Sentence examples for constituency activist from inspiring English sources

The curious thing about Ashton's career – although it may say as much about the Labour party of the 1980s, too – is that despite being known as a hardworking constituency activist, she never considered standing for parliament herself.

"One can't ever foresee the British Cabinet being plumbly plonked in a single hostelry," the piece reads, adding: "The average voter, or constituency activist, will not easily be able to mingle with the Prime Minister in some hotel lobby.

Only six of the 33 NEC seats are directly elected by constituency activists.

Walker has pointed views about Labour MPs who are out of step with the views of their constituency activists.

Political fare Rubber chicken circuit: the round of tedious dinners with constituency activists which all ambitious Tory MPs must complete to become popular with 'the grass roots'.

The ageing ranks of constituency activists are nearly all unalterably hostile to Europe on nationalist grounds and deeply anti-liberal in their social attitudes.

It therefore distanced itself from the LBC and even tried to set up its own book club and expelled a couple of local constituency activists because of their membership of the real thing.

Jack Straw held briefings with constituency activists, one attendee claiming that the foreign secretary had argued UN resolutions meant it would be "illegal" to pull out UK forces before the end of 2005.

His dramatic switch in 1977, which followed his deselection in Newham North-East after a series of battles with leftwing constituency activists, prefigured a decade of destructive infighting within Labour's ranks, and was all the more shocking because of his background as a trade union official.

Under Foot, as under Corbyn, the party was becoming an unmanageable cauldron of leftwing and centrist factions, of London social liberals and northern social conservatives, of working-class trade unionists and middle-class constituency activists, of party loyalists and "entryists" – infiltrators from other, more confrontational leftwing groups such as Militant.

In an impassioned intervention in support of Frank Dobson - "a bloke and a half," he called him - Mr Skinner singled out as the former GLC leader's worst betrayal the pledges he broke, not to MPs or ministers but to constituency activists in Brent East.