Sentences with phrase «term labour supporters»

Just 27 per cent of voters now regard themselves as long - term Labour supporters.

Not exact matches

That by trimming their sails to policies that are anathema to many inside the party — and a betrayal of all the bold, good things that were achieved in terms of domestic policy by the Blair / Brown Labour governments — they have caused swaths of the party's supporters to turn away in bewilderment and disgust.

It's not a good look: the evasive tactics, the actions which require decoding by political journalists to find their meaning, the use of managerial terms like «stakeholder» — this all reflects the problems Labour had in the past, where professional middle - class politicians conducted themselves in a way which alienated the party's supporters.

The issues raised were of great intrinsic importance, in political terms the thinkers and politicians involved were trying to lay the basis for a way forward for the Labour Party that broke with Blairism and New Labour, renewing the party's appeal to its traditional supporters and providing a credible electoral framework for the next general election.

In a desperate appeal to Labour members and supporters, the former prime minister urged them to set aside their opinions about his three terms in power and save the party from self - destruction by rejecting Corbyn's politics.

Looking at the position of party supporters with respect to these two dimensions, we see that Conservative supporters stand to the right of the political spectrum in economic terms and Labour and the Greens on the left, as traditionally envisioned.

Is Simpson, a long - term supporter of the Prime Minister, about to pull the plug on Brown to save the Labour Party?

I've heard supporters of Jeremy Corbyn describe (for want of a better term) the Centrist Labour members as neoliberals; but I never expected a member of the «Soft Left», who voted for Burnham and Cooper, to call them the «Hard Right».