Labour party membership has fallen from 405, 000 in 1997 to 361, 000, according to the most recent figures.
And I think with an enthusiastic, inspired Labour Party membership, which I believe I can do, we can achieve that.
Spokesman Stuart Gulleford said Mr Ryall's party membership had been "terminated" because "we do not allow BNP members to be in UKIP".
Some suggest that spiralling campaign costs and the decline of party membership have forced fundraisers to take money from whatever source they can.
And she asked Mr Thomson to suspend his Labor Party membership.
There is thus a greater potential for German far-right parties to succeed at the ballot box than recent election results and party membership figures might suggest.
Ozawa still controls the largest block of DPJ votes and continues to act as pre-eminent power broker, despite having had his party membership suspended as punishment for campaign finance law violations.
Reports in Japan say Ichiro Ozawa, who leads the biggest faction despite the suspension of his party membership over a political funding scandal, is unlikely to support the former foreign minister.
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He proposes to unite the various parts of the Tory party under a single board, allow members to vote directly for the leader and candidates, and to build a mass party membership.
But John Strafford, who chairs the Campaign for Conservative Democracy group, said it was another "nail in the coffin for party membership and party democracy" and was "more interference from Conservative central office".
The danger for Republicans is that by embracing the hard right Tea Party membership, they might lose a more moderate, but still Republican-leaning demographic, those middle Americans who drink their coffee from Dunkin' Donuts.
The committee's review - which is looking at several aspects of presiding officer elections - is considering whether they would be formally required to suspend political party membership while they are in the job.
Mr Harper inherits a party whose membership has fallen by more than half since the last election.
So you're saying turn it into a genuine mass membership party if we can't get the union money.
But as an Old Labour stalwart, Mr Prescott helped to maintain links between the party leadership and membership.
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It is being rumoured that Syriza may soon transform itself into a single party and extend membership to a far left group called Antarsia (which gained 1%) and the Louka Katseli group from Pasok which failed to gain seats, and the Eco-Greens, who polled below 3%.
After several years without membership of a party, she finally presented her Sustainability Network on Saturday.
She has now said she will withdraw her membership of the party.
If plans, backed by Mr Blair, to widen the membership of the party's National Executive Committee proposed this summer go forward, the unions will cease to choose a majority of its membership too.
He plans to instil new discipline in the party by creating a national membership list for the first time, and giving the Conservative leadership the power to ditch embarrassing candidates, even if they have local backing.
We can live up to an allegiance far stronger than our membership in any political party.
Whatever the reason why membership of the Conservative Party has fallen from its peak of 2.5m to less than 250, 000 today, it's not that members have been made to feel less important.
But many conservative committee members accuse Steele of being too moderate to lead the party, pointing to his recent membership in the Republican Leadership Council, a group that sought to marginalize social conservatives.
Meanwhile Mr Maliki is also co-operating with a shadowy parliamentary committee controlled by the INA that has the power to banish politicians for alleged sympathies with Saddam Hussein and for senior membership of his Baath party.
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To the extent Mr. Cameron has a strategy, it is to delay the vote until 2017, buying him time to negotiate sufficient changes to the terms of Britain's membership to reconcile his party and the country to support staying in.
Britain's Conservative Party, hostile to the EU's draft constitution and membership of the single currency, sits in the European People's Party block, made up mainly of continental Christian Democratic parties that are much more integrationist than the Conservatives.
The grassroots, and Mr Miliband, want affiliated unions to share their membership lists with local Labour Party branches.
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Labour Party general secretary Margaret McDonagh has written to the MP saying she was using delegated powers under the party's constitution to suspend his membership pending a full inquiry.
Ms MacDonald, who has Parkinson's disease, told BBC Scotland the membership of the cross-party health committee had been chosen prior to her bill being introduced and included two doctors, who had each come down on either side of the argument.
The European Socialists temporarily suspended the membership of the Smer-SD party led by the Slovak prime minister, Robert Fico, but nobody seemed to care.
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