Sentences with phrase «labour think tanks»

Labour think tanks like the Fabians and their papers like the New Statesman seem dull.

The various Labour think tanks, pressure groups, and affiliated societies are also throwing their shoulders to the wheel.

«UK immigration officials have been on the receiving end of a four - letter outburst by former Home Office minister», the hon. Member for Slough, who «told a conference of a Labour think tank that the job could corrupt «even quite good and moral» people.»

The trade union is putting forward a resolution at Labour Party conference to «outlaw» the New Labour think tank from the party.

Business News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com File photo Labour Think tank, Health and Safety Ghana, is calling on Parliament to as a matter of urgency ratify the major International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions to protect the rights of workers in the country.

Not exact matches

There are no easy fixes for Canada's labour problems, with think - tanks and policy wonks suggesting everything from a reduction in EI to a Youth Employment Guarantee.

Marc Lee, economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a progressive Vancouver think tank, says that government action on the reforms suggested by labour will be hampered by ideological objections to running deficits in bad times.

Webcast live, the invited audience included academics, other central bankers, private sector economists and financial market experts, labour union representatives, senior officials from government departments and Crown agencies, representatives from policy think tanks, and the media.

Here in North America, a number of organizations have drawn on the Kuyperian legacy, inspired by the desire to be agents of God's kingdom in public life, including the Center for Public Justice (CPJ), the Christian Labour Association of Canada, and the Canadian think tank Cardus.

The Smart Prosperity Leaders» Initiative was launched by respected Canadian leaders from business, think tanks, labour, Indigenous Peoples, youth, and NGO communities.

Right - wing think - tanks in the 1980s circulated slogans such as «Labour will never rule again».

I'm afraid it's just another example of elitism on the part of the Labour party, an utter disconnect from the real lives of real people, an inability to contemplate the notion that the opinions of people outside think tank land might actually matter.

Labour's manifesto spending plans will leave the NHS facing a # 7bn funding shortfall by 2021, an independent health think tank claimed today.

Jon Gower Davies, a former Head of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Newcastle and a Labour Councillor on Newcastle City Council for 20 years, has written a report for the think - tank Civitas, entitled «Small Corroding Words: the slighting of Great Britain by the EHRC», which advocates the abolition of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, currently chaired by Trevor Phillips, the ex Labour member of the London Assembly.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

The first was from the Resolution Foundation, a think tank chaired by Conservative peer David Willetts and run by Torsten Bell, previously adviser to former Labour leader Ed Miliband.

So a new report from the think - tank Civitas, launched by veteran Labour MP Frank Field and parliamentary researcher Andrew Forsey, should be given credit for positive thinking.

The Global Sustainability Institute and the Green New Deal Group were among the think - tanks and pressure groups which signed a letter to the Guardian warning the Labour leader not to «play the next election safe».

As Rick Muir, whose research at the IPPR think - tank has closely influenced Labour's policy development, puts it: «Instead of these budgets being salami - sliced at the centre, you pool the budget down to the local level and then they can make more rational sense of it.»

Why would a website that claims to support The Labour Party and its aims publish an article written by the ceo of a conservative think tank where the general point of the article is, that so called Labour «moderates» must stay within The Party and continue the struggle to bring down Labour's elected leader?

The logical consequence of Labour slumping to third place in some polls would be for more Labour voters to start voting tactically just as they once routinely expected Lib Dems to, and the leftwing think tank Compass is now actively debating this idea.

In a speech at the IPPR think tank in London, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the closures would happen if Labour got into power.

Mr Healey will be reacting to a report from the New Local Government Network, a think tank overseen by former Labour minister Chris Leslie.

The think tank has said that Labour is «too weak» to win a general election as things stand under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

The suggestion, which was made today in a report from Eurosceptic think tank Open Europe and a version of which has already been aired by Labour's Rachel Reeves, would mean low - paid workers from EU countries lose an average of # 55 per week.

Shadow Cabinet minister Michael Dugher said Labour needed to stop acting like a «think - tank» and spend more time talking about issues the public cares about.

I didn't say that James All I did was mention in passing that it was telling that conservative think tanks produced reports on reactionary clerics and movements while Labour ones did not.

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

Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin today promised to make tax a central issue in the upcoming election campaign following a think - tank report that claims Labour will have to raise taxes if they retain power.

Speaking at the think tank Demos, the shadow chancellor said the party is committed to the progressive policies of New Labour in a manner which Mr Brown's administration is not.

Mr Denham, regarded as one of the few Blairites remaining in the Cabinet, made his comments in a speech to the Fabian Society, a Labour think - tank, yesterday.

In response to Jeremy Corbyn's speech at Labour conference today, Alexandra Jones, Chief Executive of the think tank Centre for Cities, said:

Others are identifying themselves as Labour supporters or free - market Lib Dems or working with think tanks trying to push conservative views in different directions to take the pain away.

In 2011, the Institute for Public Policy Research, a UK think tank associated with the Labour Party, advocated a job creation program - with compulsory takeup, on pain of loss of benefits - for the long - term unemployed only.

The Bow Group, a Conservative think tank, recently demanded he be expelled from the Party's Lords group over a claim he made that a Labour government would be preferable to the «long - term disaster» of Brexit.

The IFS is an independent think tank and widely respected, but that doesn't mean it's beyond reproach - some economists believe it underestimates the boost that Labour's investment plan would bring to the economy.

While Labour is planning to raise # 6.4 bn a year from these measures, the think tank warned that just a low level of «responsiveness» - higher earners changing their behaviour, such as by moving abroad - would reduce this to # 4.5 bn a year.

According to Momentum, the festival will feature more than 160 hours of workshops, debates, live music, art exhibitions, children's activities, plays, and parties, including a «political games corner», interactive art exhibitions, pop up think tanks run by various groups including «Mums for Corbyn», a four day Hackathon tasked with building the tools needed to win the next election, workshops on how to make a viral video, a play telling the stories of striking miners and live streams of the Labour Party Conference.

It came on the day that Labour's favourite think - tank admitted those concerned about mass immigration had been treated as «nasty, stupid and backward.

«The one cheering piece of news for Mr Cameron in the survey compiled by the New Local Government Network think - tank is that 46 per cent of Conservative Party candidates have a business background compared to just 18 per cent of Labour candidates.»

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

It is a little late, therefore, for the think - tanks of the Labour establishment, the Fabian Society and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), to publish their proposals for higher taxes on the better - off.

According to documents leaked to Hans — Martin Tillack, a German investigative journalist, and think tank Open Europe, many high - profile MEPs are members of the scheme, including Syed Kamall, Leader of Conservative MEPs; Glenis Willmott, the leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party; Sir Graham Watson, the president of the EU — wide Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe; and Nigel Farage, leader of Ukip.

I think that Cameron should stand firm on the centre ground and dig his tanks into position, leaving Brown to scramble around on the far right and left trying to shore up his vote in the Labour heartlands.

But Professor Chris Ham, chief executive of the King's Fund health think - tank, called on Labour to clarify its plans.

The think tank says that although the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats are all proposing to spend more on 16 to 18 education over the course of the next parliament, only Labour's spending plans will result in a real - terms increase.

The Labour government were taking policies directly from NGOs and green - left think tanks.

The report is published by the Fabian Society a think tank closely linked to the Labour Party.