Sentences with phrase «labour government as»

The «market reform» of the legal aid scheme will emasculate a system established by Clement Attlee's Labour government as a key pillar of the welfare state.

This report is an opportunity to show the Tories as incompetent, the previous Labour government as effective, and a future Labour government as bubbling over with ideas.

A majority Conservative government is now equal with a majority Labour government as the ideal outcome of the 2015 general election and Labour's lead has been consistently reduced to single digits.

A number of other senior Labour figures also took up senior positions: the trade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admiralty.

But they were replaced by the last Labour government as part of the children's services agenda under the Children Act 2004.

Robin Cook was always fond of hailing Tony Blair's Labour government as the most redistributive since Lloyd George, and now here's the data to prove it.

The rat population doubled under the last Labour Government as a result of pressure to reduce bin collections - from people like Hilary Benn.

He said: «If (Alex Salmond) continues to peddle this deception then I will want to join Johann Lamont in fighting him and securing the return of a Labour Government as quickly as possible.»

They have long formed part of the benefit system in various guises, with tens of thousands of sanctions handed out under the last Labour government as unemployment rose amid the financial crisis.

Not exact matches

They are made to silence the objections of organized labour and make the government of the day appear as if it's acting in the national interest.

They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

«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.

As a condition of receiving taxpayer - funded bailouts, governments ordered GM, Chrysler and their unions to bring labour costs in line with Toyota, Honda and Nissan.

The opposition Labour Party, which requested the figures under freedom of information, said they showed the government's «utter failure» in ensuring wealthy people and large corporations pay as much tax as they should.

It comes with the Government under pressure after losing its House of Commons majority in the general election as Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity Labour outperformed expectations.

Total tax revenue, % of GDP Taxes on income and profits, % of GDP Taxes on goods and services, % of GDP Taxes on average worker, % of Labour Cost Government gross financial liabilities as a % of GDP

Yanis Varoufakis: Isn't it astonishing that after Jeremy Corbyn was being described as «the longest suicide note by the Labour Party» about a year ago, today there is an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led government.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

As widely speculated in the media, the government is proposing changes to the Labour Market Development Agreements (LMDA).

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.

Just in from Paris, some fascinating quotables from the OECD: Governments must do more to help workers adapt to new global economy, says OECD Rather than seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing jGovernments must do more to help workers adapt to new global economy, says OECD Rather than seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing jgovernments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing job markets.

Hugh MacDonald Slogan: None Elected experience: MLA for Edmonton - Gold Bar from 1997 to present Background: Since stepping into his role as the opposition labour critic during his first - term and making headlines over the government's shaky handling of rotting pine shakes roofing and lack of whistle - blower protection, Hugh MacDonald earned a reputation as a dogged critic of the Tories.

Nor does it in any way restrict federal, provincial or territorial governments from implementing new laws and regulations in areas such as health and safety, labour protection, education and the environment.

In the face of a tightening labour market, we commend the Government for taking efforts to promote the skilled trades and developing under - leveraged parts of the workforce, which the 2016 Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard identified as key steps in growing our economy.

As a young company, Gildan benefited from being in Canada, receiving government subsidies, and, when it hit a rough patch during the»90s, even borrowing from Quebec's labour - sponsored fund, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, which invested $ 3.5 million in Gildan shares starting in 1996 and lent the company up to $ 30 million in debentures.

While the Trudeau government is right to address issues, such as labour and environmental standards, that can distort trade, Canada has to be careful not to overplay its hand on «progressive» trade.

He joined the board after serving six years as an elected MLA and cabinet minister for the government of British Columbia, where his various responsibilities included three cabinet posts encompassing economic development, labour and small business.

A Labour MP has urged the Government to formally recognise the deaths of millions of people in Ukraine in the 1930s because of «forced famine» as an act of genocide.

Another cause has been the insidious notion (greatly encouraged by successive governments but particularly under New Labour - Old Labour tended to be much more traditional in its views on the family) that the family has many forms, that marriage is just one option, and that lone parenting is just as «valid» (dread word) a form as any other.

The government inherited Labour's 2010 Equalities Act which during his premiership has led to high - profile cases which are widely seen as undermining faith.

In the 1960s, the Harold Wilson Labour government forced secondary schools to become comprehensive and the Catholic system changed in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II».

He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... In every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it» (The Wealth of Nations Vol.

Then the newly elected Labour Government identified reducing teenage pregnancy as a key target for the Departments of Health and Education.

Farm labour and farm succession have been identified as key issues in the federal government's agriculture white paper.

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

Today, the Labour Party's Shadow Health Secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, will announce a new commitment that a future Labour government would place hospital food standards on the same legal basis as school food standards.

Labour shadow minister Gloria de Piero said: «No one should use deeply offensive language like this,» while Helen Grant, the government's sports and equalities minister, described the remarks as «completely unacceptable and very disappointing.»

The two main political parties — the ruling Labour government and the challenging Conservative Party — are using the Mumsnet.com website as a battleground in the lead - up to the election this spring.

The previous Labour Government launched the Infant Feeding Initiative in 1999, as part of the government's commitment to improving health inequalities and between 1999 and 2002 nearly # 3m was spent on funding 79 differentGovernment launched the Infant Feeding Initiative in 1999, as part of the government's commitment to improving health inequalities and between 1999 and 2002 nearly # 3m was spent on funding 79 differentgovernment's commitment to improving health inequalities and between 1999 and 2002 nearly # 3m was spent on funding 79 different projects.

She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.

The average tenure of a government minister in the last Labour Government has been calculated as being just government minister in the last Labour Government has been calculated as being just Government has been calculated as being just 1.3 years.

«It may not go down well in international diplomacy... but in the Labour party it will be welcomed as a rare flash of honesty from a senior member of the government,» Peter Kilfoyle said.

A stakeholders summit conveyed by the government two weeks ago almost turned bloody as labour and parents disrupted the event turning the venue upside down.

The hypothetical (and it is a very, very extreme one, not a prediction) would involve Harriet Harman or someone else leading Labour, while A.N.Other politician, with whom the Liberal Democrats felt they could do business, acting as the head of a coalition government.

In David Hare's world, there is no space for compromise: Labour governments must be unsullied by such base considerations as money and power.

«As for the role of the Labour government and the people around Gordon Brown, well I think there are questions to be asked of them,» he said.

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin is pressuring Labour to reaffirm its support for HS2 later, as the government shifts its case for HS2 away from quicker journey times.

David Cameron struggled to defend the government's NHS reforms today as Ed Miliband enjoyed one of his most successful PMQs sessions as Labour leader.

They outlined their choice as that of a Tory government that had loosened the austerity noose but failed to use its proceeds to offer them much relief — as opposed to a radical Labour alternative that was ready to turn back on the spending tap.