Sentences with phrase «labour government set»

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It's welcomed by the Labour Party but set up by a Conservative government, so this is a cross-party moment.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

Instead, Labour will set out, in our general election manifesto, tough fiscal rules that the next Labour government will have to stick to - to get our country's current budget back to balance and national debt on a downward path.

The face - off between the government of Oyo State and the state's labour union is most likely not to abate soon as the latter's industrial action is set to commence tomorrow, Tuesday.

«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 deputy prime minister, prime minister and others have tried to suggest that the bonus framework was set by the last Labour government which is simply untrue.

Brian: if you can't see the difference between a minority Labour government that - in your words (from your original posts on this issue)- dares the Lib Dems to vote it down, and a coalition government based on a mutually agreed set of objectives, then you need to take a second look.

The doubling of the vote for fascist candidates in the general election should set the alarm bells ringing about the risk of a rise of racism and fascist activity under a right wing Labour government.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

Cries of «answer the question» echoed round the House as Cameron tried to squirm out of addressing the fact that Labour's equivalent set - up, the Future Jobs Fund, wasn't quite as dastardly as his government had once suggested.

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.»

Today I have published a paper with the Centre for Policy Studies that sets out how the Labour Government has wrecked our country's finances.

Labour favours the former drawn - out, Leveson - style inquiry, whereas the Government favours a swift investigation by Lords and MPs, so that any recommendations can be implemented in the upcoming banking reform Bill, which is set to come before the House in the new year.

Auditors examined PFI deals drawn up over 25 years under Tory and Labour governments, as well PF2, introduced as improved public - private financing deals set up under David Cameron's premiership.

Labour has piled pressure on the Government after it emerged a review set up in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy is set to avoid proposing a...

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

22.23 - There's been a fair amount of expectation management going on about the number of Labour MPs set to vote with the government.

The Labour party was set up, and continues to exist, in order to change the country by being elected at every level of government in the UK.

Ngige said the conciliation meeting further set up a seven - man committee to be chaired by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Labour, with three members each drawn from the government negotiating team and the labour association respectively to oversee the implementation of the deciLabour, with three members each drawn from the government negotiating team and the labour association respectively to oversee the implementation of the decilabour association respectively to oversee the implementation of the decisions.

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».

The news that potentially thousands of people have died as a consequence of the policies, decisions and structures set up under the last Labour Government is breath - taking and demonstrates so clearly why well meaning platitudes are just not enough when it comes to delivering vital public services.

Clegg's hopes of reforming the Lords ran into trouble when the government was forced to withdraw a «programme motion» that would have set a timetable for the Lords reform bill, to avert defeat in the face of an alliance of Labour MPs and Tory rebels.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

When the Labour government duly refused to push ahead with setting up the proposed Scottish Assembly, the SNP withdrew its support for the government: this finally brought the government down as the Conservatives triggered a vote of confidence in Callaghan's government that was lost by a single vote on 28 March 1979, necessitating a general election.

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».

This month has seen Ed Balls, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, give a speech at Thomson Reuters, which looked to set out his vision for the economy in a Labour government.

With the Government's plan hurting but not working, for the rest of my time today, I will set out Labour's alternative — not just on fairness, protecting public services, and securing growth; but crucially on how we can get our public finances on a sustainable footing.

«In addition, the government has torn up Labour's Total Place programme, which was bringing together all of the local agencies needed to provide services to families, and saved money, setting this work back.

Many Labour backbenchers are set to vote against the # 20 billion plan to replace Trident while two prominent frontbenchers have already resigned to vote against the government today.

«I'm not going to make the normal political speech either as shadow home secretary or as Labour leadership candidate - attacking the Government and setting out an alternative Labour response.

On the government's strategic defence and security review, he said that when the Labour government came to power in 1997 and set up a similar review, talks went on for 18 months.

Q. (From Paul Cotteril) Would you encourage the party to accept the money on offer from the government for trial runs of primaries in safe Labour seats, as set out in the coalition agreement?

Labour remains, as it has been since it was set up in 1900, a vehicle for representing Labour at Westminster, but there is no strategy for doing this in a way which derails the government and build support in the country.

There was no independent public body to regulate referendums within the United Kingdom until the Labour government led by Tony Blair in 2000 set out a framework for the running of all future referendums when the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 or PPERA was passed, creating and giving the Electoral Commission responsibility for running all elections and such future referendums.

The Welsh Labour Government's own Ynni» r Fro project, which was set up to use European Structural Funds to support small scale generation projects, has been found to have had «minimal» achievement in a governmeGovernment's own Ynni» r Fro project, which was set up to use European Structural Funds to support small scale generation projects, has been found to have had «minimal» achievement in a governmentgovernment review.

It has set off an avalanche of speculation about the narrowing gap between the Tories and Labour, about the rise of the minor parties, about the Liberal Democrats as kingmakers, and about the way politics and government would change.

This is a clear piece which sets out the key developments in spending and borrowing during the last Labour government.

She is set to be elected with an increased Tory majority if opinion polls are correct, giving her more of a chance than David Cameron of repealing the ban brought in under Tony Blair's Labour government.

He said previous Labour governments in the 1940s and 1970s had made the mistake of allowing the Conservatives to set the popular agenda.

Holyrood rejected the UK government's EU withdrawal bill by 93 votes to 30 on Tuesday after Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Scottish Greens backed Nicola Sturgeon's decision to oppose proposals on post-Brexit power sharing set out in clause 11 of the bill.

«With ongoing speculation about the May government's commitment to devolution, and Labour likely to win many of the metro mayor contests in May 2017, the party has missed a huge chance to steal a march and set out its own ambitious vision for giving more power to places and people.»

Brandon Lewis: Will she confirm that, despite what has been said, my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) is right: there were 12 fuel duty rises under the Labour Government, and six more were set to come into force before they left office and would have done in the next few years?

Meanwhile his decision to repeatedly state that the party with the largest number of seats should form the next government is set to undermine the legitimacy of any minority Labour government should we see one next month.

This is the set of conditions under which the next Labour government would have an in / out referendum.

Labour is set to vote against the Government's flagship Brexit bill when it reaches its final stages in the Commons this week, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, will give a speech setting out the conditions Labour would impose before deciding whether or not to support the government's final Brexit deal.

He accepted that Labour's statutory goal was to cut the deficit by 2013 - 14, and acknowledged that it was not possible for any government to set out the last penny and pound of what it would be spending in 2016 - 17.

Chris Leslie had a busy media month, attempting to combat the Government's narrative over the recovery and setting out how Labour would build long - termism into the economy.

The Labour leader was responding on Sunday to reports that the government will publish a white paper setting out its plans for the bill on Thursday, a day after Theresa May starts the formal process of taking Britain out of the EU by triggering article 50.

Government sources cited the Turner review on pensions and the Browne review on university tuition fees — both established by the Labour government — as examples of commissions set up to find agreement on contentioGovernment sources cited the Turner review on pensions and the Browne review on university tuition fees — both established by the Labour government — as examples of commissions set up to find agreement on contentiogovernment — as examples of commissions set up to find agreement on contentious issues.