Sentences with phrase «official labour policy»

Official Labour policy is to renew the deterrent, but Mr Corbyn — along with his ally and newly appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry — has sought to change the party's stance.

His comments raised eyebrows, because they are at odds with official Labour policy and the position of Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, which is it leave customs union membership on the table.

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Labour's official policy is now to stay in the single market and customs union for a transition period - a position backed by trade unions, business bodies and all opposition parties apart from the DUP.

However at the official launch of Labour's local council campaign in Newark he appeared to focus on national policies including raising corporation tax, increasing the living wage and nationalising the railways.

Proposing the amendment, Labour peer Lord Alli said it was in line with official party policy and was what the majority of its members wanted.

I think that the case for restoring the role of the NEC to proper control of the the Labour Party policy making procedures (as well as the appointment of top officials) is solid.

Labour also claimed Ukip supports increased privatisation and charging to see a GP, although this is not official party policy.

Ever so briefly, it was official Labour Party policy to abolish the House of Lords.

Labour MEPs opposed an increase in the budget because of continuing waste on the common agricultural policy, and were campaigning on violence against women, assistance for disabled people, allegations of corruption against EU officials in Kosovo, commitment to science and, with Steve Rotheram MP, on tyre safety.

Her surprise remarks put her at odds with Labour's official policy, which is not to support a fresh vote.

Jeremy Corbyn has been unable to force through an official Labour party policy of opposing air strikes in Syria.

There was a mention of academies being returned to local authority control, suggesting Labour would now oppose them as official policy.

Just 22 per cent of the Labour backbenchers polled by the BBC said they would back their party's official policy.

Just six years later, withdrawal was official Labour Party policy.

Labour's official policy is for a «soft» Brexit, with continued access to the single maket, including the City, protection of residency rights here and in the EU, maintenance of rights at work, and ultimately a parliamentary vote before article 50 is triggered, although not a second referendum as called for by Owen Smith.

Andy Burnham says in today's Guardian that Labour has until next spring to set out more policies, and urges the integration of social care into the NHS (which isn't the party's official view.)

Mr Corbyn has been hit by a string of rebellions over Labour's Brexit policy, with around 60 of his MPs bitterly opposed to the party's official position that leaving the EU should also mean quitting the single market and customs union.

Labour's official party policy remains in favour of Trident renewal, despite Jeremy Corbyn's longstanding opposition.

«I think a lot of Labour MPs are comfortable with the official policy [on Trident].

Furious Labour MPs accused senior officials of directly contradicting official party policy.

Many of the most important and trusted cadres are embedded in the Labour official structure — regional officials, HQ staff, members of Regional Boards or the National Policy Forum.

Labour has the «political will and vision» to make England's education system «the envy of the world», the shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has said today, but school leaders must wait to hear the party's official policies.