Sentences with phrase «most labour members»

When they joined the party, most Labour members had a belief that they would have some influence in their party.

Most Labour members have got to the point of sheer desperation and... «Oh what the hell!

Most Labour members never signed up to the market fundamentalism of Tory and Labour Governments from Thatcher to Blair and Brown, nor to the Iraq war and the attack on civil liberties at home and abroad which followed.»

- Most Labour members (54 %) think it is better for a party to propose policies it believes in, even if they will stop it winning an election, than to compromise.

I think it had been mailed to most Labour members.

However, for most Labour members, we're a tired bunch.

Not exact matches

-LRB-...) Keidanren, the largest and most influential business lobby group, seems willing to recommend that its members prepare for the first increase in base salaries since 2008, when they enter spring negotiations with labour unions.

I think most Labour party members are saying look, you're damaging our campaign by the continuous carping.

Most of those volunteers are young people who aren't card - carrying Labour members.

«Because of the rather measured position that the hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) had to present on behalf of the official Labour party, it falls to me to be the first Member of this House to set out the case for why I believe... that it is in the national interest for the United Kingdom to be a member of the European Union, why I believe that we have benefited from that position for the past 45 years and, most importantly, why I believe that future generations will benefit if we succeed in remaining a member of the European Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) had to present on behalf of the official Labour party, it falls to me to be the first Member of this House to set out the case for why I believe... that it is in the national interest for the United Kingdom to be a member of the European Union, why I believe that we have benefited from that position for the past 45 years and, most importantly, why I believe that future generations will benefit if we succeed in remaining a member of the European Member of this House to set out the case for why I believe... that it is in the national interest for the United Kingdom to be a member of the European Union, why I believe that we have benefited from that position for the past 45 years and, most importantly, why I believe that future generations will benefit if we succeed in remaining a member of the European member of the European Union, why I believe that we have benefited from that position for the past 45 years and, most importantly, why I believe that future generations will benefit if we succeed in remaining a member of the European member of the European Union.

Corbyn won the Labour leadership less than three months ago with a huge mandate from party members, but without the support of most MPs in the parliamentary party.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

Although most Labour Party members are now focused mainly on working for a Labour victory in the general election, there are some important internal party elections shortly after 7 May.

But I would be willing to bet that most of the Labour Party members and union members wish that they had more say in the choice not only of the leader, but of the cabinet as well.

The reality is that Labour will win again only when enough ordinary members decide that ridding the country of this pernicious government matters most.

The Labour MP has gone to great lengths to stress that he is one of the most business - friendly members of the shadow cabinet.

Most Labour MPs are far removed from the party's 220,000 new members, who dictate that Corbyn or someone of his views leads Labour.

«preserves the single - member constituency link» Biggest mistake Labour ever made, making that the standard in 1947 — you seem to not be aware that multi member seats based on historic boundaries like Boroughs and Counties were the norm throughout most of the history of Parliament, it was taking that into account that led to the creation of BPr / STV.

As he ran past our stall, a member of the local Labour Party rugby - tackled him, sending most of his own leaflets flying.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

Most members of trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party would NOT vote Labour if a general election were held this week, according to... (Comments: 49)

The answer most Bristol Labour party members will be looking for, as they start to receive their all - postal ballot papers any day now, is why should a Bristol Labour party member vote for you to be their Labour mayoral candidate?

He is apparently shocked that only 25 % of his readers are attending annual conference in Manchester this year — is it really that surprising that most Labour supporters (many of whom won't be members at all) could take the time to attend such an event every year?

As party members vote for the new Labour leader, there has been little new wine and the candidates have been at pains to say that the old bottles, contained in the memoirs of their most successful predecessor and his consigliere Lord Mandelson, are well and truly broken.

He told the New Statesman he views Miliband as «polite and nice», a member of the «soft left» of the Labour party and who is «instinctively a bit more pluralistic than most Labour leaders and a bit more internationalist as well».

Certainly for most of the twentieth century the more that certain members of the Labour movement emphasised «socialism», the more likely they were to frighten Liberal voters into the arms of the Conservatives.

«Cable remains popular both in the parliamentary party and among activists, and would be the ideal leader to enter coalition with Labour, which would be the preference of most party members,» he said.

The former shadow business secretary is the most senior member of the Labour party to declare they would do so, after Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell both ruled out fighting the EU battle alongside the Tory leader.

Labour party members are increasingly calling on Mr Miliband to challenge the chancellor Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership when Tony Blair leaves Downing Street, most likely after the May elections.

A poll by Jake revealed that 44.8 per cent of its members thought Labour was the most gay - friendly party, followed by Lib Dems with 44 per cent.

The remarks by Blears, who takes pride in delivering uncomfortable truths to the Labour party, marks the most significant intervention by a member of the cabinet following private briefings about the leadership ambitions of some ministers.

By voting to elect all shadow cabinet members against the advice of former Ministers like Jack Straw and Phil Woolas and most speakers at the PLP meeting other than Frank Dobson, Labour MPs voted to be treated as more than just voting fodder.

Jon Ashworth, the shadow minister without portfolio and NEC member, proposed a logical solution: Labour's policy should remain the motion passed by this year's conference, which is open to competing interpretations (most believe the tests set for military action have been met).

But Corbyn has been accused by some shadow cabinet members, most recently Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, of sponsoring a faction rather than acting as a unifying figure in the whole of the Labour party.

Asked to identify the most right - leaning member of the PLP, a number of Labour members would put Frank Field and Kate Hoey on their shortlist.

The standout surprise on the Ed Balls list of his first 24 nominations is the MP for Falkirk, Eric Joyce, for a long time among the most Blairite members of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Ed Balls is the most recognisable member of the top Labour team.

But I think it is certainly difficult to see most of the 91 Conservative members [who rebelled over Lords reform], and a good many of those who spoke on the Labour benches against the bill on Monday and Tuesday last week, shifting their ground on what for many of them is a really fundamental obstacle.

Some believe the reason most polls find Cameron to be more capable of tough decisions than Ed Miliband is because the Labour leader avoids public rows with unions and his own members.

Most of the Labour activists I know just accept that they have no real say in Party policy and that all the Policy Reviews and NPF debates will produce the results that Party leaders want irrespective of what members think.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

But Mr Watson also dismissed the idea put forward by some Labour figures, most notably former Shadow Cabinet member Clive Lewis, that the party should agree a «progressive alliance» with some of its rivals to take on the Tories at the next election.

«That would have been an unfair removal for many people of the most important choice they get as Labour members.

The Party is dependent on the donations of millions of union members; unions have representatives on the National Executive Committee and the National Policy Forum; they can send delegates to Constituency Labour Parties; they make up a third of the electoral college (thus preventing the most Blairite candidate for the Labour leadership from taking the crown); and they have a major role in selecting prospective Labour candidates.

Most of Sandwell's councillors are members of the Labour Party, with the Labour party having run the council since the first election in 1973, apart from one year between 1978 and 1979 when the Conservatives had a majority.

Most Labour Party members now think they will win the next general election under Jeremy Corbyn — as his job approval rises by 11... (Comments: 150)

, who attracted the most votes from London Labour members last time they had the chance to select new MEP candidates.

Most grassroots members, and Mr Corbyn himself, are fiercely opposed, while a majority of Labour MPs are in favour of replacing the subs.

According to the BBC Mohammad Sarwar, father to current Scottish Labour deputy leader Anas Sarwar and until 2010 the Labour member for Glasgow Central, is to be appointed the governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province.

He was the chancellor who presided over the most catastrophic financial crash since the second world war and he was a senior member of the cabinet that subsequently took Labour to its second worst defeat since the first world war.