Sentences with phrase «labour sacred cows»

Labour should focus on overcoming these challenges — which may require the slaying of some Labour sacred cows — and not presume that we are stuck in an inescapable secular stagnation.

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He was secretary of state responsible for the Department for National Heritage — later rebranded the Department for Culture, Media and Sport by Labour — in John Major's Conservative government in 1992 and famously warned that «the press — the popular press — is drinking in the last chance saloon» and called for the «sacred cow» of press freedom to be curbed.

Cameron is in a fairly strong position because Labour is in Kinnock mode: electoral realism fatally compromised by inability to slay unpopular sacred cows.