Sentences with phrase «labour ministers john»

Labour has split in two on the issue, with many - including former New Labour ministers John Reid and David Blunkett - preferring to keep the first - past - the - post system currently in use.

Not exact matches

«The mask has finally slipped,» John McDonnell, a lawmaker who would be finance minister if Labour win the election, said in a statement.

Conservative MPs Patrick Mercer and John Bercow will advise Labour ministers, along with Liberal Democrat backbecher Matthew Taylor.

The mission met with President John Dramani Mahama, Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, Finance Minister Seth Terkper, Bank of Ghana Governor Dr. Abdul - Nashiri Issahaku, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations Haruna Iddrisu, other senior officials, and the donor community.

Meanwhile prime minister David Cameron and former Labour home secretary John Reid joined forces to expand on the merits of First Past the Post.

In that post-1922 and pre-1997 period when every Tory leader made it to PM, the Labour party had four Prime Ministers but six party leaders (Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Hugh Gaitskell, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith) who were never Prime Minister.

In 2007, Blair resigned as Prime Minister after ten years and John Prescott resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Labour Leader.

Shadow minister Clive Lewis was reported to the party's chief whip by fellow Labour MP John Woodcock after the pair got into an altercation in a corridor on Tuesday night.

John Griffiths AM (born 19 December 1956) is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician and the Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development.

I seem to recall Labour ministers (especially John Reid and Hazel Blears) spent large amounts of time in the last government desperately trying to look tough on immigrants, shaking up border control repeatedly, and posturing about how those naughty immigrants must be made to integrate.

Clegg was asked by John Spellar, a former Labour defence minister and a scathing critic of the Lib Dems, how the plans to shrink the Commons could remain on the statute book.

John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, told the BBC that he was «not happy» he found out about the millions loaned to the Labour Party by reading it in the papers but insisted the loans would later appear in the party's audited accounts.

The prime minister was speaking at a No to AV event in London opposite John Reid, former Labour home secretary.

It is fair to say that only two Labour leaders since the war have stuck to a personal position on European integration: Michael Foot against, John Smith for, and neither became prime minister.

The former Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations said the demonstration would happen because he believes that former President John Mahama is the obvious choice for the opposition NDC in the 2020 Presidential race.

Those arguments are unlikely to stop former Labour Cabinet minister John Hutton, who was appointed on Sunday as the chair of an independent commission on public sector pensions.

With jobs and pensions standing out as the key areas of debate, Labour sent former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who has fashioned himself into a campaigning machine since leaving the Commons, to the constituency.

The Telegraph also reported that Dennis Bates, husband of Labour MP Meg Munn, received # 5,000 for personal tax advice from several ministers, including the Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Gillian Merron, John Healey and Jim Knight.

Evoking memories of the end of the John Major's administration, ministers are pulling up the shutters, with the coalition government spending a third less time on legislation than the last Labour government.

Former prime minister Sir John Major told Channel 4 News: «The debt we have been left - I don't think people realise how serious is the problem the Labour party have left us.

The next government of the National Democratic Congress, (NDC), under John Dramani Mahama, will rely heavily on civil society organisations and the media, by resourcing them to fight the canker of corruption, according to Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Haruna Iddrisu.

Shadow Fire Minister Stewart Jackson MP regrets that Labour have no abandoned John Prescott's regionalist agenda - vast sums are being wasted reorganising the fire brigade.

The delegation included former Conservative International Development Minister, Sir Alan Duncan MP, former Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, Rt Hon David Jones MP, Labour MPs Sarah Champion and Paula Sherriff, Scottish National Party (SNP) MP John Nicolson and Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord Purvis of Tweed.

The former Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, departing Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and SNP deputy leader John Swinney also attended, sitting far back in the church to allow space for family and close friends in pews closer to the altar.

The shadow cabinet minister said Damian Bride's claims about Charles Clarke and John Reid were a «post script on the past» and Labour had «learned from those lessons of the past».

Labour's shadow secretary of state for housing, John Healey MP, said: «The Prime Minister should be embarrassed to be fronting up these feeble measures first announced a year ago.

11:55 - Speaker John Bercow, having rebuked Labour backbenchers for their «noisy conversations», then proceeds to ruin minister Lynne Featherstone's answer to a question about aid agencies» limited access to Mali.

Their alleged victims include former New Labour minister Tessa Jowell and her estranged husband David Mills, former deputy prime minister John Prescott and former Lib Dem frontbencher Mark Oaten.

John McDonnell had taken to the airwaves to claim that departing shadow ministers were part of «a narrow right - wing clique within the Labour Party based around the organisation Progress».

Meanwhile the perilous state of the Labour party's finances were highlighted by former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who is standing for the treasurer post.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has welcomed a speech by former minister Liam Byrne delivering the last rites to New Labour and claiming common ground with Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

Former housing minister John Healey has urged the Labour party's leadership hopefuls: «Don't lose sight of what worked as well as what didn't.»

The Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, has promised that Labour will help those on low and middle incomes to own their own homes.

But former Labour transport minister John Spellar disagreed, saying we should not go down the route of «institutional and structural change» and that independent bodies would be «diversions» from the core task of making decisions and getting funding in place.

Tony Blair was also the first PM to have no government experience since Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and the first Leader of the Opposition to have no government experience since the post was created in 1935 - Neil Kinnock was a PPS at the end of the Callaghan Government and John Smith was a Junior minister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govminister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govMinister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour government.

The former Labour cabinet minister has been widely expected to take over from Boaden and his political background has led Tories including John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary, and Damian Collins, a member of the culture select committee, to argue that his appointment could jeopardise the BBC's impartiality.

When Labour got back in in 1997, there was only one person in the cabinet (Margaret Beckett) who'd seen the inside of a red box before, plus only a handful of less senior ministers such as Michael Meacher and John Morris.

Time said of the events following the meeting, «Minister Pomaret clamped down on French labour with a set of drastic wage - & - hour decrees and Sir Walter Citrine agreed to a proposal by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon that pay rises in Britain be stopped».

Former Prime Minister Sir John Major weighs into the election debate with a warning about what he says are the dangers of a Labour government being propped up by the SNP.

Shadow Europe minister Pat Glass made the surprise comments while appearing alongside Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell at a Labour In For Britain event in Wolverhampton on Monday night.

Writing about the latest election campaign on the Labour Home website, John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister commented: «I've just discovered tonight that over the last few weeks, James Purnell was not planning for these crucial Local and European elections - he was planning for his own leadership election...

Last month the incumbent Labour MP, John Healey - Gordon Brown's Housing Minister - remarked that for some people it can be «the best option for them to allow their home to be repossessed.»

Tony Blair originally formed the Blair ministry in May 1997 after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government following the resignation of the previous Prime Minister, John Major of the Conservative Party, as a result of the Labour Party's landslide victory at the 1997 general election.

Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Tony Blair's spokesman and campaign director (1994 — 1997), followed by Downing Street Press Secretary (1997 — 2000), for Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The Vice President was joined by Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Haruna Idirusu, Deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor, Agriculture Minister Alhaji Muniru, the Northern regional chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sofo Azoka and parliamentary candidates.

Prime minister Gordon Brown and president John McCain Brown does not seem likely to win a fourth term for Labour but he can hang on to office until June 2010 before he has to call an election.

The BBC's Chris Mason interviews John Bickley, the UK Independence Party candidate in the Wythenshawe and Sale East by - election, which was triggered by the death of the former Labour minister Paul Goggins.

The vast majority of MPs who voted to keep the discredited «John Lewis» status quo were Labour, including thirty - three ministers and Brown's two parliamentary private secretaries.

John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, received loud applause from Labour conference delegates when he called from the rostrum for the party to levy a «tax» on Labour MPs with second jobs and outside earnings, and on former Labour ministers who go on to earn fortunes from consultancies and directorships.

The news that both our former Labour prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have been missed off the guest - list for Wills and Kate's nuptials, while Conservatives John Major and Margaret Thatcher are included, takes the biscuit.