That being the case the Friday
before Labour Day weekend is like New Year's Eve and my tradition for academic New Year's Eve is to take a look at the incoming class of law students to see what their mindset is and try to figure out how to relate to them (I dropped my Dragnet reference with regards to legal writing «just the facts» years ago, which was a shame because I really liked that one).
While I'm sure that many students are not even thinking about the library while it's still hot and humid outside (and certainly not
before Labour Day), the time will come when you need to knuckle down and actually get some study and research done (and it will come sooner than you think!).
Parents and students should devise an updated budget plan
before Labour Day rolls around.
Not exact matches
The letter comes just a
day before Labour MP Frank Field tables his School Holidays (Meals and Activities) Bill, which calls on the Government to give all councils the duty and resources to provide food and activities during the school holidays, for children who would otherwise go hungry.
We showed up in
labour with our first baby just as the hospital cafeteria was closing, and delivered
before it opened again the next
day.
I'm 41wks today and hoping my baby comes out naturally
before my induction that's scheduled in 3
days time... I'm also experiencing no symptoms of
labour T.T good luck to all the mamas!
MANA stats show horrible rates of intrapartum deaths (baby alive at start of
labour, dead during it) and perinatal deaths, babies that die in the hours or
days immediately
before and after birth.
The new
Labour leader will take over with just under a month
before the coalition's spending review is announced on 20 October, and a matter of
days after announcing the new shadow cabinet.
By the next
day,
Labour MPs were as unconvinced by their leader as they were
before phone - hacking while a much - hyped public Q&A event provided yet more material for his critics to comment on how odd he is.
None are as important for
Labour as trying to reduce or even reverse the apparent swing against them
before election
day.
His shaky strategic vision remains uncertain and may not show up
before polling
day at all, hitting voters» confidence in him but also the effectiveness of
Labour supporters on the doorstep.
Anecdotes to Cox's character flowed thick and fast including
Labour MP Rachel Reeves reminiscing that when Cox shadowed her
before becoming an MP that «by the end of the
day people weren't sure who the MP was and who as doing the shadowing».
But what a turnaround on 12 months ago when
Labour's ill - tempered gathering started with the announcement of Corbyn's re-election followed by
days of recriminations
before an adulatory Tory faithful lay prostrate
before a revered Theresa May who could do no wrong... until she gambled on that General Election and lost their majority and her authority.
The shows will be fronted by
Labour special adviser - turned - comedian Matt Forde and each will be recorded on the
day before transmission, to ensure maximum topicality.
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.
But long
before the internal debate over
Labour's new ideological orientation had been resolved, the Tories had successfully established the deficit as the most important issue of the
day — and one for which Miliband's team never managed to craft a decisive message.
So, you post it on here 2
days before the deadline and expect Constituency
Labour Party members to respond in time?
Beales had first proposed the idea in an internal memo two years earlier, but Miliband decided to hold it back until 8 April, a month
before election
day — despite his team's terror that Osborne might outflank
Labour by unveiling the same policy in his final budget in April.
In her article, timed to appear two
days before the Rochester byelection — which Ukip is expected to win — Reeves insists her plans are designed to end exploitation in the
labour market and prevent employers using tax credits as a way of subsidising inadequate wages.
Despite the exuberant claims at their manifesto launches, both
Labour and the Conservatives will be hard pressed to neutralise their weaknesses
before polling
day.
Labour will have heard them all
day from the single mothers demonstrating outside Parliament, and the thousands of others who telephoned their anger into radio call - in shows and constituency offices... The Guardian congratulates Malcolm Chisolm, Gordon Prentice and the others who put principle
before promotion» (12 December).
In Akinbade's words on that
day before he sojourned to the
Labour Party where he lost woefully recording only 8000 votes across 30 Local Governments and the Area Office in Modakeke, Fatai Akinbade II stated that he was no longer needed in PDP because you Omisore had captured everything in the Party and was still brandishing it to mock them.
I recall the same paper and company produced a similarly misleading poll in 1997, finding the Conservatives just 5 % behind
Labour 10
days before John Major led the Tories to their worst defeat since Waterloo, Tony Blair securing a 179 - seat majority.
However churlish it may be to say so, though, one thing is nonetheless crashingly obvious:
Labour should have been taking this stance since it left office, not a few weeks
before polling
day.
The
Labour national executive is due to meet on 21 September, four
days before the start of
Labour conference, to discuss the outcome of the «Refounding
Labour» consultation undertaken by the party leadership through the summer.
But it is real; and given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than
Labour oppositions in the final weeks
before polling
day, bad news for Miliband.
[124] Some of the opinion polls had shown a 20 - point Conservative lead over
Labour before the election was called, but this lead had narrowed by the
day of the 2017 general election, which resulted in a hung parliament.
[87] On 10 May 2010, after talks to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats broke down, Brown announced his intention to stand down as Leader
before the
Labour Party Conference but a
day later resigned as both Prime Minister and party leader.
The former
Labour leadership contender only revealed his relationship with the 31 - year - old just a couple of
days before he announced his candidacy.
But then, without notice to Lutfur or even its own members, without presenting any written evidence, without any investigation, with total disregard for the principles of natural justice, and just three
days before the close of nominations, the
Labour national executive removed Lutfur as a candidate and replaced him with Helal Abbas who had come third in the selection.
Throughout the election the
Labour Party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a
Labour majority
before the election
day.
Over the final weekend
before polling
day, Miliband unveiled the eight - foot tablet with
Labour's six pledges chiseled into its surface.
Amina Ali had only been the
Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Bradford West for three
days before she tweeted her intention to stand down on February 25.
It is a
day on which pre-prepared tweets by loyal Conservatives surface, blaming
Labour for the deficit (in a manner which can only be compared to a toddler screaming «but he started it»), angry
Labour voters arm themselves with metaphorical hammers to break apart anything Osborne says,
before he even opens his mouth, editors of national newspapers accidently leak budget reports and every Tom, Dick and Harry seems to helpfully inform the world of their political opinions.
This time around there was much talk by election «analysts» that
Labour's majority would be reduced to less than 3,000 votes, and that Ukip might even win the seat, ending Corbyn's regime
before it had even reached 100
days.
I went campaigning with
Labour the
day before the vote and TBH I didn't really know myself, except that
Labour were supporting remain.
Labour accused the Lib Dems of already being intent on joining with the Conservatives, while Lib Dem sources suggested senior members of the negotiating team had no interest in a coalition, despite Gordon Brown's sacrifice the
day before.
Labour says the race remains «neck and neck» with just three
days to go
before voters across the capital go to the polls.
They point to his admission this week that even on the
day before he eventually became Prime Minister, he was convinced Clegg had done a deal with
Labour and he would remain Leader of the Opposition.
[63]
Before polling
day, The Manchester Guardian surmised that «the chances of
Labour sweeping the country and obtaining a clear majority... are pretty remote».
Alex Hilton and Jag Singh of LabourHome are getting it in the neck from many
Labour bloggers, eg Luke Akehurst, for conducting the poll: «The only utility of which can be to damage individual ministers and the the Party the
day before the start of a crucial party conference.»
Robert Harris, writing not long
before the election was called in the New Statesman, «can't quite understand how the members of the Parliamentary
Labour Party can sit there
day after
day, month after month, year after year, knowing that they're simply heading towards a kind of mincing machine at the next election.»
As the New Statesman revealed last week,
Labour's 2010 strategy was drawn up in December and submitted to the Prime Minister by Alexander two
days before Christmas.
«The
Labour Party conference is a five -
day opportunity for the party to put a strong, determined, clear, unified face
before the public.»
In my ConHome column on Tuesday, I wrote that the most important aspect of the
Labour conference was how «Ed Miliband's party is straying onto territory usually occupied by the Conservatives» — and that was even
before the «One Nation» speech that Mr Miliband delivered later that
day.
More than 30
Labour MPs signed up to an early
day motion condemning the move
before it was withdrawn under government pressure.
But Goldsmith is expected to unleash a wave of direct mail and poster campaigning in the weeks
before polling
day that
Labour will struggle to match.
When they said they were from the
Labour Party and asked whether he would he vote for Chris Smith, he beamed at them and went to collect the leaflet he'd received the
day before from the party.
«The
day before the election, one paper devoted 14 pages to attacking the
Labour party.
She did not pull her punches in referring to the mistakes of the last
Labour government — the shame of having argued for 90
days detention without trial, for example (it was just
before the debate on crime and justice).