Sentences with phrase «narrow party»

I totally agree that a convention that is established quickly against a backdrop of narrow party political point scoring in the run - up to the election will be a disaster.

By continuing to focus on these niche issues, Labour and the Tories continue to give the impression that they are only concerned with topics which affect their own narrow party interest.

The Labour leader insisted he would not «allow this moment to be used for narrow party political advantage».

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg called on Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Conservative leader David Cameron to act «in the national interest and not out of narrow party political advantage».

We were willing - despite our fundamental objections to elected mayors - to deliver a City Region deal and saw this effectively blocked by Tory MPs in narrow party political grounds.

Welsh Liberal Democrats are the only party to consistently work to achieve results and put narrow party - political interest aside, their leader Kirsty Williams has said today on the eve of the Assembly election.

Care should be taken to distinguish political motives, such as «I shall conveniently make use of misinformation to achieve narrow party political goals» from «I shall manipulate ignorance and misunderstanding to serve my genuine dislike and fear of the «other».

By allowing the channels of racism (including antisemitism) to mobilise discontent for narrow party political purposes, the Labour Party follows a game that is unacceptable to my mind, and extremely dangerous for Labour itself.

Mr Miliband said he would not sign up to anything that could be «used for narrow party political advantage».

So having wiped out a massive part of the support for electoral reform — Clegg has left those who want reform for more high - minded reasons (which is a small constituent remember, most support the system that suits their narrow party interest) with a mountain to climb to rebuild widespread support.

It is therefore disappointing that Cheryl Gillan should choose to focus her efforts on imposing constitutional change especially when the motivation for that change appears to be narrow party political interest.

There is a risk that the narrow party interests, point - scoring politics and divisive scaremongering encouraged by the present system — and perpetrated by leading Conservatives in the No campaign — will succeed in defeating attempts to move to a new one.

We had become a narrow party - using outdated methods of communication and language - bunkered and isolated from much of the real world - and lacking the vocabulary and knowledge to talk about anything other than the core vote issues of tax, Europe, crime and immigration.

Cuomo's manipulation of the narrow party divide in the State Senate has been masterful.

Nevertheless he doubled down on the tone of his missive, warning that the Tories are at risk of looking like «a narrow party of nostalgia, hard Brexit, public sector austerity and lazy privilege».

In 2001 and 2005 we were a narrow party - focusing too much on issues like Europe, immigration and tax.

The choice isn't, in reality, about going to the centre or going Right - as pundits suggest - but instead it's about being a narrow party or a broad party.