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His approach to local community campaigning is similar to the one which senior Labour ministers such as Liam Byrne are now calling for.

Not exact matches

Key to this «better and fairer society» was what the first minister called Scotland's «social contract», «which has delivered universal benefits such as free university education and personal care for our elderly»; a contract he claimed was «now threatened by both Labour and the Tories».

Taking that into consideration, rather than essentially being a populist shield for Labour ministers, we need a grassroots, ground - up effort that will function independently of our leadership until such times as our leadership ceases to function independently of us».

Patricia Ferguson, Scottish Labour's external affairs spokesperson, said: «For Scotland's First Minister to admit his admiration for someone with such a controversial record on human rights and democracy does not reflect well on our country.

Dugdale's proposal aims to save the union from what she sees as a UK Tory government and Scottish SNP government both intent on pulling it apart — albeit even some notable Labour figures such as former first minister Henry McLeish have said they would back a Yes vote in a second Scottish independence referendum.

During the recent by - election at Nantwich and Crewe which the Conservatives gained by overturning a huge Labour majority, various comments were heard from teenage voters and early twenty - somethings such as: «If Tories win does it mean a change of Prime Minister?»

Later, in reply to a complaint from Labour MP Mary Glindon about cuts to the voluntary sector in her local council, the minister Greg Clark delivered a roll call of Tory councils that are dealing with the situation without such cuts:

Labour's lead needs a game - changer, such as a head - to - head TV debate in which he gets the better of the prime minister.

Clegg said such a result would mean Labour had lost the election and could not continue to provide the country's prime minister.

The Tories will not easily forgive Cameron for failure to win outright against such an unpopular Labour prime minister.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.

Delegates included Cabinet ministers such as Jack Straw, Andy Burnham, Liam Byrne, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, and Dame Tessa Jowell; a former Home Office minister, Nick Herbert, and Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, Chuka Umunna.

Indeed, former adviser to Labour's shadow Europe ministers, Andy Tarrant co-wrote a report dispelling such claims.

The Tory leader became the first prime minister to use the word «poncey» in the Commons chamber after Labour's Ben Bradshaw asked if Brexiteers such as Nigel Farage were worth listening to.

Pressing Labour to spell out why it opposes a referendum bill now - a decision which means Baron's amendment does not pose any risk of a Commons defeat for the prime minister - Balls said such a move would damage the UK economy.

It forms part of Labour plans to «take the fight to the web», with ministers fielding questions in online forums, such as the price comparison website moneysupermarket.com and «virals» - internet spoofs designed to be emailed between friends - increasingly sitting alongside conventional party political broadcasts.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige has said that contrary to the voting pattern in 2015 where Anambra voters favoured the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, with their votes, 2019 would see a clear departure from such practice.

The validation of being targeted as a future prime minister by Labour and allure of being discussed as such in the media would be an intoxicating elixir for future Conservative leadership candidates.

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.

Labour Party minister Peter Hain [219] has written in support of libertarian socialism, identifying an axis involving a «bottom - up vision of socialism, with anarchists at the revolutionary end and democratic socialists [such as himself] at its reformist end» as opposed to the axis of state socialism with Marxist — Leninists at the revolutionary end and social democrats at the reformist end.

Andrew Gwynne, Labour's shadow health minister has said that the government is out of touch with the «immediate care crisis», hoping that the coalition will engage in cross party talks such that a proper agreement is made.

Labour peers, led by the former cabinet minister Peter Hain, duly put down such an amendment.

That is why Labour continued to spend and borrow and bribe right up to the wire, desperately hoping to hang on, and racking up such huge debts that Treasury Minister Liam Byrne left a note to his successor gloating that there was «no more money left».

One senior Labour MP and former minister said that now was the time for figures such as Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown to speak out, but the interventions of arch-Blairites were self - indulgent and unhelpful to the other three candidates.

Groups pushing for the UK to stay in the single market, such as Open Britain, backed by Lib Dem former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and former Labour leader Ed Miliband, argue that a «hard Brexit» would be damaging to the economy because of the risk of tariff and non-tariff trading barriers.

For months Labour has called on the Government to answer basic questions about their approach, such as how would the Prime Minister ensure that weapons supplied did not fall into the wrong hands and how would this step help to de-escalate the conflict rather than prolong it?

Other supporters include Labour MPs Tom Harris and Gerald Kaufman and former senior Tory ministers in the Coalition such as Oliver Heald, Sir Edward Garnier and Bob Neill as well as Sir Peter Tapsell, the Father of the House of Commons.

The Prime Minister has rebuffed Cabinet colleagues who suggested that Labour supporters could back Liberal Democrat candidates where such a vote would keep out a Conservative.

But there would also be less symbolic early measures as Prime Minister Cameron rolled up his sleeves and brought forward a Queen's Speech scrapping some of the more intrusive aspects of Labour era, such as ID cards.

Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant said he was concerned that a lot of gay and lesbian voters would «bank» the reforms brought in by Labour, such as civil partnerships and a lower age of consent, and vote Conservative.

Conservative ministers are rethinking their plans to slash funding for opposition parties in a way that could ease the pain for Labour but deal a blow to smaller parties such as Ukip and the Greens.

Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.

This is why voices of courage and sanity on the Left such as Frank Field and The Guardian's splendid Martin Kettle are trying to soothe anxieties by pointing out that (technically at least) a new Labour Prime Minister would not be obliged to hold a swift general election.

What he is saying is that he doesn't want the breakup of the UK, however if England was to be a nation in itself perhaps with Dependencies and other overseas Territories I imagine he would try to become Prime Minister of England, although Labour and the Liberal Democrats would change leader as I can't see Menzies Campbell or Gordon Brown wanting to stand for an English seat and try for PM of England - more likely they would retire, although they might try to become PM of Scotland - I imagine that someone such as Stephen Byers would become Labour leader and probably Vincent Cable would become Liberal Democrat leader.

Labour must also be relishing the sight of education ministers suddenly beset by such unexpected storms.

That means focusing on the lower - hanging fruit in terms of cutting costs - such as cutting interest rates, which are currently up to 6.1 %, and have been attacked as bafflingly high by a long line of former Conservative and Labour education ministers.

Lucy Powell, the Labour MP and former shadow education secretary, said: «The new prime minister or the new education secretary should urgently make a statement to Parliament about such a huge change in education policy.

Labour Minister Dominique Vien said, «The many proposed changes take into account the new realities of workplaces, such as the changing family patterns, the aging population and ensuing retirements, and would encourage the retention of staff in a context of scarcity of labour.&Labour Minister Dominique Vien said, «The many proposed changes take into account the new realities of workplaces, such as the changing family patterns, the aging population and ensuing retirements, and would encourage the retention of staff in a context of scarcity of labour.&labour.»

Such a statement is certainly the vaguest of the commitments set out in the mandate letter for the new Minister of Labour.

Staying current on the final recommendations retained by the Labour Minister and proposed legislation to enact such recommendations.

Where the union has given notice of intent to bargain or where there is a first agreement arbitration, Committee amendments will permit either party to request educational support in the practice of labour relations and collective bargaining and will require the Minister or first collective agreement mediator, as applicable, to make such supports available.

(6) The Minister or, where a person has been appointed under subsection (5), the person so appointed, may give such directions and issue such orders as he or she considers proper or necessary concerning the procedures to be adopted or followed and shall have all the powers of a chair of a board of arbitration under subsection 48 (12) of the Labour Relations Act, 1995.