Sentences with phrase «unilateral nuclear disarmament»

Hugh Gaitskell, at the time leader of the Labour party, opposed the campaign for unilateral nuclear disarmament supported by the rest of the party, so Hamilton enlarged a press photo of the politician to create a hybrid painting that draws upon images from horror films and pulp fiction by portraying Gaitskell as a Hollywood monster with one fish eyeball and a mawkish mouth.

Corbyn supports unilateral nuclear disarmament — voters do not.

Bell and Saatchi and Saatchi produced memorable posters for the Conservatives, such as a picture of a British soldier's arms raised in surrender with the caption: «Labour's Policy On Arms» — a reference to Labour's policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

He blamed senior figures» «fixation» with «peripheral» issues such as unilateral nuclear disarmament for failing to attract voters.

Those advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament on the UK's part — and note here that the discussion is not about multilateral disarmament, which would be an altogether more appealing proposition, were it ever to be achievable — need to actually present a compelling strategic rationale.

My Oxford colleague Blake Ewing makes an engaging case in favour of the UK pursuing unilateral nuclear disarmament — that is, scrapping the planned replacement programme for the Royal Navy's Vanguard - class submarines, which currently carry the Trident D5 missile — as a solution to the country's fiscal travails.

He opposes NATO and the EU, he favours unilateral nuclear disarmament, a large welfare state, tax - and - spend (and borrow), nationalisation and immigration.

When today do you hear a credible labour figure arguing full employment is a greater priority than low inflation or embracing unilateral nuclear disarmament for example.

Yesterday they debated unilateral nuclear disarmament (they voted against).

Unilateral nuclear disarmament did not cause the secession of the SDP, since it did not become Labour Party policy until two years and a General Election after that direct intervention in the British electoral process by a President of the European Commission as such, a true betrayal of Gaitskell, Bevan, Bevin, Attlee, the lot.

At one point, she was forced to say «there's no point trying to shout me down» as she was challenged by opponents of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

The election of Michael Foot as leader in 1980, and the leftist policies he espoused, such as unilateral nuclear disarmament, leaving the European Economic Community and NATO, closer governmental influence in the banking system, the creation of a national minimum wage and a ban on fox hunting [55] led in 1981 to four former cabinet ministers from the right of the Labour Party (Shirley Williams, William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins and David Owen) forming the Social Democratic Party.

Ms Thornberry - who supports unilateral nuclear disarmament - told her frontbench colleagues that the party needed to look at the impact of Brexit on the size of the economy and what the implications may be for the UK's commitment to spending 2 % of its GDP on defence.

His most conspicuous political act had been to persuade his party's conference to defy the advice of its leader, David Steel, and vote for unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party could start returning to a familiar model: the nationalisation of public utilities, tax - and - spend, defence retrenchment, unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Unilateral nuclear disarmament would leave France as the sole nuclear weapons state in Europe, inflating Paris's role in the north Atlantic alliance and hastening the demise of the Anglo - American special relationship.

From 1960 to 1989, the Labour Party was committed to unilateral nuclear disarmament.

His priorities include dissolving newspaper monopolies, removing all American military bases from the UK and unilateral nuclear disarmament.

The left - wing Bevan told his colleagues that their demand for unilateral nuclear disarmament would send a future Labour government «naked into the conference chamber» during international negotiations.

And the top tipple for a party once committed to unilateral nuclear disarmament and slashing defence spending?

«Frankly I think it goes to a bigger truth, which is one day this reshuffle I suppose will be over and we will be left with the collection of politicians, be in no doubt about this, who've signed up to unilateral nuclear disarmament, racking up taxes and spending and the most left - wing programmes in living memory.»

He said: «This reshuffle will be over and we will be left with a collection of politicians - have no doubt about this - who've signed up to unilateral nuclear disarmament, who have signed up to racking up taxes, debt and spending and one of the [most] left - wing programmes in recent memory.

He's on the soft left of the Lab party, a firm believer in much stronger unions, nationalisation and unilateral nuclear disarmament.

During this period Hamilton was also very active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and produced a work parodying the then leader of the Labour Party Hugh Gaitskell for rejecting a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.