Sentences with phrase «labour government gave»

To imply otherwise is misleading and undermines the confidence of teachers in using the tough powers the last Labour government gave them.

The previous Labour government gave an undertaken not to review the # 3,000 cap until 2009 at the earliest, and to permit increases above this level, other than raising it in line with inflation, only with the approval of both Houses of Parliament.

In 1997, the new Labour Government gave the Bank of England the power to set interest rates.

In 1998 the Labour Government gave national devolution to Scotland and Wales.

The switch would also see a Labour government give the green light to schools wanting to extend school term lengths - a recent proposal of Gove's - and allow them to change the way they buy their services.

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.

The problem, which the federal government denies, lies in the significance given to a certificate called the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA).

While Labour Day evolved into a celebration of work, employers and life, May Day was a protest against the status quo, government, corporations and other institutions that refused to give working people their deserved share of the economic pie.

The letter comes just a day before Labour MP Frank Field tables his School Holidays (Meals and Activities) Bill, which calls on the Government to give all councils the duty and resources to provide food and activities during the school holidays, for children who would otherwise go hungry.

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.

Even if the Government were to implement Labour's growth plan now, given the failure of the last three years it would not avoid the need for cuts in departmental spending in the next Parliament.

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.»

Labour is struggling to claw back the perception of «economic competence» it needs to persuade voters to give it another chance, even as public opinion has turned against further government austerity.

«Now the Bribery Act is in force it's essential for the government to give the Serious Fraud Office the political and financial backing it needs to investigate and prosecute,» Labour MP Hugh Bayley told politics.co.uk.

Labour's deputy leader was given a standing ovation as he delivered an impassioned defence of the New Labour government.

«The next Labour government will ensure the minimum wage is properly enforced, including by giving local authorities new powers, and would set a more ambitious target with an # 8 minimum wage where its value has been eroded and undermined in recent years,» Murray says.

The Labour leader said: «I welcome the prime minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.»

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

English MPs would be given the opportunity of voting down anything they don't like being imposed by a Labour government propped up, say, by MPs in Scotland.

At that point, a Labour coalition or minority government starts looking much more likely given the absence of potential Tory partners.

Labour might also prefer a pact to a coalition, fearing that having to square Clegg, Cable and Huhne (and perhaps others) to get their acquiescence in every Cabinet decision, as well as having to give them major departments of state, might make firm and decisive government, in the middle of a major economic and fiscal crisis, virtually impossible.

I can give you plenty of examples where the last Labour government did not spend money well and, as someone who believes that spending on health and education can change lives, it is incumbent on me to make sure that every pound is well spent.

If you want to make common cuase with Labour's social liberasl, as I hope you will, then I think you need to be more willing to give your own party — and the Coalition government — some stick.

1) A Ministry of Labour should be established: to give working people a voice in government to counteract the voice of powerful corporate interests.

[4] He served on the front bench but was not invited by Winston Churchill to join the Coalition government in 1940; as one of the most senior Labour figures not in office, the responsibilities of running the party were given to him.

I wasn't at those hospitalities but suspect assurances about Labour government regulation of financial markets were given.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

He was reputed to favour a Lib - Lab deal and, given his SDP background, was a member of Labour's negotiation team that attempted to form a government with the Liberal Democrats.

It is thought that as many as 100 Labour MPs could now back the Government's plans to bomb Isil targets in Syria - enough to give David Cameron a comfortable majority.

Let Labour give the people of the country a government that really is of the people and for the people.»

We also know that you and other forecasters give Labour a near zero chance of forming a majority government — in reality, without the backing of the SNP.

During his summing - up speech in Thursday's debate, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was asked by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne to condemn the behaviour of No 10 officials who were reported as having said that Miliband was «giving succour» to the Assad regime by refusing to back the government over its plan for military action.

Tory chairman Grant Shapps said Labour's proposal to give a tax rebate to companies paying the living wage would lead to greater costs for government and taxpayers.

Later this morning Corbyn gave a speech in Dagenham where he unveiled wide - ranging policy that will form the basis of a Labour manifesto for government under his leadership, including # 500bn of public spending.

Given this current deflation of government support Labour are doing very poorly currently.

Under this scenario the Lib Dems would effectively drop down to a «confidence and supply» arrangement, leaving government after the 2014 Budget and giving them enough time to position themselves midway between the Tories and Labour.

Keynes offered the Attlee Government a macro-economic framework for post-war recovery; Hayek's «market society» offered Mrs Thatcher's Tories a roadmap away from post-war social democratic serfdom; Giddens's «Third Way» socio - philosophy allowed «New» Labour to synthesise or transcend the old dogmas of state - centric social democracy and neo-liberalism»; and Phillip Blond gave a critique of the market and the state in order for Cameron to claim «society» and its renewal as the key priority of modern Conservatism.

Moreover, the «real» living wage espoused by Labour can also rise if the government cuts the help it gives working families, for example through tax credits.

To get a Labour majority government, given the political weight of liberalised conservatism in southern England, you need the English north, the industrial Midlands, most of Wales and most of Scotland.

Michael Gove is facing demands from Labour to explain whether the government has abandoned a Conservative general election manifesto pledge to give MPs a free vote on whether to overturn the foxhunting ban.

Having ended 18 years of Tory rule, Labour supporters will give the government a period of grace.

I am sure there are some Labour politicians who are sound on civil liberties, as there are also in the other parties, but given the record of Labour in government and the record of Tories in opposition (oh, how they cared back then) the evidence is emphatic: the state can not be trusted, and the politicians are either incapable or unwilling to control or restrain the state machinery.

If this is not possible, then a Labour - led coalition with the Liberals would be preferable to a Tory government or a Tory - Lib coalition — for the same reason that this gives the working class a slightly better relationship of forces within which to resist the assault on its living standards which will be unleashed by any government arising from the current election.

But the bill's opponents, including Labour backbencher John McDonnell, said he was concerned the high court would always give in to the government.

You allude to the apparent paradox of class / nationalism when you say «To get a Labour majority government, given the political weight of liberalised conservatism in southern England, you need the English north, the industrial Midlands, most of Wales and most of Scotland».

It congratulated him on giving a new direction to the Labour party and making it clear that his government would be radically different from those of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

In the past week, we have given a voice to the growing opposition to the government's bombing plans — across the country, in parliament and the Labour party.

Given Next Left's own analysis of - for instance - tackling Poverty and inequality (and bearing in mind the LibDems current offer is regressive), what advantages would their have been to a lib / lab Government over the last decade, as compared to a solely Labour one?

Voters were given no reason to believe that an Ed Miliband Labour government would have done any better.