Sentences with phrase «more labour councillors»

There are many more Labour councillors who will want to work with the mayor of Tower Hamlets and serve the community of Tower Hamlets.

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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.

In Witney, David Cameron's local area, Ukip split the right - wing vote, allowing Labour councillor Laura Price in with just ten more votes than the Ukip candidate.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

Labour held onto their councillors here and their vote share improved, but their lead over the Tories has been slashed from more than 13 % to less than five percent as Ukip implodes.

I will give more say to Labour councillors at a national level and I'll work more closely with our brilliant grassroots activists.

«Council tax bills set to rise by more than 100 % under Labour Main Harry Phibbs: In 2008 are surgeries still an effective use of local councillors?»

No more than Labour is because a local councillor in their party happens to be.

Yet she emphasised the importance of «the issue about how you get people into Parliament in the first place, and to get more gay people to come forward and stand as candidates and councillors,» and said the Labour Party is working on this, particularly LGBT Labour.

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.

But in many parts of the country Labour and Lib Dem councillors and activists are more hostile to each other than to the Tories.

He would hear how people are tired of Cardiff's Labour Council spending more time infighting and quelling rebellions from their own councillors than doing what's right for our city.

Probably more so than for the Conservatives or Labour, councillors are the bedrock of this party.

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

Most of the seats were last up for election in 2014, when Labour's strong performance saw them gain more than 300 councillors.

It should be possible to change the composition of Labour council groups more quickly than the parliamentary party because, at least in principle, there is mandatory reselection of councillors.

Tim won in Bishopston with an amazing 47 % of votes and over a 1000 more than second place Labour, both Bishopston councillors are now Green.

Labour gained more than 70 councillors but ended up with no change to the numbers of councils they control, having failed to take several targets from the Conservatives, including Wandsworth.

They were joined by all 20 of Labour's MEPs and more than 200 councillors and activists in Scotland - including former Cabinet minister Douglas Alexander.

Deputy leader Tom Watson said Labour now had more councillors in London than at any time since the 1970s.

We need closer links with Labour local councillors, a more coordinated way of discussing policy across the UK involving members in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and we need to look again at local structures to ensure we learn from the many vibrant and growing constituency parties across the country.

More than 400 people turned up for the discussion, hosted by Chakrabortty and including the Preston city councillor Matthew Brown; Lisa Nandy, the Labour MP for Wigan; the 2017 Turner prize winner, Lubaina Himid; and Ruth Heritage, the creative director of arts organisation They Eat Culture.