Sentences with phrase «labour needs only»

Labour needs only the barest lead in the popular vote to win an overall majority: not so the Conservatives.

Not exact matches

At best they can only find casual labour, and almost all of the refugees who are working still need the help of the Church to cover their bills.

Only 28 % of the women in the date eating group needed prostin / oxytocin (for inducing / augmenting labour), which was significantly lower than the 47 % who needed induction in the control group (p = 0.036).

But it added: «Women need to be counselled on the unexpected emergencies — such as cord prolapse, fetal heart rate abnormalities, undiagnosed breech, prolonged labour and postpartum haemorrhage — which can arise during labour and can only be managed in a maternity hospital.

A midwife is with me during labour and birth and the consultant present only if needed such as in an emergency

You need only take a look at the stream of supportive tweets from Labour front benchers to see how isolated he is.

If they want a few tips, Labour advisers only need to look back a few years to see how the Tories accused Brown of dithering at every opportunity.

Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming Labour leadership debate (as I have already pointed out on this site) as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates need to answer?).

Labour, which will have been in power for 12 years by this May, can not sell itself on a concept of «change»: right now, it's only real narrative is that the last thing Britain needs to do is change its government.

Labour does need to «TERRIFY» voters its the only way to regain people surport.

Although this scenario roughly corresponds to the «SNP kingmakers or wreckers» wedge which has a 14 % chance in the electionsetc.com graphic, because the smaller parties might also play a role and the SNP alone might be sufficient to sustain Labour in power, there is only an 8 % chance that Labour would need the Liberal Democrats as well as the SNP.

Only 25 % of the voting public supported the Tories, which has been conflated as a massive victory over Labour, in reality it means that the majority of people see through Tory duplicity but do not yet understand what is actually happening around them, that is where we need to focus on.

In Akinbade's words on that day before he sojourned to the Labour Party where he lost woefully recording only 8000 votes across 30 Local Governments and the Area Office in Modakeke, Fatai Akinbade II stated that he was no longer needed in PDP because you Omisore had captured everything in the Party and was still brandishing it to mock them.

«Last week we announced our intention to limit access our labour market for Bulgaria and Romania when they join the EU in January next year and work is under way to introduce a points system to ensure that only people with the skills we need from outside the EU can come to this country.»

Burke provides other arguments about the need for representatives to have the freedom to exercise personal judgement and suggests they are somehow more able to see the bigger picture but I'd be interested in hearing your opinion on whether there is any knoweldge, information or argument about the Labour leadership contest or candidates that is the preserve of MPs only?

The Meeting felt strongly that the Labour Shadow Cabinet needed instead to rally behind the union link, as the unions were not only crucial historically to the success of the Labour Party (electorally and financially) but would continue to be so in the future.»

Only 32 MPs need to vote against the government to wipe out its majority of 63, but canvassing carried out by the leftwing organisation Compass indicates that more than 100 Labour MPs will send a warning to ministers when they sign an early day motion opposing the move to part - privatise the Post Office when parliament returns on 12 January.

I think that it will not be long until Britain remembers why it needs a Labour party, if only we can remember why it needs a Labour party.

The Liberal Democrats have identified a quarter of the cuts they need to implement, but the Tories have identified less than a fifth and Labour only one eighth of what they will need.

Thanks to the anomalies of the electoral system, assuming the Lib Dems poll around 15 %, the Conservatives will need a 7 % lead over Labour to secure a majority, while Labour need muster only a 1 % margin.

After considerable boundary changes, the sitting Labour MP, Shahid Malik, will be defending a notional majority of only 3,999 (based on the Rallings and Thrasher figures), meaning that Simon needs a swing of 4.5 % to win the seat.

Why does the need for extra transparency only apply to Trade Unions and their relationship with Labour?

We will always need a party to take over when the Tories become old tired and useless, it may take a few terms but it will happen and then labour will win one or two terms and then think they are back have made it the Tories are gone only to find it's wrong.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

«The last time we had a good battling female Minister who stood up for Britain she was armed only with a handbag, yet with that one piece of equipment she came back with the biggest rebate we ever got: the rebate the Labour party stupidly gave away, and the rebate we need back.

In his article Roy sets out to make three arguments: that policy needs to be built on a consistent and coherent idea; that the only tenable ideological position for Labour is a social democratic commitment to greater equality and the freedom that is its product; and that Labour should eschew «news value» in favour of ideology.

«He is the only one who appears to understand Labour's need to get ahead of the Conservatives rather than to offer a better Labour yesterday.»

We only need to look at Tony Blair's 2003 speech to the Labour autumn conference for an alarmingly Messianic example.

His attacks on the fate of the local shipyard are only likely to send more voters to the polls - which is exactly what Labour, fighting a monolithic Tory party machine, desperately needs.

«The Labour party needs to unite and actions like this which are only being used to try to undermine Jeremy Corbyn's leadership must stop.»

I know that only a Labour Government can bring the change we need to make people's lives better.»

Cameron and Clegg have both said that they see no need for a referendum on Lords reform, because voters backed the idea at the 2010 general election, but Labour are demanding one and, with Tory rebels threatening to support them, ministers may decide that granting a referendum is the only way to get the legislation through the Commons.

«The only way to deliver the truly radical change that Scotland needs is to back Labour in Scotland.»

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

When Tony Blair said that Labour party members who were thinking of voting for Corbyn needed a heart transplant he was — from the heights of the grotesque wealth he has amassed only because Labour party members once upon a time put their trust in him — spitting on those outside the caste.

The government knows perfectly well what the problems are, and only needs to refer to the Labour party's manifesto to start finding solutions.

They replied that it might be possible but only with a different Prime Minister and that before they could give an official answer, they would need the approval of the annual Labour Party conference, then in session in Bournemouth.

And that's what we are hoping for, that's what the British people need if they could only examine those particular policies that Labour have put forward then I think things will begin to change.»

What could be a bad headline result for Labour in a batch of seats they only just missed out on in 2010 could be an excellent one in a batch of target seats they need for an overall majority.

although jack straw said that the link could be broke in 1995, when the only opposition to the public trusting labour agian was how the unions had behaved in the late 70's early 80's, the right of the party, would never sever teh link, as laobur need union money, and as for far left unions leaving well it's upto them

In comparison, our regular tracker on who people blame the most for the cuts still finds 48 % blaming Labour the most and only 18 % blaming the Coalition - suggesting that people may blame the last Labour government for the generic need for cuts, but once specific cuts are announced they may begin to apportion more of the blame more upon the present Government.

Whoever triumphs may not only determine Scotland's future, but whether Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party wins the majority it needs to form a transformative government across Britain.

«Only the Liberal Democrats are prepared to give Britain stability it needs in uncertain economic times, keeping the Government anchored in the centre ground and avoiding damaging veers to the left or right by Labour and the Tories.

The differences over Trident, aired in the city where Labour's only pacifist leader, George Lansbury, failed to persuade trade union leaders of the need to disarm in 1935, go to the heart of the differences between Labour's two wings.

The need for Labour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalLabour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coallabour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalLabour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalition.

In its place he declared the need for a «new settlement» which only the Labour party can deliver, rejecting the «heartless» coalition government and instead building a society where ordinary people «do well».

Labour is the only opposition the Tories have, people in this country need them to function as a democratic party, and you are a selfish, solipsistic drag on their ability to do that.

Well of course you only need to look at labour welfare reforms, the new deal, pathways to work, and of workfare, all American all taken by Labour, now you have Labour in American trying to steal how to get us to wave flags and dribble at the thoughts of Miliband being llabour welfare reforms, the new deal, pathways to work, and of workfare, all American all taken by Labour, now you have Labour in American trying to steal how to get us to wave flags and dribble at the thoughts of Miliband being lLabour, now you have Labour in American trying to steal how to get us to wave flags and dribble at the thoughts of Miliband being lLabour in American trying to steal how to get us to wave flags and dribble at the thoughts of Miliband being leader.

If the Conservatives need to worry about still being seen as a party that cares only for the rich, Labour need to beware of potential middle class Labour voters seeing the party as one only for the dispossessed and poor.

The Tories now have one more seat than Labour on the council - 36 to Labour's 35 - leaving the party only needing the support of the Dudley's one independent.