Sentences with phrase «labour is in power»

When Labour is in power, the prime minister chooses the cabinet.

Jeremy Corbyn is known to be privately relaxed about the prospect of leaving the European Union if Labour is in power.

This fits the pattern found in earlier work when Labour were in power — the EU election defections were primarily from them.

When Labour was in power, these people were abandoned and now these people have no reason to come back to the fold.

Taxes for the rich are higher than when Labour was in power.

The ChEx Factor: Economic Leadership In Hard Times explores how voters see the economy, what most concerns them, how they think the government is handling things, and what — if anything — would be different if Labour were in power.

But the Tory immigration minister Damian Green attacked Denham for not condemning the level of immigration while Labour was in power.

Gordon Brown has alleged News International used «known criminals» to get access to personal information when Labour was in power.

This is an indication that if Labour were in power now, while they wouldn't be cutting so hard and fast, they would effectively cut the pay of public sector workers.

A Conservative peer has claimed changes made to the Good Friday Agreement when Labour was in power are the source of many of Stormont's recent problems.

The one - off bankers» bonus tax, reluctantly introduced by Alistair Darling when Labour was in power, is being mooted as a possible option if banks fail to show enough restraint, it is understood.

We are in doubt of their argument that if Labour were in power they would spend irresponsibly, increase taxes and threaten jobs.

Lord Hailsham issued his warning about an elective dictatorship when Labour was in power.

The decision to destroy the Windrush generation's landing papers was taken while Labour was in power, Theresa May has said.

Although Miliband told Andrew Marr that «if Labour was in power now, we wouldn't be making those changes, we wouldn't be cutting as far and as fast as the government», he said it was right to support the Government's pay freeze for public sector workers:

«What a contrast with the doubling of the gas bills when Labour were in power,» Cameron says.

Duncan Smith says that when Labour was in power, it came up with a programme called Step Up.

David Cameron's spokeswoman told me tonight that this was «perfectly normal», and that when Labour was in power they, too, frequently employed former party staff on civil service contracts.

And above all, instead of moving forward to a new economic vision, they are taking Britain straight back to the arrogant, big government - knows - best ideas that bankrupted our country the last time Labour were in power, in the 1970s.

It is now three years since Labour was in power — three years in which Osborne's plans to revive prosperity have been blown off course and his hopes for a growing, deficit - reducing economy dashed.

Wales play and my grand kids put up the Welsh flag, go down town it flay over the town hall, it was taken down when New labour were in power, it was put back up when they left.

Not exact matches

That's why their cookies are an $ 800 million a year business in the U.S. (Such a shame that pesky child labour laws make it difficult for profit - seeking entities to exploit the selling power of Girl Scouts.

Last month, its CEO was in China, taking responsibility for the labour practices of Apple's suppliers and using its marketing power to fix things.

Labour leaders should participate in deciding staff - related matters, «but it (co-determination) should be confined to this and it should not give rise to a claim to co-management,» Porsche told Stern, calling for a «separation of powers.»

LONDON — Tory peer Michael Heseltine believes Brexit will be so damaging that he would rather see a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn in power than see Britain leave the European Union.

The reason fairness would require that this ratio be equal to one is that, as argued by the Italian economist Luigi Pasinetti in his 1981 book, Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations, a fair interest rate is such that the purchasing power of one hour of labour stays constant through time even when its monetary equivalent is lent or borrowed.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

As long as the actual rate of interest is equal to the fair rate of interest, as defined above, the purchasing power that is being temporarily exchanged between the borrower and the lender remains constant in labour time.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

By the early 1990s, the New Democratic Party — the political ally of the labour movement — was in power in three Canadian provinces, including Ontario, and held 43 seats in Parliament.

Moody's chief economist, who helps compile the data, noted that the US labour market continues to power ahead, and job creation was strong across nearly all industries and company sizes, adding «mounting labour shortages are set to get much worse» in the months ahead.

Due to be passed in June, the new legislation would amend the Canada Labour Code mandating MPs and other employers on the Hill do «everything in their power» to prevent harassment and violence among staff.

Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall the Company be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labour disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labour or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of 3rd - parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning.

Von Hayek and his comrades assert that the roots of the crisis are to be found in the ominous and excessive power of unions, and in a more general way, of the labour movement; according to them, unions have undermined the base of private accumulation (of investment) by their salary claims and by their pressure against the rise by the State of the parasitical social expenses without end.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

Therefore we convert rice field for rubber cultivation and other cash - crops, including horticultural plantations, develop capital intensive production units (in countries like India where the major strength is its labour power), thereby denying majority of people their right to work.

For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.

Although Christ was filled with the form of God and rich in all good things, so that he needed no work and suffering to make him righteous and saved (for he had all this eternally), yet he was not puffed up by them and did not exalt himself above us and assume power over us, although he could rightly have done so; but, on the contrary, he so lived, laboured, worked, suffered, and died that he might be like other men and in fashion and in actions be nothing else than a man, just as if he had need of all these things and had nothing of the form of God.

Whilst I am in optimistic mood, I suppose I should be grateful that he has not yet got the hang of spitting out the various lurid - coloured medicines I coax down his throat from time to time and that he is still labouring under the illusion that I am some minor deity with the power to make all things right.

But there was even an effort in that legislation that was being proposed by the government to ensure that we would see coercive powers used against workers rather than used against employers who were intentionally underpaying those workers or other workers in the labour market.

The truck is a multi-purpose mobile unit powered by solar energy, which provides space for farmer training sessions in good agricultural practices, basic health care services, literacy training and child labour sensitisation programmes.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

I don't think there are many who relish another Tory Government, but frankly, when you have «New Nazi» in power for 12 long and bloody years (Iraq & Afghan Wars) you get to the stage where absolutely ANYONE BUT LABOUR will do.

In David Hare's world, there is no space for compromise: Labour governments must be unsullied by such base considerations as money and power.

Labour wants a «massive increase» in renewable energy production, with the hope that all homes in Britain will be powered by renewable energy sources by 2020.

Based on observation of the behaviour of the government I'd say they've already made up their minds on that one: the Labour party is convinced that in order to stay in power it needs to be seen to be tough on crime, which usually translates into advocating random outbursts of arbitrary state power.

It's part of Labour's proposal to devolve power to metro mayors with control over combined authorities, which already exist in other core cities (Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool) and could be a key part of the answer in Bristol.

Fair enough about the inequality, but Labour had been in power for ten of the previous 14 years, and not even to question the ability of late - 70s Labour to tackle inequality is pretty breathtaking in its myopic partisanship.

Decentralizing power and removing arbitrary power, in ways that don't create new injustices or power inequalities, can be something labour can get radical about and excite the electorate with.

The labelling of opponents, whether internal or external, as «Tories» or «Blairites» (which amounts to the same thing in their eyes), is a tacit acknowledgment in their belief that whether Labour or the Conservatives hold office, it's the rich in power and whose interests will be protected.