Sentences with phrase «new labour mps»

Perhaps because of the the scars of the Brown - Blair wars, few new Labour MPs appear to be hurrying to organising themselves into factions.

Look if we don't de-select the New Labour MPs the British public will at the ballot box and that will be the end of the Labour Party.

If we don't start de-selecting these New Labour MPs the British public will do it for us.

12:30 - One of the new Labour MPs is welcomed by the prime minister after asking a question.

The book reveals the dirty tricks that were used to destabilise the Conservative Party, including the newspaper's bribery of US government officials, the abuse of parliamentary privileges by New Labour MPs and financial intimidation by former Government minister, Clare Short.

Not exact matches

Due to be passed in June, the new legislation would amend the Canada Labour Code mandating MPs and other employers on the Hill do «everything in their power» to prevent harassment and violence among staff.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberanew labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberanew Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberanew labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and LiberaNew labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

NB: The New Statesman's Stephen Bush, the foremost Labour Kremlinologist, writes that Cooper might be elected unopposed by Labour MPs, locking out left - wing members.

11:49 - George Eustice, the Tory MP who used to be Cameron's spin doctor in chief, bugs the now very long - winded Ian Davidson for being part of the «better late than never» group of Labour MPs who belatedly opposed New Labour's plans to join the euro (Labour Against The Euro, you see).

The Greater Manchester city - deals provide a good snapshot of this nascent «politics of new English regionalism», with some Labour MPs publicly raising concerns about the process, transparency and democratic - accountability of «Devo - Manc».

The Mail on Sunday reports that both Conservative and Labour MPs are for the deal and intend to vote for it in parliament in the new year.

Two exceptionally engaging new MPs starred: Labour's Sarah Champion and the Tory Charlotte Leslie nervously explored Parliament's arcane rules and practices.

Delivering a statement to MPs, the chancellor attacked the tripartite regulatory system set up by New Labour for failing to detect the wrongdoing at Barclays and other banks in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

When BT - once part of the old General Post Office (GPO)- was privatised, we were reliably told by the unions and Labour MPs that the telecoms network would collapse, GPO engineers would no longer be safe up telegraph poles, new competitors would cherry - pick the best part of the business etc etc..

And it is those experiences, he says, which makes him «so concerned about the state of the Labour Party now and so worried for Labour MPs and what's being said and done to them, including online in new ways unthought of 30 years ago, in their constituencies.

News of Labour support for a grand committee of English - only MPs has been swiftly undercut by a new Tory idea which sets the dividing lines for the 2015 general election.

George Osborne told MPs this afternoon that new tenants would have to pay 80 % of the market rent, prompting intakes of breath from the Labour benches.

Oldham byelection win lifts Labour leader's confidence, while shadow chancellor McDonnell says MPs should «follow new politics»

The new justice secretary Chris Grayling, a favourite of the Tory right - wing who has made history as the first non-lawyer to be appointed in the position, today took a bruising in the Commons from Labour MPs.

This does indeed mean that literally a handful of new MPs could determine who leads the Labour Party after the election — either by lending the left sufficient numbers to nominate one of their own under the existing 15 % threshold or, in refusing to do so, by making it essential that Corbyn cling on and the left achieve a reduction in that threshold.

This is in spite of new parliamentary Labour Party standing orders which made it a disciplinary offence for MPs to vote against the government.

This was particularly important in the context of the failure of the majority of Labour's new women MPs to represent women's interests — and the divisive use to which this was put by the government.

There is a massive amount of grassroots support for a new politics which the print media, the BBC and sadly, some Labour MPs, are trying to derail.

The new selection rules opened the door to this left - wing revolt — though not before moderate Labour MPs, seeking to «widen the debate» in the leadership contest, helped Corbyn pass the nomination threshold of 15 % of Labour MPs.

May's obscure Catering and Retail Services report is the usual stock - take, but this year it suggests building a number of new souvenir shops — presumably for the masses of Labour MPs who've resigned this Parliament — renting out the 1,000 - year - old Westminster Hall for banqueting and events, and allowing tourists to take high tea on the Terrace.

Rebel MPs may defeat the government in the new year as opposition grows to Labour's plans for Heathrow and Royal Mail.

Twenty of the new intake of MPs (10 Tory, 10 Labour, all listed at the bottom of this post) pledged their backing to the campaign, issuing ten reasons to say NO2AV.

Labour favours the former drawn - out, Leveson - style inquiry, whereas the Government favours a swift investigation by Lords and MPs, so that any recommendations can be implemented in the upcoming banking reform Bill, which is set to come before the House in the new year.

Labour MPs from west London told the Guardian that a new strategy will target cabinet ministers individually, the most «significant» of whom would be the business secretary, Peter Mandelson.

A combination of LibDem and Labour MPs plus 42 Tories means the door is now wide open to a new era of press regulation in Britain.

Loyal Labour MPs yesterday warned the government of a double rebellion early in the new year, predicting it will lose a Commons vote and suffer party resignations if it does not back down on proposals to part - privatise the Post Office and build a third runway at Heathrow.

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.

Despite more than 90 MPs signing the parliamentary motion against the proposals tabled by Audrey Wise MP, outbursts of anger at meetings of the PLP addressed by Harriet Harman, protests and vocal opposition from women Labour Party members and lone parent organisations — even Glenys Kinnock MEP added her name to a petition and letter against the proposals — the new batch of Labour women MPs were largely noticeable by their absence.

Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.

This was post-war Labour prime minister Clement Attlee's sage advice to new MPs.

New Labour might not be dead, as Gordon Brown insisted yesterday, but you might have thought his 350 - odd MPs had at least entered some sort of coma given the amount of noise they made during Darling's Budget statement.

Firstly, in Conservative - vs - Labour marginals the Conservative vote is largely unchanged from the general election, but the Liberal Democrat vote has dropped to the benefit of Labour, this means on a uniform swing Labour would gain about 28 seats from the Conservatives (though these would be seats that the Conservatives gained at the last election, so in practice the Tories would be helped by the incumbency bonus of the new MPs).

Such new MPs will begin to rebel in time, as did most of the 1997 intake, but by the end of the 1997 parliament, after a full four years, only 28 % of the newly - elected Labour MPs had voted against their whips.

Paul Sweeney, one of Labour's new MPs in Scotland, becomes shadow Scotland minister.

Labour of course has plenty of both numbers & splits: 30 times as many MPs as The Libdems of whom a tiny fraction back The New Leader & his Politics.

Rightwing MPs, not unions, split Labour in 1931 and 1981, just as it was New Labour parliamentarians who fuelled the debilitating Blair - Brown factionalism that so weakened the most recent Labour government, as Mandelson surely knows.

But you can bet Labour and Plaid Cymru MPs will seize the opportunity to challenge the new Welsh Secretary over his previous opposition to devolution and what he'll do to resolve a series of disputes with the Welsh Government.

The following year MPs backed the then Labour government's proposal to begin designing a new fleet of Successor - class submarines.

Labour MPs demanded a new economic plan from Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls yesterday, as figures showed the cost of living crisis is easing.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.

Under pressure: Senior Labour MPs are calling for Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to come up with a new economic plan

A new poll of MPs, conducted by YouGov for the People's Pledge campaign, finds that there is a big gap between the percentage of Tory MPs supporting a referendum on Britain's EU membership and the percentage of Labour MPs open to such a promise.

It could be described as a busman's holiday: the most popular book MPs will be «relaxing» with on their summer breaks this year is Peter Mandelson's memoir of New Labour, The Third Man.

Up to 150 Labour MPs face defeat if the new Tory leader calls a snap general election, according to research seen by PoliticsHome.

Meanwhile, as part of his proposals for a «new and fair» constitutional settlement, David Cameron has pledged that English matters will only be voted on by English MPs, a proposal that could effectively undermine a future Labour majority in the House of Commons.