Sentences with phrase «after labour minister»

This is after the Labour ministers assured that this will not happen.

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Environment Secretary Michael Gove urged the Prime Minister and Chancellor to listen to independent bodies that review public sector pay, after a week in which Labour attacked a government «shambles» for initially raising, then playing down hopes that the cap could be lifted.

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.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

Britain's main political parties, led by Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour head Jeremy Corbyn, suspended campaigning after the terrorist attack late Saturday.

The union was prepared to strike on April 21, but it was averted after the federal labour minister ordered the vote.

He joined the board after serving six years as an elected MLA and cabinet minister for the government of British Columbia, where his various responsibilities included three cabinet posts encompassing economic development, labour and small business.

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.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

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.

Labour rebels over Gordon Brown's plans to increase pre-trial detention to 42 days have taken the fight to the prime minister after tabling a Commons amendment on the subject.

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

Mr Awuku gave the assurance last Friday after the board was officially inaugurated by the Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour - Awuah.

Michael Foot, Labour leader from 1980 to 1983, chose to live in Hampstead proper and became renowned for his walks around the Heath with his cane, and Dizzy, the dog he named after the Tory prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.

«After her big idea to cram more toddlers into the same nurseries had to be dropped, Liz Truss has had to resort to stealing Labour ideas from 2005,» shadow children's minister Sharon Hodgson said.

Their exchanges will be judged a success by Labour backbenchers, after Miliband effectively riled Cameron to back up negative impressions about the shortness o the prime minister's temper.

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).

Earlier on, Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn tore strips of each other after the prime minister attacked the Labour leader's alleged extremist sympathies.

«It is simply not good enough that forty years after the Equal Pay Act women still don't earn equal pay for equal work, and despite doing better at school and university more women end up in lower skilled and lower paid jobs than men,» Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero said.

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.

From the Prime Minister's morning - after resignation on 24th June the country was mired in political chaos, with almost every political institution challenged and under question in the aftermath of the vote, including both Conservative and Labour parties and the existence of the United Kingdom itself, given Scotland's resistance to leaving the EU.

I am about to put up a blog post at http://www.barder.com/ephems/ suggesting the outline of Labour's best line to take with the LibDems after the election has produced a hung parliament, if it does, and before parliament meets, while Brown and other Labour ministers sit tight, refusing to yield to the unconstitutional clamour for their resignation.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliamentary elections, Labour fell to third place behind the Scottish Tories, whose Ruth Davidson is now leader of the opposition and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon main challenger to be First Minister after the 2021 election.

Abolishing the 50p rate costs ministers political pain in the months after it was cut and by refusing to join Labour in re-introducing the 50p rate - Labour hopes this decision will cause more pain for David Cameron and George Osborne.

In 2007, Blair resigned as Prime Minister after ten years and John Prescott resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Labour Leader.

Shadow minister Clive Lewis was reported to the party's chief whip by fellow Labour MP John Woodcock after the pair got into an altercation in a corridor on Tuesday night.

After Labour's 1997 general election win, she was appointed minister for local government and housing at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, and had special responsibility for neighbourhood renewal.

A Labour shadow minister is facing an internal party investigation after it was alleged that he swore at a colleague.

Bill Rammell - Labour The armed forces minister also lost his seat of Harlow to the Conservatives after a swing of 5.9 per cent.

The election was a wash for Labour as Prime Minister David Cameron captured a slim majority after his Conservative Party picked up 28 seats.

[32] On 28 June 2007, after she became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Brown was appointed Prime Minister, Harman joined Brown's Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal and Minister for Women and Equality, and was also given the title of Labour Party Chair.

After coming under pressure from Labour and Liberal Democrats, he told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions last week that he was ready to consider taking in refugees in cases of extreme hardship.

Labour has accused Jeremy Hunt of trying to «evade parliament» after Lord Justice Leveson made clear he will not make a judgement on the minister's conduct in the BSkyB takeover bid.

Labour MPs, led by Ed Miliband, and Tory rebels voted down ministers» proposals to launch strikes against Syrian government targets after the Assad Regime used chemical weapons against his own people.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

The NHS is going to be a major battleground at the 2015 election, and after today's speech the prime minister has made it clear that he intends to cede no ground to Labour.

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.

Labour's policy on Brexit has been thrown into fresh confusion after two shadow ministers said a Norway - style trading partnership is not «off the...

Heath did not resign until March 4, after confirming that a coalition with the Liberals was impossible, and Harold Wilson became the prime minister of a minority Labour government.

Labour's shadow work and pension secretary Rachel Reeves has asked «when will the PM and IDS [Iain Duncan Smith] get a grip» on Universal Credit, after Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude admitted to ITV News that its implementation had been «pretty lamentable» so far:

The Labour leader was speaking after beating David Cameron to the Elysee Palace, in a diplomatic blow to the prime minister.

After that, he was appointed Vice Chair of the Labour Party (2011 - 2014), Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office (2013 - 2014) and Shadow Secretary of State for Transport (2014 - 2015).

The Labour shadow health minister said the party was danger of entering into a «downward spiral» with the Tories on immigration, after Australian election strategist Lynton Crosby joined David Cameron's team.

Cameron was fortunate that he faced Gordon Brown who had succeeded as Labour's Leader and Prime Minister after a divisive relationship with Blair, and who was probably temperamentally unsuited to be Prime Minister.

It's not surprising Ed Miliband wants to talk about the former prime minister, given the mess Labour made after he left, replied Cameron, his face already reddening.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

The prime minister came under fire from the anti-gay marriage MP Tim Loughton after his amendment, which would have legalised civil partnerships for heterosexual couples, failed after the deal between Labour and the Tories.

Following the General Election, and after failing to persuade the Lib Dems to form a coalition government with Labour, Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the party on 11th May 2010.

It had prompted howls of outrage from Labour backbenchesr after David Cameron used it in prime minister's questions.

The general election result — when the Conservative Treasury minister Jane Ellison was swept out of her Battersea seat after a 10 % swing to Labour — has given activists hope of taking Wandsworth for the first time in 40 years, but in several wards the party would need a significantly bigger swing to take the number of councillors needed for a majority.