Sentences with phrase «real labour governments»

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The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

There were more unemployed women over the past five years than at any time under the previous Labour Government, and real wages for women have fallen year on year since 2010.

A Labour government will insist on the OTs and CDs introducing central, publicly accessible registers of the millions of people who are the real, flesh - and - blood owners of the companies they host.

McKeever advises that businesses can break through if they adopt «a real engagement with the principles that were in the Labour manifesto — around pay ratios, what businesses would have to do to get public sector contracts under a Labour government».

The real problem for Labour is the erosion over a number of years of its local government base, with by far the largest number of UK councillors being Tories.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

In his Labour conference speech, McDonnell said a Labour government would legislate for a «real living wage», which he said was likely to be higher in 2020 than the # 10 level he proposed last year.

Labour, which will have been in power for 12 years by this May, can not sell itself on a concept of «change»: right now, it's only real narrative is that the last thing Britain needs to do is change its government.

Previous Conservative and Labour governments have created serious problems, particularly for the millions in the private sector workforce, and it takes real political courage and conviction to take them on and bring about positive change.

While Labour ran away, the real progressive party in British politics was willing to go into the lions» den and fight for justice where it matters: in government.

Two examples of where idealism and dreams of a better society were made real by a Labour government.

Moreover, the «real» living wage espoused by Labour can also rise if the government cuts the help it gives working families, for example through tax credits.

A Labour government would enshrine in law a «real living wage» expected to be more than # 10 an hour, John McDonnell has announced.

Despite the polls showing a small swing to the Conservatives from Labour and a modest 4.5 Liberal Democrat to Conservative swing since 2014, the model predicts no real change for the Conservatives because they are in government.

Bower repeats the accusation made by others that Blair had no real emotional attachment to the Labour Party or any experience in government.

«Returning to fiscal reality after the Labour government's huge spending spree is clearly necessary, but the overall fall in real terms spending will be modest.

«If he goes, it would be a real loss to Parliament and a loss to the Labour Party as we go into government in 2020, but I can see why people are approaching him.»

It noted that «Labour MPs dissent more often than Conservatives; they dissent in great numbers than Conservatives; and they dissent on more issues than Conservatives» — and concluded that «judging from their current voting behaviour, there is the real possibility that any future Labour Government will face significant backbench dissent».

But it is real; and given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, bad news for Miliband.

«Our ambitious insulation plan will see the next Labour government take real action against fuel poverty, making homes cheaper to heat, improving people's health by improving our housing, creating new jobs and reducing carbon emissions.

To ensure a real change to our broken political system, Nick Clegg must be prepared to walk away and allow a Conservative minority government to go ahead if Labour refuse to allow the British people a say in how they elect their parliament.

Based upon historical fact, real characters and some literary license it views the struggles of the Callaghan government through the eyes of the Labour and Conservative Whips offices.

Roy says that Labour in government «would never dare to mount a real attack on poverty».

Labour created the position of Immigration Minister to bring real focus to these issues right across government.

If we accept that only counter intuitive political moves gain real public traction and that concerns about Labour's economic and fiscal management gravely imperil the prospects of Labour government, Labour should be seeking strongly counter intuitive moves that challenge these negative perceptions.

The issue has rumbled on for many years, and the tinkering carried out by the last Labour government has only served to make real reform even more necessary and in many respects even more inevitable.

Families receiving child benefit would continue to see the value of their payments fall in real terms for the first two years of a Labour government.

However he said the real roots of their defeat lay in the failure by Mr Miliband and shadow chancellor Ed Balls to confront effectively Conservative claims that the previous Labour government had «wrecked» the economy.

And to take the crucial next step on the path to electing a Labour government, led by Jeremy Corbyn, that will understand our way of life and deliver the real change we so desperately need.

The newbies rush around getting indoctrinated by the whips; the Labour Party tears itself to shreds; the Scot Nats play musical chairs trying to prove they are the real Opposition and upsetting Dennis Skinner; the Government gets going at a cracking pace; Reshuffles, All Party Groups, Select Committee elections, the 1922 and PLP.

Steve Richards» Whatever it Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour (Fourth Estate, # 14.99) attempts a fair and balanced analysis of the Labour government and in particular Gordon Brown.

New Home Secretary Alan Johnson may have raised the idea in a bid to appeal to voters ahead of disastrous local and European election results for Labour, but there is very little evidence of an appetite in government for changing the voting system from first past the post to real proportional representation.

It was fantastic to address our Party Conference last September and be able to pledge that a Labour Government would bring the railways back into public ownership.That was a policy that would make a real difference to passengers, and I believe in it wholeheartedly.

«This should be the challenge for the Labour leadership election: not an argument about which policies of the Labour government the contenders did or did not support, or even which policies they support now, but a real attempt to identify the basis for a contemporary centre - left political project.

Until Cameron can give us a «vision» a «theme» a «picture» of the Britain he will lead us to one must assume he will merely tinker at the edges of what Labour is doing while leaving our real government unhindered and unreformed in Brussels.

Most Labour MPs were dimly aware that this might mean real hardship for some of their poorest constituents; the cleverer ones were conscious of Osborne's introductory point — that these were the sort of changes a Labour government should have made, but funked.

Labour is desperately hoping that the real prospect of a Tory government would lure them back into the fold this year.

Blair set the precedent for the slippery, duplicious, smarmy, media politician and many Labour voters, fell for the spin and insincerity, because they thought, that there would be «real change» with a Socialist Government after the Thatcher years.

He said: «We're forced to accept that the refusal to accept the established policy of the Labour party and to acknowledge the achievements of the greatest Labour government is not just a knowing embrace of electoral defeat, but a very real, a very studied and a very determined desire to split this Labour party.»

The Labour leader then abandoned the economy (Ed Balls has just told the BBC he ought to have done a second question on the economy) and spent two questions claiming the Government was not going to increase health spending in real terms, praying in aid a health committee report.

Get real and accept that Labour can form a government without having to get a huge majority and pander to southern Tories.

If you look at something like the economic crisis that came last September, I think the real opportunity for the Labour party is to say that we did not just witness the demise of individual institutions, we ultimately witnessed the demise of an ideology that says that the only role for government is always to get out of the way and that the right response to a financial crisis is to nudge, privatise and deregulate.

He insists an ambitious programme of reform can win over ordinary voters, saying: «The real middle Britain — of insecure self - employment, rip - off private pensions, unaffordable housing, mounting tuition fee debt and crisis - ridden social care — is crying out for a Labour government committed to fundamental reform.»

«What a Labour government would do would be to repeal the Trade Union Act which is seeking to stop trade unions from taking action to stop ordinary people... from suffering a 14 per cent pay cut in real terms.»

What I do know is that it was a Labour government, not a Labour opposition, that transformed the life chances of children in the constituency I was proud to represent, and that it was Sure Start and would have been the child trust fund that gave the prospect of real liberation from dependency on others, and the ability to «control» their own lives.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) based its report on the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats parties» spending pledges, and is understood to have found a real - terms reduction of seven per cent per child by the end of the next government.

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.

«The next Labour government will support our schools by giving them the resources they need, increasing per pupil funding in real terms and providing ring - fenced funding to end the pay cap and give our teachers the pay rise they deserve,» Rayner said today.

«That was a real slap in the face for state lawyers, and the reason why the (2016 - 17) strike went on for so long,» says Dalia Gesualdi - Fecteau, a former government lawyer who teaches labour and employment law at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

On that point, if the Ontario government wanted to provide real protection to workers it would amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000 to make its termination provisions similar to those of the Canada Labour Code.