Sentences with phrase «stand against labour»

She originally announced her intention to stand against Labour MP Margaret Moran in the wake of the expenses scandal when it emerged that the MP had claimed # 22,500 to treat dry rot at a property in Southampton — 100 miles away from her constituency.

As for Degsy, there was a reason he didn't stand against labour, he knew he wasn't going to win, when Degsy was in militant, they put up candidates against labour.

Moreover, they quite conceivably might not be able to handle the idea of their beloved party going through the motions of a party conference in September, passing rule changes to turn back the clock to the 1980s, while a parallel Momentum conference is going on next door, with speakers who are far - left non-members, or even members of separate parties which stand against Labour.

Unfortunately, Compass has recently chosen to allow members and elected representatives of parties that stand against Labour to become members of Compass and help set its direction.

Clause I, section 4 of the membership section in Labour's rulebook says: «A member of the party who joins and / or supports a political organisation other than an official Labour group or other unit of the party, or supports any candidate who stands against an official Labour candidate, or publicly declares their intent to stand against a Labour candidate, shall automatically be ineligible to be or remain a party member.»

The question arises whether they will stand against Labour in marginal seats.

She originally announced her candidacy to stand against Labour MP Margaret Moran, who was heavily criticised for her second home claims.

In return, we should have lobbied the Greens not to stand against Labour candidates in marginals.

This idea that anyone who stands against Labour must therefore be pro-Tory uses such obviously false logic that it is almost embarrassing to hear it and yet it is an argument you hear Labour using time and time again.

I don't agree with anyone standing against the Labour Party, but in exceptional circumstances like this, when they are treated so abominably by the Party, I appreciate they have no other option.

If we can get over SDPers like Polly Toynbee, Andrew Adonis and even David Owen rejoining, surely Hatton, who never stood against Labour, is not a problem.

Indeed so: when he stood against Labour MP Bob Marshall - Andrews (now retired) in Medway (the old name for this slightly redrawn seat), he was 213 votes behind the successful Labour candidate, while UKIP trailed in fourth with 1,488 votes.

Not exact matches

[If you don't] You will have a higher section rate, so part of that is you need to be in attendance to keep the birth normal and some of it is just to have an opinion about the strip, some if it is literally where you feel like you're standing guard, not against bad people but against keeping the space for the woman private and without a lot of stuff going on around her that's going to distract her just being in her labour.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

Another of Labour's would - be Birmingham mayoral candidates has spoken out against moves by the party's «high command» to bar sitting MPs from standing.

Owen Smith has tried to stress his left wing credentials after the path was cleared for him to stand as the sole candidate against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election.

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposLabour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposlabour movement opposition.

This is in spite of new parliamentary Labour Party standing orders which made it a disciplinary offence for MPs to vote against the government.

Andy would have been the best leader we never had last time, he's not right this time, incidentally your choice for Mayor Diane Abbot comes out with her usual nonsense regarding, her 24,000 majority compared to Khans 2,000 majority, When she was first elected in 1987 ′ she had a swing against her, even though, any really after the 1983 election, it would be expected, that a labour politician would have a swing towards them as 1983 was our all time low, and I could be said her swing against her at the time was due to racism, but Paul boeteng stood for the first time, next to her in 1987 ′ he never had a swing against him,

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.

Yes, Ed Balls showed courage in standing out against the crowd on the economy in last year's Labour leadership election.

I'd vote Labour if, and only if, they stood against the erosion of our liberty.

Rahman stood as an independent against the official Labour candidate — surprise, surprise, the same third - placed rival — like Ken Livingstone before him.

Only 32 % of southern voters were clear about what «Labour stood for these days», against 60 % who were not.

I wish the new Labour leader well and would ask him to join us on the streets with the working class people who are taking a stand against social cleansing but for now it remains to be seen whether the rest of his party will follow his lead.

Labour has a proud history of standing up for women, from Barbara Castle's support for the Equal Pay Act, to Harriet Harman making tackling male violence against women a priority for the party, and Diane Abbott's campaigning for BAME representation.

Yes, the very same institutions that are backing strikes and protests against ConDem austerity policies stood aside when it was suggested to Labour's three - day national policy forum in Milton Keynes that Labour should not stick with Tory spending cuts in 2015/16.

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

The idea that the right to move would seriously impact on people «to stand up against antisocial behaviour» is wishful thinking of the worse new Labour style.

.@iMcKenzied Our local Momentum organiser is now on CLP EC: in 2005, he stood on a Respect ticket * against * our then Labour MP (maj 153).

Asked how he could possibly ask Labour voters to vote for him when he spent most of the last week encouraging a Labour candidate to stand against him, Mr Davis replied: «I'm asking everybody and we've had support from Tories, of course, Liberal activists, people who say «I've voted Labour all my life» and - most interestingly of all - people who said I've never taken an interest in politics all my life but this has galvanised my interest.»

Common allegiances were tempered as some delegates expressed considerable reticence at the thought of supporting Labour, with many of them hoping to take a stand against the privatisation of public services.

Its only by standing up against unfairness and injustice, you can actually bring about Reform, and that is what Labour is all about standing up against unfairness and injustice.

I'm glad you are standing against Jeremy as you don't have a chance, hopefully we will be rid of the tories pretending to be labour for some pernicious reason once this is all over.

Elsewhere, Labour MSP Neil Findlay MSP, who stood against Mr Murphy for the leadership of the party, has resigned from the Scottish shadow cabinet.

We have been speaking about the PCS's decision to field candidates at future elections — potentially even standing anti-austerity figures against the Labour Party (you can read about that here).

Jack Straw was twice urged by Tony Blair to stand against Gordon Brown for leadership of the Labour party - Independent

Why did you stand as an independent against Labour?

What the public is really desperate to hear from Labour is that it will take a stand against at least the worst of the Tory attacks on people's living standards, e.g. reverse the iniquitous bedroom tax and call a halt to the callous stripping of seriously disabled people of their benefits on the utterly spurious grounds under the Atos farcical assessments that they are fit for work.

This backfired somewhat when Hussain was selected as the official Labour Party candidate for the neighbouring constituency of Bradford East, standing against Liberal Democrat MP David Ward.

Jack Straw was twice urged by Tony Blair to stand against Gordon Brown for leadership of the Labour party

Who would bet against Galloway standing as a Labour parliamentary candidate again?

certainly not in sufficient numbers to stand a chance in 2020, once the Conservatives have finished loading the deck against Labour, with everything from individual electoral registration and boundary changes, through to the financing of the opposition front bench, sharpened to a fine point in order to stab the Labour party to death.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against -LSB-...]

However, work and pensions secretary John Hutton agreed it would be a «good thing» for the Labour party and the country for Mr Brown to stand against a credible opponent.

Charles Clarke is prepared to stand against Gordon Brown in a Labour leadership contest, according to the latest reports.

Since 1927, the Co-operative Party has had an electoral pact with the Labour Party, with both parties agreeing not to stand candidates against each other.

The 17 - year - old's «fandom» was set up in April as a stand against the right wing media's portrayal of Labour's then leader.

Luciana Berger received a standing ovation for her speech in which she revealed how she had been subject to a wave of online abuse since taking part in a demonstration against anti-Semitism in the Labour party.

As he continues to gather momentum, Corbyn is edging ever closer to the record - high level of support that Blair registered when he stood against John Prescott and Margaret Beckett to be Labour leader.