Sentences with phrase «by new labour»

The policy adopted by New Labour has been to introduce a series of small legislative measures.

This was increased to two years under the Thatcher government and downsized by New Labour in 1997 to one year.

-- An arts establishment filled by New Labour supporters is starting to court Team Cameron (Tory party) guardian.co.uk

The Royal Yacht was infamously decommissioned by the New Labour regime in 1997, so Prince William would need to go the private charter route.

Headteachers were particularly buoyed by Rayner's promise to «ensure again that under Labour, every child matters», a throwback to the flagship education strategy enacted by New Labour.

The goal of eradicating child poverty completely by 2020 was enshrined in law by the New Labour government, but its coalition successors doubt this can be achieved.

Home Rule was not invented or completed or ownded by New Labour.

Twelve years of shameful neglect by New Labour ministers have brought Royal Mail to its knees.

The social policies of the Liberal Democrats have placed the party on the centre - left, in territory also occupied by New Labour.

But Labour is still afflicted by New Labour's command and control habit.

We were all force - fed a lot of shit by New Labour prior to 1997.

Yet he could also be the candidate most focussed on those voters who were attracted by New Labour, but have now deserted the party for David Cameron's Conservatives.

Immigration and welfare have become hot - button issues largely because of the insecurities made worse by New Labour's recurrent refusal to depart from the usual neoliberal script.

James took an intervention in the adjournment debate brought by new Labour MP Anna McMorrin only for the lights to get switched off as she began her response.

Indeed, it is a supreme irony that many of the SDP's ideas only really became influential when championed by New Labour modernisers.

The bonus was that the coalition has a five - year plan too — one to eliminate the structural budget deficit (at least on paper) bequeathed by the bankers bust or, in coalition - speak, by New Labour.

Tessa Jowell produced Labour's woeful response: effectively, that these reforms were not as radical as those begun by New Labour.

Atul does not seem to realise that many moderate Labour supporters were alienated by New Labour and some of them will be voting first for Corbyn.

Indeed, the creation of Momentum was enabled by the new Labour leadership.

This was first introduced by New Labour, and by the way, supported by the labour leader of Kirklees Council.

But these miscalculations by New Labour in the leadership election are not alone.

Even Jessica Asato's glancing reference to producer capture is at least useful both as metaphor for New Labour's corruption of earlier party structures (see above) and as a partial description of how economic reality has altered, assisted by New Labour, over the past 12 years, though she goes on to muddle the point.

Their thinking was that these moves towards choice and competition were actually extensions to the piecemeal changes pushed through by the New Labour government.

I feel bitter and to a degree insulted by New labour, the Min wage set so low people from sixteen to twenty five getting a lower rate.

It was badly injured by New Labour.

The book reveals the dirty tricks that were used to destabilise the Conservative Party, including the newspaper's bribery of US government officials, the abuse of parliamentary privileges by New Labour MPs and financial intimidation by former Government minister, Clare Short.

George Osborne gave in his evidence that the appointment of Coulson was not influenced by New Labour's appointment of Alastair Campbell and pointed out that whilst Campbell was a political editor, Coulson had experience of being an editor covering a broad range of issues.

The dispossessed, he declared, «were not being heard by New Labour for sure».

Let's be clear, we were liberated by New Labour because it was a set of policy ideas based on analysis.

The Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has said the party should consider bringing back Clause IV, its traditional commitment to public ownership, which was abandoned by New Labour.

We won't be hijacked by New Labour again.

Andrew Percy will argue the post, which was created by New Labour but was never fully introduced, is essential to improving bereaved armed forces families» experiences of military inquests.

According to the Financial Times: «his views — higher taxes, mass nationalisation, more welfare, more borrowing — are seen as toxic by New Labour veterans, who prophesy a repeat of Michael Foot's disastrous leadership in the early 1980s that led to a landslide 1983 election victory for Margaret Thatcher».

But Labour under Miliband has already rid itself of the New Labour «no increase in income tax» shibboleth (erected by the New Labour diktat ahead of the 1997 election and kept in place throughout the three Blair governments).

Perhaps the era of strong governments — as represented so recently by New Labour's 100 + majorities — is at an end.

So the damage to Labour's core support had already been done by new Labour's focus on a pro-middle class, pro-EU, and as it turned out pro-immigration agenda.

Former Conservative health minister Nicola Blackwood is to become a senior adviser at Global Counsel, the PR and lobbying firm set up by new Labour architect Peter Mandelson.

That's not even envisaged by New Labour as far as I can tell.

In 1992, Labour published its Right to Information Bill: shadow home secretary Roy Hattersley promised that it would be the first piece of legislation introduced by a new Labour government.

Vince Cable, the business secretary, has promoted the idea of a graduate contribution based on post-university earnings - an idea taken up by the new Labour leader Ed Miliband.

This group of voters became dissatisfied with the Westminster government during the Thatcher era, felt forgotten by New Labour, and voted Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) en - masse in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

Most damagingly for Gove, some of the failures of the school directly correlate to concerns raised about free schools by new Labour shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.

Delivering a statement to MPs, the chancellor attacked the tripartite regulatory system set up by New Labour for failing to detect the wrongdoing at Barclays and other banks in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

With the usual few years of delay, the Italian left seemed on the path to modernize its political discourse along the lines already taken by New Labour in Britain or the Social Democrat's Agenda 2010 in Germany.

The coalition has effectively prevented the Conservatives from pushing through the repeal of the ban introduced by New Labour.

Certainly, the command and control politics forged by New Labour was highly effective in the mass media era, but arguably has detrimental effects on civic participation and the party's ability to be successful in new media spaces.

Perhaps my first comments were harsh, but they were in frustration at not hearing enough about the communities I feel were increasingly ignored by New Labour.

Not exact matches

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.

It also notes that according to a Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey, from July 2008 to July 2013, the net increase in new jobs for university graduates was 810,000, while the available jobs for those with no post-secondary education decreased by 540,000 during the same period.