Sentences with phrase «scottish labour policy»

Not, as the current Scottish Labour policy consultation paper does, offer the sparkling promise of multiple reviews!

The Scottish Labour policy amounted to economic and electoral sabotage.

Not exact matches

The counterintuitive solution being talked about most on the Scottish Labour left in the case of a Corbyn victory is to demand full autonomy from a Corbyn - run UK party, and to use a newly empowered conference (alongside new policy - making bodies soon to be established in Unite and potentially in other unions) to restate the socialist aims of the party.

Following former leader Johann Lamont's complaint that Scottish Labour was treated as a «branch office» by the UK party, Murphy vowed to make Scottish Labour «more Scottish», argued with the UK party over policy, and went as far to say he «isn't a unionist» two weeks ago.

Labour's Scottish Policy Forum held its first meeting this weekend, starting the process that will lead to the 2016 manifesto.

There were two incidents when loyal Scottish and Welsh Labour MPs were needed to vote through Labour government policies because so many of their English colleagues rebelled.

That was immediately followed by a further vote concerning Scottish independence in which delegates in line with Labour policy to overwhelmingly reject calls to break from the UK.

Johann Lamont, the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, speaking to the annual conference of the train drivers» union ASLEF in Edinburgh, delivered a clear message of support for trade union rights, trade union involvement in policy - making and policies that trade unions have been seeking.

Douglas Alexander told the Scottish Labour conference that his party should hold the Lib Dems to account for their role in implementing policies such as welfare reform and a rise in tuition fees.

Whoever wins the election to be successor to Paddy Ashdown - the Scottish favourite, Charles Kennedy, or the strong challenger, Simon Hughes - is expected to seek a more distinct role for the party, which will include more frequent attacks on Labour policy.

Roll in the funding the opposition receives from the House of Lords, the Scottish Parliament and grants from the Electoral Commission for policy development and Labour has banked almost # 11.3 m from public funding sources since October 2010.

Since then, Jim Murphy, Labour's new Scottish leader, has fought pugnaciously to revive the party's fortunes, with bold new policies (such as promising to hire 1,000 more nurses from the proceeds of the UK - wide Mansion tax, which very few Scots will pay).

Highlights were policies still claimed by Labour today as among its most significant achievements — the creation of the minimum wage, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and bills to reduce class sizes — as well as one key Brownite policy whose wisdom has now become disputed: independence for the Bank of England, which also involved removing its role as City regulator.

In an address to the Unite union's Scottish policy conference in Aviemore, Corbyn pledged that Labour would «not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment».

During a TV interview on 4 May 2008, Wendy Alexander performed a major U-turn on previous Scottish Labour Party's policy by seeming to endorse a referendum on Scottish independence, despite previously refusing to support any referendum on the grounds that she did not support independence.

It is beyond appalling that this meeting was being facilitated by a Labour party shadow minister for equality, and in contradiction of stated Scottish Labour party policy.»

In an article for the Sunday Mail, Leonard said Scottish Labour had to stop manoeuvering to win support and implied he would present more radical policies, setting out his stall as a standard - bearer for the Corbyn camp.

Neil Findlay, Scottish Labour's Brexit spokesman, said many Norwegians disliked their EU arrangements as Norway had little say over single - market policy.

The last Labour government passed several key pieces of legislation — including that introducing foundation hospitals and tuition fees — thanks to the votes of Scottish MPs whose constituents were unaffected, given Holyrood's control of health and education policy.

Scottish Conservative MSP Alex Johnstone said: «This is an example of Labour desperately foraging around for policies it thinks people in Scotland want to hear.

Labour are still seen as the anti-English party who inflicted policies on England using Scottish MPs, even though Scottish Labour wouldn't countenance those policies in Scotland.

The true extent of the opposition faced by the government over its plans to allow new grammar schools to open has been revealed as Conservative MPs voiced their fears in Parliament, with the Scottish National Party joining Labour in vowing to fight the policy «tooth and nail».

But Labour education spokesman Des McNulty accused the Scottish government of «papering over the cracks» of its «mismanaged» CfE policy.