Sentences with phrase «labour election campaign»

Labour election campaign vice-chair Lucy Powell said: «The Tories have run out of ideas for the country so are resorting to playing political games with the unions.

Alexander, writing for the Guardian's Comment is free, also discloses that the Labour election campaign is expected to be built round a spine of five pledges.

This comes as the council chief executive Jane Todd investigates whether Council Taxpayers money have been used to support the Labour election campaigns.

Jeremy Corbyn has dumped a close ally from the key post of Labour election campaigns co-ordinator...

Jeremy Corbyn has dumped a close ally from the key post of Labour election campaigns co-ordinator — and handed the job to two MPs.

Not exact matches

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Britain's Labour Party adopted the song «Things can only get better» as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions for governing after 18 years in Continue Reading

Current campaign finance laws allow individuals, corporations and labour unions to donate a maximum of $ 15,000 per year to a provincial political party in a non-election period and a maximum of $ 30,000 during an election period.

Since his election in 2014, Hassan has led Canada's unions in a major campaign to improve workplace rights for everyone and dramatically transform the way Canadians view the labour movement.

Passage of implementing legislation for the Constitution Reform to Mexico's labour justice system has been delayed beyond the February 24 deadline as political parties jockey for advantage in the midst of an election campaign and NAFTA negotiations.

Promoting such policies for the Labour machine was Momentum, a grassroots campaigning network which arose from the 2015 general election.

Labour has much to recover before the general election, yet whether it can fight a united campaign in 2015 is far from assured, and in socialist - minded Scotland the nationalists are seen as having surpassed Labour in their socialist rhetoric.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told his MPs to keep campaigning and carry on the momentum the party built up in the general election campaign.

Peter Mandelson1997 - 1998After his controversial role as campaign director in the Labour Party's landslide election victory in 1997, Mandelson was appointed Minister without Portfolio to ensure the party operated effectively.

Midway through the general election campaign, both Labour and the Conservatives are changing their tactics — and it's a triumph for voters.

One Labour candidate who didn't even make it through the general election campaign was Cambridgeshire South East's John Cowan, a 35 - year - old whose «offensive remarks» cost him the chance of becoming an MP.

As things stand Labour, which campaigned at the election on holding a referendum on AV, is not going to support the bill because of what it sees as gerrymandering.

They are high - profile measures aimed at stopping Labour's «jobs tax», as the Conservatives put it during the general election campaign.

The summer blitz is believed to be Labour's biggest outwith general election campaigning.

Scottish Tories currently campaigning for local government elections on May 4th tell stories about encountering long - standing Labour voters in local authority areas not exactly known for being friendly to Conservatives and who now declare their intention to vote for «Ruth» and the Tories.

I am a Labour supporter, and have been for many years, but my problem with any established political party is they don't keep the promises they make during election campaigns.

She was a member of the leadership team with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown re-shaping the Labour Party and preparing the successful 1997 election campaign.

I wanted to talk about that Conservative campaign before the election, which slammed Labour's «death tax» and published that poster with the image of a grave inscribed with RIP OFF.

There appears to be no election campaign whatsoever in Greater London and as a result the Tories could lose up to six seats to the Labour Party in our capital city.

Gordon Brown has kick - started the campaign for next year's Scottish parliament elections with a speech in Edinburgh - but made no mention of the Labour leadership crisis.

Huge resources have been poured into the Tory election campaign, with the party expected to outspend Labour by up to three to one over the coming months.

It was utterly predictable that Trident renewal would be used by the Conservatives to question Labour's credibility and trustworthiness, and by the smaller anti-nuclear parties to distinguish themselves, but the profile of the issue in this election campaign has been far greater than anybody predicted.

And the Labour Party, which had opposed the referendum during the election campaign, has now come out in support of the vote.

Of course, not speaking directly to the politics of General Elections, Goodhart could not have predicted how bad a campaign the Tories would run, or how good a campaign would be run by Labour.

The Labour leader made all the right headlines yesterday by calling for a cap on rents, to kick off his party's local and European election campaign.

The move will make it harder for Labour to take key seats from the Conservatives in the 2015 general election campaign.

But the direct result of that decision is millions of pounds less money coming into Labour's future election campaigns.

Instead Labour's general election campaign coordinator is out of a seat.

I asked him why it was almost the end of the second week of the election campaign before a top Labour figure had showed their face.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

The labour market policies that the center - right parties pro-posed in the 2006 election campaign and implemented in 2006 — 2010 were designed to cut benefits for the long - term unemployed while cutting taxes on incomes from paid employment.

This means that, when it comes to the slowly approaching general election campaign, they have to be equally critical to both their Tory partners in government and the Labour opposition.

But, rattled by another set of hostile newspaper headlines, Labour's general election campaign coordinator had no choice but to predict a triumph.

It showed four moderate Labour MPs wrangling with an election that saw them start the campaign fearing for their jobs and end it with gigantic majorities courtesy of a leader they all regarded as a nincompoop.

Labour MP Phil Woolas ran a «dirty tricks» campaign in a bid to «make the white folk angry», an unusual election court heard yesterday.

Labour seemed utterly reliant on the NHS in its campaigning for the 2015 election, they can not risk such a narrow approach in 2020 as well.

Underwhelming local results cast doubt on the Labour leader's prospects, but he performs more strongly in general election campaigns.

Even political journalists, who are paid to pay attention to such things, struggle to summarise what Labour's election campaign has been about - if it was about anything.

When it comes the election next year, I will, as a Labour Party member in Tower Hamlets, campaign for Labour Party candidates.

We reached out to Yes voters within Scottish Labour in last year's leadership campaigns, should we not reach out beyond the party in this years UK leadership election?

Lord Mandelson, Labour's election strategist, immediately warned in a campaign memo that «voters who flirt with Nick Clegg are likely to end up married to David Cameron».

With campaigning kicking off for the London Mayoral Election it would be easy to forget that Labour's manifesto is yet to be written.

The Labour leadership contenders are spending more on their campaigns than the Green Party spent nationally in the general election.

Lord Ashcroft and Labour's campaign chiefs agree that election debates cost Conservatives a majority