Sentences with phrase «natural labour supporters»

While this is dwarfed by the nearly 200,000 new members who have joined since May 2015, it suggests that there are dissatisfied natural Labour supporters who could make up the nucleus of a new party.

«One is we obviously appeal to natural Labour supporters to recognise the importance of NHS, housing and employment issues.

And he is not a natural Labour supporter, but he is coming around to us.

Starmer was viewed by some as a natural Labour supporter during his time in office and subsequently chose to stand for election for the party, winning the Holborn and St Pancras seat.

Not exact matches

Labour's natural supporters were unimpressed with the austerity - lite alternative offered by the Labour Party.

Many on the left of the party — including party grandees such as former leader Charles Kennedy — are likely to be further troubled by Clegg's message that under his leadership the party is no longer a natural home for disaffected Labour supporters.

An active supporter of Welsh language use, she wrote in one article: «I would contend that for a Labour supporter being actively pro-Welsh language is a natural part of our DNA, as much as supporting public services, tackling low pay or taking on any other equalities cause».

In the general election the Lib Dem vote will have been swelled by natural Tory or Labour supporters voting tactically in some constituencies to try to keep the other main party out.

But the above analysis demonstrates that Labour's problems in Scotland go far deeper than mere ideological perceptions, with a large group of natural Corbyn supporters apparently likely to be dissuaded by Labour's position on independence.

Ex leaders, ex whips, ex councillors, ex members, all «natural» Labour supporters are rabid and foaming to smash Labour to pieces even within the last hour.

«It would be all too easy for Labour leadership candidates to please their natural supporters by accusing the Lib Dems of being collaborators — a word John Prescott used to describe his former colleague John Hutton, advising the Government on pensions — as if we were now living under Nazi occupation.

There has been a preparedness to admit mistakes and ask painful questions about why so many of its natural supporters ended up feeling so betrayed by or isolated from Labour.

So my estimation is that Labour supporters are resigned to defeat but see it as a way to bounce back with a healthier and more natural Labour party.