Sentences with phrase «backed by labour»

This proposal to close the reporting loopholes is backed by the Labour party, the Lib Dems, the Scottish National party, the Greens and others.

Is there even a dim prospect that this would be backed by Labour's business team i.e. by such people as Chukka Umunna and Lord Adonis?

The letter, which is predominantly backed by Labour MPs, also accuses Amber Rudd of making up immigration policy «on the hoof» in a bid to ride out the scandal.

A separate amendment to the data regulation bill backed by the Labour deputy, Tom Watson, which would have imposed punitive legal costs on publishers who refuse to sign up to an officially recognised press regulator, appears to be dead.

Earlier on Monday, Lamb announced cross-party support for a commission into the NHS funding crisis, backed by Labour MP and former leadership contender Liz Kendall, and Tory MP Dan Poulter, a former gynaecologist.

When I read the email from Ed Miliband to all party members yesterday afternoon, I thought Left Futures should run a competition with a prize for the first person who could identify «Paul», the possibly mythical figure who it is said has joined the Labour Party because of the «reforms» now backed by Labour's national executive: I -LSB-...]

Thus Conservative MPs - led by Claire Perry and backed by Labour - have forced the government to propose website blocking as part of the armoury for the regulator.

So far, the campaign has mainly been backed by Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs.

Laurie Penny pits here finger on a live issue the hierachy and class nature of the way Labour is run.I would add the total lack of internal Labour Party debate Labours record in Govt was apalling Privatisation and privatisation of the NHS backed by Labours ministers as well as War etc mean I do nt consider you a party of the Left.

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Faced with a potential strike by the airline's machinists union and a lockout of its pilots, federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt referred both disputes to the CIRB on March 8, then introduced back - to - work legislation four days later.

Backed by Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and former Labour spin - doctor Alastair Campbell, the group said it is also planning marches in Europe, to political party conferences and organising for stalls to be set up in busy town centres.

They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

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.

«Having been hammered by political punters backing Jeremy Corbyn at 200/1 to be Labour leader, Donald Trump at 150/1 to be US President, Brexit and a Tory General Election victory both at 6/1, we're taking no chances this time round,» William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

Since the average nominal wage rate has now risen to $ 21 an hour, the amount given back by the borrower is still equivalent to 1,000 hours of labour - time.

Moreover, to pay this higher tax bill the small business will have to first generate additional profit, perhaps by cutting back on external labour.

Positivity has been held back by rising labour shortages and the burden of complying with government regulations, and this should remind us that Brexit isn't the only game in town.»

In his closing speech at this week's Labour conference, Mr Corbyn pledged to curb rents in the private sector and said any redevelopment of a housing estate under a Labour government would have to be backed by a council ballot of residents.

Household income growth has been held back by weak labour market conditions.

These improvements were reflected in the rise in the participation rate to 63 %, up 0.6 % since September, confirming there is greater slack in the labour force than conveyed by the headline unemployment rate, and suggesting that longer term unemployed or discouraged workers who have hitherto remained on the sidelines are being pulled back into the labour market by the growth in employment opportunities.

In contrast to the improving conditions in the business sector, household spending has been flat over the past year, held back by a relatively subdued labour market.

Labour productivity growth was boosted in the 1970s cycle by rising capital intensity, but held back somewhat in the 1980s cycle as growth in hours worked outstripped growth in the capital stock.

Using concepts from a long time ago, thought of by another society to set - up a relatively new country and doing so on the backs of slave labour... if that is called «establishing the system» then so be it.

Dawn Butler (below), Labour MP for Brent Central, was speaking on the back of a Ministry of Justice report spearheaded by another Christian Labour MP, Tottenham's David Lammy.

By the end of her long domination of British politics things had changed dramatically, and Tony Blair, who explicitly repudiated the long - term Labour commitment to socialism, made no efforts to turn back the clock.

Back then, it concentrated on the plight of Christians in Eastern Europe - behind what was called the Iron Curtain, where a Soviet - dominated system, backed by torture and imprisonment in the Gulag forced - labour camps, imposed an official atheism.

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

Amnesty International has uncovered «systemic» cases of child labour and labour rights abuses in Indonesian palm oil plantations operated by Wilmar, tracing the palm oil back to firms including Nestlé, Unilever and Kellogg — companies that all claim to...

Have you people notice when wilshere and ramsay are moving forward they look pacey, but when they run back from a counter by the opposition they look laboured, both can not manage wengers formation because they want to continuously move forward, which makes the space smaller for ozil to operate in, ozil was more in the game when Ramsay and wilshere left the field.

Disappointed by the medicalisation of birth and unnecessary intervention in hospitals, where labouring women were made to lie on their back, she started to advocate the use of movement and gravity to help labour and birth.

Barlow «might want to show a bit of contrition by giving back his OBE,» Labour MP and chair of the public accounts committee Margaret Hodge added.

11:28 - Ian Davidson, the Labour MP for Glasgow South West, kicks off by backing the bill because «the government can not be trusted and therefore it is necessary to put this down in legislation to allow them no wriggle - room whatsoever».

Jarvis» well - documented military background taught him all about refusing to back down when confronted by the enemy — and is one of the reasons why he is regularly touted as a future Labour leader by many on the party's moderate wing.

In a speech to the Federation of Small Businesses, the Labour leader said big business was holding back # 26bn a year from small suppliers by paying their bills late.

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman appeared to back down quickly, tweeting that parliamentary questions on the matter would be suspended until after key figures give evidence to the Leveson inquiry by the end of the month.

The Labour leader was backed up by the crowd who had heckled the BBC man and applauded Corbyn for shutting him up.

I hope we can get back to the rich analysis by Jonathan Rutherford and others on the role of conservative philosophy in Labour thinking that I have written about on this website and others.

The possibility of Galloway's return has been backed by Corbyn's close ally, the former Labour mayor of London Ken Livingstone, but has already caused outrage among other members of the party.

Having been rejected by Labour as its candidate, something he and his supporters regarded as a «political fix», he went back on a pledge not to run as an independent, claiming that he was defending «the principle of London's right to govern itself».

They have betrayed England they have betrayed the poor of England and the sooner we seen the back of this sleaze ridden Labour Government run by a Scottish Cabal that hates the English the better.

Then there's another Commons debate, probably later that week on Thursday 29 October, on a backbench motion proposed by Labour's welfare guru and ex-minister Frank Field with all party backing.

Getting back to today, it's not going to be easy to convince people that Labour is all about «the many, not the few» - a slogan recently revived by Brown.

Could they generate enough heat against a Labour government backed by the nationalists to make such a prospect untenable?

A National Obesity Forum campaign, backed by a parliamentary reception and early day motion, has cross-party support, led by Justin Tomlinson (Conservative), Rt Hon. Kevin Barron (Labour), and Dr John Pugh (Liberal Democrats).

Labour are out the picture and the Tories have been given «zero chance» of winning the seat back by political commentator Iain Dale.

The decision made good on comments by John McDonnell back in September, in which he said Labour would now «automatically» support strikes as they turned the party into a «resistance movement».

There is nothing here to tempt the young back, to give succour to those who turned their back on the party during New Labour, or to give hope to those who have been impoverished by the coalition.

The Labour leader is backed by only 16 % of voters, while more than a third (35 %) say they can't choose between them.

Senior officers have also leapt on the riots to launch an attack on government plans to cut police budgets — an attack backed by Conservative London mayor Boris Johnson and Labour.