chris Leslie, Neil Coyle (my own MP), John Woodcock, Wes Streeting, Ian Austin, and others, have become a dismal chorus whose every dirge makes winning a Labour government more difficult.»

Of course, he also has a back catalogue of tweets that are unlikely to endear him to some of Labour's more centrist MPs...

With reports online that Tory MPs were still being told to brand Labour's demand for a fuel duty freeze «the worst kind of hypocrisy» at 12:30 BST yesterday, Ms Smith's inability to stick to a government line seems considerably more understandable.

Despite more than 90 MPs signing the parliamentary motion against the proposals tabled by Audrey Wise MP, outbursts of anger at meetings of the PLP addressed by Harriet Harman, protests and vocal opposition from women Labour Party members and lone parent organisations — even Glenys Kinnock MEP added her name to a petition and letter against the proposals — the new batch of Labour women MPs were largely noticeable by their absence.

Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.

Wouldn't it be more in keeping with his notion of internal democracy to keep the threshold at 15 % but to make constituency Labour parties (CLPs), rather than MPs, the nominating entities?