Sentences with phrase «labour group last»

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When the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance dutifully looked into youth unemployment last summer, it heard familiar tales of outrage and woe from university student groups and organized labour fretting about student debt, precarious work and temporary foreign workers.

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Last week the Fabian Society published an anonymous essay by a group of former Labour advisors which provided a damning but insightful critique of the failures of the Miliband years, and the challenge facing his successor.

And last year, a Labour councillor was accused of making death threats against one of his former group colleagues, Rania Khan, who now serves in Rahman's cabinet.

It is not isolated from Labour's individual membership — nearly 40 per cent of whom voted for Socialist Campaign Group candidates in last October's NEC elections and, for the first time since the early 1980s, the middle ground in the party is moving to the left.

Last weekend, former T&G general secretary Lord Morris warned that the «march to mega-unions and mega-mergers» threatened the constitution of the Labour party by putting too much power into the hands of some key groups.

They would have been encouraged to believe that Benn was desperately unlucky to lose that contest, by a wafer - thin margin, because of last - minute union machinations and betrayal by a group of left - wing Labour MPs led by Neil Kinnock.

Last week, dozens of Labour MPs, MEPs and peers launched a group opposing hard Brexit outside the single market and the customs union.

Last month there was a bit of a hoo - ha when Sajid Javid, speaking in Parliament, called the Labour group Momentum «hard left neo-fascist».

These last days lifted the stone on archaic Labour attitudes — from left and right, Campaign Group to David Blunkett and John Reid.

In a statement sent out last night, the Corbyn - supporting group explained that: «Momentum is to launch a nationwide initiative to increase the involvement of children, parents and carers in Momentum and the Labour Party.

With the Tories on self - destruct mode and Labour at last offering a radical alternative to neoliberalism - this group wants a re boot and rebrand for a failed ideology.»

He retreated at a meeting last week with the small group of Labour MPs who see him after the weekly gathering of the parliamentary party.

But the group which was founded last year, found that Labour is too scared to mention England, or celebrate St George's Day - which is today.

Chuka Umunna, who briefly joined last year's leadership race himself before pulling out and Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellorare part of a group working separately from the shadow cabinet, to beef up Labour's economic credibility.

Momentum's position is stronger in the neighbouring constituency of Lewisham Deptford; however, the campaign group last week launched a Lewisham East left caucus, to «help comrades build a strong left in the remaining stronghold of the Labour right in Lewisham».

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

Labour MP Richard Burden, who last travelled to Palestine with Caabu in April 2016 and who is also the Chair of the Britain - Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group, also asked why the UK Government was not speaking «with the same clarity» as Israeli human rights organisations such as B'Tselem:

As a result of the elections last Thursday Labour now has the largest group of authorities in London at 17, with the Conservatives controlling 11 boroughs, the Liberal Democrats with two and another two boroughs under no overall control.

Commenting on last night's terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market, Leader of the London Assembly Labour Group, Len Duvall AM, said:

Labour lost overall control of the authority after elections last week, but remain the single largest group.

He is part of the Labour's Future Group, which last week published a pamphlet warning that the party is «intellectually exhausted» and could be out of power for a generation after the next election.

These seats had Labour and Conservative equal at the last election so an eight point lead here is the equivalent of a four point national swing and a one point Labour lead in national polls... pretty much exactly what the national polls have been showing lately (actually if you look at the crossbreaks of the poll they suggest a swing towards the Conservatives in the Conservative held seats, a swing towards Labour in the Labour held seats, but given the sample size of those two groups and that the poll is only weighted at the level of all forty seats I wouldn't put too much weight on that).

He is equally critical of Corbyn's links with Palestinian terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, claiming they reinforce «the perception at the last Election that Labour is anti-Jewish.

The intervention by Winterton follows the leaking last week of the list, in which Labour MPs were divided into five different categories ranging from a «core group» of loyalists to hard - line opponents who were labelled as «hostile».

One very telling aspect of what the SLF gets up to is its increasingly warm relationship with the Labour - aligned group Compass, as evidenced by a piece in today's Guardian, and a meeting on the fringe last night.

Although the Labour leadership claimed last week's local and regional elections showed «steady progress» since the general election, the research suggests Mr Corbyn still has a long way to go to win over key groups of voters.

The government has been under pressure from labour groups and some provinces to enhance the Canada Pension Plan, but Finance Minister Joe Oliver said as recently as last week that Ottawa doesn't favour the move even if Ontario opts to go it alone.

Consider, too, San Francisco - based labour and employment law firm Littler Mendelson PC, which created a robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation practice group last October but with a view to how those technologies will impact the labour market.

(TORONTO, ON) ─ Following up on a bombshell report released last November, the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and the Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups (ONIWG) filed a formal complaint with Ontario Ombudsman Barbara Finlay, calling for a full investigation into the practices of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).

Fantasy sports have evolved over the last 30 years or so, starting with a group of friends who kept track of the statistics manually, which as you might guess was labour intensive.