Sentences with phrase «wider labour party»

In the meantime Jeremy Corbyn, his team and the wider Labour party exceeded expectations.

[17] In a March 2016 speech, Corbyn advocated the decriminalisation of the sex industry «without any discussion or consultation with his shadow cabinet, with me as his shadow minister for women and equalities, with women in the PLP or, to the best of my knowledge, with anyone in the wider Labour Party».

The Wales Office can play a vital role in being the voice of Wales at Westminster, but it has recently been reduced to a crude propaganda machine attacking the very country it is supposed to represent, as a proxy for attacking the wider Labour Party.

The 2008 Labour group leadership election was the first time Labour had elected its Scottish leader with the participation of its members, using a system similar to that used at the time by the UK - wide Labour Party (the system had been adopted in 2007, but no ballot had taken place as Alexander had been unopposed).

Not exact matches

Likewise, in repudiating trade unionism, they repudiated controlled immigration and the moderating influence of the wider electorate in the affairs of the Labour Party.

Moreover the tepid support of parts of the Labour party for these changes may also reflect wider problems of Labour's support base.

«It would be catastrophic because under the present circumstances the Momentum campaign would keep control of the party machine, its funding, its communications, its outreach... and the rump coalescing around the parliamentary party would have to start a new party and they would therefore be portrayed as the ones who once again betrayed the wider Labour movement and that's the way it would be painted.»

I've argued on my own blog (http://hands-of-the-many.blogspot.com/2010/05/next-labour-will-change-be-moderate-or.html) that New Labour represented an understandable compromise with the upper class so that the overwhelming hostility to the party in the press would be lessened, and the party could communicate its message to a wider audience - and then, build the coalition which brought the party to office, and enabled the much - needed social democratic reforms to take place.

Well, hours before he quit, he told Sky News one factor he was considering was «the wider interests of the Labour Party».

That would test candidates» wider campaigning experience, broader appeal AND bring outsiders into Labour party processes which is healthy.

Now isn't the time to thrash out the minutia of what the final reforms should look like — that will require the space for a proper discussion in the Labour party and among the wider public.

However, what is certainly true in the Labour Party is that fewer MPs have an organic base in wider society, to counteract any dependence on patronage from above.

Allowing Nick Clegg to be treated as an equal in all three debates while no other party was (why not UKIP, for example, they outperformed the Lib Dems at the last UK - wide poll and might have done the same to Cameron as Clegg has done to Labour) was a decision.

But in their self - imposed season of anomie, Afenifere committed the ultimate ideological apostasy, by their own Awoist doctrine: pushed the wrong cause, backed the wrong horse, kept the wrong company, and coalesced behind the wrong person, as arrowhead to Aso Rock, in Ondo Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, ruthless political hustler and survivalist, who just defected to the wide - and - merry Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from the supposedly straight - and - narrow Labour Party (LP).

Blue Labour's thinking has included wide - ranging analyses but at its heart has remained a key insight: an all - out embrace of liberalism has alienated the Labour Party from its traditional working - class support.

The Labour candidate expressed the position that the problems in accountability leading to the scandal had been fixed; his opponents noted that of the parties currently representing Britain in Brussels, only Labour has not yet disclosed their expenses (although Mr Vaughan states that the party will begin to do so soon) and Mr Griffiths furthermore declared that the scandal was part of a wider problem: the corruption of the political system by big business.

The issue of fox hunting was part of a wider issue relating to a political attack by the Labour Party on rural England and we fully support rural communities to decide for themselves if they want fox hunting or not.

This is currently a UK rule book issue, but this needs to be looked at as part of a wider review of Scottish Labour's position in relation to the UK party.

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).

Of the three second - placed parties who won nine seats, UKIP gained the largest share of the county - wide vote, more than 10 % ahead of Labour.

Watson stated: «These three documents outline a concerted strategy for members of the AWL to infiltrate (or, to use the language of the documents, «intervene») in the Labour Party» with the explicit intention of influencing the party to indoctrinate «more people of revolutionary socialist ideas,» «advance and transform the wider labour movement» and to focus «on drawing in, organising, propagandising among, and recruiting among, the new people (especially the new young people) mobilised by the Corbyn surge.&Labour Party» with the explicit intention of influencing the party to indoctrinate «more people of revolutionary socialist ideas,» «advance and transform the wider labour movement» and to focus «on drawing in, organising, propagandising among, and recruiting among, the new people (especially the new young people) mobilised by the Corbyn surge.&rParty» with the explicit intention of influencing the party to indoctrinate «more people of revolutionary socialist ideas,» «advance and transform the wider labour movement» and to focus «on drawing in, organising, propagandising among, and recruiting among, the new people (especially the new young people) mobilised by the Corbyn surge.&rparty to indoctrinate «more people of revolutionary socialist ideas,» «advance and transform the wider labour movement» and to focus «on drawing in, organising, propagandising among, and recruiting among, the new people (especially the new young people) mobilised by the Corbyn surge.&labour movement» and to focus «on drawing in, organising, propagandising among, and recruiting among, the new people (especially the new young people) mobilised by the Corbyn surge.»

He said: «The Labour Party is the greatest agent for social change this country has ever known and I have always welcomed growth of our party and wider moveParty is the greatest agent for social change this country has ever known and I have always welcomed growth of our party and wider moveparty and wider movement.

That ever - shrinking but always vocal constituency within the Labour party that is impressed by such a show of fundraising largesse would be well advised to stop for a moment, consider what tactics brought a dip in our membership, a loss of intellectual dexterity in power, & loss of trust & support among the wider public, & to not be jellylegged by the implied promises of favour from vested interests that such large donations are supposed to signify.

In just under a week, Jeremy Corbyn will almost certainly be re-elected as Leader of the Labour Party — and, if all the credible indications we have are correct, perhaps by a wider margin than the 60 per cent or so of the votes that he received last year.

«While all of the individuals setting up Momentum are members or supporters of the Labour party, the group anticipates that many thousands of people who are not [Labour supporters] will be involved in the wider social movement».

At the Labour women's conference, taking place before the formal start of the full national event on Sunday, Mr Corbyn said his proposed review of party democracy would ensure wider support for his policies.

This may be problematic as it appears that the shadow cabinet is becoming increasingly separated from the wider Parliamentary Labour Party, which might lead to disaster in the future.

In this context he has carried out extensive work on the Labour Party conference and how it has been managed by the party leadership so as to present a united front to the media and thereby the wider electoParty conference and how it has been managed by the party leadership so as to present a united front to the media and thereby the wider electoparty leadership so as to present a united front to the media and thereby the wider electorate.

Milliband should be clear that there will be no in - out referendum under a Labour government because we are for the EU, Labour is the party of Europe, but we want, in alliance with labour movements throughout the EU, to renegotiate its founding treaties which are currently tearing it apart in accordance with our own socialist principles such as an EU - wide living wage and EU - wide full emploLabour government because we are for the EU, Labour is the party of Europe, but we want, in alliance with labour movements throughout the EU, to renegotiate its founding treaties which are currently tearing it apart in accordance with our own socialist principles such as an EU - wide living wage and EU - wide full emploLabour is the party of Europe, but we want, in alliance with labour movements throughout the EU, to renegotiate its founding treaties which are currently tearing it apart in accordance with our own socialist principles such as an EU - wide living wage and EU - wide full emplolabour movements throughout the EU, to renegotiate its founding treaties which are currently tearing it apart in accordance with our own socialist principles such as an EU - wide living wage and EU - wide full employment.

Members must now decide who is best placed to unite the parliamentary party and the wider Labour movement.

In practice (not least given the current standing of the parties in the UK - wide polls of Westminster vote intention) both Conservative and Labour voters might still be hoping in September that their side will go on to win the following May.

Left to his own devices, as he makes clear in his diary entry for 12 October 1980, he would have stood for the leadership in October that year when Callaghan resigned in a deliberate attempt to pre-empt the decision of Labour's party conference to have the wider franchise for electing the Leader that all major parties now take for granted.

Labour party members have called for Tony Blair to step aside as the divide in the party grows ever wider.

Mr Murphy said he left no legacy of bitterness for anyone in the Labour Party, and the only person he was angry at was the person who blamed Scottish Labour for the party's UK - wide general election defeat - a reference to Unite leader Len McCluParty, and the only person he was angry at was the person who blamed Scottish Labour for the party's UK - wide general election defeat - a reference to Unite leader Len McCluparty's UK - wide general election defeat - a reference to Unite leader Len McCluskey.

A substantial portion of the Labour Party and the wider labour movement doeLabour Party and the wider labour movement doelabour movement does not.

The group has been affiliated to the Labour party since 1920 and pledges to campaign «within the party and the wider community to support labour values within the UK, Israel and Internationally&rLabour party since 1920 and pledges to campaign «within the party and the wider community to support labour values within the UK, Israel and Internationally&rlabour values within the UK, Israel and Internationally».

«He might be seen by Labour Party councillors as best placed to connect with the wider electorate and challenge Theresa May, but he'll need a strong change in the winds to get past Jeremy Corbyn right now.»

In particular it will say whether Labour's members are thinking more about internal party politics or the feeling of the wider electorate.

A flirtation with New Labour has not endeared her to some of the Conservative party membership, but she is a very good media performer and hard worker who is likely to enjoy wider recognition soon.

The BMG Research poll for the Evening Standard suggests a wide difference of opinion between the public at large and Labour members, who look set to re-elect Mr Corbyn as party leader next month.

But there are growing signs that Miliband has stepped back from plans to dilute the size of the union vote at party conference, and is instead focusing on a series of reforms designed to make local parties more dynamic, and open up the party to a wider group of Labour supporters.

Whilst the existence of the document itself is cause for much cheer, it appears as if the leadership contenders are coming to the wider debate about the future of the Labour party with their direction already established.

The party claimed, with some legitimacy, to be the only party other than Labour or the Conservatives to win a UK - wide election since 1906.

Finally, the Liberal Democrats offer the widest variety of policies targeted at women (in keeping with their manifesto, which is almost twice the length of Labour's and by far the most detailed of the party manifestos).

Labour does not offer a great deal more, focused primarily on low - cost initiatives and on changing mindsets, although the party does also offer a National Refuge Fund and wider access to Legal Aid for victims of domestic violence.

The former business secretary — and architect of New Labour — warned that the party risked a long period in opposition if it swung to the left and failed to recreate the wide - ranging coalition that took Tony Blair to power in 1997.

«Michael Foot's passing is very sad news for the Labour party and the wider movement.

It would be good see a leadership contest which showcases the wide range of strengths, opinions and talents across the Labour Party.

They also announced plans to cut their wider political fund, as well as their contribution to regional Labour party campaigns.

Sadly it has never been a tradition in the Labour Party, but in some sections of the wider workers movement there did used to be the tradition of elected representatives taking up the wage of an average skilled worker and donating the rest to the party and wider labour movLabour Party, but in some sections of the wider workers movement there did used to be the tradition of elected representatives taking up the wage of an average skilled worker and donating the rest to the party and wider labour moveParty, but in some sections of the wider workers movement there did used to be the tradition of elected representatives taking up the wage of an average skilled worker and donating the rest to the party and wider labour moveparty and wider labour movlabour movement.