Sentences with phrase «by labour since»

Politics: Derby South has been held by Labour since its creation in 1950, though it is not an ultra-safe seat - when Margaret Beckett originally won the seat back in 1983 it was by only 421 votes.

Politics: Derbyshire North East has a long history as a Labour stronghold, having been represented by Labour since 1935.

Yesterday saw Theresa May campaigning in the old Yorkshire mining seat of Hemsworth, held by Labour since its creation in 1918.

And then there's Bishop Auckland, held by Labour since 1935.

The Labour leader admitted he was disappointed by the result in the Cumbrian constituency, which has been held by Labour since 1935 and represents the first byelection gain by a governing party in 35 years.

Its «dossier» says the party has added up the spending commitments made by Labour since 2015, from scrapping the benefits cap to supporting the introduction of 10,000 new police officers.

Easington has been held by Labour since its creation and although sitting MP John Cummings is standing down at the next election, his successor as Labour candidate, Grahame Morris, will defend a notional majority of 18,874 over the Liberal Democrats, with the Conservatives closely behind them in third place.

The byelection in Norwich North, held by Labour since 1997, was caused by the resignation of Ian Gibson, who quit after Labour ruled that he would not be allowed to stand at the next election because he used parliamentary expenses to fund a flat which he subsequently sold at a discount to his daughter.

We need a champion for a county that has been badly neglected by Labour since 1997.

However, when you plot the gradient of actual decline by Labour since 1997 based on election results, the projected outcome in May looks more like a dead heat.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Consumer demand is being underpinned by strong labour market conditions; the unemployment rate is currently 3.8 per cent, which is its lowest level since the early 1980s.

While a low unemployment rate can indicate tight labour - market conditions, the 2017 average hourly wage of full - time and part - time employees combined grew by only 1.7 per cent — the lowest year - over-year growth since 1998 and more or less at the same rate as consumer price inflation.

The profits recovery has been driven by continued strong productivity growth in conjunction with subdued compensation growth (due to the weak labour market), which has seen unit labour costs fall by 5 per cent since June 2001 — the largest fall on record (Graph A4).

To further contextualize Canada's serious issue with its productivity growth, a report put out by the Council of Canadian Academies states that since 1984, the relative labour productivity in the Canadian business sector dropped from more than 90 % of the US level to 76 % in 2007, putting the country 15th out of 18 comparative Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.

Sometimes it can delay by a few days, which usually makes a woman desperate to go into labour since if it delays further, it means staring at having a C - section.

Research by Ipsos Mori for the Times newspaper showed one of the lowest levels of support for the Lib Dems since they entered the coalition while Labour are now enjoying a 15 - point lead over the Tories.

Two years since Corbyn became Labour leader, the top lobbying consultancies remain dominated by Tories and characters closely associated with the New Labour years.

Social mobility in the UK has not improved since the 1970s, despite ten years of a Labour government, a report by the Sutton Trust finds today.

The MP is an ardent New Labour supporter with a majority of nearly 12,000 and has served since the 1999 by - election.

Since Labour went into the general election arguing that the issue of whether or not Britain was leaving the EU was settled by last year's referendum she urged colleagues not to «change tack».

Even before the rush to print since the general election, several New Labour leaders had put out their versions, but they have been overshadowed by the more recent tomes - notably Tony Blair's A Journey and Peter Mandelson's The Third Man.

But Graham is even more fascinated by the Labour leader's most fervent supporters and the way that the party appears to have transformed since Corbyn arrived on the scene.

The Blue Labour agenda is set out in an ebook from 2011, The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox (edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears and Stuart White), at the core of which is a powerful critique of Labour Party thought and policy since 1945.

This brings Labour level, the first time this has happened in a Mori since 2008, and will greeted with glee by the party, which still remains without a leader until September 25th, the eve of its conference.

Balls has also run three marathons and learned to play the piano while on the Labour frontbench, as well as becoming chairman of Norwich City FC and turning his hand to writing about cooking since rejection by the voters of Morley & Outwood.

Since 2010 mainly northern Labour - led councils have complained bitterly that they have been unfairly squeezed by austerity while southern Conservative - led councils have had nowhere near the same level of cuts imposed on them.

[63] Hayek was defended by Professor Antony Flew who stated that the German Social Democrats, unlike the British Labour Party, had, since the late 1950s, abandoned public ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange and had instead embraced the social market economy.

Best of all, though, was the response by someone in Thurrock who had switched to Labour since 2010, when asked to name some prominent Labour politicians:

Labour has been buffeted by events ever since a hubristic party conference.

If the swing since 2010 implied by these figures were to be replicated everywhere the SNP would sweep the board with 54 of Scotland's 59 seats, while Labour would have just four.

Some in the Labour movement argue that by talking about the deficit the party can only lose, since it is a Tory issue: they should «frame» the debate in terms more favourable to themselves.

... The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Labour Uncut blog, shows that a majority (53 per cent) of current Tory supporters believe their party has got better since the last election, with only 11 per cent saying it has got worse.

Jim Murphy has been «astonished» by how easy he's found it to take on the SNP since he was elected leader of the Scottish Labour party, he told BuzzFeed News.

If the changes in vote share since 2010 implied by the YouGov poll were to be replicated everywhere, the SNP would win 54 seats, Labour 4 and the Liberal Democrats one (unlike YouGov and The Times I project the Tories to lose Dumfriesshire under this assumption).

The Conservatives are up by 8 points and Labour up by 6 points in the polls since just before the 2014 local elections, when most the seats up for election this week were last fought.

Any hopes that Labour might have that the election of Mr Murphy as its Scottish leader would prove to be a magic bullet are dispelled by the first poll to be conducted since he won the crown.

The Conservatives have seen a double - digit lead over Labour in the polls being dramatically cut since the bailout of banks by the government in October, the announcement of a # 20 billion fiscal stimulus by the prime minister and a 2.5 per cent cut in the rate of VAT.

But Mr Corbyn's opponents are both so multifarious, and so stunned both by Labour's 2015 defeat and the Party's descent since into full - on existential crisis, that they are struggling to get their intellectual case together.

There had been speculation drinkers could be hit by another increase in alcohol duty, after Labour chancellor Alistair Darling hiked the duty on beer and wine by 26 % since the beginning of 2008.

Fairwater has elected three councillors to Cardiff Council since 1995, being represented by the Labour Party until May 2008 when all three seats were taken by Plaid Cymru.

Ash and Kezia are unlikely to be troubled by the Conservative or Liberal Democrat candidates in this seat, which until Kenny's 2007 win had been comfortably Labour since 1924.

Sandra White, an SNP MSP since 1999 took this constituency seat from Labour in 2011, increasing the SNP share of the vote by 14 %, with a lead of 882 votes.

Since Labour can ignore neither the perspective held by a large number of its membership, nor abandon the rest of the country, the elections that result from these «power vs. principles» crises tend to be fought between candidates who back similar policies — Labour tried to appease Bennites by electing the similarly radical Foot, and now a part of Labour has rested its hopes with Owen Smith, who, at least publicly, shares many of Corbyn's views.

In BBC Keywards fought by all four parties, the correlation between the change in the UKIP share of the vote since 2010 and that for the Conservatives was very similar to that between UKIP and Labour: both close to -0.3.

In Copeland Tory support increased by no less than 8.5 points — the biggest increase in support for a government party since Harold Wilson's Labour government won the Hull North byelection in January 1966 (at the cost, incidentally, of a promise to build the Humber Bridge).

This is illustrated in Figures 2 to 4 which show, respectively, the percentage of the vote gained by the Conservative, Liberal and Labour parties in general elections since 1959.

Kenny said: «It is clear the Tory party high command intend to make the Labour party bankrupt by cutting off the main source of funding that they have relied on since the 1930s.

Ayr has been held by the Conservatives since John Scott won it from Labour in 2003.