Sentences with phrase «labour government with»

No country has ever successfully gradually brought down inflation from 20 % >, to the best of my knowledge (at least not in a democracy) and there was no way that a Labour government with a majority of 3 was going to pull off a shock therapy strategy.

Vote SNP and get a Labour government with a strong Scottish accent.

The commission was set up in December 1997 by the Labour government with the support of the Liberal Democrats, to investigate alternatives to the single member plurality (or «first past the post») electoral system used for British general elections.

On one side stands a Labour government with a ten - year record of investing in public services, which has already shown itself prepared to intervene to protect people against the recession.

The closest this country has come to a minority government in recent years is the 1977 Lib - Lab pact, when a beleaguered Labour government with no overall majority agreed to accept a range of Liberal party policy proposals — on condition the Liberals voted with Labour in any no confidence votes.

A Labour government with anything other than a landslide majority would also struggle to get measures such as Mr Miliband's proposed new 50p top rate of tax through Parliament.

Mr Straw told the committee the new American administration had initially treated the British Labour government with suspicion, due to its left - wing roots.

«Never trust a Labour government with your money again!»

All rights reserved THE BRITISH electorate, to judge by the opinion polls, is about to vote into power either a minority Labour government or - just possibly - a Labour government with a tiny overall majority.

«Never trust a Labour government with your money again,» Osborne shouts.

While all the major parties in this election — including Labour — are proposing to launch an unimagined level of attack on the working class, the most favourable outcome remains a Labour government with the highest possible 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.

It sounds close to Labour's idea, but isn't really at all: in a scenario where a Labour government with a small majority relies on Scottish MPs to get its business through the Commons, the Tory proposal would be crippling for a Labour prime minister.

Then there are 8 % of people who think that a Labour government with SNP support is likely, and would be a good thing, the Conservative argument will fall flat with them.

Not exact matches

How is it, then, that when allegations arose that a Canadian mine may have been built with forced labour, the government's response was largely confined to drawing up «media lines» and «talking points?»

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

As a condition of receiving taxpayer - funded bailouts, governments ordered GM, Chrysler and their unions to bring labour costs in line with Toyota, Honda and Nissan.

The government presented various options on how to fix the troubled program during a closed - door meeting Thursday with stakeholders who included business representatives and labour union officials.

Raise interest rates in the U.S. and you could kill the recovery and exacerbate the problem of long - term unemployment, with lasting effects of labour productivity, economic growth and, yes, even government revenues.

«So no more hand - holding with Donald Trump - a Labour government will conduct a robust and independent foreign policy made in London.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

In Ontario, complaints about lax workplace guidelines have pushed the Liberal government to launch a formal review of provincial labour laws with an interim report due early next year.

It's really important to work with labour and government, both Ontario and federal, to make sure we attract that investment in Canada and keep it here.

It comes with the Government under pressure after losing its House of Commons majority in the general election as Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity Labour outperformed expectations.

DC: There are a number of ingredients that go into it, whether it's the labour agreement, whether it's working with governments.

«My party (Labour) hasn't been strong enough to push for red lines» and the May - led - government «answers to only a few Brexiteers» with the prime minister focused on «keeping her party together and win the next elections,» Dance added.

The review comes in the wake of a report from an expert panel the government struck last year that came up with 13 recommendations to help young Canadians get into and thrive in a changing labour market.

«With this Bill, this government has chosen to be bold and take a significant step in the world stage,» said the Progressive Labour Party's David Burt, Bermuda's premier and minister of finance.

The guiding mentality of Tony Blair - style «New Labour» policy is economic loyalty to Europe's financial centers as government spending is slashed, public infrastructure privatized and banks bailed out with «taxpayer» burdens that fall mainly on labor.

Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.

Finally, the Speech from the Throne stated that the Government would «work with provinces and territories» in a number of areas, including credential recognition, labour market mobility, removal of trade barriers, among others.

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.

Kuby was undergoing Alberta Labour's Certificate of Recognition, a government safety audit for firms with more than 10 employees.

Positivity has been held back by rising labour shortages and the burden of complying with government regulations, and this should remind us that Brexit isn't the only game in town.»

Kenney also said the government is particularly unhappy that wages have not kept up with inflation, which does not suggest a tight labour market.

Labour Minister Kevin Flynn said that because of the province's strong economy the government can move forward with the minimum wage increase.

Following the election, the Labour Party and New Zealand First formed a coalition government with support from the Green Party.

We work together with nonprofits, government, community agencies, corporate partners, labour and donors to improve lives across Canada.

The PSAC has been working with the Canadian Labour Congress for some time to press the government to double those benefits, increase the GIS and establish a national pension plan insurance fund.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

The 2012 budget removed part - time panels of three community representatives — one labour, one business, and one government, and replaced them with full - time adjudicators working on their own.

«The premier said this week that she has completed a project development agreement with Petronas, a proponent that had already told her government that it intends to use up to 70 per cent foreign labour on construction,» Ralston said.

The last time they hit the headlines was under the Labour government, during the passage of Ed Balls» fortunately doomed Education Bill, when after a supposedly heroic process of negotiation with the government, they almost totally capitulated.

AUSTRALIA is a high - cost player in the global market - our costs of production have always been higher than those of the US and Brazil and others with whom we compete - and that is mainly related to labour costs and Government charges.

Governments should enact imaginative legislation protecting the breastfeeding rights of working women and establishing means for its enforcement in accordance with international labour standards.

The hypothetical (and it is a very, very extreme one, not a prediction) would involve Harriet Harman or someone else leading Labour, while A.N.Other politician, with whom the Liberal Democrats felt they could do business, acting as the head of a coalition government.

With a general election less than a year away at most and the Labour government facing a host of local difficulties it is well worth reading Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary Volume Two: With James Callaghan in No 10 (Jonathan Cape # 30.00).

I asked Boris, tongue in cheek, if he voted with the Government against Labour's tax credits motion.

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.

The Nigeria Labour Congress is currently leading over one thousand workers in Kaduna state in a protest in solidarity with the 21,000 teachers sacked by the Kaduna State government.