Sentences with phrase «labour by a long way»

The most effective personal touch came in the section on the NHS - a policy area where the Tories trail Labour by a long way.

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Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.

Dennis Skinner is the ongest serving member of Labour's executive by a long way, having represented his fellow backbench MPs on the executive since 1999, and having previously served for twenty years as a constituency party representative.

This money would go a long way to improve the shocking situation of youth mental health services in Wales, which have been sadly neglected by this Welsh Labour Government.»

What Labour or more accurately Tony Blair and Alan Milburn, then health secretary wanted is what Mr Lansley now aspires to create: a self - improving system run as a regulated market of competing providers driven by patient choice and commissioning in a way that no longer needs direct management from politicians and the health department.

The most reassuring for Left Futures readers will be the fact that Peter Mandelson is thought to be a liability by 61 % of both party members and trade unionists, by a very long way the most unpopular of Labour politicians.

Mr Miliband, who was elbowed out of the way for the top Labour job by «Red Ed», also warned of the danger of the party «lapsing into long - term opposition».

We still have a long way to go to undo the damage done by Labour's recession.»