Sentences with phrase «labour lead has»

The other truism is that the Labour lead has steadily declined from the low forties of the ominshamble - era to the low thirties today.

What we can see, however, is that a 30 % Labour lead has shrunk to ten per cent - that's a big swing, only a small part of which is explained by the Tories fielding more candidates this time around.

The Labour lead would be 7 points under David Davis, but only 3 points under David Cameron (bear in mind that these figures are not adjusted for turnout, so aren't comparable to MORI's normal voting intention figures).

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

Labour had a 9.4 % lead over the Tories at the 2015 general election, the Centre for Cities estimates.

Businesses have been sounding the alarm for some time, warning that higher labour costs will lead to price increases, layoffs and reduced hours for the people who can least afford it.

But they are going to have to dismantle some of their welfare state, create labour market flexibility, stop being terrorized by organized labour and the farmers, accept real austerity in the offender countries, abandon this imbecility about leading the world, raise the birth rate and develop less meddlesome and authoritarian institutions.

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 minister has been leading a 30 - member delegation of Canadian politicians from five provinces, along with business and labour union representatives, on a trip to Germany and Great Britain to learn about their apprenticeship programs.

«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.

Yet in the weeks leading up to the election, the opposing Labour party has managed to gain an advantage.

His recent works involve a research project on behalf of the International Labour Office, which has led to the publication of the book: Wage - led Growth: An Equitable Strategy for Economic Recovery (Palgrave - Macmillan, 2013).

We have seen in our own case how liberalisation of financial markets has led to pressures to liberalise product markets (through ongoing tariff reductions and other forms), to bring more competition in the provision of infrastructures (such as transport, communications and power generation), and to free up the labour market (through, for example, enterprise - based wage bargaining).

The term originated to rebut the idea that reducing the number of hours employees are allowed to labour during the working day would lead to a reduction in unemployment.

Population aging under way across most advanced economies has led to a marked slowdown in labour force growth, and this has been a strong headwind to investment.

Since his election in 2014, Hassan has led Canada's unions in a major campaign to improve workplace rights for everyone and dramatically transform the way Canadians view the labour movement.

Its high - profile work on driverless cars has also led to a race in the automobile industry to create vehicles that can operate without humans, adding to concerns that some classes of manual labour once thought to be beyond the reach of machines might eventually be automated.

It appears that the extensive changes in the economy over the past decade — including a structural fall in the inflation rate, productivity - enhancing changes in the labour market, corporatisation and privatisation of public - sector enterprises and substantial falls in the barriers to international trade — have led to an improvement in Australia's underlying rate of productivity growth.

The government inherited Labour's 2010 Equalities Act which during his premiership has led to high - profile cases which are widely seen as undermining faith.

Their often bizarre comments lead me to question the extent to which archaic labour attitudes have contributed to the demise of Australian manufacturing.

If accepted to POIG, Sime Darby will be the first Malaysian palm oil giant to commit to the POIG Charter, including its innovations on tackling pressing labour issues that have led to growing concerns amongst consumers of palm oil.

High health care costs, a lack of interest in repetitive manual labour and rising worker wages has led to an explosion of automated machinery, according to Intelligrated.

While there are a couple of farmers accused of being repeat offenders themselves, the picture we get is that most of these farmers have outsourced their human resources needs to independent contractors, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, this has led to a culture of exploitation by those keen to make an easy buck off the labour of others.

But London's leading natural — birth guru and the obstetrician who helped deliver Gwyneth Paltrow's baby Apple, has some radical ideas about childbirth, starting with the very idea of labour.

She has authored several national clinical practice guidelines and articles on evidence - based midwifery practice in low resource settings, and was a member of the Midwifery Task Force that led a Delphi process to draft the 2012 Joint Statement on Physiologic Labour and Birth.

The increase of women in the labour force has led to significant changes in family dynamics which have challenged breastfeeding (Heymann, 2016).

We've long offered a childbirth educator and / or doula - led complement of workshops to encourage a more informed choice of birth options from interventions, comfort measures in labour to delivery and breastfeeding classes.

These two units have Midwifery Led Units in which low risk women are cared for by midwives and in which there are options of labouring and birthing in water.

I tried baby led latch when my little guy was born and it didn't work for us because the labour had been too long and we were both exhausted.

Women who had midwife - led continuity models of care were more likely to experience no intrapartum analgesia / anaesthesia (average RR 1.21, 95 % CI 1.06 to 1.37; participants = 10,499; studies = seven), have a longer mean length of labour (hours)(mean difference (MD) 0.50, 95 % CI 0.27 to 0.74; participants = 3328; studies = three) and more likely to be attended at birth by a known midwife (average RR 7.04, 95 % CI 4.48 to 11.08; participants = 6917; studies = seven).

Women who feel more in control in the reading I have done relate it to things like ambulatory ability, acceptability of vocalising their pain, social control (i.e. who is present at the birth), environmental control and comfort — leading them to feel more mentally able to cope with labour and being more in control of themselves which is often highlighted as a definer of a good birth experience.

, and her aura was not one which installed colempte confidence in me of her competence.Eventually, we reached a stage where the lead midwife announced that upon another examination (that we had been told was advisable due to the amount of time my partner had been in labour) that she would be calling in an ambulance as the baby was apparently taking longer to recover it «s heart rate between contractions than it had been previously which was a concern, and that my partner needed to be dealt with in hospital.The reassurance of the surroundings of home was soon replaced by a period of comparative chaos and strange faces which then developed into me travelling with my now scared and distressed partner in a speeding ambulance across a busy city road system amidst late afternoon traffic.

I would recommend that you consider labouring on the midwife - led unit.»

Lynch concluded «It would be helpful for this system to include more variables surrounding birth outcomes, for example VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean section), maternal morbidity, setting, lead carer, use of syntocinin for augmentation of established labour and breastfeeding rates.

This is what has led investigators to look at one of the most common treatments in labour and birth — the epidural — and to uncover any links that may be associated with breastfeeding rates.

Other models of care include a) where the physician / obstetrician is the lead professional, and midwives and / or nurses provide intrapartum care and in - hospital postpartum care under medical supervision; b) shared care, where the lead professional changes depending on whether the woman is pregnant, in labour or has given birth, and on whether the care is given in the hospital, birth centre (free standing or integrated) or in community setting (s); and c) where the majority of care is provided by physicians or obstetricians.

The Opinium / Observer poll has seen the Tories retain their lead at two per cent, while today's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times gives Labour a two - point lead.

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.

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.

That has led us to a position where I think more than scraps have been delivered (where you give tnem less credit) but I agree with you that a coalition can not be rebuilt without clarity about what Labour stands for.

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, had led a delegation of the NLC to a meeting with the state Governor Umar Al - Makura, to resolve issues around the salaries arrears owed workers.

General election 1970Although Labour had established a consistent double - digit poll lead during the run - up to the 1970 general election, Labour and its prime minister Harold Wilson were ousted.

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 last year.

Where this government's failure on growth and jobs has led to their failure on the deficit, the next Labour government will rise to the challenge: action to strengthen the recovery and our economy for the long - term; alongside a tough deficit reduction plan.

Second, large numbers of less productive, and mostly temporary, workers have been laid off leading to a steep increase in the average output per unit of labour.

The end product, however, is still that we went into conference with a Labour lead of around five points and we've finished conference with a Labour lead of around five points.

Asked whom they would most trust to fix the economy, Cameron and the Conservatives have a 17 - point lead over Miliband and Labour.

When canvassing, Labour's perceived «open - door» policy towards immigration led to more hostility than anything else (even though the idea that Labour even had an «open - door» policy is laughable).

«Andy Burnham, he's a northern MP, seen him on the train, he likes football, we have good banter about that kind of thing,» he reveals when I ask about his relations with some of the other leading lights on the Labour front bench.

The question of what type of inquiry would look into the scandal was fought out earlier at prime minister's questions with Labour pushing for a judge - led approach and the government a parliamentary inquiry.