Sentences with phrase «labour government share»

Both the coalition and the previous Labour government share responsibility for demanding this result, the MPs said.

Not exact matches

The passage of Bill C - 377, part of the Harper government's broader attack on labour rights, speaks to the Conservatives» fundamental lack of understanding of the role of organized labour in ensuring shared prosperity and a thriving middle class.

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.

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.

Luke, you don't seem to have much confidence in Labour as a party that can retain popular support if the Lib Dems got a share of government.

Sir Richard Leese, who has led Manchester for Labour since 1996, told politics.co.uk the results of a «whole place community budget» pilot scheme in which local authorities share their resources with government departments showed it may be possible to achieve a «complete transformation of how public services are delivered».

Originally the Labour government had ruled out a referendum on the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (2004), which among other things introduced new shared competencies with member states.

The central issue at stake in the election — whether the Labour government would be replaced by the Tories — placed a squeeze on political parties to the left, which did not increase their shares of the vote.

The fact that both Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown shared an enthusiasm for this idea helped to ensure that rather more of the Cook - Maclennan agenda of constitutional change was achieved through our co-operation than might have been expected from a Labour government with a large majority.

Even before these helpful Blairite interventions, you must have known that much of the Labour share in current polls is partly default opposition a mid-term government with hard decisions to make and no money to spend.

Labour believe they can fund the change by closing tax loopholes in the construction industry, ending the government's «shares for rights» scheme and raising taxes on hedge funds.

And after increasing Labour's share of the vote by 5.8 %, Ms Furniss used her victory speech to attack David Cameron's government.

«I shared the concerns raised from across the political spectrum when your parliamentary office was raided in 2008 when you were a shadow minister holding the Labour government to account,» she said.

The 2014 Local Elections saw a Labour Party — which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael — fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent and with its position as the leading left wing party being usurped by a major contender for this position, namely Sinn Fein.

The 1985 Local Elections saw a Labour Party — which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael — fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent and with its position as the leading left wing party being usurped by a major contender for this position, namely the Workers Party.

He said the party was now «within a hair's breadth of Labour's share of the vote - and they run the government».

Mr Miliband said Labour would make up for the # 470m the spare room subsidy is meant to save by reversing some of the Government's tax cuts for businesses and George Osborne's «shares for rights» scheme.

«I think we would be in the wilderness for as much as 15 years because all the changes that the Conservative majority government would bring in would actually not be about fairness or equity or even sharing power, it would be about excluding the Labour party,» he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

The then - Labour government paid approximately 500p per share, but the first return to the private sector has brought in 330p per share.

As a farming community which engages in cocoa and crop farming and also share borders with la Cote d'Ivoire, the first lady called on the people of Bia West to join forces with government to work together to ensure that farms are not worked by any labour that is believed to be trafficked or involving child labour.

Over 80 % of those voters disappeared under Tony Blair's leadership — that is, by 2005, when Labour formed a government with just 35 % of the vote, the lowest share of any successful party in the history of British democracy.

There are several Labour politicians who could persuade soft Tories that they are competent, share their basic patriotism and are fit to be trusted with government.

It defends the record it shared with Labour in Government.

• I rejoined the Labour party at the end of June because I share Neil Kinnock's anger at the vanity (or arrogance) of Jeremy Corbyn in ignoring the views of 80 % of democratically elected Labour MPs, including highly respected politicians with experience in government.

The need for alternatives to the Coalition government's austerity policies is widely shared amongst Labour Party members.

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.

Cameron says in the Labour government ministers would not even share transport to summits.

«The Labour government increased public spending significantly as a share of GDP in the mid-2000s, arguing this would be paid for by an increase in tax receipts that then did not fully materialise.»

I share the fury of ex-miner Ian Lavery, now Labour MP for Wansbeck in Northumberland, after a Con - led Government in the pocket of the insurance industry condemned victims of this terrible lung disease to die in poverty.

In 2010, Labour won nearly 10 % of the vote in Eastleigh, but instead of Labour becoming the vehicle for a protest against the government, Ukip — which had 3.6 % share in 2010 — has surged past Labour.

That sentiment was shared by Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, but she rounded too on the UK government.

Last week, I wrote that the Government is currently on track to haul back the State's share of the economy from the ruinous 47.7 per cent of national income it reached under Labour to 39.5 per cent within five years.

The Labour government did reduce the national debt - as shown in the national accounts - as a share of national income at the end of the last century (although it's questionable whether most people would understand this to be the «last few years» of which Brown went on to speak).

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.

Mr Osborne said that Mr Brown bore his share of responsibility for all the Labour government's shortcomings:

«In my 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 and move decisively towards a society in which opportunity and prosperity is truly shared.»

I know that many Government Members share the view of Labour Members that education is the key to social mobility, and that for all our differences on policy, they would not want the Government to waste the Department for Education's budget on an ineffective vanity project.

By April 4th, all businesses with 250 employees or more — including many law firms — will be required to share their gender pay gap, following legislation enacted eight years ago under the last Labour Government.

«Under the 1997 - 2010 Labour government the economy grew more slowly in the north — and, partly as a result, the state accounted, directly and indirectly, for a larger share of jobs created there.

Deficits in labour force status, income share, educational status, housing and health among Aboriginal people in the region are of a scale that only a partnership approach to regional development involving both industry and government could hope to redress.114