Top 1200 Labour Party Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.

The Labour party lost millions of voters because they failed to listen.

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

My party was the party which was created by Mr Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He didn't create that party. But he was the main pillar of the party. Our party is a very forward-looking, progressive, democratic party.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

Let me be clear: I recognise the necessity of tackling antisemitism in the Labour party head-on.

Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the electoral college that had given MPs a third of the say over who leads the party. That's why Diane Abbott came last when she ran for leader in 2010, even though in the absolute number of votes she came third out of five. It's one of those wonderful historical ironies that the change to the rules was a victory for the Labour right, the result of a push back against the unions who had been asserting themselves more forcefully within the party.

I am the 'change Britain' candidate. We can only change Britain through a united Labour Party and I am the unity candidate. I have got support from the Left and the Right of the party.

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.

I was born into the Labour party. I was delivering leaflets by the age I could reach the letter box.

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.

Labour's priorities are clear: jobs and the economy must come first; not party interests or ideological fantasies.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

I want a credible, strong Labour Party.

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

The concept of loyalty to the leader is set firmly in the ethos of the Labour party.

I've been going to Labour party meeting for over 50 years.

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things

Labour is the party of the NHS and the environment and fighting for better workplace and civic rights for working men and women.

If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

We need people like me in the Labour party.

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.

The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.

I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born

Labour is fundamentally a Remain party but it is in our interests to negotiate as good a deal as possible.

Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.

The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

A Labour Party that stops talking about social mobility has forgotten what it is for.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.