Sentences with phrase «labour policy while»

The Welsh First Minister also revealed he had to correct untruths regarding Labour policy while campaigning from stories picked up on Facebook by the public.

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I spoke to a contact who admitted that he and one other guy, also now working for the government, came up with the idea of the campaign over a drink while they were reading a story about Labour's policy in the Guardian.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

And he re-iterated the message while speaking at the international policy forum on the sidelines of the Labour conference in Liverpool.

But while one is raising money for charity, the other is calling out brands like Marks and Spencer and John Lewis for their pay policies — brands that the public love significantly more than they do Labour.

All this - and the unprecedented (in my memory) sight of Labour arguing against the Tories on economic policy while being backed — to all intents and purposes - by the CBI, Institute of Directors AND the TUC.

Labour offered only minor gains on education and their environmental policies — while superior to Cameron hugging a husky — proved lacklustre.

The labour market policies that the center - right parties pro-posed in the 2006 election campaign and implemented in 2006 — 2010 were designed to cut benefits for the long - term unemployed while cutting taxes on incomes from paid employment.

While stating that the speech would not contain a great deal of new policy, it did nonetheless reiterate several policies that were either been in the 2017 Labour Manifesto or have been highlighted by Abbott in previous statements.

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

While C1 / C2 voters in marginals put reforming welfare towards the top of their list of policy priorities, few believe this is a Labour priority.

The Focus E15 campaign has been on the front line of this battle for the past two years and while we congratulate Mr Corbyn on his new position, until he challenges the actions of Labour - run councils as well as government policy, we remain sceptical.

The Liberal Democrats oppose a like - for - like replacement of Trident, the SNP is committed to a Scotland free of nuclear weapons, Plaid Cymru and the Green party call for Trident to be scrapped, the Conservatives and Ukip support retaining Trident, while Labour appears to have no explicit policy.

In actual policy, Gordon Brown and the British Labour Party initiated the United Kingdom Child Trust Fund, while in the United States the idea has been implemented in the form of Individual Development Accounts and argued for by Michael Sherraden.

Accordingly, my poll found that while Labour were thought the best party on the cost of living, their lead vanished when it came to introducing practical policies that would work in the long run.

Prominent Livingstone City Hall alumni, Simon Fletcher and Neale Coleman, now occupy central roles in Jeremy Corbyn's office as chief of staff and head of policy and rebuttal while the former Mayor is co-chair of Labour's defence review.

But while the Coalition continues to crack down on Labour's rubber - stamped bogus colleges, the two Eds have been playing policy dodgems.

[161] Labour Party conferences now include more «keynote» addresses, guest speakers and question - and - answer sessions, while specific discussion of policy now takes place in the National Policy policy now takes place in the National Policy Policy Forum.

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.

Labour toughened up its immigration policy this week, after the latest in a series of apologies for having messed it all up while in government.

«This is important work, but if David Cameron demands results from local authorities, whilst pulling the carpet from beneath them while reforms are being shelved, this could be a wasted opportunity to properly expand Labour's family intervention policies.»

Conservative campaigners say that, while their core vote has remained solid, it's the Labour supporters which are expressing interest in Tory policies in a way that never really happened before.

And with the Labour Party already attempting to steal a march in fighting the «cost of living crisis», with policies rather than words the Liberal Democrats hope to show that they are doing while Labour are just talking.

She joined the Labour Party after a few pints of lager in the Student Union bar while at Lancaster University and went on to work for the Christian Socialist Movement, also working part - time for Corbyn and later as a policy officer for the British Association of Social Workers.

His speech - writing duties will be carried out by Seumas Milne, Corbyn's head of communications and strategy, and his policy adviser Andrew Fisher, while Labour search for a full - time replacement.

Labour's awkward compromise in this area makes it look like they can't decide, while Labour voters especially applaud the Tory approach to a get tough policy on welfare — they are often the people who see abuse of the system at first hand, and for them, fairness is about stamping on scroungers and shirkers.

Corbyn had been planning to offer Labour MPs a free vote while asserting that party policy was to oppose air strikes.

This mismatch must partly be explained by the fact that many voters also think, according to Policy Exchange's YouGov polling, that the Conservative Party chiefly represents rich people, businesspeople and people on middle incomes, while they believe Labour represents those on low incomes, trade unionists and people on benefits.

The appointment of Jon Cruddas as the party's policy co-ordinator has been widely welcomed while Tony Blair is letting it be known that he supports Labour's call for a renewed focus on growth.

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.

While much is made of the continuity between Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Diana Abbott and others with the legacy projects of the Labour left, and the absurd attempts by self - proclaimed «moderates» to conjure up the ghost of the early 1980s; the far more significant phenomenon is the discontinuity with the establishment consensus about austerity economics, and the development of economic policies by John McDonnell and his team which commit a future Labour government to calibrated state intervention for a capitalist economy that works.

In a survey of more than 2,000 adults, 79 per cent of Labour supporters said they wanted the policy scrapped, while 65 per cent of voters planning to support the Liberal Democrats in 2015 wanted it to be dropped.

While Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party have brought many improvements to party policy, much remains to be done.

Yet while Corbyn listed at length the achievements of Labour councils across the country, there was a distinct lack of policies to help those councils make their own decisions about how to meet the challenges they face (housing aside).

And like those other two policies it is the Tories who are now implementing them in government, while Labour (Adonis aside) can only stand on the sidelines and try to knock it down.

In an echo of the «ethical foreign policy» of New Labour's first foreign secretary, Robin Cook, he added: «It is not in our character to have a foreign policy without a conscience: to be idle or uninterested while others starve or murder each other in their millions is not for us.»

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.

While asserting that Labour policies would by some unspecified mechanism be more growth generating than those of the Coalition, he set the record straight on Labour and cuts, saying:

When Margaret Thatcher attempted to sever the link between unions and the Labour Party with the 1984 Trade Union Act, which required unions to regularly ballot members on whether they wished to continue pay - ing into their union's political fund, it was a direct attempt to cripple the Labour Party while reducing the influence of the unions on policy.

While Labour began to have some policy divisions during the election campaign, the Conservatives ran an efficient campaign that was well - funded and orchestrated.

Michael Dugher is determined to put» passenger power» at the heart of Labour's transport policies, while taking motoring back from the Top Gear types.

Labour will have a story to tell the voters about how it took the action to alleviate recession and avoid depression while the Conservatives sneered from the sidelines and proposed policies that would have made it worse.

His speech - writing duties will be carried out by Seumas Milne, Mr Corbyn's head of communications and strategy, and his policy adviser Andrew Fisher, while Labour search for a full - time replacement.

«I have been clear and consistent that I believe it is the right policy for the country to maintain a minimum credible nuclear deterrent, while working to advance global nuclear disarmament I am determined to continue making the case for Labour to have strong, credible Defence and security policies, and I feel that the most effective way for me to continue to do this is from the backbenches.

But Miliband needs to be brave and he needs to surround himself with senior people who have the profile and nous to clarify Labour's policy positions while attacking any Coalition slip up.

Speaking to BBC Radio Five Live following his election, Murphy said that while he disagreed with the «branch office» theory, he would not be consulting London on policy:» [t] he days in which anyone needed permission from the Labour Party anywhere else in the United Kingdom to make a decision about what happens in Scotland are gone and they're gone for good.»

Many policy chapters followed as Tory and Labour governments took turns changing priorities and ground rules but, by 1974, the British government was actively pushing for comprehensiveness in secondary schooling while also discouraging student selection.

The Labour MP Angela Rayner will continue her work as shadow education secretary following a reshuffle of the opposition frontbench, while former teacher Mike Kane will be responsible for the party's schools policies.

It notices that while Thailand has strong green policy, there is no comprehensive plan to train people on green jobs, no database and labour market information for existing green jobs, new green jobs and the new green collar jobs.

While focusing on litigation, Cam has assisted employers with a wide range of other matters, including the preparation of employment contracts and employment policies, collective bargaining and dispute resolution before labour, employment, human rights and other administrative tribunals.