Sentences with phrase «attacks on labour»

The reality is that, on economic and business strategy, the Party is weak and neither Osborne or Duncan are strong enough politically to launch credible attacks on Labour that stick.

It will be hard for any Labour leader to win in 2020, given the loss of Scotland, the impending boundary changes and Cameron's deliberate attacks on Labour funding and his South - of - Mason - Dixon style voter suppression.

There was warm applause, especially for the attacks on Labour.

Leave out the obligatory attacks on the Labour record, and the prime minister's policy blueprint for rebalancing the economy, announced today, is simply a continuation of the dark lord's new industry, new jobs agenda.

He also tried to fire up his troops with two attacks on Labour for banning McDonald's - including one that employed clunky McDonnell / McDonald's wordplay and an ending with double cheese.

Senior bishops» attacks on Labour's allegedly immoral attitude towards the poor, family breakdown and debt reflect a deep unease about the credit - heavy society we lived in.

Nearly every week, Cameron resorts to personal attacks on the Labour leader.

And he cautions his party over their attacks on the Labour leadership:

He's playing the leadership card quite a bit here, but what seems most significant so far is his attacks on Labour as a whole rather than Gordon Brown in particular.

He reverts to old - style Tory attacks on Labour's «reckless spending».

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.

But Mr Blair may well feel less well disposed to a more distant Liberal Democrat who is likely to make his mark in the leadership campaign with swingeing attacks on Labour.

David Cameron was met with cries of «racist» in the House of Commons as he joined attacks on Labour's London mayoral candidate after he claimed that Sadiq Khan had links to a supporter of Islamic State.

He said: «This was probably David Cameron's most old fashioned party conference speech yet, packed with rat - a-tat lists that don't stand up to scrutiny and some rather unconvincing attacks on Labour.

Khan's camp believe the Tories have launched their attacks on the Labour candidate earlier than expected due to polling last week showing Khan edging ahead in the race.

He also led the attacks on Labour...

The attacks on Labour are now policy - focused.

In an echo of Margaret Thatcher's attacks on Labour's defence policy in the 1980s, the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, will claim on Thursday that Miliband would «barter away our nuclear deterrent» and that the Labour leader would bow to the SNP's «childlike worldview».

We should therefore expect the attacks on Labour's leader to be a significant feature of the next few weeks.

12:23 - Prime minister's questions has calmed down since the main exchanges, although Cameron has made a couple more shouty attacks on Labour's handling of the economy.

As the pair went head - to - head in hustings at Gateshead, the Pontypridd MP launched a series of vehement attacks on the Labour leader.

Ms May's statement to the Commons contained several party - political points, including attacks on Labour for over-spending and a distracting focus on integration.

David Cameron continued his coruscating attacks on the Labour - union fiasco in PMQs this lunchtime.

At the 1976 Conservative conference, Michael Heseltine fired a volley of attacks on Labour, calling it «a rabble of political extremists» and «a one - legged army limping away», mimicking their imagined marching orders: «Left!

Coles said the time was right for a «new team» to lead Unifor and fight back against what he called attacks on labour by the federal government.

The passage of Bill C - 377, part of the Harper government's broader attack on labour rights, speaks to the Conservatives» fundamental lack of understanding of the role of organized labour in ensuring shared prosperity and a thriving middle class.

He appeared on the verge of tears during an impassioned attack on Labour's rhetoric on the NHS.

Hunt wraps up with another attack on Labour.

Lobbying reform groups have reacted with outrage at the government's decision to tack on an attack on Labour's funding to its response to the ongoing lobbying scandal.

This approach has a big weakness: critics will see in this outspoken attack on the Labour party a natural willingness of the Lib Dems to lean towards the credibility of their economic strategy over fairness.

Clearly the shadow chancellor realises how effective the coalition's attack on Labour's alleged financial irresponsibility was.

However, Clegg launched a scathing attack on the Labour party who he claimed would «wreck the economy» if they were allowed back into the power.

Labour are setting one party of the country against the other, he says, continuing the Tory attack on Labour's supposed «class war» agenda.

13:20 - He launches into a damning and wide - ranging attack on Labour's economic policies.

Tory members rose to their feet when Cameron launched an angry attack on Labour's failure of the poor:

As for the views of business leaders, one of the notable things of recent days, starting with the attack on Labour by Stefano Pessina, the CEO of the company that owns Boots the chemists, is that their criticisms of Labour tend to be unspecific.

David Cameron has lead the attack on the Labour's handling of the NHS in Wales, at the Welsh Conservatives Spring Conference in Llangollen.

The PM offered another broad restatement of the government's Brexit aims and another attack on Labour, who she accused of going back on their manifesto promise to come out of a customs union.

Writing in the Guardian, he delivered a scathing attack on Labour, assailing the nanny state and listing Labour's perceived failures: the government's treatment of the sick and disabled, its tremulous retreat on freedom of information, its centralising instincts and the cosy corruption of old Labour rotten boroughs.

For the political geeks among us (basically you, if you're reading this) the most interesting aspect was probably his relentless attack on Labour, including the line «never, ever trust Labour with our economy again».

Then he suddenly calms down, pauses, and launches into an attack on Labour's policy on strikes.

They fear that it will enable a tabloid attack on Labour as unfit to govern because allied with trouble makers.

Sure, there was a rather wonkish attack on Labour's policy to abolish energy regulator Ofgem, but Davey also expressed his desire to give the opposition the «chance» to improve their record on climate change.

Tony Blair has launched a scathing attack on Labour's leadership — months after Jeremy Corbyn first noted that the former prime minister was not «endorsing» him.

When the time came he delivered a lengthy attack on Labour's relationship with the unions — all the old hits, including, of course, their role getting Miliband elected party leader.

In her most direct attack on Labour leader to date, former challenger claims he has sat back silently amid intimidation complaints

A Tory majority government could be well beyond Cameron's grasp and the centre of gravity would shift away from the right in a campaign where two progressive parties challenge Cameron's Tories - rather than the two - on - one attack on Labour (on eye - catching issues such as ID cards and Heathrow), which we are currently on course for.

Burnham launches attack on Labour faction of «circling the Corbyn wagon» and criticisng the left - wing MP.

Speaking to Tory candidates in Cheltenham (right) he made the strongest and most negative attack on Labour of the Cameron era.

McCluskey, who launched a hard hitting attack on the Labour leadership in a Guardian article published in January following the decision in the New Year to endorse a continuation of the government's public sector pay freeze, admits that the stance has led to a fracturing of trust between Labour and trade unions.