In December 2015 a meeting of the members of the Labour Party in Northern Ireland decided unanimously to contest the elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly held in May 2016.[204] 【参考译文】多年来,工党一直坚持一项政策,即不允许北爱尔兰居民申请成为会员,[201]而是支持社会民主工党(SDLP),该...
The concluding section highlights a number of issues arising from this contest that have implications wider than Irish politics.KEYWORDS: Party leader elections,Ireland,Labour Party,IntroductionEamon Gilmore resigned as leader of the Irish Labour Party on 26 May 2014 following poor local and European ...
The May 2016 elections for local governments in England and the national assemblies forNorthern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales were a mixed blessing for a Labour Party that had been stung in the lead-up to the voting by accusations that some of its members had madeanti-Semiticremarks (at least...
International leaders have begun extending congratulations to incoming British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Close to home, his Irish counterpart, Taoiseach Simon Harris praised Starmer's "comprehensive victory" and stressedin a social media postthat "the relationship between Ireland and the UK is ...
The British Labour Party remains wholeheartedly committed to ensuring that there "is no hard Border between the Republic of Ireland and the North of Ireland", Jeremy Corbyn told EU negotiators in Brussels on Thursday. “We made that clear. We both represent constituencies with substantial Iris...
Tory PM took aim at his likely successor in Downing Street but may really have been trying to throttle the flow of votes from his party to Farage’s Reform UK By Mark PaulThu Jun 27 2024 - 06:27 The election countdown may be on, but it feels as if Northern Ireland is still getting...
and by consent. We consequentlysupport the Anglo-Irish Agreementand its commitment that there should be no change in the constitutional position of Northern Ireland without the con sent of the majority of the people who live there. No group or party will be allowed to exercise a veto on polit...
the Conservative leadership election, Badenoch resisted the temptation to turn the UK’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights into a lever for winning party members’ votes – apparently recognising the significant difficulties that departure would bring, not least in Northern Ireland....
The first vote at the party conference The first debate was on the adoption of constitutional laws to adhere to EHRC rulings following the damning report which had concluded the Labour Party acted unlawfully. There was not really much choice in this but the vote still had to pass. It was ...
Substantive talks betweenFine Gaeland Fianna Fáil on forming a coalition are not due to begin until next week at the earliest, but informal discussions may take place today between the party leaders with Mr Martin andSimon Harristravelling to a British-Irish Council meeting in...