Sentences with phrase «opposition labour group»

Well, in Tower Hamlets, the opposition Labour group don't need a 2/3 majority because they have formed a voting pact with the David Cameron's Tories.

Not exact matches

Blair's right wing policies will also meet opposition from pensioners — the only group who swung away from Labour on 1 May — in Ireland, and amongst every other group whose hopes he betrays.

Of this group, only 17 % thought Labour prime minister Gordon Brown had come across best overall in the debates, and 61 % thought he had performed worst; 31 % thought David Cameron (then the leader of the opposition) had won, while 34 % thought him the loser.

[24] With the Liberals thus in disarray, Labour won 142 seats in 1922, making it the second largest political group in the House of Commons and the official opposition to the Conservative government.

Given the Labour Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.

In what they describe as the «first week in our adult lives that the Labour party has been a party of opposition» the group say they think electing him will «make sure that weeks like this are numbered».

But with opposition MPs and human rights groups raising concerns at the government's illiberal record, he maintained a «fashionable but false orthodoxy» sought to deny Labour's achievements since 1997.

Soros, in London to publicise a new book — The Tragedy of the European Union — made his remarks after the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, won plaudits from business groups for playing down the chances of an in - out referendum should the opposition win next year's general election.

Because as much as there is a «Treasury Support Group» that works on these big occasions to heckle Ed Balls, sitting opposite them on the Labour steps are two similarly tribal and vocal Opposition MPs: Michael Dugher and Sadiq Khan.

The newbies rush around getting indoctrinated by the whips; the Labour Party tears itself to shreds; the Scot Nats play musical chairs trying to prove they are the real Opposition and upsetting Dennis Skinner; the Government gets going at a cracking pace; Reshuffles, All Party Groups, Select Committee elections, the 1922 and PLP.

[7] This meant that before the 2007 election Labour had 22 seats, the Liberal Democrats 16, Conservatives 13, East Cleveland Independents 2, the Independent Group 5 and 1 independent, [8] with the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and the 2 East Cleveland Independents forming the administration, while Labour and the other independents were in opposition.

The Militant Tendency was in the ascendancy - a left - wing, Trotskyist group that polarised the Labour Party and caught the national attention in their opposition to Margaret Thatcher's policies

SCL Group, reportedly entrapped the leader of the opposition party in St. Kitts and Nevis with a $ 1.4 million (# 1 million) bribe, in order to secure an election win for the country's Labour party, who was a client of SCL Group, The Times reported.