Sentences with phrase «views of party members»

Before discussing the views of party members and supporters in more detail, let me address the obvious riposte — in the light of the polls» performance in this year's general election, why should we trust these latest figures?

He has every right to expect Labour MPs to respect the views of party members.

«The new leader was also elected with an overwhelming mandate on a political programme that seeks to take the party in a direction that reflects the current views of party members,» he writes.

Not exact matches

The survey found that most Tea Party members reflect the views of religious conservatives, as opposed to libertarians, on social issues.

As I imagine is similar in other faiths, it is hard for an active member of the LDS Church to publically maintain political views that fall more in line with the Democratic Party than the GOP.

Only 25 per cent claimed to love the enemies of their country and members of dangerous political parties, though in view of prevalent behavior even this seems a startling proportion!

People will have their own views on this, but we have to accept that Wenger will simply not walk away from the Emirates, nor will Stan Kroenke or any other board members get rid of him; unless there is a remarkable U-turn from either party, Wenger will see out the last year of his contract.

Dr. Zubeiru is a member of the Kwesi Botchway fact finding committee that went on a nation - wide tour to sample the views of members of the NDC on what went wrong leading to the party's defeat in the 2016 elections.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

Pledge to promote discipline, order, harmony and progress in the party towards the 2016 polls, by publicly rebuking his supporters who verbally abuse and physically assault other members of the party who hold dissenting views.

This decision certainly led to much consternation among some party members and others on the right (see the article by Simon Heffer cited above) who saw Cameron and the modernisers as ignoring the views of traditionalists.

Members of the majority party are slightly less distraught than republicans, sharing this view at 67 %.

However, while the storm around Farron's views on gay sex is not in line with the vast majority of the party's members, we should not forget that his faith also had a profoundly positive impact on the party.

The Conservative Party was fornally neutral in the referendum on the basis that there were differing views within the party on the issue, although the Tory Assembly Members were supportive of the Yes campParty was fornally neutral in the referendum on the basis that there were differing views within the party on the issue, although the Tory Assembly Members were supportive of the Yes campparty on the issue, although the Tory Assembly Members were supportive of the Yes campaign.

State Chairman Frank MacKay made the following statement following the convention, «The members of the Independence Party represent a cross-section of political views, but we are firmly united in our beliefs that our growing dysfunctional governing bodies in NYS and Washington, DC are deeply in need of reform from the bottom up and the top down.

In his view the difficulty within the Party was much greater than any from the Scottish National Party and the Whips» judgement was that the Government could not rely on the votes of Labour Members from Merseyside or the North if we moved to reject the Repeal Order.

The Economist tactically advised Blair against provoking an «unwise» rebellion, because it understood that the sight of «a Labour government scuttling around the television studios justifying cuts in social security for lone parent families sickens members across a wide range of views» and provided «an issue which aligned [the left MPs] with the wider centre and right of the Labour Party against the Blairite modernisers» (13 December).

He conceded that the moderator is a citizen of Ghana and has the right to join any political party and also express his views on any national issues, but «his views should be differentiated from that of the Presby Church because not all members are towing his line».

It is «right that MPs of either party represent their constituents views on this,» he said, insisting it would be «odd» if Cabinet members did not voice their constituents» views.

He demanded union party members should be given the right to choose Labour candidates in constituencies, have an «equal say» in the election of the party leader and the «right to a level playing field in the party where their views and votes count as much» as other party members.

Tory members views on economic issues are also strikingly different from those of their counterparts in other parties.

In view of the numerous high - profile leadership roles Alban Bagbin has served with high distinction, one would have thought the learned legislatorhad earned the veneration and accolade of a leaderof the members of his Party.

He also spoke against partisanship which he said made it difficult to prosecute corrupt politicians, noting that members of some political parties view such criminal prosecutions as political persecution.

Since then, Conservative grassroots members» views on Europe appear only to have hardened — and, as a new report from the Project published yesterday by the Mile End Institute shows, they are one of the many things that set the Tory rank and file apart from the members of other political parties.

«There is an understanding that both parties come from different positions on the issues of Europe, but members of the Cabinet understand different people have different views.»

«I know that this is not something on which agreement will be reached across the House and that it is the very stuff of party politics, but I hope that Members sitting on the other side of the House will permit me to end with a personal view.

It's impossible to know what their view would be of any proposal to re-form the Coalition with the Liberal Democrats, but my best guess is that David Cameron would find it impossible to drop the 2017 referendum (presuming he wished to)- because Tory MPs» views on holding it are not all that different from Party members».

In the weeks leading up to the result I conducted some polling to compare the views of Labour members and union supporters with those of voters who moved away from the party at the last election.

Most Labour MPs are far removed from the party's 220,000 new members, who dictate that Corbyn or someone of his views leads Labour.

Lutfur Rahman should take legal action against this action — the views of local party members speak for themselves!

«Having seen the coverage of the views of one or two members of the other place from my party, I can think of one or two I hope would take early retirement,» he said.

«If we say you can not foster children because you're a member of a mainstream political party or because you have views on multiculturalism then that's utterly wrong.»

Why should we have a PLP which is so far away from the views of the majority of the party members?

If you look at the research on things like Trident, the parliamentary party would be closer to the views of the voters than the members and there's that tension.

According to the NDC, the committee is expected to conduct hearing among the rank and file of the party, as well as solicit for views from members of the party across the country for review and restructure itself.

«No apology, no whip; that's my view, it's the view of many party members,» Clegg said in a round of broadcast interviews.

David Laws, another of the party's leading members, who served as education minister in the coalition but lost his seat in the party's 2015 near - wipeout, has strongly criticised Farron's views.

It is unclear whether there is a majority of members favour imposing a whip in support of their view on other Labour MPs against the party's policy, but some certainly favour that.

John Woodcock, a member of Kendall's campaign team, told me: «We all shared a view, the mainstream of the Labour Party, that advocating Jeremy's route as a party spells sure - fire marginalisation and electoral deParty, that advocating Jeremy's route as a party spells sure - fire marginalisation and electoral departy spells sure - fire marginalisation and electoral defeat.

He told the New Statesman he views Miliband as «polite and nice», a member of the «soft left» of the Labour party and who is «instinctively a bit more pluralistic than most Labour leaders and a bit more internationalist as well».

She somehow believes «strict constructionist» judge interpreting the constitution would somehow me she becomes 3 / 5th a person again (her rude remark to Sen. McCain — a man who is a member of the Party of Lincoln — on the View).

In my experience in recent years, the number of Labour Party members locally who hold similar political views to me outnumber all of the smaller parties combined.

«But the event tonight has been overshadowed by the presence, not just at conference but on the same platform as some senior members of the party, of people of such extreme and offensive views.»

As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.

Sir, I have resolved to write you this letter based on a strong inner conviction and my personal observations and views about your very action in the near future, that I believe, would make a strong case or otherwise for the National Democratic Congress, NDC, a party on whose ticket you served as a Member of Parliament, rose to the position of a Deputy Minister and later Minister.

I've been a Green party member since 1988 and have always held the view that we would be better out of the EU because most decisions are better made more locally.

Looking at it from my constituents» point of view, It does mean I know virtually every other member of the Conservative parliamentary party.

Nevertheless, being stuck out of power by an unrepresentative electoral system and an indifferent media establishment means many Lib Dem members secretly view stolen policies as satisfying evidence of political change emanating from the third party.

However, the Election Review Committee (ERC) of the NDC, which has been tasked to unravel the reasons behind the party's defeat, has expressed reservations and «regret that a number of party functionaries and leading party members have lately taken to the media houses to air their views on party members.»

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.