Sentences with phrase «labour policy so»

These are issues that need to be central to SEA's work and to Labour policy so this should be a great opportunity to explore them in detail.

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«So no more hand - holding with Donald Trump - a Labour government will conduct a robust and independent foreign policy made in London.

The labour market data is improving, so the Fed is getting ready to withdraw some of its massive monetary policy stimulus — logical, you might say.

So if there are policies that would boost potential output — the sum of labour force growth and productivity growth — then we need to pursue them.

A small percentage of women (5 - 10 %) would reach this stage, but many maternity units policy says they will induce labour before 42 weeks, so in the UK, only about 3 % of babies are born after 42 weeks of pregnancy.

One that Krysia suggested though was that we go to the hospital antenatal classes too so that we could get a picture of how they expected labour and birth to progress and so that we would know what their policies were.

So they're grateful for the policy, but they'd really rather it was Labour introducing it instead.

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.

There's also the inconvenient little factoid that this is simply the continuation of a Labour policy first rolled out in 2009 http://www.smarthealthcare.com/111-pilot-09jul09 But Andy Burnham is from t «north so that's OK then.

So what is the FS / Labour policy on Right to Buy and public housing?

As in so many policy areas, Labour's legacy of change between 1997 and 2010 is being comprehensively rubbished by the new administration.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

Labour are competitive despite Corbyn — and they're competitive because of the legacy power of the Labour brand on key issues like healthcare and housing, and also because Labour have created and marketed so many retail policies (which, to be fair, has occurred under Corbyn's leadership).

Abbott claimed that Labour values under Jeremy Corbyn are the «exact opposite» of the Conservative party in each policy area, and no more so than in field of immigration.

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

Yet you can still see the potential for the SNP to push for policies that Labour might favour if it didn't have compete so hard on territory occupied by the Conservatives.

As Polly Toynbee: «There are policies here that Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling adamantly, and wrongly, refused to contemplate, so wedded were they to New Labour's rigid caution, triangulating themselves to death.»

One idea that played a part in Liberal debates in the 1960s — though it was never formally adopted as party policy — was to use labour's profit share to invest in firms» assets so that, over time, workers would build up their own share in firms» wealth.

So when did Labour's policy on an EU referendum shift from opposition to abstention?

Corbyn's recent remarks, in which he undermined Labour policy by stating that he would never sanction a nuclear strike, and more recently when he changed his mind over the so - called «shoot - to - kill» policy in the event of a potential Paris - style attack in the UK, have deeply angered many members of the parliamentary group.

After a barrage of bad press over his position on Trident and his flip - flop over the so - called «shoot - to - kill» policy for armed terrorists, you'd expect Jeremy Corbyn's stock to be sinking fast, even among the most starry eyed of the «Jez - we - can» supporters who voted him in as leader of the Labour party in September.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

«'' So, this policy was reviewed in 2013 with technical assistance from international labour organisations and major stakeholders like employers were involved, workers» unions and this document was crystallised and this policy seeks to give decent jobs to people,.

The policy issues are always difficult for Labour, but not more so today than on many occasions in the past.

Questioning Trident has been a big taboo in Labour Party policy circles for a couple of decades or so.

There were two incidents when loyal Scottish and Welsh Labour MPs were needed to vote through Labour government policies because so many of their English colleagues rebelled.

Unfortunately, as you say, actually nothing has changed in Labour's detailed «policy offer» so far — and won't unless the Left gets its collective act together and intervenes in the, deliberately Byzantine complexity, of Labour's policy making processes.

«Boosting the quality and quantity of the construction labour force is critical to deliver the homes and infrastructure that the country needs, so the # 34m construction skills fund is a welcome policy.

So what are the candidates in the Labour leadership election offering by way of immigration policies?

This weekend, the Sunday Times front - page (#) splashed details of what Labour's so - called «policy coordinator», Jon Cruddas said at a Compass gathering last weekend: that Ed Miliband's inner circle are wielding a «profound dead hand at the centre» to stop the party adopting bold policies.

The discussions do not need to lead to a firm policy programme, but we need to find out what views on Labour's future direction exist within the Labour Movement so we can then have a meaningful leadership contest in which the candidates and those voting understand each other.

Ever so briefly, it was official Labour Party policy to abolish the House of Lords.

Those figures explain why Labour scores so badly on having business policies that are good for the economy as a whole.

So, how does Carwyn and his Team Druid justify yet another manic departure from Westminster Labour policy?

«This is not about splitting the Labour party, this is about uniting the Labour party so we can heal the divisions that six years of Conservative government, huge anti-austerity policies, cuts that have been visited on the most vulnerable areas,» she said.

The news that potentially thousands of people have died as a consequence of the policies, decisions and structures set up under the last Labour Government is breath - taking and demonstrates so clearly why well meaning platitudes are just not enough when it comes to delivering vital public services.

It turned out to be neither, and so Miliband's Labour was left without a proper economic policy.

«Labour's last so - called «guaranteed jobs policy» squandered millions, placing young people in short term public sector jobs.

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.

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.

Whether it's a question about your membership, policy, or you're after your local Labour Party, we'd love to hear from you, so get in touch.

Certainly the Labour Party hopes so, launching an onslaught of backbench questions regarding the PM's adviser and his «devastating conflict of interest» with the ditched plain cigarette packaging policy.

So, Jim, you don't think there's a chance of Labour taking a serious turn to the Left, or of party activists getting socialist policies in the manifesto.

Take the Tories» underlined point that the proposed changes aren't so radical, after all: «These plans are an evolution of Labour's policy, not a revolution.»

And so, Labour believes that powers over devolved policy areas currently exercised by the EU should go directly to the relevant devolved body after Brexit, so that power is closer to the people.

The decision of Stop the War — so closely linked to Abbott and Corbyn — to link the threats to Western foreign policy will infuriate many centrist /» moderate» Labour MPs:

So far I've collected your ideas for the best doorstep Tory policies; the best attack lines on Labour; how best to describe our economic policy; and how to appeal to Lib / Con waverers.

The two parties have a difference stance on Labour's national insurance rise from 2011 with the Conservative manifesto proposing scrapping the policy and the Liberal Democrats arguing that it will be impossible to avoid the former government's tax rises while the deficit is so huge.

You are correct that I voted Conservative last time, and in the absence of any current Labour policies there seems little option but to do so again.

And so far in this campaign, Miliband has distanced himself from New Labour by adopting a series of left - wing policies: abolishing charitable status for private schools; extending the tax on bankers» bonuses; supporting the introduction of a mansion tax on # 2m houses and a so - called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions.