Sentences with phrase «english labour needs»

English Labour needs to respond to this perception — justified or not — by bringing an English dimension to our cultural, economic, political and democratic policies.

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Britain's opposition Labour Party said the attack on English hospitals showed the need to place cyber security at the heart of government policy.

Labour needs to de-bureaucratize the welfare state, in order to secure more English votes.

They make up more than half the electorate in the vast majority of the English swing seats that Labour needs to win to secure a workable majority.

In a vote to set up foundation trusts in the English NHS, Blair's majority was cut to 35 because many English Labour MPs rebelled or failed to vote; Blair needed 67 Scottish and Welsh MPs to push the trusts through.

To get a Labour majority government, given the political weight of liberalised conservatism in southern England, you need the English north, the industrial Midlands, most of Wales and most of Scotland.

There were two incidents when loyal Scottish and Welsh Labour MPs were needed to vote through Labour government policies because so many of their English colleagues rebelled.

Now the party needs to get over the intellectual defensiveness which has afflicted it for decades — and reach out to people in English constituencies who have no tribal loyalty to Labour.

You allude to the apparent paradox of class / nationalism when you say «To get a Labour majority government, given the political weight of liberalised conservatism in southern England, you need the English north, the industrial Midlands, most of Wales and most of Scotland».

There will be people who do not apply during the two - year time period, because they won't know they needed to, or don't follow the news, or don't have a computer, or are homeless, or don't speak English, or have learning difficulties, or work in seasonal agricultural labour and have limited access to TV or newspapers.

In four years» time, as the English football team lifts the World Cup in Brazil, Labour needs to be leading that national conversation.

«Eaglespeak was the official language of the Parliamentary Labour Party and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism.

But what is really needed is for the Labour government after this next election to abandon the present cronyism of appointment to the Lords and replace it by an electoral system geographically based on Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the major English regions.

«4 out of 5 of the extra (net) votes Labour will need to gain in English and Welsh marginals will have to come direct from Conservative voters»

«Labour called for English and maths to 18 at the last election precisely because we want to ensure young people have the skills they need to succeed.»