Sentences with phrase «labour policies such»

The party has built its success on occupying a range of formerly popular Labour policies such as free university tuition, free NHS prescription charges and maintaining a public sector health service.

Can the SNP come under unrelenting pressure about whether they would back Labour policies such as hiked taxes on the top 5 %, increased corporation tax, a statutory living wage and sweeping public ownership?

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But it also has policies directly addressing issues common to the garment industry, such as prohibitions on forced and child labour.

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

It looks particularly at the elements that have evolved differently to what was expected two years ago, such as the terms of trade, the exchange rate, growth, labour markets, inflation and consequentially monetary policy settings.

Promoting such policies for the Labour machine was Momentum, a grassroots campaigning network which arose from the 2015 general election.

As an immediate response to Labour's losing a considerable number of those middle - class voters, Tony Blair and his close aides, such as Peter Mandelson and David Miliband attacked Ed Miliband for ditching their policy of aspiration.

Therefore New Labour needs to talk less about clever theoretical things such as policy (because women have very small brains) and appeal rather more to their hearts (because women, though dumb as toast, do have very large hearts).

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposLabour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposlabour movement opposition.

Labour's media allies - in the BBC and also such papers as The Independent and the The Mirror - have been denouncing the policy with great prominence.

As a matter of policy, many early Labour MPs such as Will Thorne and Herbert Morrison spurned the Liberal Party's support of free trade, «frankly recognising that control over imports represented a more logical policy for a socialist government than free trade» (Pugh 2010: 29).

In addition, he claims this decline threatens the link between trade unions and the Labour party, as it becomes increasingly undemocratic to have these smaller organisations having such a large say in the development of party policy.

Combined with other popular policies, including withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, such a shift in orientation would place Labour in the best position to fight the forthcoming election campaign.

As part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as Croatia.

Such policies would reduce Labour's electoral support — not increase it.

However, more moderate «Corbynites» such as Emily Thornberry (a solid centre - left MP until 2015) and Angela Rayner (whose free school meals policy was widely praised by Labour centrists) could hoover up more support, potentially even beyond the Labour left.

Unions should no longer have such a large say in how Labour party policy is formulated, a former T&G leader has suggested.

The 19 leading figures from groups such as Fabian Society, Compass, Policy Network and Progress expressed unease that Labour's leader may not secure a mandate for the kind of reforms they believe Britain needs.

Douglas Alexander told the Scottish Labour conference that his party should hold the Lib Dems to account for their role in implementing policies such as welfare reform and a rise in tuition fees.

When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national interest.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

A majority of voters back Labour's policies in key areas such as the NHS, minimum wages and energy pricing.

Yet, agree or disagree with the Labour campaign to stay in the single market, such a policy does not represent an alternative to Corbynism as an identity, it is simply a policy (however vital people may judge it to be).

In my North Kent hinterland I can see this policy going down like a bucketload of cold sick in towns Labour needs to win, towns which are alienated and impoverished (more so than Canterbury which we won) but elected Tories — and voted Leave in droves — such as Gravesend, Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Sheerness.

And the public is right too that such a policy is perfectly possible, and that that is what Labour should now be promulgating.

Hence, «Toris have no Policies», «increasingly empty rhetoric» and other such phrases are liberally scattered about as the mindless mantra of the Labour attack.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

In the days after the Budget, unease grew as Harriet Harman, the party's acting leader, and Chris Leslie, the shadow chancellor, signalled that Labour would not oppose Conservative policies such as the 1 per cent cap on public - sector pay rises for four years and the reduced benefit cap of # 20,000 (# 23,000 in London).

Such is the divisive nature of the policy, it's unlikely that the Conservatives, Lib Dems, or even Labour would want to go anywhere near it, let alone formalise it as a legislative commitment.

Lord Layard, often cited as the origin of many New Labour economic policies such as the «New Deal», has since devoted his attention to «happiness economics».

Labour's manifesto contains new pledges on the minimum wage, rail fares and childcare, alongside policies such as the mansion tax.

New labour can not create social justice through equal oppurtunity alone, they need to have policies that directly end poverty such as getting down the price of gas through state intervention, building council houses through state intervention.

After a series of damaging news stories such as Corbyn's questioning of the shoot - to - kill policy for terrorists, ComRes now gives the Conservatives a 15 - point lead over Labour.

The trouble is at the moment Labour lacks the credibility to sell such a policy to the British public.

Since then, Jim Murphy, Labour's new Scottish leader, has fought pugnaciously to revive the party's fortunes, with bold new policies (such as promising to hire 1,000 more nurses from the proceeds of the UK - wide Mansion tax, which very few Scots will pay).

Labour is moving leftwards, not necessarily far left, but my point is that there are many unknowns such as the McClusky / union ties, or any kind of policy which is in the public domain which are yet to play out.

If inflation was to rocket, or Labour were to suddenly abandon vast swathes of policy in panic then maybe such a strategy would work, but I rather think that the general Public perception will be that David Cameron and George Osborne are not up to the job of government.

When audience members at the fringe suggested that there were serious policy differences between Labour and the Lib Dems — such as the attitudes of the two parties towards civil liberties — Campbell's fellow panelist, former Labour home secretary Charles Clarke, joked that he was «surveillance master in chief».

How is it possible that Labour should put in such a poor performance on the EU in terms of its policies, broadcasts and printed material without this leading to some critical reflection?

A Labour source said such sites routinely received hundreds of postings a day, most of which were perfectly innocent messages about party policies or events.

The membership of each of Labour's policy commissions is drawn from our National Policy Forum, the Shadow Cabinet and our National Executive Committee, and reflects all parts of our movement, including grassroots Labour Party members, representatives of affiliates such as trade unions, and elected politipolicy commissions is drawn from our National Policy Forum, the Shadow Cabinet and our National Executive Committee, and reflects all parts of our movement, including grassroots Labour Party members, representatives of affiliates such as trade unions, and elected politiPolicy Forum, the Shadow Cabinet and our National Executive Committee, and reflects all parts of our movement, including grassroots Labour Party members, representatives of affiliates such as trade unions, and elected politicians.

Indeed, the topics for discussion by Labour's national policy forum (NPF) this year were deliberately designed to exclude such «controversial» subjects.

Many Labour MPs had no idea that such a bold move was in the offing, but Ed Miliband is limbering up to flesh out the policy in a speech in Warwick today.

I can not believe the Conservatives and Labour have considered the ramifications of such a policy.

Mary Creagh MP, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said: «The white paper fails to set out a clear plan for major challenges such as reforestation or biodiversity loss; nor does it deal with concerns about planning policy.

Unilateral nuclear disarmament did not cause the secession of the SDP, since it did not become Labour Party policy until two years and a General Election after that direct intervention in the British electoral process by a President of the European Commission as such, a true betrayal of Gaitskell, Bevan, Bevin, Attlee, the lot.

To open dialogue with affiliated trade unions to win support at Labour Party conferences for democratic rule changes and for pro-working-class policies on issues such as cuts, the living wage, jobs, and trade union rights.

He hasn't splurged out policy announcements full of true conservative «red meat» because he knew Labour would either steal such policies or denounce them to Kingdom Come as nasty Thatcherism.

Bell and Saatchi and Saatchi produced memorable posters for the Conservatives, such as a picture of a British soldier's arms raised in surrender with the caption: «Labour's Policy On Arms» — a reference to Labour's policy of unilateral nuclear disarmPolicy On Arms» — a reference to Labour's policy of unilateral nuclear disarmpolicy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Now if we are driven into voting for UKIP, which does still espouse many Traditional Tory Policies, is unequivocal on a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and which has eschewed all the Eco-rubbish which has beguiled the other political parties such as New Labour, New Conservative and the Lib Dems, this may not win any seats for UKIP at the next General Election, indeed they will be lucky to hold onto Bob Spink's seat at Castle Point under FPTP.