Sentences with phrase «new labour government»

The New Labour government of 1997 applied the idea to legal aid.

And yet, as the New Labour government knows only too well, one must be whiter than white oneself for accusations of political sleaze not to come back to haunt you.

To make the point then, that this is not new, not unique to environmentalists, and symptomatic of some broader phenomenon, it's worth pointing out that the New Labour government attempted to create a «quality of life barometer «in 1998.

In 2009, Stein Ringen, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford, gave his assessment of the New Labour government and the state of the British constitution.

The New Labour government's thrice - repeated education pledge meant a real opportunity to improve literacy and numeracy teaching, including money to help failing readers and information for teachers about phonics, grammar and spelling — essential elements of literacy that had been neglected for decades.

Standard & Poor's warned Alistair Darling in 2010 that he would need to put debt on a similar trajectory if a new Labour government were to avoid a downgrade.

The goal of eradicating child poverty completely by 2020 was enshrined in law by the New Labour government, but its coalition successors doubt this can be achieved.

Tony Blair's New Labour Government significantly expanded PFI as a convenient way of funding public infrastructure «off balance sheet.»

He thanked deleates for attending and gave the re-assurance that the dialogue would continue with, hopefully, the new Labour government post May.

Diane Abbott's presence in the race electrifies the contest not because she is a black woman (though that is not unimportant) but because she has held a very different position on a number of key policies from the New Labour government of which the four men were members.

He can continue the fantasy that a new Labour government would return to the spending levels seen in the boom of the 2000s.

An entertaining and informative account of the infighting behind the scenes of the New Labour government.

Burnham, who was forced on to the defensive earlier this year over his actions as health secretary relating to the Mid-Staffordshire scandal, is viewed as the most at - risk figure from the final year of the New Labour government.

Until 2015 the NHS will only receive annual rises of 0.1 % above inflation, following ten years of funding from the New Labour government.

When in opposition the Conservatives had suspected the New Labour government of being overly optimistic, reflected in a series of embarrassing downgraded growth forecasts.

In the early years on the new labour government, female columnists even wrote about having major crushes on Brown, how sexy he was.

Then, between 2002 and 2006, under the New Labour government, some 1,500 previously separate jobcentres and benefit agency offices were integrated into a network of 800 Jobcentre Plus (JCP) offices.

Under thirteen years of this deceitful New Labour government, Gordon Brown's tax hikes have ensured the property ladder remains out of reach for an entire generation.

Spending on education as a proportion of GDP rose steadily in the period 1997 - 2009, reaching its highest point of 6.2 % of GDP in the period 2009 - 10 during Gordon Brown's New Labour government, according to the IFS.

Their thinking was that these moves towards choice and competition were actually extensions to the piecemeal changes pushed through by the New Labour government.

Asked if he was not damaging Labour by releasing the memoirs just as the party struggled to recovery from losing power on the Today programme this morning, Lord Mandelson insisted it presented a «very good and flattering» portrait of Mr Blair, Gordon Brown and the New Labour government.

NHS Direct was first established in March 1998, as part of the New Labour government's plans to reform the Health Service.

The work and pensions secretary used an article in the Telegraph paper to mount a sustained attack on the New Labour government's «sorry story of dependency, wasted taxpayers» money and fraud».

She's worried about the New Labour government's «broken promises» and doesn't think it's worth bothering campaigning again.

Mr Purnell said: «Welfare reform is a key part of any new Labour government.

He was appointed foreign secretary in the new Labour government although he lost his seat at Smethwick in a bitter contest tainted by racial slurs.

When the Conservatives lost the 1997 Election, the New Labour government converted the Constitutional Convention's proposals into a White Paper and a referendum of the Scottish people was held on 11 September 1997.

Davies says that Lord Mandleson rejected the idea of a Faustian pact between New Labour government and Rupert Murdoch.

However, the new Labour government's School Standards and Framework Act 1998 made provisions for local ballots on the future of grammar schools.

Conservative and Lib Dem ministers have struggled to win over Labour to their proposals, which had concentrated on former justice secretary Jack Straw's work in a white paper published towards the end of the New Labour government.

So, for example, when Tony Blair committed the New Labour government to raise UK health spending to the EU average (from about five per cent of GDP to about eight per cent at the time) that was a significant commitment.

Gen Sir Richard broke Whitehall convention by placing political pressure on the New Labour government to provide his troops with better equipment and support.

In 1997, the new Labour Government gave the Bank of England the power to set interest rates.

Fisher hit the stage just moments before The Smashing Pumpkins (a US band partial to their own political statements) saying «the New Labour government backs our British bands and applauds the role this festival has in putting them on the map».

The sledgehammer of the 2008 financial crisis had smashed Britain's prosperity, but at least the ailing New Labour government had some good news for voters.

That report had a major influence on the New Labour Government that followed in 1997 and I know that The Condition of Britain will make the same contribution: helping us to define a new approach to the challenges that confront the Country.

Many Joiners hit by austerity hope a new Labour government would restore some or all of what they have lost out on.

Gordon Brown's «bigotgate» disaster helped bring down the New Labour government because by writing off Duffy, Brown was writing off millions of other voters too.

Present arrangements were introduced under the New Labour government.

In 1992, Labour published its Right to Information Bill: shadow home secretary Roy Hattersley promised that it would be the first piece of legislation introduced by a new Labour government.

Last but certainly not least is another Act from the early days of the New Labour government, which is notable for one reason above all others: It made it an offence to detonate a nuclear bomb.

On launching his leadership bid, McDonnell, who vehemently opposed the Iraq War and was an ardent critic of the new Labour government, called for «a challenge to the present political consensus».

Alistair Campbell once said of the New Labour government «we don't do God», and there remains strong reasons why the current government should continue to abide by this principle.

Labour's deputy leader was given a standing ovation as he delivered an impassioned defence of the New Labour government.

Thanks to a BBC Radio 4 documentary, The Royal Activist, it's emerged that Charles lobbied ministers in the New Labour government on a range of issues.

She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.

The fact is that the New Labour governments were well to the right of the vast majority of Labour supporters, and clearly needed correction, but let that pass.

Of course, New Labour governments had no corresponding inhibitions about engaging in wars of «liberal interventions» to its prohibitive reservations about industrial policy interventions — because of the «moral hazard», presumably.

Rather it is that, in their headlong rush into neo-liberal politics, New Labour governments showed scant interest in its working class constituency.

And so far so good, because the New Labour Governments, of which Mr Miliband was such an enthusiastic supporter, largely adopted what the «adaptive European Right» was offering.