Sentences with phrase «bat away labour»
The report comes as David Cameron tries to bat away Labour demands for the resignation of Jeremy Hunt over allegations of bias towards News Corp's bid for BSkyB.
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When Tony Blair suffered a crisis of public trust in 1997, the Labour premier tried to bat away the furore by insisting that he was «a pretty straight kind of guy».
Labour's London Assembly Environment Spokesperson, Leonie Cooper AM, criticised the last Mayor's failure to reduce the number of diesel cars in the capital and said the government were «running out of opportunities to bat away calls for a scrappage scheme».