Sentences with phrase «labour in opposition»

Second, as I have mentioned, he is arguably the greatest ever leader of labour in opposition.

Labour politicians and Labour - friendly commentators have convinced themselves that the new - look Tories are fakes: that, like old - look Thatcherites, they are slavering at the thought of making savage cuts in spending; and that Labour in opposition will reap a rich harvest of disillusioned Tory voters without having to engage in painful rethinking of its own.

As I write in my column this week, Labour in opposition can't afford a «business as usual» approach to politics, or the economy.

Within less than a year the dysfunctional relationship between Blair, Brown and Mandelson that dogged Labour in opposition started to enrage the deputy leader, John Prescott.

There are many challenges facing Labour in opposition, but that of countering the Tory project is the most difficult.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the Conservative governments were content to permit the inconsistent situation to continue, although Labour in opposition remained hostile to the surviving grammar schools - yet in 1996, Tony Blair stated, «the 160 grammar schools that there are, let them remain».

Labour in opposition today faces a much more confused situation, having lost votes to UKIP and also the SNP.

The 2011 elections also suggest that it is unlikely that this region will contribute to attempts by the Tories to overtake Labour in opposition.

First consider the experience of Labour in opposition.

Not exact matches

A war erupted inside the Labour Party, the government's official opposition, over leader Corbyn's decision to make the party's parliamentarians vote in favour of May triggering Article 50.

The comments from Defense Minister Michael Fallon in an interview with the Daily Telegraph suggested that the ruling Conservative Party would not increase the top rate of income tax, striking a contrast with main opposition Labour Party.

The opposition Labour Party, which requested the figures under freedom of information, said they showed the government's «utter failure» in ensuring wealthy people and large corporations pay as much tax as they should.

British opposition politicians said Trump was not welcome in the U.K. Former opposition Labour party leader leader Ed Miliband tweeted to Trump that the reason he cancelled was really «because nobody wanted you to come.

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist in the opposition Labour Party by a senior party member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers in parliament.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

The opposition Labour Party, which had repeatedly called on Rudd to resign, said May was responsible and should explain her own role in the government's immigration policies.

However, it would have been far better for us all if he had been held to account in a court of law,» said Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Labour, the main opposition party.

Opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband on Friday urged Cameron to apologize for «the appalling error of judgment he made in hiring Andy Coulson,» but Cameron refused and said Coulson remained a friend.

The biggest talking point in Scotland will be the battle between Kezia Dugdale's Labour and Ruth Davidson's Conservatives to become the SNP's official opposition.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a politician from the national opposition Labour Party who has criticized the firm in the past, said on Monday he had asked Transport for London to be available to meet CEO Khosrowshahi.

The Labour party was undone in the recent British election by a combination of Scottish nationalism, concerns about immigration, and opposition to EU integration — each a version of identity politics.

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One could argue that the games were against weaker opposition, but when you consider that Arsenal has laboured against teams like Leicester and Hull earlier in the season, then it is fair to say that the team has made progress in the last two games.

Most of those MPs will come from either the Conservative Party, who are currently in government, or the Labour Party, who are currently Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

On any normal day, a lead of five points in mid-term would be unlikely to be enough for the opposition to win, but thanks to the Conservatives» failure to get the planned boundary changes passed, Labour could still win an overall majority on a tiny lead.

I guess one of the hang - ups with the word «Family» for Labour is it was used so centrally by Thatcher in opposition to Society.

He said Labour had «failed in what is our fundamental duty to the British people, that is to be a competitive opposition.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing, Harold Wilson once claimed — though it's notable that he did so when it was in opposition and before he was leader.

Forster, A. (2002) Euroscepticism in contemporary British politics: opposition to Europe in the British Conservative and Labour parties since 1945 (London: Routledge)

Has the level of scrutiny / opposition research, either by those within the Labour party, people in other political parties, those in the media, or those in social media, increased?

While Labour could be clear in their opposition and so respectful and dignified like Ed Miliband, or angry like Glenda Jackson, the Lib Dems appeared to be paralysed by fear of «being too close to the Tories» or endorsing Thatcherite politics in some way.

These recommendations will be welcomed by opposition parties, Labour backbenchers and civil rights campaigners, who have long argued for the element of intent to be included in the terrorism proposals.

All it means is that when Labour are in opposition they will say that they wanted to implement PR when they were in government.

«We have not been able to proceed on Lords reform, frankly, because there is opposition in parliament and the opportunism of the Labour party,» he said.

«Looking back to the Tories in 97 and Labour in 2010, if they both needed a period of time in opposition to recuperate it didn't do them any good, did it?

Put simply, there isn't that feeling of optimism there was in 1995 when even though Labour were in opposition they dominated the political agenda.

The onset of a long period in opposition for social democratic standard - bearers such as Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany, coupled with continuing slow growth, high unemployment and falling unionisation, led the parties of the Socialist International into a comprehensive accommodation with neo-liberalism — albeit one wrapped in soothing social market rhetoric and homeopathic concessions at the margins.

It begs the question: why was this revolutionary new approach to dealing with the Ukip threat not dealt with before 2014, when Labour became the first main opposition party in decades not to win?

However, Corbyn's ratings as a Labour opposition leader almost 18 months in are closer to Michael Foot's.»

Labour had adopted a position of limited opposition to the government's proposals in yesterday's debate.

Embattled UK opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will stand in any new party leadership election amid calls for his resignation in light of the referendum result.

Unless and until Labour achieves some sort of coherence, it is a peculiarity of this parliament that opposition to a government with a truly precarious majority, arises in the oddest places: powerful individual performers, such as Keir Starmer and Angela Eagle, or dynamic parliamentary committees, such as the Women's Committee, chaired by Maria Miller.

In his letter, Duncan Smith attacked Labour for their «out - of - control» spending on welfare and their opposition to government policies like the reform of sickness benefit and work experience programmes for the young and unemployed.

«In the workplace we have seen protective legislation being withdrawn without any Labour leadership opposition.»

He spent much of his time in opposition warning that threats to Britain's AAA rating were a grave indication that the Labour government was struggling to cope with the financial crisis.

Instead Labour's success in London has only proved a saving grace for the national party of opposition, helping reduce the impact of Ukip's national victory.

Labour's official policy is now to stay in the single market and customs union for a transition period - a position backed by trade unions, business bodies and all opposition parties apart from the DUP.

This uncompromising opposition to the appalling displays of racism and xenophobia witnessed across the country in the last week, is exactly the kind of leadership we need from the head of the Labour Party.

This means that, when it comes to the slowly approaching general election campaign, they have to be equally critical to both their Tory partners in government and the Labour opposition.