Sentences with phrase «said labour members»

He said Labour members should be balloted on the party's next election manifesto.

In the first direct shot in the leadership campaign battle, Diane Abbott said Labour members faced a «clear political choice» because Ms Eagle voted in favour of the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Ms Abbott said Labour member Ms Chakrabarti, who chaired an independent review into claims of anti-Semitism in the party, would be «just the sort of person» who should find a place in the House of Lords and her appointment would be «entirely appropriate».

He says Labour members will have to be in Parliament challenging the Tories and the nationalists to win back power.

Not exact matches

«It may not go down well in international diplomacy... but in the Labour party it will be welcomed as a rare flash of honesty from a senior member of the government,» Peter Kilfoyle said.

I think most Labour party members are saying look, you're damaging our campaign by the continuous carping.

Both Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell have said they will not seek to interfere, arguing that it is up to party members in Leeds Central to decide who Labour's candidate should be.

Abubakar said the gesture would reduce poverty, unemployment as well as help corps members establish small - scale enterprises and become employers of labour.

McDonnell said: «I've been talking to Labour party members all over the country, they're saying for those begrudgers — because that's what they are — for goodness sake, get behind the leader of the Labour party that was democratically elected, it's time to put up or shut up.

Among those said to be in the firing line from local activists is Hilary Benn, someone Jarvis says is «an outstanding Member of Parliament and a great ambassador for the Labour party».

Unlike Scottish Labour, who welcome Yes voters, Davidson has said if any Tory members voice support for Scottish independence, there should be an «amicable parting of ways».

That's hardly surprising; having been promised in Labour's 2005 election manifesto a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and having seen other member states hold one, the public is eager to have its say.

Anne McGuire, the Labour MP for Stirling, says in Scotland there are regional members of the Scottish parliament.

The government in a statement on Monday said it has noted the attempt by some members of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Nigeria Union of Teachers to expose staff and students to danger arising from the ongoing court action against their members.

Tom Greatrex, the Labour Co-operative member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, says only two constituents have ever contacted about Lords reform.

As a long - standing, long - suffering Labour party member and activist said to me today — there are no rules.

I think we'd be lucky if ten per cent of our current membership levels say yes, they want to be members of the Labour party.»

In Mitcham and Morden in south London, Labour members are said to have voted for Owen Smith by 31 - 2.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

The leader's office asserting the man himself hasn't expressed a view doesn't mean he isn't listening to advice and Corbyn's said by those close to him to instinctively favour involving as many of Labour's 500,000 + members as possible in selecting candidates.

As Anthony says, whether the «Labour community» is only to be identified as «party members» can be debated when party membership is under 200,000 and party identification is many times that.

I could go on and on and I have to say this labour party which I've been a member of for a long long time, looks like it's lost all focus.

A Labour spokesperson said: «We can not comment on individual complaints, but all Labour members and representatives are expected to uphold the highest standard of conduct at all times.»

Lord Michael Levy, a Labour member of the House of Lords (the upper house of Britain's Parliament), said in a BBC appearance that the party had a «serious problem» with anti-Semitism, adding that it seemed «more prominent» in Labour than in its rival Conservative party.

As an audience member noted, this may totally rule out any Labour government — and Miliband said that was a price he was willing to pay.

Having spent the last few days consulting with local people in my constituency and considering in detail the evidence and proposals from the Government I am very saddened to have received the following message from someone who says they are a Labour Party member but not clear where from.

Mike Gapes, the Labour MP for Ilford South, referred directly to Mr Corbyn when he said: «Can I remind her and the right honourable member for Islington North that it was a Labour government, with Robin Cook as Foreign Secretary, which carried out air strikes in Iraq under Operation Desert Fox in 1998 without a UN resolution, it was a Labour government that restored President Kabbah in Sierra Leone without a UN resolution, that it was a Labour government that stopped the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo without a UN resolution, and that there is a long - standing and noble tradition on these benches supporting humanitarian intervention.»

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

Encouraging Labour members to help shape party policy, Corbyn said: «The media commentariat simply don't understand it.

McDonnell says that ordinary Labour members will have more power, however much MPs may resist.

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The spokesman later issued a statement which said: «Jim Murphy is a fully paid up member of the Labour Party and there has been no break in his membership.»

Steve Brooks, Wales Director of the Electoral Reform Society said: «Our research shows that Labour would have won nearly 70 % of the seats in the National Assembly, had the last election been fought using Two Member First Past the Post.

«Voluntary measures alone may not significantly improve the number of people earning a living wage,» Labour assembly member Fiona Twycross said.

He demanded union party members should be given the right to choose Labour candidates in constituencies, have an «equal say» in the election of the party leader and the «right to a level playing field in the party where their views and votes count as much» as other party members.

He said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.»

However, a member of Nigeria Labour Congress, Issa Aremu said the problems of the downstream sector that have led to the petrol crisis in the country exposes what he described as «crisis of corporate governance in the petroleum sector.»

Labour Party general secretary Iain McNicol said anyone witnessing Labour members or registered supporter engaged in abusive or intimidatory behaviour, should report them to the party.

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said she would offer a «responsible opposition» as ex-Cabinet members began their work in the shadow Cabinet:

Today's pamphlet, Raising Lazarus: The future of organised labour, says that 62 per cent of workers support a collective voice in the workplace, but many potential union members are put of by the rhetoric of strife and struggle.

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.

He said that in future, all of Labour's members should get a vote in general secretary elections, rather than just those on the party's ruling national executive committee.

A Labour Party spokeswoman said: «We can not comment on individual complaints, but all Labour members and representatives are expected to uphold the highest standard of conduct at all times.»

The Brexit campaign's biggest financial donor has said he is considering backing a new political party taking in members of Ukip, Labour and the Conservatives.

The party's deputy leader, Tom Watson says he has evidence that members of the Socialist Party and the Alliance for Workers» Liberty are signing up as Labour members.

Miller said: «This has been a really difficult 16 months - because I was cleared of the central allegation made about me by a Labour Member of Parliament, I hoped that I could stay.

At Labour's national executive yesterday, Ed Miliband failed to deliver on his leadership campaign promise to give members more say in policy making.

But I would be willing to bet that most of the Labour Party members and union members wish that they had more say in the choice not only of the leader, but of the cabinet as well.

Labour's «lurch left», says the news story, «stunned not only the business world, but also members of the former Labour government.»

Not surprisingly, given the above, half (49 %) of Labour's new members believe the membership should have more say over policy, with the figure rising to 54 % and 65 % respectively among those who joined during and after the leadership election.