Sentences with phrase «ordinary labour party»

He has the majority of ordinary Labour Party members standing behind him.

The net effect of it all was it just made life harder on the doorstep for ordinary Labour party members and activists up and down the country.

«I just don't think that shows respect for the candidates we had up and down the country - or respect for the ordinary Labour party members who were out knocking on doors.»

And, crucially, there seems to be no obvious way for ordinary Labour party members to contribute to the process.

Not exact matches

And it's based on using volunteers, ordinary residents, Labour party members, trade union members, members of faith groups, civil society.

Most of the Corbyn supporters I've spoken to are neither cunning Trotskyites nor hapless fools, they're ordinary people who believe that the Labour party should consistently stand for certain values.

«The Labour Party must understand it can only exist if it remains the voice of ordinary working people.

While the right of the party have lectured Corbyn and the left for the past year about talking - down to voters, being «out of touch» and not understanding ordinary people's views, here Smith is saying he believes Labour should go into the 2020 election telling the 52 % of Leave voters they are simply wrong.

The contribution of the British people - the trade unions, the student movement, the Liberal and Labour parties, the ordinary shoppers who did their bit - all of it should never be forgotten.

The sudden, synthetic fury we're seeing from the Labour party is nothing more than an attempt to distract people from the most important change coming into effect: the tax cut for ordinary working people delivered by the Liberal Democrats.

Voters are much more likely to see Labour as the party that understands and cares about ordinary people.

The Labour Party offers the best hope for ordinary working people and their families at the forthcoming 5 May elections.

In an interview with the Guardian, he concedes that immigration is being discussed in «every kitchen» and that the Labour party has been too quick to dismisses the concerns of ordinary people as «prejudice».

In his latest speech, Smith also risked the wrath of centrist Labour members as he took a swipe at Tony Blair, saying that under his leadership the party had lost touch with ordinary members.

«He understands the Labour Party needs to change and he is the best candidate to reconnect Labour with the concerns of ordinary working people,» Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley, Unite's joint general secretaries, say in the leaflet.

«Owen is standing in response to calls from ordinary members, Labour voters and Labour councillors, MPs and MEPs from across the country and from all wings of the party for him to do so.

The leader is elected by the PLP (which is made up of all Labour MPs), trade union members affiliated to the Labour party, and ordinary party members.

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader has been warned by leading Labour figures including Dagenham MP Jon Cruddas that he risks missing a huge opportunity to make Labour more democratic and ensure ordinary party members» views are heard in planned reforms.

RM: As focus turns from the party battle to the possibility of one against the Tories, Corbyn stresses the «needs and aspirations of middle - and lower - income voters, of ordinary families» which Labour must address.

The Labour Party was formed to be the voice of ordinary working folk.

Labour's electoral «college» is split into three sections — MPs and euro MPs, union - affiliated members and ordinary party members, all of whom can vote for more than one candidate in an order of preference.

Only 42 per cent said the Labour Party was doing a good job of representing the interests of ordinary working people in Britain, while 47 per cent said it was not.

Shunning the «overbearing» nanny state which has long been associated with the Labour party, Mr Brown instead talked of integrating the big challenges - environmental, economic and ensuring security - into the lives of ordinary people.

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

Shadow Treasury minister Rachel Reeves told the Today programme: «Most of the money that the Labour party receives comes from ordinary donations.

There's space for Labour to fight the Conservatives on home turf - attacking the «nasty party» for cutting taxes for the rich while ordinary people are forced to suffer.

They are the ordinary men and women of this country who either vote Labour, or who used to, and the party needs them if it ever wants to govern again.

Apparently, David's lead among the parliamentary third of Labour's electoral college was not big enough to compensate for his relative weakness among the other two sections, which are ordinary party members and affiliated trades - union members.

«Labour is lucky, save in the 1981 deputy leadership contest, that it has never elected a leader or deputy in the modern era against the majority wishes of ordinary party members.

The actual reasons seems to be the polls were wrong, which means Labour's defeat is suddenly pretty easy to explain: people did not have a positive perception of their party leader, people did not think they were competent on what they considered two of the three major issues of the day (the economy and immigration) and even in the area Labour normally have better figures than the Tories, perceptions of the party itself, people increasingly saw them as out of touch with ordinary people.

«I also think he doesn't speak for the cabinet, for the Labour party, for the ordinary members that I was out door - knocking with yesterday evening.

He had support from both the Conservative and Labour leadership, however many backbench MPs, particularly those from the Labour Party (who held a large majority in the House at the time), viewed Young as someone who had too recently been a member of his party's front bench team and was thus not sufficiently in touch with ordinaryParty (who held a large majority in the House at the time), viewed Young as someone who had too recently been a member of his party's front bench team and was thus not sufficiently in touch with ordinaryparty's front bench team and was thus not sufficiently in touch with ordinary MPs.

Mandelson's ludicrous claim that Corbyn is «intentionally divisive» isn't supported by ordinary party members, who think Jeremy stands for them in a way that New Labour never did

57 % think that Labour no longer have a clear sense of direction, 49 % think the party is badly divided, 49 % think it «looks as though the wheels are falling off the coach», 60 % think it is hard to know what the Labour party stands for anymore and only 31 % think the government is still concerned about promoting the welfare of ordinary working people.

In its place he declared the need for a «new settlement» which only the Labour party can deliver, rejecting the «heartless» coalition government and instead building a society where ordinary people «do well».

Encouraged by friends, Gordon, already the least popular of the party leaders, decided that what Labour really needed was more of him talking to ordinary folks.

I simply can not envisage that the Labour Party will have anything credible by 2020 to say to the «ordinary working people» the PM referred to in her speech.

the labour party under Ed Miliband is clearly a party controlled by anti union, anti ordinary people pro business and wealth political apparatchiks.

Labour leadership elections have previously been decided by a complex electoral college system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

At the moment, Labour leadership elections are decided by a complex «electoral college» system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.