Sentences with phrase «more labour moderates»

They may not agree about the destination, but more Labour moderates will return to frontbench duties in 2017.

Not exact matches

«Many quiet, moderate members don't attend meetings at the best of times and are even more put off in the current climate,» a Labour MP told the New Statesman.

All in all this conference could look pretty bleak for the moderate and MP wings of the party - when Dugdale stood down, it affected more than the immediate future of Scottish Labour, it impacted on the dominance of the Left within Labour for a generation to come.

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.

Whips calculate that though a hardcore rump of Labour rebels - more than 20 - will vote against any kind of privatisation, most will moderate their position after concessions.

However, more moderate «Corbynites» such as Emily Thornberry (a solid centre - left MP until 2015) and Angela Rayner (whose free school meals policy was widely praised by Labour centrists) could hoover up more support, potentially even beyond the Labour left.

«If Unite elects a more moderate leader, the hard left would no longer have the votes on the NEC and at conference to push through rule changes,» says Luke Akehurst, secretary of Labour First, the network of Labour moderates.

Ed Miliband's purged the moderates and promoted those who want the same old Labour policy of more spending, more borrowing and more debt.

While much is made of the continuity between Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Diana Abbott and others with the legacy projects of the Labour left, and the absurd attempts by self - proclaimed «moderates» to conjure up the ghost of the early 1980s; the far more significant phenomenon is the discontinuity with the establishment consensus about austerity economics, and the development of economic policies by John McDonnell and his team which commit a future Labour government to calibrated state intervention for a capitalist economy that works.

By seeking to prevent Momentum from pushing for a more left - wing Labour Party, the moderates want to continue appealing to those voters who are disengaged from the political process yet vote based on a range of real world issues.

And now, we hear that another Labour moderate who represents no one at all, is going to put his name forward as well, which makes Corby's re-election even more of a certainty.

Supporters of Ms Formby, who also include Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and other senior members of the Labour frontbench, fear Mr Lansman could split the left - wing vote and allow a more moderate candidate to win.

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than Tony Blair, and two more than Gordon Brown, was widely expected from the beginning of the contest, with Labour's self - styled «moderates» seemingly reliant on keeping Corbyn off the ballot paper, something they failed to do in July's NEC meeting.

However if she secures the nomination and goes on to win the by - election, she will have to give up her place on Labour's ruling national executive committee for a more moderate activist.

I think May's Conservatives and what Tim Montgomerie calls «the Good Right» now share more with Labour moderates than the Labour Party can in the short to medium term.