In what was seen as a swipe at the Prime Minister's controversial right-hand man, Dominic Cummings, he said intimated that his party was being hijacked, saying: "I am going to defend my party against incomers, entryists, who are trying to turn it from a
broad church to narrow faction."
Only by working together as a
broad church can we change the lives for our constituents.
Those are not pillars supporting the same roof of a
broad church. They are rival conceptions of what a government is for.
In order to win, rather than achieve glorious failure, Labour need to be a
broad church who welcome both new converts and old believers.
"The Labour Party can only win when it is a
broad church, covering from the left to the centre in British politics under our electoral system."
He added: "They only want a
broad church if they are in charge.
Regional Science is a very
broad church. It uses the critical focus of geographic regions and communities of interest as, in effect, the building blocks of physical, economic and social/community advancement.
Festival co-director Mark Makin says: "The festival has always been a pretty
broad church in terms of what we think constitutes comedy and it's really that breadth that has allowed us to grow the festival line-up over the last couple of years.
Mr Walker quotes the great Tony Benn who fully understood the Labour Party is a
broad church though always decried the personal abuse of individuals rather than concentrating on the important issues that confront people in their daily lives.
"We're a very
broad church. We sort of take advice from wherever we will," Rudd told reporters.
The Labour Party is a
broad church. Battles between "left" and "right" were taking place long before Tony Blair and colleagues invented New Labour.