Sentences with phrase «government labour policy»

Local issues may also have helped, especially the huge housing development planned for the open land between Thurmaston and Barkby, which the Tories claimed were a Central Government Labour policy, but still went ahead after the 2010 GE; I would guess this lost the local Tory Party a lot of credibiliity.

Not exact matches

The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

«So no more hand - holding with Donald Trump - a Labour government will conduct a robust and independent foreign policy made in London.

The opposition Labour Party, which had repeatedly called on Rudd to resign, said May was responsible and should explain her own role in the government's immigration policies.

These employees also collect data on the regional impact of government policies like taxation, international trade, labour markets, transportation or agriculture.

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

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Marc Lee, economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a progressive Vancouver think tank, says that government action on the reforms suggested by labour will be hampered by ideological objections to running deficits in bad times.

The guiding mentality of Tony Blair - style «New Labour» policy is economic loyalty to Europe's financial centers as government spending is slashed, public infrastructure privatized and banks bailed out with «taxpayer» burdens that fall mainly on labor.

Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.

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in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

The chair of the communities and local government committee, whose Sheffield South East constituency borders Rotherham, said the failure to implement child protection policies means at least one officer should join Labour's council leader Roger Stone in losing their job.

And the longer the government carries on with these failing policies, the bigger the challenge will be for the next Labour government.

If the economy was producing at a level below its capacity, given the existing stock of capital and labour, a proper government policy could increase output until it approached the economy's full potential.»

I spoke to a contact who admitted that he and one other guy, also now working for the government, came up with the idea of the campaign over a drink while they were reading a story about Labour's policy in the Guardian.

He said the availability of ready markets in the face of huge population, constant electricity, cheap labour, serene environment and other enormous opportunities for businesses to thrive abound in Lagos Island CBD, pointing out that the return of corporate organizations will indeed accelerate the vivid realization of government policy.

In this article, Kai Oppermann and Paul Taggart argue that Cameron's pledge originated in three interrelated developments: the policy of previous Labour governments; rifts within the Conservative party over Europe; and the rise of UKIP.

In his letter, Duncan Smith attacked Labour for their «out - of - control» spending on welfare and their opposition to government policies like the reform of sickness benefit and work experience programmes for the young and unemployed.

«Will the next Labour government reverse the present Coalition's disastrous policies?

As we reach the second half of this coalition government's term in power, Umunna has a golden opportunity to build substantial business policies for Labour.

The coalition government is unwaveringly refusing to reverse a combination of the housing and climate change policies formulated by Ed Miliband as secretary of state for energy and climate change in Gordon Brown's last Labour government.

Labour attacked Morgan's first policy announcement as yet more «headline - chasing» by the government.

The Major government recognised this problem, and froze alcohol duties in its final years in an attempt to stem the tide of duty evasion, a policy continued by Labour.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

Conservatives in government have responded with scorn, pointing out that until recently Labour's policy was to take away freedoms over the curriculum away from academies.

These negative impacts are the legacy of a climate policy that was conceived in 2006, when the previous Labour government announced that all new homes would be «zero carbon» by 2016.

Although it is not terribly clear what the actual mechanics of the policy of a potential Labour government would be (ie they have a lot of ideas on what they want to achieve but not how to achieve it) it seems likely that they would adopt a much more interventionist approach.

Labour peer says the government must replace «gender neutral» budgeting with economic policies that put women first

His tenure as Labour leader was characterised by a leftward shift in his party's policies, and by opposition to the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government's cuts to the public sector.

The MGI said government policy and labour market practices helped determine the ultimate extent of flat or falling incomes.

But they are likely to have more power to influence a Conservative - led government than a Labour one because the Con - Lib policy preference gap is greater than the Lab - Lib one, especially on Europe.

And yet many aspects of the coalition's policies are attractive, desirable and at odds with Labour's stance in government.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

Labour has had a successful party conference, Ed Miliband made a powerful speech with a strong commanding narrative of Labour's objectives for government, but the only let - down was in the crucial area of economic policy.

IPSOS Mori data shows that Labour held a substantial advantage over the Conservatives on economic policy throughout its period of government until 2008.

The SNP and Labour may disagree on what that alternative might be, particularly since Labour has, to all intents and purposes, accepted that it will initially inherit the coalition government's policy commitments.

[100] Miliband subsequently unveiled five pledges at a rally in Birmingham which would form the focus of a future Labour government, specifically identifying policies on deficit reduction, living standards, the NHS, immigration controls and tuition fees.

And whilst we can all pick policies that would improve a Labour government, who is to say that those would be the ones identified as the price for a coalition.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

The coalition government has put forward policies designed to reduce net migration through limitations on international students and skilled labour migrants.

As a matter of policy, many early Labour MPs such as Will Thorne and Herbert Morrison spurned the Liberal Party's support of free trade, «frankly recognising that control over imports represented a more logical policy for a socialist government than free trade» (Pugh 2010: 29).

There is a good reason for this: most of the current Conservative policies have their antecedents in the policies of the last Labour government and the Labour Party is just as tied - up with private interests as are the Conservatives.