Sentences with phrase «by labour governments»

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has had to abandon plans to force all schools to become academies, but Mr Laws says their political protection went back to the early days of the first academies created by Labour governments.

Alan Johnson goes on to list a series of advances secured by Labour governments that few people, certainly not Jeremy Corbyn, would dispute.

«I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.

However, the nationalists in both Scotland and Wales have dismissed such talk as scaremongering by Labour governments fearful of the results of the Welsh assembly and Scottish parliament elections in May this year.

Control orders, which place severe restrictions on the movements of people deemed terror suspects, were introduced by the Labour government.

The «raft of authoritarian legislation» introduced by the Labour government has done little to improve security, Menzies Campbell has warned.

The Scottish nationalists have been left gnashing their teeth as they contemplated a # 1.1 billion NHS bill left to them by the Labour government.

English MPs would be given the opportunity of voting down anything they don't like being imposed by a Labour government propped up, say, by MPs in Scotland.

Two examples of where idealism and dreams of a better society were made real by a Labour government.

«They would increase accountability, and they would ensure that the breach of trust committed by this Labour government could never happen again.»

He made it clear that nobody will be left behind by a Labour government.

«A broom cleaning up the mess left by the Labour government!»

Labour's economic recordThe actions taken by the Labour government has ensured that during the biggest economic crisis in over 60 years, the number of York people claiming unemployment benefi t in December 2009 was still 45 per cent less than under the last Conservative recession.

Workers, apparently abandoned by the Labour government, may be tempted into the Tories» welcoming arms.

Academies and their close relative, free schools, university technical colleges (UTCs), studio schools, the Teach First initiative, are all initiatives supported by or initiated by the Labour government.

Those on the back benches who failed to join various rebellions were as spineless, intimidated by Nick Brown and his whips into betraying their voters — and the vulnerable always best protected by a Labour government.

Shadow employment minister Jim Knight said the action taken by the Labour government last year had proved effective in boosting the jobs market.

«We are about to begin the most important pension reforms since the 1940s, reforms developed by a Labour government in partnership with a fully supportive pensions industry.

However, under legislation passed by the Labour government the Electoral Commission can refer the case to the police, who could launch an investigation under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary Treasury committee Stephen Williams said: «Alan Johnson is again failing to face up to the enormity of the deficit left to us by the Labour government.

A new British bill of rights is expected to be included in next week's Queen's speech to replace the act passed by the Labour government in 1998 as a way of incorporating the European convention on human rights into UK law.

«There is an inconvenient truth, which is that the fuel duty rises that the right hon. Gentleman refers to are the ones put in place by the Labour Government, which he and any Labour Member who was in the previous Parliament voted for.

«If I am a mop, David, you are a broom - a broom that is cleaning up the mess left by the Labour government.

The main exception to this was during the brief existence of the regional committees created by the Labour Government between 2009 and 2010.

POA chairman Colin Moses last night said his association felt «betrayed» by the Labour government.

«London is best served by a Labour government; anybody who's distracted by campaigning, by doing anything for themselves as an individual, is letting down London,» he said.

There has always been a reluctance by this Labour government to be open and frank about issues to do with the nuclear deterrent.

Government sources cited the Turner review on pensions and the Browne review on university tuition fees — both established by the Labour government — as examples of commissions set up to find agreement on contentious issues.

It is not only about 42 days but about all the disgraceful attacks on freedom made by this Labour government over the last decade.

I only hope when the time comes that David Cameron has the definitive substantive «bold and radical» conservative policies to back up this somewhat empty speech because in many areas the policies so far announced seem somewhat lacklustre and timid or have already been diluted by facsimiles already introduced by the Labour Government.

«People feel let down by a Labour Government that still fails to get the basics right with our public services and they are tired of politicians constantly lecturing them.

The new peer will not be eligible to sit in the Lords because of reforms made by the Labour government in 1999.

There was just one unfunded recommendation, based on a free school meals pilot commissioned by the Labour government in 2009.

The commission was set up in December 1997 by the Labour government with the support of the Liberal Democrats, to investigate alternatives to the single member plurality (or «first past the post») electoral system used for British general elections.

The Whitehall quango set up by the Labour Government to design the next stage of the country's High Speed Rail network, HS2 Ltd, has delivered him the wrong solution.

Andrew Stephenson, who gained Pendle, said in his maiden speech that the manufacturing sector had been strangled by excessive tax and regulation by the Labour Government:

All introduced by the Labour government.

However much they might want to blame these two disasters on George W Bush and the bankers, they can hardly deny what is, at the very least, the supporting role played by the Labour Government in both cases.

The London Challenge was launched in 2003 with massive investment by the Labour government to improve the performance of the capital's secondary schools.

They were established by the Labour government, seen as a way of turning around the worst - performing schools and schools in disadvantaged areas.

He said the last teacher recruitment crisis, at the turn of the millennium, was resolved by the Labour government «taking the brakes off the advanced pay scale» which meant young teachers received rapid pay rises.

But the Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg said that there would be no more free schools opened by a Labour government - although existing free schools would be allowed to stay open.

Academy status, introduced by a Labour government, was originally reserved for schools in urgent need of improvement, but since 2010 schools have been encouraged to convert and have been given extra funding for doing so.

The research was commissioned from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) by the Labour government, to inform the decision as to the exercise of the s 9 (5)(a) power.

Not exact matches

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.

To determine the economic health of the 30 OECD countries, Canadian Business ranked them by 12 categories: demographics, GDP, trade, prices, energy, life quality, government finance, labour, technology, education, environment and military spending.

Yanis Varoufakis: Isn't it astonishing that after Jeremy Corbyn was being described as «the longest suicide note by the Labour Party» about a year ago, today there is an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led government.

LONDON — Tory peer Michael Heseltine believes Brexit will be so damaging that he would rather see a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn in power than see Britain leave the European Union.

The memo was obtained by The Canadian Press and it criticizes the Trudeau government in several areas: For too quickly rejecting U.S. proposals, for insisting on negotiating alongside Mexico, and for promoting progressive priorities like labour, gender, aboriginal and environmental issues.