Sentences with phrase «by the labour peer»

Following heavy pressure from all sides of the Commons, the Tory leader said he had accepted a revised amendment to the Immigration Bill put forward by Labour peer Lord Dubs.

Nuclear Industry Association Chief Executive Tom Greatrex responds to a recent article by Labour peer Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on the subject of...

In the House of Lords peers have just started debating an amendment tabled by the Labour peer Lord Alli saying the UK should stay in the European economic area.

What is required is a law, as previously proposed by Labour peer Lord Donoughue, that would create an offence for any act that causes unnecessary suffering to any wild mammal in any circumstance.

In turning up to the House of Lords, Gould did a great deal more than vote in favour of an amendment by the Labour peer Lord Rea to deny the health and social care bill a second reading.

The surprise intervention by a Labour peer will be regarded as extremely unhelpful by Livingstone's campaign team.

The claims come as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill tabled in the Lords by Labour peer Waheed Alli on Tuesday.

That was despite the fact that they had been told to abstain on the amendment to the Government's flaship EU Withdrawal Bill, which was tabled by Labour peer Lord Alli.

The filibustering by Labour peers of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill is having two unintended side - effects of importance to the future of political reform.

The claim has been made by the Labour peer Baroness Morgan, after she was told she would not be re-appointed as head of the schools inspectorate, Ofsted.

Downing Street sources said the funding agreement — devised by Labour peer Lord Barnett in 1979 to adjust block grants to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — would become increasingly redundant as more responsibility for tax is given to the Scottish Parliament.

But peers are also expected to vote on one of three amendments tabled by the Labour peer Lord Alli saying that saying in the European Economic Area - ie, staying in the single market, like Norway - should be a negotiating objective for the government.

The Access to Justice Commission chaired by Labour peer Lord Bach released a damning interim report last week on «the crisis in the justice system of England and Wales».

On 25 November, the Bach Commission on Access to Justice, chaired by Labour peer Lord Bach, published its interim report on the crisis in access to justice.

Not exact matches

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.

Without proof to the contrary, most employees assume they're underpaid relative to their peers, says Travor Brown, who teaches labour relations and HR at Memorial University in St. John's, Nfld., and that tends to breed disengagement and mediocre work: «By giving clear pay information, that disconnect disappears.»

The letter was also signed by MPs and peers, including Labour's Grahame Morris and Tommy Sheppard from the Scottish Nationalist Party.

We wish to express our concern at some of the statements on English national identity, immigration and the English Defence League, made by your close advisor, Lord Maurice Glasman, Labour peer and founder of «Blue Labour».

Cameron effectively says no by saying Labour whipped its peers in the Lords last night.

My old friend Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour peer as well as distinguished historian, thought we needed «action as well as conversation», and chided me for failing to put forward a shopping list of concrete proposals akin to the shopping list of global reforms proposed by Thomas Piketty in his Capital in the Twenty - first Century.

«An unelected peer supported by Labour has again tried to effectively block 1.3 m having access to home ownership,» the minister for housing Brandon Lewis tweeted.

The poll commissioned by Conservative peer Michael Ashcroft found that Labour have extended their lead in the UK's most marginal seats.

Many have blamed Jeremy Corbyn for Labour's low poll ratings and one Labour peer recently suggested that his party would would win the next election «by a mile» with Balls as leader.

Blue Labour was launched in 2010 by academic and Labour peer Maurice Glasman, and dedicated to reclaiming distinctive traditions of reciprocity and mutuality in the labour movLabour was launched in 2010 by academic and Labour peer Maurice Glasman, and dedicated to reclaiming distinctive traditions of reciprocity and mutuality in the labour movLabour peer Maurice Glasman, and dedicated to reclaiming distinctive traditions of reciprocity and mutuality in the labour movlabour movement.

Labour peer Lord Adonis criticises plan as desperate attempt by May to boost fragile position in upper chamber

Lord Glasman is a Labour peer and one of the most prominent national voices contending that the fundamental quality and character of our society has been diminished by the dominance of technocratic politics.

The Labour peer was first appointed by George Osborne in 2015 and then confirmed in the role by Theresa May a year later.

The first was from the Resolution Foundation, a think tank chaired by Conservative peer David Willetts and run by Torsten Bell, previously adviser to former Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Still, as polling day approached, Lord Falconer, the Labour peer charged by Miliband with preparing the party for the transition to government, was working on three possible electoral outcomes — all three involving a hung parliament.

The pamphlet — co-authored by Patrick Diamond, senior research fellow at Policy Network and former Downing street advisor, with Giles Radice, a Labour peer — revisits Radice's original work «Southern Discomfort» written in 1992 where he warned «Labour can not win without doing better in the South.»

For more details visit www.policy-network.net/events Giles Radice is a Labour peer, author of the original Southern Discomfort pamphlet in 1992, and of the recent New Labour biography Trio (published by IB Tauris, 2010).

The exchanges were triggered by a question from Labour peer Baroness Thornton, who had suggested the UK could be breaking its commitments under the World Health Organisation's framework convention on tobacco control.

Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer have appeared in court to answer charges brought by the Crown Prosecution Service.

At the time, we had been shortlisted for «Best Agency» by Research magazine — the most prestigious award in the market research industry — so I was a bit alarmed at first to receive a letter from Labour peer Lord Joffe, possibly frustrated that his attempts to change the law on assisted suicide had failed yet again, expressing unhappiness with the wording of a question.

An amendment on the customs union (supported by the Liberal Democrats and some Crossbenchers, Labour and Conservative peers) was passed by 348 votes to 225.

They were joined by many Labour peers but also Liberal Democrats including Lord Oakeshott, Baroness Williams, Lord Maclennan and Lord Steel.

In April, The Observer reported claims from a former minister that Rupert Murdoch tried to persuade Prime Minister Gordon Brown early in 2010 to help in resisting attempts by Labour MPs and peers to investigate the affair, and to go easy on News of the World in the run - up to the UK's general election of May 2010.

A total of 83 Labour peers defied party orders to abstain and instead voted for Britain to join Norway in the European Economic Area, effectively keeping the UK in the single market - the largest rebellion by its peers in years.

At a meeting in the House of Lords earlier this week, hosted by Labour party peer Lord Berkeley, we were informed that there was «no prospect of negotiations on transport for the foreseeable future.»

The move comes after peers voted in favour of a motion by the former Labour minister Lady Hollis to halt the cuts until the government produces a scheme to compensate low - paid workers for three years.

However more than 80 Labour peers last week defied the party whip by backing an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill which would keep Britain in the European Economic Area.

The recent row triggered by the decision of Michael Gove to not re-appoint the Labour Peer Baroness Morgan to a second term as the Chair of Ofsted has been subject to severe criticism, with many observers suggesting that it marks the latest instalment in a systematic purge of non-Conservative figures who head public bodies.

The cross-party proposals were tabled by Tory peer Lord Patten and Labour peer Lord Murphy, among others.

Labour peer and leader of the House of Lords who failed to secure his proposed reforms of the upper house and was sacked by Tony Blair

The peer and novelist, who boasts on his website that he has «never had a proper job», will attempt to win support for the bill in the upper chamber, where it may run into trouble as it is opposed by both Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

The move by the peers, who guaranteed the bill would run out of time by voting to end the committee stage, prompted the Conservatives to accuse Labour and the Lib Dems of acting as «enemies of democracy».

Prime minister, angered by Labour and Lib Dem peers» defeat of referendum bill, lays plans to overrule the House of Lords

Concerns about the Education Bill's potential to increase further religious discrimination in schools were raised during its «second reading» in the House of Lords yesterday by Labour, Conservative and Crossbench peers including Christians, Hindus and humanists.

A scheme intended to compensate injured miners is being exploited by some solicitors firms, a Labour peer and former miner alleged today.

During a question and answer session afterwards, the Labour peer was asked by cultural commentator Peter York who he should vote for.