Sentences with phrase «asked by labour»

The question about spending on the new format was asked by Labour's former shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell.

Asked by a Labour MP to vacate the Tory leadership because David Davis beat him in the first round of the 2005 contest David Cameron joked that in the vote of Tory members he won more votes than David Davis (twice as many actually).

During resumed debate on the budget in the Commons, Cable was asked by Labour MP Phil Wilson what the government would do if the «massive gamble» for the country failed and derailed the recovery.

12.17 - Cameron asked by Labour MP Gloria De Piero about bank bonuses.

Asked by another Labour MP, Chris Leslie, why the time set aside was an eighth of the amount of time used to debate the bill introducing the 1992 Maastricht treaty, Lidington said this was «synthetic rage».

During his summing - up speech in Thursday's debate, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was asked by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne to condemn the behaviour of No 10 officials who were reported as having said that Miliband was «giving succour» to the Assad regime by refusing to back the government over its plan for military action.

Neither said they could give a date when all problems should be resolved, when asked by Labour Party politician John Mann when the «shambles» will be over.

Not exact matches

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

The survey, carried out by ComRes, asked for the opinions of those living in the 40 most marginal Conservative and Labour constituencies.

It was always immoral to ask more by way of interest than the basic, overall value of the fruits of the earth, or the maximum output of honest human labour.

«There is a lot of cost pressure, and now you have Brexit as well, so there is a question over labour availability, and a lot of companies are hurt by currency swings, so to go and ask for # 10 million to build a new food factory, it's a difficult climate,» he says.

Im intrigued because the idea being sold by the manager is that we have been bridging the gap, but if intelligent fans such as yourself set such a low bar for players replacing proven quality the calibre of Eduardo and Adebayour, then when do we see the fruits of our labour, when do we ask more of him?

I think you are right that the key is to ask early on — however I didn't even get the chance to ask for anything as by the time they actually cleared a delivery room (having finally decided not to transfer me by ambulance to another hospital) I was ready to push (didn't even get gas and air which I would quite like to have tried) and they will try to discourage you coming in until well into labour (which is fine if you have a longish labour but not if short like me).

Prompted by the discovery of an old tweet sent by Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn, we ask if belief in homeopathy says a lot more about a politician than simply suggesting they may be a tad eccentric.

Earlier this year, I wrote to Iain McNicol, the general secretary of the Labour party, to ask him to investigate a donation reported by the Electoral Commission of # 18,500 made by Labour Leave into Ukip party coffers, just three days before the EU referendum.

When asked again in 2016, this time by Labour MP Stephen Timms, the department failed to provide any figure at all, instead Timms was told that the government is «committed to eliminating child poverty».

The Survation poll commissioned by Unite union found the Lib Dems are on just 23 % behind Labour on 33 % in the seat, when voters were asked about their constituency vote.

Only by positioning itself as the party of efficiency, spending cuts where necessary and value for money can Labour turn on the Tories and ask voters: now that we have slimmed down the state, do you want the Tories to cut the basics, too?

Best of all, though, was the response by someone in Thurrock who had switched to Labour since 2010, when asked to name some prominent Labour politicians:

Many members were dismayed by the party leadership's decision to abstain on the recent welfare bill, and asked what Labour is for, if not to try to protect vulnerable groups.

But when asked how they would vote if Boris Johnson were their Conservative candidate, the margin extended to 29 points: the Tory share grew by ten points to 52 %, with Labour down five to 23 % and UKIP down three to 16 %.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

Clegg was asked by John Spellar, a former Labour defence minister and a scathing critic of the Lib Dems, how the plans to shrink the Commons could remain on the statute book.

The briefing was smoked out by an «Email your MP» campaign launched by the People's Pledge just 48 hours beforehand, as Labour MPs then contacted party headquarters to ask how they should respond to questions from constituents about their voting intentions on July 5.

When asked to consider press coverage of Labour and anti-Semitism: 49 per cent of members think Labour does not have problem with anti-Semitism and that it has been created by the press and Corbyn's opponents to attack him, as against 35 per cent who think the party does have a problem with anti-Semitism but it is used by the press and Corbyn's opponents to attack him.

That's the question asked by one Labour backbencher.

And in exchange we will ask for your help in solving Labour's Debt Crisis by keeping the cost of public sector pay only as high as the country can responsibly afford.

Asked about which possible Labour leadership contenders people felt warmest towards, Greenberg said David Miliband was the favourite, followed by his brother, Ed, the likely candidate from the left of the party Jon Cruddas, and then the former schools secretary Ed Balls.

Why is the magazine so upset by the Labour leader's attitude on a fashion shoot, asks the Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Asked on Tuesday whether he thought he could fill his team, which was hit by mass resignations over the summer, without conceding on elections, the Labour leader told the Guardian: «Yes, I do.

When Labour's Kate Green asked her first question to Cameron he began his answer by praising her «incredible work» as head of the Child Poverty Action Group...

But Labour asked if the policy was paid for by «non-doms» then why were the Tories using the current economic problems as an excuse to ditch the plans?

When people were asked which of the four runners would do most harm to Labour's election prospects, Mr Corbyn was chosen by 33 per cent of those polled, Ms Cooper by 26 per cent, Mr Burnham by 22 per cent and Ms Kendall by 19 per cent.

Labour delegates asked by Daily Politics to «vote» on whether there should be a referendum in the UK about EU membership

Labour have a narrow 1 point lead on being the party people would trust to get us out the present crisis, but asked which party they trust on the economy in general the Conservatives continue to lead by 34 % to 30 %.

The shadow home secretary was repeatedly asked about Labour's position on the deportation of illegal immigrants by Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan.

Anthony Wells can confirm but I imagine this shows that LDs (and maybe some Labour) faced by choice of Blair versus Cameron split differently than when asked to choose DC or Brown.

Labour's Frank Field asks Clegg to name a bill initiated by the Lords on its own, not the government.

Mr Duncan Smith was also asked about this specific group of women several times, by Members on all sides, including Conservatives Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest) and James Gray (North Wiltshire), as well as Labour's socially conservative welfare reformer, Frank Field.

In June the Tory MP Charles Walker wrote to the commission to ask it to widen its investigation to include national spending by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National party.

«He comes here every week to ask a question about problem created by the Labour party.»

In the question and answer session with the media after the speech, Corbyn got especially fired up when asked by the BBC's Martha Kearney if Labour was a tainted brand.

Asked during a Labour leadership hustings last night, whether he would defend a Nato ally invaded by the Russians, he replied instead that he would seek to avoid any such conflict happening in the first place.

Sturgeon asked him where the Labour axe would fall, but he responded by asking «people at home» to judge who had the most realistic plan to tackle the deficit.

Labour have big questions to answer, and when they are asked, they simply try to avoid them by claiming they are smears,» he said.

During a question and answer session afterwards, the Labour peer was asked by cultural commentator Peter York who he should vote for.

Asked if he was not damaging Labour by releasing the memoirs just as the party struggled to recovery from losing power on the Today programme this morning, Lord Mandelson insisted it presented a «very good and flattering» portrait of Mr Blair, Gordon Brown and the New Labour government.

At the final Prime Minister's Questions of 2017, May was thrown a Christmas - themed curveball by Labour MP Clive Efford, who asked: «Can I suggest to the prime minister that in order to extract the maximum pleasure from the messy job of stuffing her goose, that she names it either Michael or Boris?»

12:30 - One of the new Labour MPs is welcomed by the prime minister after asking a question.

Writing for Labour List, Graf explained that he had been asked by a Miliband strategist to help organise a media event at a coffee shop on a regional visit by the former leader.