Sentences with phrase «labour ministers used»

I'd almost forgotten what New Labour ministers used to be like.

Not exact matches

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.

With banks refusing in recent days to accept the latest restructuring plan, May's senior ministers met around the clock, under pressure from the Labour Party and unions not to use taxpayer money to prop up the failing company.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

Labour shadow minister Gloria de Piero said: «No one should use deeply offensive language like this,» while Helen Grant, the government's sports and equalities minister, described the remarks as «completely unacceptable and very disappointing.»

Labour ministers have been accused of using regional Cabinet meetings to help the party in key marginal seats.

Some are members of the Commonwealth and the National Liberal Club but one senior Labour minister reckons: «That is an automatic ticket to being slagged off in the diary column of Tribune, when Stephen [Twigg] joined the NLC, it was used as a sign he was going to defect to the Libs.»

The Labour leader used his questions to target the prime minister's personal response to the rebellion, in a Westminster awash with rumours about Cameron's angry brush with rebel ringleader Jesse Norman.

However in April, the Minister of Employment and Labour, Haruna Iddrisu, advised the group to use dialogue to address their conditions of service.

The extent of insults aimed at Miliband, emanating from No 10 on a matter as sensitive as response to the use of chemical weapons, suggests the prime minister has personally authorised a concerted counter-attack on the Labour leader as he seeks to divert blame before the new parliamentary term, which begins on Monday, and before a meeting of G20 leaders, including President Barack Obama, in Russia on Thursday.

Labour MPs, led by Ed Miliband, and Tory rebels voted down ministers» proposals to launch strikes against Syrian government targets after the Assad Regime used chemical weapons against his own people.

Firstly, they were a crude tool used to create press coverage which emphasised the Tories pro-business agenda; this is important to a prime minister shaping his election strategy around Labour's «recklessness» and «anti-business» agenda.

Ahmed, who addressed the correspondents alongside the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige and Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said the policy aimed at using a transformative mechanism for mitigating poverty and unemployment across the country.

The Tories last week accused environment minister David Miliband of using his government - funded blog to spread Labour «propaganda».

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.

Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.

Seeing him continue afterwards is another matter, but the deputy prime minister used his speech to lay the mental groundwork for his remaining in power - even with Labour.

There have been signs that the Government is backtracking on the idea, but ministers at today's session stood by the principle, even if they dispute the use of the term «regional pay» as you can see in this exchange between Labour's David Hanson and Wales Office Minister David Jones MP.

It had prompted howls of outrage from Labour backbenchesr after David Cameron used it in prime minister's questions.

David Cameron used Mr Gani to launch an attack on Sadiq Khan, the Labour candidate for London Mayor, at Prime Minister on Wednesday.

Mr Brown had his competence and integrity called into question by David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions over his admission that a controversial property developer used proxies to channel money to Labour.

The book reveals the dirty tricks that were used to destabilise the Conservative Party, including the newspaper's bribery of US government officials, the abuse of parliamentary privileges by New Labour MPs and financial intimidation by former Government minister, Clare Short.

The prime minister told Labour's national executive committee this morning he wanted to use the heavy attention attracted to the donations case to force through a shake - up of the current system.

The Labour MP for Lewisham East used both barrels as she accused the prime minister of being afraid of «right - wing rabid elements of her own party».

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.

At Prime Minister's Questions today, Truss got fired up on Twitter once again when David Lidington claimed that Labour's ban on under - 18s using dangerous sunbeds was somehow at odds with the party's calls for under - 18s to be given the vote.

So when Ed Balls used his conference speech to signal Labour's departure from an unquestioning commitment to HS2, all eyes turned to Adonis, who as a shadow minister for infrastructure is also a shadow cabinet colleague of Mr Balls.

«It appears the first minister is a liar and used taxpayers» money to try to cover up his lies,» Paul Martin, a Labour MSP, said.

«Labour used to be the party that was most forthright in its opposition to the bastion of privilege in the Lords,» the deputy prime minister said.

Former Labour minister Vera Baird, now an elected police commissioner, has stripped all references to policing drugs out of her plans for the Northumbria force, and Lib Dem Sarah Brown this week urged Cambridge councillors that arresting cannabis smokers was not «a good use of resources».

Just using the expenses scandal, as Labour politicians and the prime minister are trying to do, to excuse their very bad performance, I think, is a red herring.

The BBC is also breathlessly reporting that Sally Keeble, a Labour MP and former minister who used to be a loyalist, has turned against Brown.

She said: «As the Prime Minister raised today, it was a Labour immigration minister who first used the term hostile environment, wanting to and I quote, «flush out illegal immigrants» and a decision as the Prime Minister said, was taken originally by a Labour adminisMinister raised today, it was a Labour immigration minister who first used the term hostile environment, wanting to and I quote, «flush out illegal immigrants» and a decision as the Prime Minister said, was taken originally by a Labour adminisminister who first used the term hostile environment, wanting to and I quote, «flush out illegal immigrants» and a decision as the Prime Minister said, was taken originally by a Labour adminisMinister said, was taken originally by a Labour administration.

He even goes much further than Labour ministers ever dared by using the «R» word (redistribution) and spelling out exactly what he means — «a tax system that means people at the bottom end of the scale pay less and at the top end of the scale pay more».

Labour leader Ed Miliband used his closing debate statement to challenge the prime minister to a head - to - head debate.

The Labour leader accuses the prime minister of using «phony» figures over the level of spending on flood defences.

The Labour leader accused the prime minister of using «phony» figures over the level of spending on UK flood defences.

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

Labour will use a special procedure that could ultimately see the Queen direct ministers to provide the documents.

«It is an insult to the people who work in the health service, it is an insult to the people who use it and the prime minister should be ashamed of the way he is running the NHS, the proudest institution of Britain,» the Labour leader said.

The Labour leader used the clash to push the prime minister on whether tax credit cuts would leave anyone worse off next year.

The Labour leader used his speech to the Commons to argue that Cameron's remark to the 1922 committee last night «demeans the office of the Prime Minister».

Mr Alexander's conclusion was echoed by former Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, who used a comment piece in the Independent newspaper to urge Labour to remain in the centre ground.

The survey of the 40 tightest Labour / Conservative battlegrounds comes as a further blow for Prime Minister David Cameron, who is trying to use his party's annual conference in Birmingham as a launchpad to secure an overall majority in 2015.

In the Commons tomorrow, Labour will use ancient parliamentary rules to force a binding vote which could see ministers having to hand over all the papers presented to the Brexit war Cabinet on the economic effects of both options.

Remember how, last March, a variety of departing Labour ministers were caught boasting about how they could use their contacts to help change policy and provide access to ministers in return for money?

The tragedy is that even before the print was dry on this section of Labour's manifesto, at least two Labour government ministers had been caught «red handed» (mis) using parliamentary expenses for party political campaigning.

Shadow defence secretary and frontbench colleagues attack Labour leader for saying he would never use nuclear weapons if prime minister

Some Labour MPs and advisers, however, point to possible signals that Mr Brown is indeed weighing up his options, including the return of Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell to the heart of government decision making, and the use of the Prime Minister's wife, Sarah Brown, as a campaigning weapon.

Pensions minister, Anglea Eagle joins the sorry ranks of Transport minister Sadiq Khan and Labour whip / Deputy Minister for the East of England Bob Blizzard in having had been caught using parliamentary expenses for Labour Party campminister, Anglea Eagle joins the sorry ranks of Transport minister Sadiq Khan and Labour whip / Deputy Minister for the East of England Bob Blizzard in having had been caught using parliamentary expenses for Labour Party campminister Sadiq Khan and Labour whip / Deputy Minister for the East of England Bob Blizzard in having had been caught using parliamentary expenses for Labour Party campMinister for the East of England Bob Blizzard in having had been caught using parliamentary expenses for Labour Party campaigning.