Sentences with phrase «after labour announced»

It comes after a war of words erupted between the Conservatives and Labour earlier this year after Labour announced plans to restrict the number of pupils per class, something the Tories claim to already be doing.

Local party members had been left outraged after Labour announced a remarkably tight timetable in the race for the nomination - with concerns some activists might be unable to attend the showdown meeting.

Not exact matches

Earlier in the week, health and labour leaders wrote a letter urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pull Morneau from the national pharmacare file over comments he made the morning after his budget announced the council's formation.

The MP has become Welsh Labour's first deputy leader after the result was announced at the Welsh Labour conference in Llandudno.

The new Labour leader will take over with just under a month before the coalition's spending review is announced on 20 October, and a matter of days after announcing the new shadow cabinet.

The government, at the last quarter of 2015, after a series of meetings of the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) comprising government, employers» association, organized labour and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) announced a 10 percent pay rise for public sector workers across the country.

These began on Monday evening and immediately after the cabinet meeting when Gordon Brown announced that he would stand down later this year as Labour leader and Prime Minister.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has also faced a backlash after announcing that she is backing Smith in the leadership contest.

After Labour's election defeat in 2015, Khan announced he would run for the party's nomination for the London mayoralty.

After losing the 1959 general election, Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell came to believe that public opposition to nationalisation had led to the party's poor performance and announced that he proposed to amend Clause IV.

A mere three days after announcing his candidature for Labour's leadership, Chuka Umunna has quit the race.

She stated that this was to avoid any potential conflict of interest after her husband Jack Dromey, the Treasurer of the Labour Party, announced that he would be investigating a number of loans made to the Labour Party that had not been disclosed to party officers.

When Gordon Brown, guided by Ed Balls, announced just four days after the 1997 election that the Bank of England would become independent, the move appeared to be a masterstroke for New Labour.

The former Labour leader has announced he will vote against the government's motion after listening to this afternoon's ongoing debate in the House of Commons.

After all, Conservative governments went into both the 1992 and 1997 general elections by announcing sharp expenditure restraint for the following Parliament, thus forcing the Labour opposition to either reject or accept those overall spending targets.

Labour also seized on the u-turn with shadow business secretary Clive Lewis saying: «The prime minister announced she is ditching her flagship policy to put workers on company boards - just one month after committing to it.

Gordon Brown has announced a compromise on the human fertilisation and embryology bill, after weeks of speculation over whether Labour MPs would be whipped into supporting the bill.

Dianne Abbot, Tessa Jowell, Sadiq Khan and David Lammy after it was announced that Sadiq Khan has been chosen as the Labour candidate to run for London mayor in 2016

A senior Labour source said Mr Smith will announce his candidacy this week, and could even do it after tomorrow's meeting of the party's ruling national executive committee.

Labour sources said that the party, which had announced earlier in the day that it would abstain on the Loughton amendment after overnight warnings from the government about the threat to bill, denied that Miliband had embarked on a double U-turn.

[87] On 10 May 2010, after talks to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats broke down, Brown announced his intention to stand down as Leader before the Labour Party Conference but a day later resigned as both Prime Minister and party leader.

Speaking after the result was announced, Labour leader Ed Miliband said: «We should all be proud of the Labour Party that has shown the courage to change»

Today Labour Ministers have announced their intention to enact a similar provision in Wales after the Assembly election, which would be over six years after England's provision came into force.

Jeremy Corbyn has taken another major step forward in his campaign to become Labour leader after the Communication Workers Union announced that it is to endorse him to act as the antidote to the Blairite «virus» in the party.

The TUC announced this after a joint meeting between Labour leaders and the Federal government last night.

It approved a seven week campaign, where Labour MPs, party members and trade unions will be sent nomination forms immediately after Mr Blair announces his departure.

The welfare bill will go to committee stage after the recess, after Labour's new leader is announced.

The parliamentary standards commissioner, John Lyon, announced that he would investigate a complaint about the former defence secretary lodged by Labour MP John Mann, after Mann asked him to examine allegations that Fox allowed Werritty to live rent - free in his London flat, which allowed him to run a business from a property funded by parliamentary allowances.

The last poll was a snap one done straight after the furore over the missing benefit data discs was announced, so that in itself showed a three point drop in Labour's support.

That was until three Labour colleagues, Gwyneth Dunwoody, George Robertson and Giles Radice, approached her to run after Weatherill announced he was stepping down.

Labour inflicted a symbolic defeat on the government over universal credit on Wednesday night, hours after work and pensions secretary David Gauke announced he would end a 55p - a-minute helpline for welfare claimants.

Mr Miliband, who retained his seat in Doncaster North, announced his resignation on Friday after what he had described as a «very disappointing and difficult... for the Labour party».

Out of office: Gordon Brown, supported by his wife Sarah, announces in Downing Street that he will drive to Buckingham Palace for an audience with The Queen to tend his resignation after Labour failed to cut a deal with the Lib Dems

A Labour MP has announced she is standing down as an MP at the next election - just 24 hours after Jeremy Corbyn made her his Shadow Education Secretary.

[23][24] On Saturday 25 September 2010, Ed Miliband was announced as the new leader of the Labour Party with Abbott eliminated in the first round of voting after securing 7.24 % of votes.

After Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she is calling for an early general election Labour and the Lib Dems started to prepare.

But Labour said it had announced rail electrification plans in 2009 and it was «a bit rich» for coalition government ministers to take credit now after presiding over «two years of dither and delay».

His shock decision comes just weeks after fellow Labour MP Jamie Reed announced he was also standing down and tees up another crunch by - election.

The week after Louise Mensch announced her departure from parliament, my first poll in Corby found a 15 - point lead for Labour.

«After 13 years of Labour inaction, Nick Clegg announced a welcome and major series of progressive political reforms,» Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes said.

In 2012, Mr Miliband announced today, Labour's approach will be to offer to «govern for the whole country» rather than the interests of the «wealthy few» he claims are looked after by the Tories.

But — after a backlash from fellow Labour MPs - the party announced on Tuesday that it was formally backing Jarvis's candidacy.

[136] Brown continued to be unpopular; in September, Britain's biggest selling newspaper The Sun announced that after 12 years of supporting Labour, it would withdraw its support in favour of the Conservatives.

[4] When the candidates were announced there was controversy in Queensgate ward after the independent candidates, Pat Chadwick, claimed that an independent Conservative candidate had been put up to stand in the election by Labour.

On 11 May 2007, after months of speculation, Gordon Brown formally announced his bid for the Labour leadership and replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister on 27 June 2007.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said that Labour should «never be trusted» with people's money again, [95] while Labour was also accused of electioneering after Darling announced a 1.5 percent rise in Child Benefit and Disability Living Allowance from April 2010 — weeks ahead of an expected election — but made no comment on whether the rise could be sustained after April 2011.

Speaking to the BBC after the result was announced, Paul Nuttall said he wanted to win «at least» ten seats at the next general election, and set out how he would target Labour heartlands.

It comes after fellow Labour MP Jim Murphy announced his intention to enter the party leadership race.

Labour have piled pressure on Theresa May to give MPs more details of her Brexit plans - after she performed a major U-turn by announcing she will publish a white paper on the triggering of Article 50.

In September 2015 it was announced that Jeremy Corbyn would be the next leader of the Labour party when Ed Miliband resigned the morning after the 2015 General Election.