Sentences with phrase «labour parties agreeing»

The motion set four conditions for the Labour party agreeing to air strikes against Isis and is now being cited by both supporters and opponents of air strikes as justifying their stance.

To appease its bedfellow, the Labour Party agreed to an independent review of Scottish higher education (HE) finance.

Not exact matches

So, in the current labour dispute between Canada Post and CUPW, it is Canada Post that has issued a lockout notice, that will likely come into effect on Monday at 12:01 a.m.. Both Canada Post and Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuck are hoping that CUPW agrees to binding arbitration (in which an outside arbitrator would review the dispute and arrive at decision that both parties would be bound to accept) before the proposed lockout dealabour dispute between Canada Post and CUPW, it is Canada Post that has issued a lockout notice, that will likely come into effect on Monday at 12:01 a.m.. Both Canada Post and Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuck are hoping that CUPW agrees to binding arbitration (in which an outside arbitrator would review the dispute and arrive at decision that both parties would be bound to accept) before the proposed lockout deaLabour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuck are hoping that CUPW agrees to binding arbitration (in which an outside arbitrator would review the dispute and arrive at decision that both parties would be bound to accept) before the proposed lockout deadline.

Leaders of both the Conservative and Labour parties, which don't normally agree on much, have ruled out the possibility of holding a «second referendum».

I agree with you about the liberal core bit but I don't actually think the Labour party is liberal.

Corbyn's leadership rival Owen Smith may have accused him of failing to do enough to stamp out misogyny within the party, but a number of female Labour members do not seem to agree with that.

I believed strongly that we should do this and our party agreed on Monday that we should also open talks with Labour.

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.

David Cameron hammered the «final nail in the coffin» of the Tory modernisation project by agreeing to work with far - right parties in Europe, Labour says

He's confident that politics as we knew it will return «because things right themselves and the pendulum turns», but when it comes to the Labour Party, Blunkett agrees there is not an obvious route to return to politics as before.

and the argument that «the Labour party's final abandonment of the «politics of conscience», of the protest tradition, and its full transformation into a party of executive authoritarianism» much overstated and, in my view, wrong - though others inside and outside the party might particularly agree with you.

The environment is not natural Labour territory, he went on, it could belong to any party, but as everyone at the discussion agreed it needs to be seized and made centre ground for everyone.

The Party of European Socialists has attracted some rather unfavourable comment in the FT and The Economist (and much positive coverage elsewhere) on our manifesto for the 2009 European elections — agreed by all member parties including Labour at our meeting on December 1 in Madrid: check it out at http://www.pes.org/content/view/1457/72.

an entirely obstreperous Lib Dem Party might force Labour to form a grand coalition with the Conservatives or at least agree to dissolve the government or lose all credibility themselves.

This makes the focus of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party on rail fares somewhat confusing: Corbyn's supporters and detractors alike agree he has shifted the party to the left, to concentrate on the party's «real» voters and issues.

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And that doesn't blunt anyone's ability to either disagree or, even, agree with the Labour party in or out of power.

First was the decision of the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties to match the Cameron pledge and agree to give the British people a say in the second half of this current parliament.

Ruth Kelly, who has remained silent on Labour politics since she quit as transport secretary during the party conference, agrees about the need for a more subtle approach.

Because even if Labour could agree to an alliance, it will only ever agree to one in which another party stands down to secure its victory.

[56] Inside the Labour Party, Harman has said she does «not agree with all - male leaderships» because men «can not be left to run things on their own»; and that, consequently, one of Labour's top two posts should always be held by a woman.

I agree with those who see in his remarks a desire for a more decentralised Labour Party.

How will you assure members and the public that Labour MPs will never again become so dissociated from reality and so institutionalised by Westminster that they do anything on a par with home flipping, expenses rigging, agree to lobby for money or do anything at all that brings the party into disrepute?

And in a further blow, the Labour MP claimed that Corbyn had «deliberately sabotaged» the party's agreed line on EU rules which could block Labour's plan to renationalise the railways.

I don't agree with «The Labour Party would not have existed without violent demonstrations and quite a few deaths».

Labour wouldn't reverse the 50p cut, and all parties agreed it was temporary: Tory MPs note Labour's opportunism

They are now working closely with Keep the Party Labour on those issues on which they agree.

Clause five of Labour's constitution requires the manifesto to be formally agreed by the party's stakeholders at a special meeting of the NEC.

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Labour MPs have now agreed a motion; «That this PLP has no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party», by 172 votes to 40.

So, while I entirely agree with the call for a return to socialist class - based politics I see no real basis for a left surge in the Labour Party.

In Scotland the Additional Member System agreed for the Scottish Parliament will hand Labour seats to parties to its right — the Liberal Democrats, SNP and even the Tories will benefit — and almost certainly lose Labour the majority it would have under the present system.

It will agree a programme which will be put to Labour Party conference for agreement in September.

Labour has set up a living standards and sustainability policy commission whose findings will be debated and agreed by the party's national policy forum in July.

Rebel Labour MPs are mulling whether to return to the front bench; though many are waiting to see if the party agrees to elections to the shadow cabinet.

Jeremy Corbyn has secured a significant victory after Labour's ruling body agreed to proposed changes that will make it easier for a leftwing candidate to run for the party leadership.

A last - minute attempt to get the Labour party to agree to revisit its link to trade unions in five years» time was seen off on Tuesday at a meeting of the Labour national executive committee (NEC), which voted overwhelmingly to back Ed Miliband's far - reaching reforms.

30 % of people (and 49 % of Labour supporters) agreed with a statement that Ed Miliband was the right leader for the Labour party.

Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system.

In the first stage a union member will have to consent positively to opt in so part of their political levy goes to Labour, and the number of union members that agree to that become the basis of a union's collective affiliation to the party.

Elsewhere, both parties agree they should abolish child tax credits for those on middle to high incomes and similarly, both say they would abandon Labour's child trust fund that gives # 250 to every newborn in the country to set up a bank account.

We were told that Labour couldn't possibly agree to us continuing to participate in a customs union by Labour spokespeople in the past and it is now party policy.

This was a long held Liberal Democrat (and Liberal) policy which would ensure a fairer distribution of seats, and which would almost certainly deny any single party an overall majority.The Labour Party was initially strongly opposed to this policy, and it was a mark of success for Wallace and the Liberal Democrats that it was agparty an overall majority.The Labour Party was initially strongly opposed to this policy, and it was a mark of success for Wallace and the Liberal Democrats that it was agParty was initially strongly opposed to this policy, and it was a mark of success for Wallace and the Liberal Democrats that it was agreed.

After a debate, the 129 delegates passed Hardie's motion to establish «a distinct Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour.&Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour.&labour.»

The timetable for the contest for the Leader of the Labour Party has been agreed by the NEC and will commence on Thursday.

The recent Labour Party conference agreed four conditions that would have to be satisfied before military action could be supported.

The shift, agreed by the shadow cabinet, is designed to prevent Labour being portrayed as the anti-referendum party in the European elections in May at a time when hostility to Brussels is gaining public traction.

While much blame can be placed on Labour's regulatory system for both the banking crisis and abuses that are regularly unfolding before the eyes of an incredulous public, the chancellor's focus today should have remained on the reputation of the City being «at stake» - as put to him by shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves - and a culture change, something that all parties agree to be critical.

Those polled were dismissive of the reasons offered for not holding a referendum, with 52 % saying that politicians who did not support a vote did so because they thought it would not give them the result they wanted, while 46 % of Labour supporters agreed — despite this being their party's policy.

The Conservatives have said they will only rejoin cross-party talks if Labour agrees to include funding from trade unions in the # 50,000 donor cap, in what would be a financially crippling concession for the party.