Sentences with phrase «labour government split»

Not exact matches

The government's election commitment to allow families with children under age 18 to split income would actually encourage a reduction in labour force participation.

Legal challenges to the government's consultation, concerns over the hybrid nature of the legislation (this means it takes much longer to work its way through parliament) and the coalition's decision to split the legislation into two parts are worrying interested spectators — like Labour's Eagle.

That is where Labour needs to look not just for short - term tactical opportunities — a chance to split or defeat the government — but also for inspiration.

A left - leaning coalition - formal or informal - will have around five parties, with deep splits over single market membership and free movement, and with the SNP existentially needing to portray Westminster (especially a Labour government in Westminster) as being out of touch with Scotland.

The split in labour was because reform would mean less Labour government alone, but more Labour led government through coallabour was because reform would mean less Labour government alone, but more Labour led government through coalLabour government alone, but more Labour led government through coalLabour led government through coalition.

Ed Miliband's decision to launch 18 - month policy units suggested he believed the coalition would last the full five years, but the recent public split at the top of the government has forced some Labour figures to reassess their timetable.

Rightwing MPs, not unions, split Labour in 1931 and 1981, just as it was New Labour parliamentarians who fuelled the debilitating Blair - Brown factionalism that so weakened the most recent Labour government, as Mandelson surely knows.

«This is not about splitting the Labour party, this is about uniting the Labour party so we can heal the divisions that six years of Conservative government, huge anti-austerity policies, cuts that have been visited on the most vulnerable areas,» she said.

On one hand, we have the Conservatives and the Lib Dems «working together in the national interest», reconciling or at least splitting their differences in order to hammer out a compromise capable of lifting the country out of the mess left behind by the last Labour government.

Labour has always been split on electoral reform, and for the moment the ranks of the naysayers are swelled by intense animosity to coalition government as currently practised, and towards the Lib Dems in particular.

Labour leader Ed Miliband plans to force a Commons vote on police cuts to flush out Tory rebels and reveal Government splits.

The government is split and weakened; Labour is equivocal about Europe.

Labour's shadow business secretary did not comment on the proposed banking split now being considered by a coalition government - initiated review, instead focusing on what he suggested were more practical concerns.

He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in the 1929 Labour government, but refused MacDonald's invitation to join the National Government following the spligovernment, but refused MacDonald's invitation to join the National Government following the spliGovernment following the split in 1931.

He also warned Labour moderates against splitting and forming a new party recalling that in the 1980s the formation of the SDP «split the Left and made it almost impossible for voters to vote for an alternative government».

Jeremy Corbyn denies fuelling a split in the Labour Party by joining 47 Labour MPs to defy the party leadership and vote against the government's welfare reforms.

The FT says that, as well as the long - awaited Chilcot report on 6 July addressing the last Labour government's conduct in the run - up to the Iraq War, Tory MPs believe Mr Cameron could call an early vote on Trident — an issue on which the Conservatives are united whereas Labour is split.

But Burnham certainly can not assume that Corbyn will be the next eliminated, and even if he was, those Corbyn voters who did transfer would split between Cooper and Burnham anyway — many see little to chose between them and may well favour a female candidate who, unlike Burnham, doesn't now say the last Labour government was guilty of overspending nor advocate primaries for parliamentary selections.

He said: «We're forced to accept that the refusal to accept the established policy of the Labour party and to acknowledge the achievements of the greatest Labour government is not just a knowing embrace of electoral defeat, but a very real, a very studied and a very determined desire to split this Labour party.»

In an interview with ITV Cymru Wales» political editor Adrian Masters, the MP for Pontypridd said: «We've got a small group of people on the right and the left of the party who are fatalistic about the prospect of that split happening, and are - I think - jeopardising the future of a Labour government».

[10] Although Owen was one of the founding members of the party, he was not always enthusiastic about creating a schism on the centre - left, saying to the Glasgow Herald in January 1981 that he felt «haunted by the possibility that, if the Labour Party splits, the Centre Left will never again form the Government in Britain».

While the UK Independence Party offers an alternative, people are afraid that the first - past - the - post system of voting they have there will just split the conservative vote and deliver government to Labour.

The likelihood remains that it will be split up and merged, partly with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and partly with the new National Crime Agency (NCA) due to replace the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) set up under the Labour government.