Sentences with phrase «labour politicians»

In the glorious Blair years we had a lot of senior Labour politicians who had cut their political teeth in various protest movements such as CND & CCL & it seems to me that they never really realised the importance of the gulf they stepped over in going from activism to democratic government.

His comments echo those of a Conservative source in response to the NAO report, which said the «negative picture» painted by the unions was the «greatest threat» to recruitment and called on unions and Labour politicians to back the government's plans to increase teacher numbers.

But there has been opposition from teachers, Labour politicians and from some Conservative MPs and councillors.

During the 1950s and 1960s, it was said, mainly by Labour politicians and egalitarian educationalists, that the selective education system reinforced class division and middle - class privilege.

The promises Labour politicians (and I include Ray Collins in that category) have made to trade union leaders in recent years have been proven to be amongst the most worthless politicians make to anyone.

Imagine Greg Dyke, for the Lib Dems, Ken Clarke for the Tories and Alan Sugar representing business sitting at the cabinet table: there would certainly be real discussion and new perspectives offered to a swathe of Labour politicians who have been stuck in Whitehall for too long.

It ought not to surprise us that nearly all the money for the No campaign is Tory money, even if they have tried to camouflage this by using as mouthpieces some machine Labour politicians such as Margaret Beckett and John Reid.

The inheritance bequeathed to Dugdale by previous generations of Scottish Labour politicians is already difficult enough without any such disunity further deepening it.

Two senior Welsh Labour politicians are now publicly at odds over something important to the party (the NHS) and extremely sensitive (a painful personal experience of the NHS.)

Mr Kenny criticised the language he said had been used by some Labour politicians in recent weeks describing it as «disappointing and insulting» and said he would not be surprised if some members wanted to disaffiliate from Labour entirely.

This is a cynical attempt by Labour politicians to brush evidence about underperformance and failure in the Welsh NHS under the carpet.

Dozens of Labour politicians marched across Westminster yesterday in an extraordinary show of support for Jewish MP Ruth Smeeth ahead of an anti-Semitism hearing.

If it is the former, then the fathers, mothers, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, friends and neighbours of Labour politicians should make sure they have never done anything that might merit a news story.

Senior Labour politicians joined the calls for a fresh investigation into the claims of phone - hacking by the paper.

There are two problems for the Labour politicians running the Welsh Government.

The Welsh Conservatives are describing Carwyn Jones» comments about a campaign group in support of A&E services at Llantrisant's Royal Glamorgan hospital as a «slap - down'to Labour politicians involved.

The Darlington MP was one of the first Labour politicians to speak out on the scandal, saying to reporters: «For years it has been members of the Labour party who have been on the receiving end of vicious briefing campaigns...» This episode, he continued saying, has «inflicted huge damage on the Labour Party.»

Growing up, their Primrose Hill home played host to the leading intellectuals and Labour politicians of the age, with dinner guests including Ken Livingstone and Tariq Ali.

The most reassuring for Left Futures readers will be the fact that Peter Mandelson is thought to be a liability by 61 % of both party members and trade unionists, by a very long way the most unpopular of Labour politicians.

moment for many Labour politicians.

The party's soul - searching means that as other Westminster politicians slip away for post-referendum holidays, Labour politicians are gearing up for what appears ready to be a bare - knuckle fight for their futures.

Ed Miliband said the Team Scotland of Labour politicians «helped save our country» in the Scottish independence vote, after «our country nearly broke up».

However, it is interesting to note that local and national Labour politicians have not been subject to the same degree of scrutiny over their own gerrymandering.

When I listen to Labour politicians speak about Northern Ireland, I can not believe they would say the things they do if people from Northern Ireland were more actively involved.

In our modern world it was inevitable that Labour politicians would soon offer up their take on that selfie.

Imagine the outcry there would have been from Labour politicians six months ago if David Cameron, the Leader of the Opposition, had gone out and endorsed a struggling Prime Minister somewhere else in the world, a week before polling day in that country's general election.

Welcoming Janet's selection, Peter Black AM, Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, said: «Janet Ellard will make an excellent voice in Parliament after so many years of neglect by endless Labour politicians taking the people of Ogmore for granted.

Labour politicians have long pointed to their «Plan B», and their deficit reduction strategy that would, apparently, be carried out slower than the Coalition plan, and be less «painful».

But he said he thought it was «legitimate» for Labour politicians such as Mr Bradshaw and Mr Bryant to point to the Conservative voting record on certain issues.

Kaminski's record was revealed by journalists, not by Labour politicians.

There are too many Labour politicians (step forward, Ed) who are indistinguishable from Lib Dems or Conservatives (or Greens or the SNP or Plaid Cymru) in that they have never had a job outside politics or the media or practising law, and hardly any Labour MPs have had manual jobs or office / secretarial jobs... this disconnect has meant that politics at national and local level seems simply to be the public arm of yet another middle class «profession».

So London turns a blind eye to institutionalised corruption, and allows Labour politicians and thousands of hangers - on to fill their boots.

When the Daily Mail attacks Labour politicians there is a tendency to simply shrug the shoulders and move on.

But instead of flowering into the next generation of front - rank centrist Labour politicians, they have remained dormant, preferring shorter hours and higher wages in the private sector to fighting for the soul of their party.

Almost 30 years since the Limehouse Declaration marked the defection of four senior Labour politicians to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a fledgling Lib Lab pact is being forged.

One piece of advice from lawyers, leaked to the Guardian, suggests that the leader may automatically have the right to run again without backing from Labour politicians.

But the leadership has been decided and Ed Miliband should be given space to lead the party alongside the new generation of Labour politicians.

Labour politicians, some anxious to keep their own pet policies in the spotlight, were sceptical and argued endlessly over what the key promises should be.

I find him one of the most likeable prominent Labour politicians.

The great advantage Tory grandees have over Labour politicians is that they don't have to act, they have no problem saying, «Grandfather was a banker and I'm a banker».

To date Gordon Brown has been on a slow downwards trajectory — his ratings have taken knocks after the stock market falls in mid-May, after his backing of Trident in June and after Lord Levy's arrest when all the Labour politicians tracked saw their figures drop to some extent.

And in a remarkable show of solidarity, around 50 Labour politicians escorted her across Westminster to give evidence to a disciplinary hearing on anti-Semitism last week.

To decode - for Miliband, there will be no repeat playing out of the Blair - Brown wars, neither in the next generation of Labour politicians nor in his own family.

This was a consequence of Labour politicians being unwilling to make the positive case for Europe because of its perceived unpopularity amongst voters.

Despite Labour's commitment to half the budget deficit within four years (beginning in 2011 rather than 2010), and their admission that this would entail having to make cuts «worse than Thatcher», Labour politicians were rarely pressed on the subject on «The Andrew Marr Show» throughout the months leading up to the general election - unlike their Conservative opposite numbers, who were regularly pressed on the subject.

Labour politicians are being knocked about in the Commons, and in every broadcast studio into which they go, because their answer to the obvious question, «What would you do?»

To not follow up is morally indefensible although how many Labour politicians could force the issue is debatable.

Ed Miliband says the Team Scotland of Labour politicians «helped save our country» in the Scottish independence vote.

However, continuing sluggish economic growth and declines in mining and heavy industry weakened his base of support and, although Baldwin was supportive of Labour politicians forming minority governments at Westminster, his government also saw the General Strike in 1926 and the 1927 Trades Disputes Act to curb the powers of trade unions.

According to the Muslim Women's Network UK «It appears that over decades senior Labour politicians have deliberately turned a blind eye to the treatment of Muslim women because votes have been more important to them than women's rights.»