Sentences with phrase «labour was in government»

Balls said he respected Osborne, his old Commons sparring partner, for facing down the Eurosceptics in his own party, comparing it to his own decision to refuse to back joining the euro when Labour was in government.

For Murphy it's too incremental a change and won't achieve the desired result, but incrementalism was good enough for him in all other policy arenas when Labour was in government.

«That's the reality, however passionately we might think this is the right solution, but certainly when Labour was in government and we did the penny on NI [national insurance] for the NHS, it was a semi-hypothecation to say it's going to go on this specifically.

Hence when Labour was in government the Liberal Democrats could choose topics for three opposition days per session, and enjoyed rights to some (albeit fewer) interventions by frontbenchers during debates and question times.

Having failed to get the policies favoured by the left (for the most part and on the key issues) when in opposition, do you think that this will become easier when Labour is in government (and when the stakes are higher for the leadership)?

It's far from perfect but it is much more open scrutiny and debate than New Labour ever permitted, and when Labour is in government that will be important.

The party membership fell from over 400,000 to around 160,000 while New Labour were in government.

Perhaps if Labour had reciprocated the cooperation shown to them by the Conservatives when Labour were in government we wouldn't have had to endure the horrors of last Thursday, the injuries to police and members of the public, or the millions in costs to repair the damage and pay for the huge policing operation.

When Labour is in Government, under party rules, an election would only happen «if requested by a majority of party conference on a card vote».

While Labour were in government.

Lord Bach held a succession of ministerial posts while Labour were in government between 1998, when he was created a life peer, and leaving office after the general election defeat in May 2010.

Not exact matches

They are made to silence the objections of organized labour and make the government of the day appear as if it's acting in the national interest.

The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

And because the majority of Eritrean youths were now conscripted in the National Service, any business requiring their labour had to effectively rent them from the government.

They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

It's really important to work with labour and government, both Ontario and federal, to make sure we attract that investment in Canada and keep it here.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove urged the Prime Minister and Chancellor to listen to independent bodies that review public sector pay, after a week in which Labour attacked a government «shambles» for initially raising, then playing down hopes that the cap could be lifted.

Yanis Varoufakis: Isn't it astonishing that after Jeremy Corbyn was being described as «the longest suicide note by the Labour Party» about a year ago, today there is an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led governmenis an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led government.

A Labour, Corbyn - led government, might be what is necessary in order to create better circumstances both for labour and manufacturing capital in the United KiLabour, Corbyn - led government, might be what is necessary in order to create better circumstances both for labour and manufacturing capital in the United Kilabour and manufacturing capital in the United Kingdom.

LONDON — Tory peer Michael Heseltine believes Brexit will be so damaging that he would rather see a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn in power than see Britain leave the European Union.

Parliamentarians and socialists in the UK and Europe are calling on Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party and a longtime supporter of Venezuela's leadership, to denounce the Venezuelan government in light of recent events.

The opposition Labour Party, which had repeatedly called on Rudd to resign, said May was responsible and should explain her own role in the government's immigration policies.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

The memo was obtained by The Canadian Press and it criticizes the Trudeau government in several areas: For too quickly rejecting U.S. proposals, for insisting on negotiating alongside Mexico, and for promoting progressive priorities like labour, gender, aboriginal and environmental issues.

«With this Bill, this government has chosen to be bold and take a significant step in the world stage,» said the Progressive Labour Party's David Burt, Bermuda's premier and minister of finance.

If the Conservatives hadn't touched the federal corporate tax rate when they took office in 2006 — if they'd kept it at 21 per cent instead of lowering it to 15 per cent — government revenues would be $ 13 billion higher, the Canadian Labour Congress argued in a paper last January.

Trudeau explains why his government is pushing gender equality, indigenous rights, and labour protections in NAFTA talks

We sourced the oilsands direct jobs figure from The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry, a 2013 Petroleum Human Resources Council report that was funded in part by the Government of Canada and The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

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.

As widely speculated in the media, the government is proposing changes to the Labour Market Development Agreements (LMDA).

Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

Good labour relations in education and positive working relationships between provincial governments and teacher unions are a critical ingredient in the relative success of our public education system.

Positivity has been held back by rising labour shortages and the burden of complying with government regulations, and this should remind us that Brexit isn't the only game in town.»

In his closing speech at this week's Labour conference, Mr Corbyn pledged to curb rents in the private sector and said any redevelopment of a housing estate under a Labour government would have to be backed by a council ballot of residentIn his closing speech at this week's Labour conference, Mr Corbyn pledged to curb rents in the private sector and said any redevelopment of a housing estate under a Labour government would have to be backed by a council ballot of residentin the private sector and said any redevelopment of a housing estate under a Labour government would have to be backed by a council ballot of residents.

OTTAWA (April 20, 2018)-- Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME) is urging the federal government to step in and facilitate dispute resolution should a Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) labour dispute result in the discontinuation of normal rail operations.

Hopes were raised when government officials signalled a willingness to listen to the specific criticisms raised in particular by the Canadian Labour Congress and its German counterpart, the DGB.

As a young company, Gildan benefited from being in Canada, receiving government subsidies, and, when it hit a rough patch during the»90s, even borrowing from Quebec's labour - sponsored fund, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, which invested $ 3.5 million in Gildan shares starting in 1996 and lent the company up to $ 30 million in debentures.

The Canadian Labour Congress has for some time been calling for an increase in the Canada Pension Plan / Quebec Pension Plan, which the Harper government is strongly resisting and has successfully blocked up to now.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: «I think what we need in this country is something more robust like a War Powers Act so that governments do get held to account by Parliament for what they do in our name.»

Christian Labour MP Emma Lewell - Buck, whose bill urging the Government to measure food insecurity will be read in Parliament on Friday, said: «Now is the time for the Government to sit up and tackle the growing issue of hunger in our country.

Another cause has been the insidious notion (greatly encouraged by successive governments but particularly under New Labour - Old Labour tended to be much more traditional in its views on the family) that the family has many forms, that marriage is just one option, and that lone parenting is just as «valid» (dread word) a form as any other.

But those Tories who are part of the Government will in effect be pressurised to vote Yes, and the Labour and Liberal Democrats are keeping quiet.

In the 1960s, the Harold Wilson Labour government forced secondary schools to become comprehensive and the Catholic system changed in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II»In the 1960s, the Harold Wilson Labour government forced secondary schools to become comprehensive and the Catholic system changed in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II»in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II»in the spirit of Vatican II».

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... In every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it» (The Wealth of Nations Vol.

AUSTRALIA is a high - cost player in the global market - our costs of production have always been higher than those of the US and Brazil and others with whom we compete - and that is mainly related to labour costs and Government charges.