Sentences with phrase «after a labour government»

I became an MP less than a year after the Labour government left office.

«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.

Fully 17 years after a Labour government started handing power to the periphery of Britain and to London, provincial England is still overwhelmingly run from Westminster.

We need to be going after the Labour government, not just Brown.

Not exact matches

It comes with the Government under pressure after losing its House of Commons majority in the general election as Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity Labour outperformed expectations.

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.

Asked what would happen after five years of a Corbyn government, Heseltine, a lifelong Europhile, said: «We have survived Labour governments before.

Yanis Varoufakis: Isn't it astonishing that after Jeremy Corbyn was being described as «the longest suicide note by the Labour Party» about a year ago, today there is an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led government.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

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.

The last time they hit the headlines was under the Labour government, during the passage of Ed Balls» fortunately doomed Education Bill, when after a supposedly heroic process of negotiation with the government, they almost totally capitulated.

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.

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.

12:24 - Right - after a question on families from a Labour MP, it's time for Ian Swales - the improbable Liberal Democrat MP from Redcar - who invites Cameron to comment on councils thinking of turning down the government's offered council tax freeze.

However, the speech came just hours after shadow home secretary Andrew Lansley told The Times that a Conservative government would only guarantee «small increases» to the NHS budget in comparison to Labour.

This is what it takes to offer Labour a fresh start, which - after 13 years in government - is perhaps what the party needs most of all.

Questioning the legitimacy of a Labour - SNP government and sketching out the draft of a Tory Queen's Speech: it feels a lot like we're picking up the first clues about what will happen in the critical days after May 7th.

Speaking after the HMRC data loss and a fresh row over political funding in the Labour party, Mr Cameron said Mr Brown's government was now suffering from bureaucratic over-reach and incompetence.

The last Labour government was able to plan its 1997 manifesto on the basis of rising departmental spending in the first years after the election.

Of course, as Littlejohn rightly points out, after 13 years of Labour government, «if the public really did have the power to change legislation, the government would pass a law against it».

Labour and Lib Dem peers have inflicted a blow against the government after they passed an amendment to the political parties and elections bill barring tax exiles from donating to political parties.

I agree that the redistributive settlement needs to be embedded within society's concept of how things work rather than seen as after - the - fact «meddling» in outcomes, but I think this is incompatible with a government that very clearly is meddling in all kinds of things, as New Labour did.

Most Liberal Democrat activists want the party to support Labour rather than the Conservatives in government after the next general election, a poll has found.

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.

For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.

The Labour government attempted to undergo a re-valuation in 2007, but abandoned its plans until after the 2010 election.

Although the government approved a pay rise of $ 6 after a series of protests by the Labour Union, it is yet to be implemented.

Jeremy Corbyn has rowed back just an hour after saying that a Labour government would axe the government's benefit freeze - even though it made no mention of it in its manifesto published this morning.

It is the sort of leadership the last Labour government - internationalist in our values - showed in summit after summit.

It was an explosive intervention and — after being praised by the SNP and Labour — been met with a backlash from the Government.

After all, these were the lingering memories to overcome of the debacle of 1976, when the then Labour government needed to seek a loan from the IMF to shore up the Pound in the foreign exchange markets.

This speech to the Fabian Society disproves Lammy's loyalist credentials unless he is making an inadvertent miscalulation in attacking Labour's record on social mobility — surely he must be in the wrong party to be deliberately exposing the divide between their aspiration and achievement from a position of government, and it beggars belief that a serious politician would undermine their own argument in this way after suggested he himself has been a beneficiary of the process.

2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

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.

Emily Thornberry has been criticised by Labour MPs after she appeared to suggest that the party would still vote for the Government's Brexit deal even if it was «blah, blah, blah» and did not contain much detail.

Yet, after 13 years of a Labour government, levels of inequality are higher than before it came to office, and there appears to be little recognition that, for reasons of both fairness and sustainability, we need to abandon the idea of pursuing ever greater, unrestrained economic growth.

If either a majority Labour or Conservative government is to emerge after May 7, they'd need to make a healthy number of net gains here.

After he lost the elections of 1987 and 1992, Kinnock was succeeded by John Smith, who had a dogged belief that «one last heave» could get Labour into government.

Leaning over the dispatch box, Robertson dismissed the challenge by Labour darling and historian Tristram Hunt who said that, «only a government as incompetent as this one would scrap the post of tourism secretary after the Olympics.»

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.

Labour will need thinking «outside the box» if it is to have a chance of remaining in government after the next election, but as a Labourite I'm not convinced this would work.

So, no one apart from seemingly the Labour or Tory leaderships thinks there's going to be a majority government after May 7?

Labour will not be able to form a government in Wales after Plaid Cymru followed the Liberal Democrats» lead and pulled out of coalition talks.

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.

There's been scandal - the suspension of MP Michelle Thomson over allegations about property deals, the award of a # 150,000 government grant to the organisers of the profitable T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former SNP adviser - and there's been political ineptitude, most notably when the nationalists were put on the back foot by a Labour pledge to use Holyrood's powers to overturn tax credit cuts.

After campaigning against the last Labour government's plans for identity cards, could the SNP be about to bring them in by the back door?

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.

Under this scenario the Lib Dems would effectively drop down to a «confidence and supply» arrangement, leaving government after the 2014 Budget and giving them enough time to position themselves midway between the Tories and Labour.

Ese reportedly delivered a baby girl on Thursday morning at the Government House Clinic after she went into labour at her Police Officers Mess temporary residence.