Sentences with phrase «wing labour group»

The new left - wing Labour group brings back memories of turbulent times for the party in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Not exact matches

Neal Lawson, chair of the left - wing Compass pressure group, said: «Labour can never win on who kicks down hardest on the poorest.

On the Labour side, rebellious MPs have tended to be from Eurosceptic wings of the party, either from the Socialist Campaign Group wing (e.g. Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell) or from its conservative communitarian wing (e.g. Kate Hoey, Frank Field).

Labour activists, particularly those grouped around the Corbyn - supporting Momentum, accuse the PLP of betraying the party and lining up with the right - wing.

An investigation needs to be undertaken into the power and money behind the right wing Labour pressure groups Progress and Saving Labour and any other similar organisations.

Blair's right wing policies will also meet opposition from pensioners — the only group who swung away from Labour on 1 May — in Ireland, and amongst every other group whose hopes he betrays.

They would have been encouraged to believe that Benn was desperately unlucky to lose that contest, by a wafer - thin margin, because of last - minute union machinations and betrayal by a group of left - wing Labour MPs led by Neil Kinnock.

Labour First, shadowy right - wing Old Labour group run by John Spellar got in first (though the mouth of former Labour national executive member Luke Akehurst), describing the new group as «a slap in the face for grassroots campaigners ``.

This culminated in a bitter row over Falkirk, when the right wing — Blairite shadow ministers, a majority of the PLP and the New Labour pressure group Progress — cried «foul «over UNITE's success in building support for yet another working class trade unionist candidate.

Given the Labour Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.

One of the reasons Mr B's encounter with Labour MPs «went well» was that no member of the left - wing Campaign Group of MPs was called to ask a question.

The push from a left - wing group to bypass the need to win support from Labour MPs comes as Momentum warns potential dissenters it is «absolutely equipped» to back another Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign.

Hodges says the Labour leader should take decisive action to tackle the problem, including winding up the left - wing Momentum group.

The Sun reports that left - wing Labour figures involved in the Momentum group are be pushing for Corbyn's close ally Jon Lansman to fight the by - election.

Labour's centrists believe, not without foundation, that while individual spending pledges and tax rises might poll well, taken together they reinforce Labour as a party that is «extreme», «risky», and «too left wing», to use the sort of phrases directed at it in focus groups.

The Labour - ID group was more left - wing than Labour voters generally.

The former shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, who was one of the first major resignations, urged Corbyn to give up: «This is a very clear result and if Jeremy is to show any leadership quality at all he must now reflect and respond to this overwhelming and unprecedented indication from the parliamentary labour party which includes all wings and all groupings.»

«Labour MPs have so far refused to heed calls from unions and left - wing pressure groups to help the outsiders gain enough backing.

Labour MPs and MEPs including Clive Lewis and David Lammy are backing the new group, as well as left - wing trade union chiefs and members of the party's ruling National Executive Committee.

He has also donated a total of # 137,500 so far this year to right - wing Labour pressure group, Progress, which is closely associated with David Miliband and his supporters.

The Militant Tendency was in the ascendancy - a left - wing, Trotskyist group that polarised the Labour Party and caught the national attention in their opposition to Margaret Thatcher's policies

He told Channel 4 News: «There's a group within the Labour Party who have a right - wing conservative agenda.

The wonder is why people like Corbyn, Meacher et al do n`t leave the Labour party and go to the Socialist party, TUSC or some other left wing group.