Sentences with phrase «suggested labour needed»

On the other hand, perhaps figures like John Reid were not being so foolish when they suggested Labour needed a stronger message on immigration and «aspiration» — that counter-intuitive code word for getting the poor to vote against their economic interests.

Not exact matches

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Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy has today suggested that Labour needs to have «genuine credibility» on the economy.

It seems a long time ago since Diane Abbott was in the running to become the Labour candidate for mayor of London, but in the top spot this week is our report from last year on comments she made during her campaign in which she suggested the capital didn't need another white middle - aged man in charge.

The British Election Study survey evidence suggests that Scottish Labour MPs will not be saved by incumbency effects or tactical voting, so the party will primarily need to attract a significant number of their former voters back from the SNP.

Burke provides other arguments about the need for representatives to have the freedom to exercise personal judgement and suggests they are somehow more able to see the bigger picture but I'd be interested in hearing your opinion on whether there is any knoweldge, information or argument about the Labour leadership contest or candidates that is the preserve of MPs only?

The appointment of Alan Johnson suggests that the leader has not necessarily closed himself off from reality as far as the deficit is concerned — and that he understands the need to do more than rally the Labour heartland.

Far from there being the long - predicted «swing back» to the Tories as the election nears, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggest that Labour have actually cemented their position in many of the target seats they need to win.

It comes as a series of new polls suggest that the party are making no progress in the marginal seats they need to win from Labour in order to form the next government.

The irony here is that for once, Corbyn is far more in touch with the public and with the kind of voters Labour needs to win back than his parliamentary party is (the most recent ICM poll, for example, suggests that the voters Labour's lost since 2015 break about 4:3 for Leave).

However it has been suggested that he would need to find the support of 51 Labour MPs in order to be on the ballot, as was the case when Tony Benn challenged Neil Kinnock in 1988.

It has been suggested that Mr Corbyn would need to find the support of 51 Labour MPs in order to be on the ballot, as Neil Kinnock did in 1988 when he was challenged by Tony Benn.

Elsewhere, deputy leader hopeful Caroline Flint suggested that Labour needs to start attacking so - called benefits scroungers as much as bankers.

Wright's defiant response — to quit Labour but refuse to quit as crime commissioner — means the focus could continue to be away from the fundamental need for reform, Starmer suggested.

Interestingly, northern Tories suggested more emphasis on the living wage was needed, while northern Labour members wanted more power devolved to local areas.

Speaking to the New Statesman, he argued that one of Labour's greatest achievements has been to combine the needs of the «aspirants» with the less - advantaged, suggesting that this is one area where the party fell down in the past.

I hope to do three things: first, look at the value and the challenges that immigration has brought and continues to bring to the UK; second, lay out where I think the Government is getting hold of the wrong end of the stick; and third, suggest some areas that Labour believes need to be addressed in making migration work for everyone, especially in relation to the labour market, the EU, sham marriages and the push factors in international migrLabour believes need to be addressed in making migration work for everyone, especially in relation to the labour market, the EU, sham marriages and the push factors in international migrlabour market, the EU, sham marriages and the push factors in international migration.

Warning that Labour is «headed downwards», Mandelson suggests none of the current leadership contenders has fully grasped the challenge the party faces because they are all putting too much emphasis on the need for unity.

In comparison, our regular tracker on who people blame the most for the cuts still finds 48 % blaming Labour the most and only 18 % blaming the Coalition - suggesting that people may blame the last Labour government for the generic need for cuts, but once specific cuts are announced they may begin to apportion more of the blame more upon the present Government.

Once the Coalition Government's cuts start to bite Labour can probably look forward to big leads in mid-terms polls, but underneath that our poll suggests image problems the new leader will need to address.

Reports have suggested that Labour and the Liberal Democrats would support the rejection of the instrument, but either Conservative or Crossbench support would be needed to ensure its success.

If Labour don't define themselves, then come the next election the Conservatives will paint the choice as being «the party that took the hard but necessary decisions while Labour suggested nothing» or «the party that took the steps needed to bring the economy back to health, opposed at every step by Labour».

A split within the shadow cabinet has emerged over the issue of immigration after Jeremy Corbyn used his keynote speech to the Labour party conference to suggest there was no need for further controls on the movement of people.

Labour has made a calculated decision that they need to gain the attention of their voters, given that polling suggests that up to half are unclear where the party stands on the EU.

The ideas were welcomed by both the CBI and the EEF manufacturers» organisation, suggesting a much - needed thaw in Labour's relations with the business community could be under way.

Mr Blunkett said the Labour leader needed to be «on the ball» at all times and suggested the party must begin setting out policies soon to give voters a clear idea of its vision.

Current polls suggest Ed Miliband, the Labour party leader, would need SNP support to secure a Commons majority.

This might be the case in East of England as if UKIP are at 40 % or so (as some polls have been suggesting), the Greens and the Lib Dems would need at least 10 % to take a seat, assuming that the Tories win 2 and Labour take the other one.

That's why Labour need to get a convincing economic set of policies (and also, as Ed Miliband keeps suggesting, why they need to concentrate their fire on the Conservatives not the Lib Dems).

Nor does it suggest ignorance of its general rights under a labour and material payment bond, or the need for timely notice to be given under such an instrument.

Meanwhile, predictions from a B.C. labour market outlook suggest that 640,000 new workers will be needed in the Lower Mainland by 2022.