Sentences with phrase «senior figures in the party»

I expressed this to the most senior figures in the party several times.

He said he kept warning the party about its impending defeat but he was attacked together with other senior figures in the party.

He's the most senior figure in the party who isn't a part of the government.

While an attempt to remove Clause IV from the party constitution in 1959 failed, Tony Blair, and the «modernisers» saw the issue as putting off potential voters, [140] and were successful thirty - five years later, [141] with only limited opposition from senior figures in the party.

The details of the stillborn coalition negotiations between the two centre - left parties comes as senior figures in both parties start building bridges ahead of what is expected to be another hung parliament in 2015.

More than 50 members of his shadow ministerial team resigned in the wake of the vote while a string of senior figures in the party have urged him to quit.

However, concerns have been raised by senior figures in the party that Brown, who lost his post when Ed Miliband won the leadership, is not aware of the scale of the task facing him.

Ukip today descended into meltdown, after an extroardinary bout of public infighting between Nigel Farage and several senior figures in the party.

Corbyn's cautious views on Europe, as well as his anti-austerity policies, have alarmed senior figures in the party.

However, critics, including on Labour's own backbenches, have attacked that position, with one senior figure in the party telling the Guardian that there were divisions at shadow cabinet level over the issue.

To start that conversation, they would first have to admit to the great cover - up about his character in which so many senior figures in the party were complicit for more than a decade.

While the likes of Umunna push for soft Brexit, or no Brexit, other senior figures in the party argue the reverse.

«Now's not the time for this,» one senior figure in the party put it, «but we do need to start thinking what it means to be a Liberal Democrat now».

The disclosure of the plans to bash the Lib Dems came as senior figures in that party jostled for position in the contest to succeed Mr Ashdown.

Perhaps, senior figures in the party reasoned, if only no - one went into the lobby in support of the measure, then those who were going to vote against would draw back from doing so.

Labour desperately tried to adopt a coherent strategy towards the impending AV referendum today, as senior figures in the party seethed with anger over the proposals.

Uncertainty about the party's future direction following the election of Ed Miliband as the party's leader is constraining senior figures in the party from speaking out.

Nick Clegg's difficulties in handling complaints against senior figures in his party will continue on Friday when solicitors acting for an alleged sexual assault victim of the MP Mike Hancock will ask the high court to force a Lib - Dem - led council to release an unredacted version of a damning QC's report.

Ed Miliband's summer leadership crisis intensified again this weekend, with weak polling numbers underlining a double whammy of personal attacks from senior figures in the party.

Mr Miliband's initiative has been welcomed by senior figures in the party, including Tony Blair, who said he wished he had done it when he was party leader.

Webbe is the most senior figure in the party of the four candidates, a current member of the NEC and a former adviser to Livingstone at City Hall.

Senior figures in the party are understood to be deeply concerned about losing more members to UKIP.

However, senior figures in the party have warned that hundreds of Labour MPs would refuse to serve under Corbyn, leaving him unable to form a shadow cabinet.

Mr Blair's reported verdict on Mr Miliband follows criticism of the Labour leader's performance from some senior figures in his party.

Building the kind of local base from which Ashdown himself and most of the current contenders for the leadership sprang is a slow and painstaking business, the practice of which some senior figures in the party are beginning to fear might undermine true Liberal Democrat values.

Some senior figures in the party believe this is Labour's secret battle plan, although the leadership don't seem keen on it.

Senior figures in the party are understood to be deeply concerned...

No matter how many times he is denounced by the press and senior figures in the party, his support among his growing army of Corbynistas actually seems to grow.

The briefings back and forth were relentless and Andrew Rawnsley's book «Servants of the People» not only detailed screaming fits by the chancellor, it alleged a senior figure in the party had called Brown «psychologically damaged».

Instead, senior figures in our party are rerunning the battles of the past through this leadership campaign.»

Her feelings seem to be shared by some activists, but senior figures in the party are largely being much more supportive of Nick Clegg.

As for Ed, whom the New Statesman endorsed as Labour leader last week, he can feel justly frustrated that senior figures in the party have failed to engage with his sophisticated and well - meant critique of New Labour.