Sentences with phrase «labour government put»

The union leader said the previous Labour government put «too much faith» in the City and demanded the shadow Cabinet «come out of the shadows and be heard».

That's why the last Labour government put funding in place so that anyone who needs basic skills training could get it.

Not exact matches

The Alberta government said the changes were due to the province's 6.3 % unemployment rate and decreased demand for labour, and said it wants to put Canadians first.

11:28 - Ian Davidson, the Labour MP for Glasgow South West, kicks off by backing the bill because «the government can not be trusted and therefore it is necessary to put this down in legislation to allow them no wriggle - room whatsoever».

The last hour has seen the political and constitutional reform committee issue a report complaining that the government's ignoring its recommendations about going to war; Labour have put out a line on the strikes, saying they're «usually a sign of failure»; and the Institute for Government is telling us that Whitehall is leading the way in headcount reductions, with an overall reduction of 8.4 % since the comprehensive spending review in October government's ignoring its recommendations about going to war; Labour have put out a line on the strikes, saying they're «usually a sign of failure»; and the Institute for Government is telling us that Whitehall is leading the way in headcount reductions, with an overall reduction of 8.4 % since the comprehensive spending review in October Government is telling us that Whitehall is leading the way in headcount reductions, with an overall reduction of 8.4 % since the comprehensive spending review in October last year.

Labour man Frank Cook said he received a text from a constituent, the only one to support the plan, asking him to support the government or else he would put his marginal constituency at risk.

Although, Mr Draper said the union wholeheartedly supported the election of a Labour government at the next general election, he urged Labour leader Ed Miliband to put clear blue water between the party and the Tories.

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.»

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded by saying that his party wanted the election, calling it a chance to get a government that puts «the majority first».

Labour peer says the government must replace «gender neutral» budgeting with economic policies that put women first

Tom Watson, the shadow culture secretary and deputy Labour leader, has put out a statement following the vote against a Leveson two inquiry accusing the government a «shameless capitulation to press barons».

This was particularly important in the context of the failure of the majority of Labour's new women MPs to represent women's interests — and the divisive use to which this was put by the government.

1) For me, the massive error, or B.F.M. as you put it, of the last parliament was the Miliband - Balls leadership's complete failure to address the Tory claim that the Labour Government's social expenditure crashed the economy prior to 2010.

He knows that while I won't return, I will do everything I can from the backbenches to put Labour into government, and Ed Miliband into 10 Downing Street.

But a Labour spokesman said the Lords reform was another example of the Tory government putting things off to some uncertain time in the future.

The coalition government has put forward policies designed to reduce net migration through limitations on international students and skilled labour migrants.

Welsh Labour today promised to put children and young people at the heart of government if elected for a third term in next week's assembly election.

There's been scandal - the suspension of MP Michelle Thomson over allegations about property deals, the award of a # 150,000 government grant to the organisers of the profitable T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former SNP adviser - and there's been political ineptitude, most notably when the nationalists were put on the back foot by a Labour pledge to use Holyrood's powers to overturn tax credit cuts.

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

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Nevertheless, in 1886 and 1892, the Conservatives succeeded in exhibiting that the Liberals were dependent on the Irish Nationalists; and, by rejecting Baldwin in 1924, the Liberals put Britain's first Labour government into office.

Fisher hit the stage just moments before The Smashing Pumpkins (a US band partial to their own political statements) saying «the New Labour government backs our British bands and applauds the role this festival has in putting them on the map».

Aggressive, because he hopes that it will put pressure back on Labour to either back English votes for English MPs and therefore nobble themselves in a future government, or refuse and be at odds with a majority of English voters who back such a measure.

Nick Clegg has urged the British people to put the Liberal Democrats back in government in 2015 to curb the excesses of the Tories or Labour.

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

So far, Labour has simply said it would match current government spending plans in 2015 - 16, but has not said if it would seek to eradicate the deficit by 2017 - 18, let alone put the budget into total surplus through the parliament.

And yet (here we may diverge from Labour First), rather than put behind us the triangulation of New Labour and the neo-Blairites in the Tory party which has made us seem all the same, they'd rather adopt a system which made sure those in government actually are all the same — give or take a few at the margins.

I do find it astonishing that 11 years into a failed Labour Government, Labour is regularly able to put up backbench MPs who openly hate the Tories with a passion - people like McShane, Kaufman, Ruane, Pound and Thornberry.

Shadow Welsh Secretary, Owen Smith, has described the PISA results for Wales as «disappointing» but says that «the Welsh Labour Government has already recognised the scale of the challenge we face and has put in place the measures required to turn things around.»

, 58 % still think Labour haven't faced up to the damage they did to the economy, 47 % still think they would put the country back into debt were they to return to government.

The next Labour Government will put rail passengers first by putting the brakes on rapidly increasing rail fares and saving commuters # 1,014 on their season tickets.

«When people consider the alternative... the dangers of giving the keys to Number 10 to David Cameron in a Conservative only government where they want to remorselessly cut, cut, cut public services for ideological reasons way beyond what is necessary or put the keys to Number 10 into the hands of Labour, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, who don't really want to deal with the task of balancing the books, actually they think the sensible thing to do is to stick to the course, finish the job, but finish it fairly.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrats will continue to put pressure on the Welsh Labour Government to introduce free school meals in Wales.

Frankly, the only mainstream pro-Europe party is the Lib Dems, and this referendum puts Nick Clegg between a rock and a hard place: unable to support his own coalition government; unwilling to countenance a pact with Labour.

Mr Corbyn said he had also admired former First Minister Rhodri Morgan for his attempts to put «clear red water» between Welsh Labour policies and those of the former UK Labour government.

If the Conservatives or Labour are unable to put together a coalition or decide to go it alone, they can form a minority government, filling all the ministerial positions themselves.

In the absence of a government that puts the people first Labour must unite as a source of national stability and unity.

About 207 have also signed a motion put by Labour MP David Chaytor, calling on the government to publish a consultation document setting out the issues surrounding Trident replacement, «as a basis for public debate».

Mr Cameron's strategy is to be seen signing up to progressive language and Labour spending plans, so voters think there is little risk in putting fresh faces into government.

Not least when the most likely way we'd end up in government was in coalition with Labour or the Conservatives, who were both committed to put fees up.

And Labour has a distinctive approach to deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility in which our values and priorities shine through: — timely and targeted action to secure the jobs and growth we need to get the deficit falling — different choices within tight fiscal constraints, that put fairness and prosperity first — and reform of the British economy, with more reliable revenues and a redefined role for Government.

The government may well resort to a string of cheap and nasty gimmicks to give the impression of activity over the next two years, but Labour will put forward serious proposals to tackle illegal entry, to end exploitation, to encourage integration, to strengthen the economy and to protect the taxpayer.

The election of a new chair comes as Progress has published a new report, Time To Put The Last Labour Government To Bed.

«And I think he would be slightly horrified by some of the tendency towards endless protests rather than thinking about how we get into power and do what Labour governments are about, tackling inequality, promoting education, dealing with technology, putting us at the heart of Europe.»

«Switchers to the Tories were more likely than Defectors as a whole to say they had been put off by the impression that Labour were not ready to form a competent government.

«What I would say is don't trust this lot with a bargepole,» he says forcefully, pointing out that in the last 13 years of Labour government, just one order has been put in for Barrow.

The roar of disbelief from Labour in reply to the PM's final answer on the issue - «this government always puts disabled people first» - says it all.

The Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington, Jack Dromey, accused the Government of putting chief constables in an «impossible position» which had resulted in the loss of some of the best and most experienced officers.

«There is an inconvenient truth, which is that the fuel duty rises that the right hon. Gentleman refers to are the ones put in place by the Labour Government, which he and any Labour Member who was in the previous Parliament voted for.

«In the absence of a government that puts the people first Labour must unite as a source of national stability and unity,» they said in a joint statement.