Sentences with phrase «party as compass»

Crucially the two groups now find organisational form in the Lib Dems as the Social Liberal Forum, and with one foot in the Labour party as Compass.

Not exact matches

As leader of the Compass group inside the Commons, he also has a community of support around him, if not in the parliamentary party, and various networks through which to disseminate his work.

Based on his past statements as an MP and journalist, Compass concludes Mr Johnson is the most rightwing candidate ever presented by a major party to stand as mayor of London.

Describing the election as a «bad and bruising encounter», Compass chair Neal Lawson warned the party not to dismiss the results as mid-term blues.

The similarities between the new leader and Compass politics are remarkable, and follow years of conversations between Miliband, as close adviser to Gordon Brown, and the party's left.

The organisation is unlikely to resolve the Labour Party's dilemmas over Brexit, but as the need for an anti-Brexit initiative in line with Party policy becomes clearer, if Open Labour can fill the gap left by the disappearance of the LCC and Compass from the Labour scene then there is much to play for.

So far, it is only the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party, and thinkers such as Richard Reeves, Anthony Barnett, the Compass group and Phillip Blond, who are attempting to address these fundamental questions directly.

If such a powerful figure as Kinnock Could take with him, the generation that Had his father, Neil as their hero, Labour first, those who realise he saved the Labour party, Roy Hattersley, Fabians, the Co-op, compass, as well as the 174 back bench MPS,

But Laws clearly admired Osborne's deal - making skills, his uncanny ability to read the politics of rival parties as well as his own, his strong ideological compass and his vision.

Rather, we should use it as a compass when compromise is mutually beneficial to all parties.»