Sentences with phrase «labour policy agenda»

What really struck me was how feminised the Labour policy agenda has become, and what powerful evidence it provides for the shift in perspective that comes from having a significant body of women at the top of the party.

If the Lib Dems had formed a coalition with LAbour, either in 1997 or in 2010, it would have been a predominant Labour policy agenda based on the votes cast.

Not exact matches

Jennifer facilitates the contribution of the Business Council of Australia's CEO members across a policy agenda that includes economic policy and competitiveness; regulation; infrastructure and sustainable growth; labour market, skills and education; engagement with Indigenous Australians, global engagement; healthcare policy; and innovation.

He also spoke with senior researchers and staff from the Regional Australia Institute about the role of the regions on the national policy agenda and where core issues like labour force demands and decentralisation fit into the overall economic picture.

David Lammy's report for the Labour Party policy review This report for the Labour's Party's policy review, written by David Lammy MP, presses the agenda forward on paternity leave, calling for adequate pay levels and independent leave rights, paid antenatal appointments and part time leave and pay.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

The Blue Labour agenda is set out in an ebook from 2011, The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox (edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears and Stuart White), at the core of which is a powerful critique of Labour Party thought and policy since 1945.

Returning to the speech, I applaud the very talk of a renewed industrial policy - and am of the view that a distinctive Labour agenda in this area is AS important as that over public services.

But as last week showed, instead of providing the central plank of Labour's policy offer, it's this agenda that is now creating a major fissure within the shadow cabinet.

Despite all the attacks, I believe Jeremy's innovative and hopeful policy agenda will once again secure him the Labour leadership, and enable him to go on to be a great reforming prime minister.

There is frustration among some Labour policy leaders at Miliband's reluctance to embrace more of the report, designed to show how the left set out a redistributionist agenda in the post-crash world.

Its policies need to be opposed not supplemented by a Labour «get tough» agenda — the framework of the recent leaflet attacking UKIP.

«I've watched the last two Labour party conferences and the debate, and it seems to me that trade unions have an agenda not to promote some of the policy issues, but merely to defeat the government, defeat the platform,» Lord Morris told GMTV.

In January 2016, McGovern resigned from Labour's policy review on child poverty and combating inequality, as a protest against Progress being described by shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as having «a hard right agenda».

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.

He believes the Prime Minister's focus on the economy has left a dangerous void on other domestic policy issues, and he predicts that Labour will lose the general election expected next year unless it develops a wide - ranging, forward - looking agenda.

Miliband has been regarded with suspicion for a long time, especially since he wrote a piece for the Guardian in the summer of 2008 calling for Labour to adopt a bolder policy agenda.

Mr Brown needs a distinctive policy agenda because he will need to fight a different Labour campaign next time.

«In my view it is better for the Labour party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility in terms of introducing his new ideas, a new agenda - the same direction but new policies perhaps - in pursuit of that.

However, Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain insisted it was now time to stop «navel - gazing» and get back to delivering the policy agenda on which Labour had only been elected 15 months ago.

Torsten Bell, Labour's best policy brain, appointed director of resolution foundation, think tank that colonised living standards agenda.

Setting out his foreign policy agenda at this year's Labour conference, the foreign secretary David Miliband also signalled a break from Tony Blair's liberal interventionism.

On the very day that Ed Balls made his speech last week, there was a joint meeting of the three Labour policy commissions that deal with aspects of the economy, but the macroeconomic stance of the next Labour government was not on the agenda.

With the new Theresa May government seemingly hesitant about giving its full backing to devolution, Labour had a prime opportunity to steal a march on the government by seizing the cities and devolution agenda and putting it at the heart of policy as it prepares for a possible snap election.

«Jeremy Corbyn has missed a prime opportunity to seize the cities and devolution agenda back from the Conservatives, and put it at the heart of Labour policy as it prepares for a potential snap election.

So Labour was left trying to protect the victims of the Tory cuts agenda while accepting its underlying premises, also depriving itself of a coherent narrative linking together popular individual policies.

The problem is that it is not only Labour which will not push a trade union agenda but the trade unions themselves the leaders of which were prepared to do deals with Labour leaders to block anti-austerity policies at the recent NPF and therefore at Labour Conference too.

Leave out the obligatory attacks on the Labour record, and the prime minister's policy blueprint for rebalancing the economy, announced today, is simply a continuation of the dark lord's new industry, new jobs agenda.

Glasman's rhetoric about democratic control of industry has been used to pay lip service to the notion that there is a policy debate happening inside the party when in reality Labour remains hopelessly committed to an agenda of austerity - lite.

It is policy making on the hoof - the agenda «political survival of the Labour party» In only takes two or three Unions to realise that Labour will be out of office for the next few years and that they may as well save the millions of pounds they spend supporting Labour and instead engage in positive dialogue with the Conservatives «for free».

An initiative from the teams behind Labour Uncut, MessageSpace and Big Brother Watch, TechCentral?is putting technology and digital policy firmly on the party conference agenda for the first time.

Jon Cruddas, the Labour policy chief, is widely thought to view euroscepticism as part of his Blue Labour agenda and even figures like Chuka Umunna have expressed support for an In / Out referendum to settle the issue (I should know - he knocked on my door at election time and told me so).

On the left, the Labour leader is surrounded by Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru, who was once arrested for protesting over Trident and told to leave the Welsh Assembly chamber for calling the Queen «Mrs Windsor»; Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP, who is a fiery and accomplished debater intent on savaging Miliband for signing up to the austerity agenda; and Natalie Bennett of the Greens, who can promote precisely the sorts of policies core Labour supporters are desperate to see.

The acceptance of the policy by George Osborne and David Cameron is political in nature, but in failing to fight the argument they are allowing Labour to set the agenda in favour of higher marginal rates of tax in that people will assume that the Conservative leadership must have decided that it will raise money, otherwise they would oppose it

Tim Montgomerie valiantly tried to explain the sensible party policy that «will recognise marriage in the tax system and give fairness to same - sex couples» but for certain ConservativeHome contributors «Pink = gay = New Labour» and all that was bad about Tony Blair's homosexual rights agenda.

Labour should have started 2016 hammering Govt on economy and with policy agenda for future.

The report also shows that environmental laws, regulations and policies that include labour issues offer a powerful means to advance the ILO's Decent Work Agenda and environmental objectives.