Sentences with phrase «of the centre ground»

We also need to question the premise of the centre ground argument.

We were scared of losing the support of the centre ground that we need to win elections.

It has been widely asserted that the 2013 party conference season has been characterised by a widening of the gap between the parties and a vacating of the centre ground in favour of moves to more partisan territory as the general election nears.

«Ed would take Labour significantly leftwards,» blogs Campbell, «and leave even more of the centre ground open to the Tories.»

Elsewhere, Alastair Campbell, who previously claimed that Ed would make the party «feel OK about losing», writes on his blog that the younger Miliband «would take Labour significantly leftwards and leave even more of the centre ground open to the Tories».

Momentum would not come from his deputy, Mr Osborn continued, claiming the deputy candidates represent an «abandonment» of the centre ground within the Labour party.

That's the kind of politics that everyone was doing, and the kind of culture developed where you're scrabbling over a bit of the centre ground with micro-policies that are designed to just create a little couple of days» headlines and create a feeling, but not change much else.»

His remarks come a day after Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, argued that George Osborne's autumn statement had given Labour the chance to become the party of the centre ground, resisting extremist and ideological plans to reduce spending on public services to the level of the 1930s.

It either submits to the logic of centre ground electioneering and find itself rudderless and buffeted by the political weather until the howling winds blow us apart, or try and do something different.

Tristram Hunt, if he runs, will challenge her for possession of the centre ground.

Hacked elections, the rise of elected authoritarians and a collapse in many countries of the centre ground.

Many critics would argue the party are past masters at facing both ways — but there is an opportunity for the Lib Dems to make the most of their centre ground positioning here.

Activate's failure is symptomatic of the centre ground and right - wing politics» limited appeal to young people in Britain.

At the Prospect event this morning Tony Blair insisted that his brand of centre ground politics was not dead, but admitted that the centre ground was losing its traction and not providing answers to those that wanted an end to the status quo.

Or are they the millions of centre ground voters who voted for Tony Blair in their millions, and then went straight back to the Tories when Labour resumed its default position of being unelectable?

The destruction of the near - religious totem of the centre ground.

This highlights Mandelson's narrow view of the centre ground.

If the Liberal Democrats move to the left, he believes it will only encourage the Conservatives to try and take back some of the centre ground.