But alongside the people who voted for that more conservative Labour Party is the traditional left-inclined Labour constituency -- people who believe the party should push ahead with its traditional socialist causes.
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It means that the combined vote of Sinn Fein, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party is one short of the overall majority needed.
If we had that and we had a leader of the party who was leading the party against the Labour Party on all issues except Europe, it was as Ken said yesterday, prepared to appear on the platform with the prime minister, we would have chaos.
At the same time, the Labour Party exploited the Conservative failure to address crime effectively and positioned itself as the party which was best able to tackle this problem.
More important, however, nationalists seem to have gained a political self-confidence that unionists now lack, born of both war-weariness and faith in the leadership of Sinn Fein and the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, the largest nationalist party.
Mr Rutte's liberal VVD party and the centre-left Labour party secured the coalition deal after coming out on top in 12 September elections.
Both the centre-left Labour party and the centre-right VVD party won a sufficient number of votes between themselves to rule with a majority in the lower houses of parliament.
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The first is for the Labour party, and in particular the Parliamentary Labour Party.
Although the Labour Party's roots lay with the working class and private sector unions, New City co-editor John Muscat contends that the Rudd Labour Party has transformed into an instrument of the bureaucracy and "progressive" gentry.
Such proposals will prove controversial for many in the Labour Party and the trade unions.
For the Labour Party, the bill is a chance to define its values and future direction.
But after the Labour Party referred the allegations to the police, Mr Thompson disowned most of them.
The Labour Party said the public had a right to know what happened.
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John Hopkins will stand for the Labour Party for the assembly and Owen Smith will contest the Westminster seat.
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At the time, the Labour Party welcomed the Green Paper but warned it would not stop the cuts facing charities.
The Labour Party told the commission that it supported a generic Referendum Act, an electoral commission and independent formulation of questions.
He built his whole career in the Labour Party upon the media-savvy reputation he acquired as its director of communications in the 1980s.
From opposition, the Labour Party accuses the government of using Britain's budgetary woes as cover for a long-held ambition to shrink the state.
He knew winning power would take time but he set about transforming the Labour Party in the eyes of the electorate through an exhausting schedule.
The Labour Party, the dominant force in Norwegian politics for decades, came into his cross-hairs because of its staunch defence of both diversity and tolerance.
But since the Labour Party conference the government has imposed more restrictions on how private firms can treat staff working on contracts with the public sector.
"Because of Peter Hain and the inaction of the Labour Party until the last general election it's clearly made it (an autumn referendum) nearly impossible, " Mr Cairns said.
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Likud was originally set up in 1973 to challenge the Labour party, the latest in a series of centre-left parties which had governed Israel since its creation in 1948.
Once friends as well as allies, the two modernised the Labour Party in the early 1990s, dragging it from its industrial, collectivist roots to the sunlit uplands of middle-class aspiration.
In Britain in the 1980s it was clear, even to him, that handing the Labour Party to the hard left would not stop the working man voting for Margaret Thatcher.
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He came to office as GLC leader in 1981 as the nominee of a small clique of the same hard left which almost broke up the Labour Party in the early 1980s.
The Labour party back the changes, but the Conservatives are calling for elected local police commissioners who would be responsible for overseeing the delivery and performance of the police service in their area.
Mr Netanyahu, who was appointed caretaker foreign minister last week after the Labour Party quit the coalition government, has repeated his call for the forcible deportation of Mr Arafat from the West Bank.
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