Sentences with phrase «new labour reforms»

I am not advocating that we bloat the Lords back to numbers last seen before New Labour reforms.

Not exact matches

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

Does anyone think we would be reforming electoral system an outcome desired by no - one, if New labour had won.

I've argued on my own blog (http://hands-of-the-many.blogspot.com/2010/05/next-labour-will-change-be-moderate-or.html) that New Labour represented an understandable compromise with the upper class so that the overwhelming hostility to the party in the press would be lessened, and the party could communicate its message to a wider audience - and then, build the coalition which brought the party to office, and enabled the much - needed social democratic reforms to take place.

New Labour's introduction of devolved national assemblies in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland in the late 1990s signalled the starting - shot to a race for reform.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

The second key plank of the New Labour That Wasn't was the advocacy of a pluralist polity: Charter 88's platform of devolution, a UK Bill of Rights for the UK, electoral and House of Lords reform and freedom of information.

While New Labour took a much weaker line on reforming the economy, on the side of political reform, New Labour of course adopted and delivered on a number of the pluralists» commitments.

Today there is a new democratic frontier for the labour movement in Britain: reforming Westminster's creaking establishment.

But if there is a lesson to be learned from turning back to the insights of New Labour's road not taken, it is in seeing that economic reform and political reform are closely intertwined.

Compassites like Jon Cruddas, Ed Miliband and Neal Lawson seem completly relaxed about applying a more enlightened and compassionate liberalism to public services and are not particularly critical of New Labour's public service reforms.

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.

New Labour's first term did more to reform the British state than any government since 1911.

Well there is a theory the reason New Labour have held onto the ID cards is because they can offer to drop that to appease the LibDems rather than give them what they really want (electoral reform)...

Perhaps this is just be the British tradition of incremental change, but that is a large part of why the important democratising reforms of New Labour's first term are now rather overshadowed by more traditional governmental instincts.

The most significant reform for New Labour was Blair's removal of Clause IV from the Party Constitution.

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

Both of these, in the form of a manifesto commitment to a referendum on electoral reform, and as an exploration of the stake - holding idea espoused by Will Hutton among others, had already entered «New Labour» thinking.

New figures released by the Electoral Reform Society Wales (ERS) show the extent to which Welsh Labour would disproportionately benefit if First Past The Post was exclusively adopted for future Assembly elections.

This has been reflected in our consistently providing platforms for Labour - LibDem dialogue, seeking to foster engagement between party politics and civic pressure, and in co-hosting the left and liberty session at the Convention for Modern Liberty, and in being significantly engaged in debates about the pluralist reform of party politics, the broader political settlement and the new «movement politics» of a pluralist left.

Purnell's reforms (and most New Labour welfare reforms) have treated claiments disgracefully.

Labour favours the former drawn - out, Leveson - style inquiry, whereas the Government favours a swift investigation by Lords and MPs, so that any recommendations can be implemented in the upcoming banking reform Bill, which is set to come before the House in the new year.

Many of these reforms had been in the 1945 Labour manifesto, but the Attlee Government had to satisfy the expectations of the new generation.

In discussion of Denham's argument, several responses, such as Stuart White's, took the opposite argument to yours - saying that this was all very well in principle, but New Labour had quite a lot of focus on «rights and responsibilities» at the bottom, in welfare reform, the New Deal and so on, and had been pretty muted about applying that principle higher up.

New Labour made devolution a centrepiece of its reform programme when it came to power, with the promise that «devolution will be the salvation of the UK».

But one of the architects of New Labour, who chronicled the early days of the project in his book The Unfinished Revolution, had another key message: never abandon the mantle of reform.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

The former Prime Minister on dealing with the right - wing press, New Labour's alleged obsession with celebrities and how he wished he had reformed the party to ensure that Jeremy Corbyn could never have been leader

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

I do not accept your perspective on my analysis as it did not mention the New Labour Project, nor does it show any knowledge of the Labour Reform Group and Save the Labour Party organisations which were in struggle against New Labour under Blair, and of which I was an active member.

[161] Blair and his supporters sought to reform the party by further expunging leftist elements and taking it to the centre ground, thus creating «New Labour», with Blairite Peter Mandelson asserting that hard left figures like Livingstone represented «the enemy» of reform.

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».

The future direction of Labour is set out clearly by Owen Smith, who recently in the New Statesman, described the reforms as a «historic attempt to make Labour a true people's party once more».

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

There was somewhat predictable outrage from some parts of the left over the weekend, when Labour's unloved DWP shadow, Liam Byrne, announced a new approach to welfare reform including emphasis on contributions, a full employment strategy and giving councils the option to give those who work or contribute to their communities» priority on social housing lists.

In a new white paper, leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw set out proposals to finish the reform of the Lords that Labour started when it came to power in 1997.

Launching the Fabian Society campaign today, Labour MP Jonathan Reynolds said there was a pressing need for new ideas for constitutional reform in the party:

And, more fundamentally, he must avoid being dragged down by the surprisingly narrow gap between New Labour's NHS reform ambitions and the Tories» ideas it is now fighting its hardest against.

Modernisation is too often caricatured as privatisation in this book, and fails to grasp that New Labour's reform agenda was not in opposition to social justice, but the only way in a changing world to achieve it.»

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

Andrew Lansley, the MP for South Cambridgeshire who was one of the «Portillista» modernisers who refused to serve in the Duncan Smith team, uses an article in today's Guardian to urge the leadership to consider changing the party's name to Reform Conservatives, an implicit tribute to Tony Blair's New Labour.

They had also said his policies would extend New Labour's reforms.

Tessa Jowell produced Labour's woeful response: effectively, that these reforms were not as radical as those begun by New Labour.

Nat le Roux argues that a one - off electoral reform pact between Labour and some or all of the minor parties in 2020, with a common manifesto commitment to introduce a new voting system, would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

But if, as Rafael Behr has reported in the New Statesman, the shadow Cabinet decides Labour has more points to win by supporting Lords reform, the case is altered.

Pension reform is a key plank of the coalition's economic policy, it has tasked Labour peer Lord Hutton with bringing about a new system for public sector schemes that is sustainable.

The various groups pushing for reform then had to unify to campaign for a system they didn't want, but while they were doing so, Labour was spending five months tortuously electing a new leader.

He says we will see another in «a new approach to penal reform» which will end «mass criminalisation of young people» and Labour's «build and fill»em approach to prisons».

By calling on Labour to adopt a new agenda on public service reform, local ownership and control, a green economy and a renewed democracy, LABOUR S REVIVAL offers a practical path for modernisers to follow in the tough months Labour to adopt a new agenda on public service reform, local ownership and control, a green economy and a renewed democracy, LABOUR S REVIVAL offers a practical path for modernisers to follow in the tough months LABOUR S REVIVAL offers a practical path for modernisers to follow in the tough months ahead.

Fresh from their resounding success in defeating AV, many Conservative MPs have started talking to Labour backbenchers who also voted No in the referendum trying to form a new alliance to defeat the proposals to reform the House of Lords, announced by Nick Clegg yesterday.