Sentences with phrase «labour government»

Under the Labour government, schools had to spend more time on paperwork and wasteful bureaucracy than ever before, the national curriculum became too rigid and discipline deteriorated.

At its inaugural meeting, he announced a package of measures that an incoming Labour government would adopt.

Gordon Brown refuted suggestions today he had delayed taking action over Northern Rock because the Labour government was preparing for a November general election.

The EMA, the future jobs fund, higher education and other support services could be improved from where the Labour government left them.

In our campaign I want to confront all five of those ills head on, setting out not only how Labour will campaign against these injustices in opposition but also spelling out some of the measures the next Labour government will take to overcome them.»

Mr Blair tried a different tack, insisting that the Labour government was committed to matching reform of education and other public services with investment - something he accused the Conservatives of being unwilling to do.

Under this assessment, Miliband becomes prime minister of a minority Labour government working some sort of arrangement with the SNP and others.

The Labour government should have been proud of the welfare system it's not because in fact it's New labour.

His guarantee that a future Labour government would repeal the anti-trade union legislation, clamp down on tax evasion and stop British dependencies being used as tax havens would improve the living standards of millions.

Workers, apparently abandoned by the Labour government, may be tempted into the Tories» welcoming arms.

In 2011, Theresa May revamped the aforementioned PREVENT de-radicalization programme inherited from the Labour government.

And when asked who is most to blame for «spiralling energy bills», the public shows little interest in blaming either the current government (15 %) or the last Labour government (15 %).

The Labour government was detested, even by many of its own supporters.

«There is widespread and growing dismay at the government's dismantling of the welfare state built by the post-war Labour government.

His commitment that a future Labour Government would build council houses and regulate private sector rents struck a chord with millions affected by the housing crisis.

Labour's economic recordThe actions taken by the Labour government has ensured that during the biggest economic crisis in over 60 years, the number of York people claiming unemployment benefi t in December 2009 was still 45 per cent less than under the last Conservative recession.

This happened under A LABOUR GOVERNMENT!

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.

His plans to ensure a future Labour government would make the economy work for everyone, not just the top one per cent, was a refreshing change to the austerity - lite that Labour had previously offered.

The continuing chaos in Iraq is an obvious one to choose and one on which Miliband has sought to distance himself from the previous Labour government on before.

After campaigning against the last Labour government's plans for identity cards, could the SNP be about to bring them in by the back door?

Byrne also promised that a Labour government would «bring social security spending under control.»

Originally the Labour government had ruled out a referendum on the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (2004), which among other things introduced new shared competencies with member states.

RDAs, creations of the Labour government, have put # 3 million into struggling steel companies, the union's general secretary Michael Leahy says.

But this might risk angry Lib Dems propping up a Labour government.

For me, thirteen years of Labour Government made Britain a better place.

The sledgehammer of the 2008 financial crisis had smashed Britain's prosperity, but at least the ailing New Labour government had some good news for voters.

The Labour government is the first under which the number of faith schools has increased.

The appearance of Blair and Brown so close together (Blair on Friday, Brown sometime in the next two months) will reinforce the continuity of the Labour government in voters» minds - something Labour strategists could do without in a country where the very concept of «change» is becoming increasingly attractive.

The poster fuelled voters» fear of a Labour - SNP alliance and amplified comments by Cameron that «you could end up with a Labour government led by Ed Miliband, propped up by Alex Salmond and the Scottish National party».

«A broom cleaning up the mess left by the Labour government!»

With a General Election looming, the Labour government was unable to reverse that defeat in the Commons.

It sounds close to Labour's idea, but isn't really at all: in a scenario where a Labour government with a small majority relies on Scottish MPs to get its business through the Commons, the Tory proposal would be crippling for a Labour prime minister.

That report had a major influence on the New Labour Government that followed in 1997 and I know that The Condition of Britain will make the same contribution: helping us to define a new approach to the challenges that confront the Country.

My first objection to the EU is that I believe it will seriously encumber a future Labour government from achieving a socialist programme.

THE DISASTROUS STATE OF THE ECONOMY FOLLOWS 13 YEARS OF BROWN»S MISMANAGEMENT IN A LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

Finally YouGov asked the remainder if they'd prefer a Conservative government to a Labour - SNP deal and took away those 6 % respondents who thought a Labour government reliant on SNP support was a bad thing but would still prefer it to a Tory government.

Many Joiners hit by austerity hope a new Labour government would restore some or all of what they have lost out on.

But at this point in the campaign, that only fuels arguments from the Conservatives about the risks involved in a minority Labour government supported by the SNP.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

The legacy of Thatcherism has left the Tories with a glass ceiling of support — which partly explains why the party failed to win the last election despite a woefully unpopular Labour government and the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.

[325] The SNP has also criticised Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, for saying [326] a future UK Labour government would be even tougher on benefits than the Cameron ministry.

Ed's leadership struggled with the tension between building a new offer of change while also trying not to define ourselves entirely against the preceding three terms of Labour government, in which he played a considerable part.

In the light of what is happening, the slant of the newspapers, and just by gauging the feel of current public opinion «on the streets» I can not see how Ed Miliband can now shrug off the dire warnings (and fears) of a minority Labour government in hock to the ScotNats, and become Prime Minister.

The Economist tactically advised Blair against provoking an «unwise» rebellion, because it understood that the sight of «a Labour government scuttling around the television studios justifying cuts in social security for lone parent families sickens members across a wide range of views» and provided «an issue which aligned [the left MPs] with the wider centre and right of the Labour Party against the Blairite modernisers» (13 December).

both the Conservative government of Ted Heath and the Labour government of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

With the figures on economic growth and employment on the rise, they will spend the next five weeks hammering out the simplistic but powerful message that the economy is safe in their hands and that a Labour government would bring chaos.

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis PC (born Andreas Adonis, 22 February 1963)[2] is a British Labour Party politician, academic and journalist who served in the Labour Government for five years.

He made it clear that nobody will be left behind by a Labour government.

Then there are 8 % of people who think that a Labour government with SNP support is likely, and would be a good thing, the Conservative argument will fall flat with them.