Sentences with phrase «new labour ministers»

Twelve years of shameful neglect by New Labour ministers have brought Royal Mail to its knees.

I'd almost forgotten what New Labour ministers used to be like.

The idea of four New Labour ministers engaging in a turgid, managerial debate in public for a number of months, would not have offered the real debate the party needed, and filled me with dread.

Labour has split in two on the issue, with many - including former New Labour ministers John Reid and David Blunkett - preferring to keep the first - past - the - post system currently in use.

A newly revised and updated edition of Dirty politics Dirty times, Michael Ashcroft's personal account of his battle against an alliance of executives from The Times newspaper and leading New Labour ministers is now available to download (publication date 08 July 2009).

Six years ago Burnham was just another middle - ranking, identikit New Labour minister, but as he addressed the Anfield faithful he was a politician re-born.

Lord Andrew Adonis, former SDP councillor, turned Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, former speechwriter to Paddy Ashdown and latterly a New Labour Minister has told The Observer that he is right behind Ed Miliband's «party reform plans».

Their alleged victims include former New Labour minister Tessa Jowell and her estranged husband David Mills, former deputy prime minister John Prescott and former Lib Dem frontbencher Mark Oaten.

Amongst journalists he was one of the more popular members of the New Labour ministerial ranks, not least, as he has noted, because «I felt that I was the only new Labour minister who would drink at lunchtime».

In this race I'd argue that if anything, with the exception of not having been a New Labour minister I'm more qualified.»

Not exact matches

Moderator: Dr. Robert Campbell, President, Mount Allison University Panel: Dr. Alaa Abd - El - Aziz, President, University of Prince Edward Island Saeed El - Darahali, President and CEO, SimplyCast and Member, One Nova Scotia coalition Charles Ayles, Assistant Deputy Minister, Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, Population Growth Division, Government of New Brunswick

«It's very disturbing that Premier Clark's marching orders to her jobs minister made no mention of a job growth strategy,» said Shane Simpson, New Democrat spokesperson for economic development, jobs, labour, and skills.

Also noteworthy is the fact that four PC cabinet ministers were defeated: Norm Betts (Business New Brunswick), Kim Jardine (Environment and Local Government), Norm McFarlane (Labour), and Rodney Weston (Agriculture and Aquaculture).

«This new legislation is part of our overall commitment to fairness in Ontario's workplaces and will help ensure that women and other groups are treated equitably,» said Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

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.

Former minister Stephen Byers has called on fellow supporters of Tony Blair to unite behind new Labour leader Gordon Brown.

One former Labour cabinet minister criticised the «cocky» attitude of his new colleagues.

Morgan, a former aide to New Labour prime minister Tony Blair, made clear on Saturday she believes the Tories are making a series of appointments on partisan grounds.

The former Treasury minister and one time Labour leadership challenger is to examine modern British life including work, home ownership, education and inequality in the tome to be titled «The New Serfdom».

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.

The Hard Road to Power (with Giles Radice, 2015); The Predistribution Agenda: Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth (with Claudia Chwalisz, 2015); Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister (2013); After the Third Way (with Olaf Cramme, 2012); Beyond New Labour (with Roger Liddle, 2009); Social Justice in the Global Age (with Olaf Cramme, 2009); and Global Europe, Social Europe (with Anthony Giddens, 2006).

In a powerful speech in January 2011 the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, pledged that the new Government would «restore the hard - won liberties that we in Britain hold so dear» and which under Labour had been «undermined, eroded, lost».

Shadow Home Office minister David Hanson said that Labour would consider supporting May's proposals but said they would need longer to consider the impact of any new legislation.

Yet for all the controversy that new ministers have sought to generate with talk of compulsory community work for claimants, in truth they have struggled to match Labour's own record in terms of mandatory work programmes.

A serving Labour minister with a future stands up and says managerialism and triangulation are bad, New Labour is basically over, that Labour needs to be a movement again — gives tentative respect to the Iraq war marches, and says more public service reform and tax credits won't solve the challenges of a liveable decent society.

A political archeologist looking for traces of the edifice that was once New Labour message discipline could extract it from the bitten lips of former ministers now on the backbench, repressing the urge to attack their leader.

Former Conservative health minister Nicola Blackwood is to become a senior adviser at Global Counsel, the PR and lobbying firm set up by new Labour architect Peter Mandelson.

Whenthe new immigration minister James Brokenshire attacked what he called the «wealthy, metropolitan elite» for benefiting from cheap foreign labour, it's unlikely he meant to point the finger at the Prime Mminister James Brokenshire attacked what he called the «wealthy, metropolitan elite» for benefiting from cheap foreign labour, it's unlikely he meant to point the finger at the Prime MinisterMinister.

The extent of insults aimed at Miliband, emanating from No 10 on a matter as sensitive as response to the use of chemical weapons, suggests the prime minister has personally authorised a concerted counter-attack on the Labour leader as he seeks to divert blame before the new parliamentary term, which begins on Monday, and before a meeting of G20 leaders, including President Barack Obama, in Russia on Thursday.

Recall, that the Senate had on May 3rd confirmed the new ministers, Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) and Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) to replace the late Minister of State for Labour, Mr. James Ocholi (SAN), who died in an accident on March 6, 2016; and Amina Mohammed, who was recently appointed as the Deputy Secretary - General of the United Nations.

According to Pat McFadden, the shadow Europe minister, and a figure close to Blair, defeat flowed from Ed Miliband «turning the page on New Labour» and his failure to appeal to «the aspirational family that wants to do well».

The demand for a minister with a seat in the cabinet will come in a new research report to be launched by the union at the Labour party conference on Sunday (24 September).

Prime Minister Tony Blair has rejected claims carried in a new book that he had backtracked on several pledges to hand Gordon Brown the Labour premiership.

Take Labour's current predicament: an elderly, leftist leader faces a new Conservative Prime Minister.

Labour MPs from west London told the Guardian that a new strategy will target cabinet ministers individually, the most «significant» of whom would be the business secretary, Peter Mandelson.

[267] This led to Labour leader Ed Miliband calling the PCC a «toothless poodle,» and in agreement with Prime Minister David Cameron proposed the creation of a new press watchdog.

Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.

Labour would have sought a new prime minister in May 1940 because of the failures of appeasement but their intense dislike of Chamberlain made it inevitable.

Substance Not Spin, the new book by the former Labour minister Nick Raynsford, is an altogether different beast.

Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, says any attempt to reverse the increased utility tariffs and new taxes will negatively affect government's ability to fix the energy crisis.

This was post-war Labour prime minister Clement Attlee's sage advice to new MPs.

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.

Paul Sweeney, one of Labour's new MPs in Scotland, becomes shadow Scotland minister.

The prime minister voted against the ban when it was introduced under Tony Blair and New Labour.

Meanwhile Welsh Labour's press team are reminding twitter users of previous controversies involving the new Wales Office minister, Alun Cairns.

Mr Smith will also say that Labour «has got its mojo back» under Ed Miliband, who yesterday pledged a series of new powers for the Welsh Assembly if he becomes Prime Minister.

In his speech to the Welsh Labour conference, First Minister Carwyn Jones announced that the Welsh Government is creating a new Entrepreneurship Support scheme to encourage new businesses and jobs.

The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations has hinted that negotiations on a minimum wage and base pay are scheduled to begin soon and end by the close of February.Nii Armah Ashietey said it is likely there will be a new wage though he said that will be contingent upon the outcome of the negotiations.Mr Ashietey was speaking with TV3...

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.