Sentences with phrase «labour government in»

A 50 % religious discrimination cap was introduced for new faith academy schools by the last Labour Government in 2007.

The previous Labour government in 2007 commissioned colleagues and I to conduct a study around these issues.

Wilshaw's comments follow speculation that Prime Minister Theresa May is planning to repeal the ban on opening new grammar schools, which was introduced by Tony Blair's Labour government in 1998.

The ban was introduced by Tony Blair's Labour government in 1998, but the Sunday Telegraph reported that Prime Minister Theresa May planned to launch a new generation of grammar school by scrapping the ban.

Blunkett was one of the ministers responsible for drawing up initial plans for academies under the Labour government in the 2000s but, writing for The Observer, he said that it is «mystifying» that the government wants to convert already high performing local authority run schools.

Farron's comments come amid speculation that Theresa May's government may look to repeal the law blocking the opening of new grammar schools introduced under the Labour government in 1998.

The former deputy prime minister said he wasn't keen on the Labour leader's «Hell, yes, I'm tough» boast and said the party had paid the price for failing to defend the economic record of the last Labour government in the last parliament.

His predecessor, Stephen Crabb, shared some of his Wales Office memories, telling Mr Cairns: «As you know, the Welsh Labour Government in Cardiff loves nothing more than a long and fuzzy row with Westminster over powers.

However much they might want to blame these two disasters on George W Bush and the bankers, they can hardly deny what is, at the very least, the supporting role played by the Labour Government in both cases.

Their actions have helped escalate this crisis while the Labour Government in Cardiff bay has failed to stand up for steelworkers in their own backyard.

There was just one unfunded recommendation, based on a free school meals pilot commissioned by the Labour government in 2009.

The new peer will not be eligible to sit in the Lords because of reforms made by the Labour government in 1999.

Scotland may have been the story, but why disregard 800 council seats in England and a Labour government in Wales — and why did you not mention the Leicester byelection?

It was passed by the present Labour government in 1998.

The government is already relaxing a little the deep cuts inherited from the Labour government in capital spending.

«Rather than patronising members and peddling baseless conspiracy theories about «Trotsky entryists», he should be working with Jeremy to unite our party so that we can get back to campaigning to dislodge this Tory government, and help elect a Labour government in its place.»

Too often this hasn't been a practice carried through by local councils or the Labour Government in Cardiff Bay.»

We have a unique challenge as a Labour government in a third term to renew ourselves.»

Yet by 1974 it had a fifth of the vote and went on to support a Labour government in office through the Lib - Lab pact in 1977 - 78.

During the period between the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and the end of the last Labour government in 2010, the West Lothian Question had few practical ramifications.

The original purpose of Sure Start, launched by the previous Labour government in 1998, was to improve the life chances of children living in poverty by providing services that ameliorate the impact of poverty and encouraging parents into employment.

Douglas - Home, then aged 71, stepped down at the second election of that year, called in October by the minority Labour government in the hope of winning a working majority.

There were late attempts, primarily through the Labour No campaign, to talk up Labour values — of solidarity with our neighbours in the rest of the UK and how a UK Labour government in 2015 would start delivering social justice again, not only for Scotland for the whole of the UK.

He voted against the Labour Government in 1976.

The shadow minister also accused the Government of «pivot and distraction» by blaming the decision to scrap landing cards on Labour - despite former Home Secretary Alan Johnson admitting on Thursday that the policy had been signed off under a Labour government in 2009.

«If the Labour Government in Wales was implementing its Cancer Delivery Plan effectively, we should be seeing a steady rise in patients being treated in a timely manner across all parts of Wales.

After years of Tory cuts, an estimated # 1.5 bn extra will come to Wales every year through UK Labour spending plans, and on the election of a Labour Government in Westminster we are committed to an immediate comprehensive Spending Review in Wales.

It has been an honour to serve as Shadow Welsh Secretary for the past nine months, in particular to play my part in re-electing a Labour government in Wales led by Carwyn Jones.

Yet Miliband fails to acknowledge that Labour does not only exercise power in his own words in «Newcastle, Lambeth, Liverpool — and South Tyneside», there is also a Labour government in Wales.

If they go ahead with the plan to keep a weak, unstable Labour government in office, they will — whatever the electoral system — pay the price at the ballot box next time voters go to the polls.

A new British bill of rights is expected to be included in next week's Queen's speech to replace the act passed by the Labour government in 1998 as a way of incorporating the European convention on human rights into UK law.

Fox hunting with hounds was outlawed by Tony Blair's Labour government in 2004 and polls suggest that more than 80 per cent of people are now opposed to the practice.

The government's proposed reforms followed an independent review of HE funding and student finance chaired by Lord Browne of Madingley which was instigated by the previous Labour government in 2009.

Recently, Mr Hain took a pot shot at the US government, saying it was the most right - wing administration in Washington «in living memory» and noting this had made relations with a Labour government in London difficult over the years.

«These have got worse in the past year because of the Con - Dem cuts coming from London and the do - nothing attitude of the Labour government in Wales.

«We are about to begin the most important pension reforms since the 1940s, reforms developed by a Labour government in partnership with a fully supportive pensions industry.

A stakeholder model and partnership with the unions must lie at the heart of the approach of the next Labour government in reversing decades of privatisation.

«Every Labour government in history has raised debt and unemployment.

John Mills, the millionaire party donor who is funding Labour for a referendum campaign, said: «I want to see a Labour government in 2015 and, as the party that trusts the people, I think we should recognise that the growth of the EU's influence over Britain in the past 40 years warrants a referendum regardless of future events.»

A Balls / Milliband Labour government in 2015 would trash this hard - won momentum.

Interviewed on Today this morning the Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, said that the terms of the initial contract had been set by the last Labour government in 2008 and there was no option but to award Siemens the contract given that it made the «highest value for money bid».

More than 60 per cent of Scottish voters believe a Labour government in Westminster would be the best outcome for Scotland, according to Ipsos MORI's research.

Ever since the introduction of top - up fees by the last Labour government in 2006, no single issue has caused so much consternation amongst the students of the UK.

Between 1997 and 2010 he voted against the Labour government in 428 votes.

A Labour government in power now would banish long - term unemployment among the young, Ed Miliband has promised.

Now, with Labour's policy review making steady progress under the direction of Jon Cruddas, Miliband has pledged to provide more details of the alternatives on offer from a Labour government in 2013.

The report Youth Work: Professionals Valued will be launched at a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference entitled: Moving forward: Rebuilding Youth Services under a Labour Government in hall 4, Hilton Brighton Metropole on Sunday (24 September) at 16.00.

57 % of the public expected the coalition to be tougher than the last Labour government in dealing with crime; only 13 % thought it was being tougher; 23 % said it was less tough and 64 % said it was about the same.

The election of a Labour Government in 1997 included a commitment to hold a referendum on the establishment of a Welsh Assembly.

Will the resources allocated to this task be greater or less than those allocated by the previous Labour Government in the training of Colonel Gaddafi's forces, which enabled him better to repress his own people?