Sentences with phrase «difficult for labour»

And the most difficult for Labour is: what taxes will you hike?

The authors conclude that after the expected reduction in the size of the Commons and the Boundary changes it will be extremely difficult for Labour to become the largest party let alone a majority — unless the Conservative vote collapses and there is a massive revival of Labour in Scotland.

But it also stressed that the electoral system also made it more difficult for Labour to win a majority.

In addition under the new boundaries it is more difficult for Labour than under the old, changes in voting patterns could eliminate notional gains or intensify them but at worst the new boundaries will be no worse for the Conservative Party and no better for Labour.

Hilary Benn, shadow communities and local government secretary, told the Ipsos MORI event at the Labour party conference last year that the coalition has made it difficult for Labour to be heard as the media focussed on coalition differences rather than what Labour's view is.

Now that we know he has precisely the same non-dom status as prominent Labour donors such as Sir Ronald Cohen, Lord Paul and Lakshmi Mittal, it is going to be difficult for Labour to make any serious mischief on this issue — which rather reinforces the point that he should have come clean much sooner.

The principle that Scottish MPs should not vote on issues only affecting England and Wales seems unarguable but it could make it very difficult for a Labour government reliant on Scottish seats for its majority (a prospect that stands a good chancein 2015) would struggle to get its agenda through parliament and may even struggle to survive.

And these challenges are far more difficult for Labour than for the Conservatives.

The policy issues are always difficult for Labour, but not more so today than on many occasions in the past.

My own view is that it would now be perhaps less difficult for Labour to make this offer than for the LibDems to accept it.

It would have been extremely difficult for Labour to tell those voters that their concerns were being disregarded or their votes ignored.

Not exact matches

That's why their cookies are an $ 800 million a year business in the U.S. (Such a shame that pesky child labour laws make it difficult for profit - seeking entities to exploit the selling power of Girl Scouts.

The ruling comes at a difficult time for the conservative party, which just lost the 2017 election to a coalition headed by the liberal Labour Party.

He tried to strike a balance between the two, leaving the program in place but making it more difficult and more expensive for Canadian employers to import temporary labour.

But after a series of difficult labour negotiations under CEO Calin Rovinescu, Air Canada finally obtained the concessions it needed last year to hire new employees at reduced pay for a low - cost carrier to target the vacation market.

While it's a stretch to blame all their problems on labour - market rigidity, a deliberate lack of employment flexibility has certainly made it more difficult for them to adjust to changing circumstances.

Slowing U.S. labour market growth combined with the other factors mentioned above will make normalization this year difficult for the Fed.

But given that strong labour markets have been one of the hallmarks of the past few years of U.S. expansion, any persistent slowing in this area would certainly make raising rates much more difficult for the Fed.

He praised the policy, but admitted that Labour's proposals to prioritise new - builds for first - time buyers living in area for three years was «difficult», as it could potentially penalise someone looking to move up the social ladder by purchasing a property in a new area.

Diodorus writes that, «For as regards the magnitude of the deeds which he accomplished it is generally agreed that Heracles has been handed down as one who surpassed all men of whom memory from the beginning of time has brought down an account; consequently it is a difficult attainment to report each one of his deeds in a worthy manner and to present a record which shall be on a level with labours so great, the magnitude of which won for him the prize of immortality.&raqFor as regards the magnitude of the deeds which he accomplished it is generally agreed that Heracles has been handed down as one who surpassed all men of whom memory from the beginning of time has brought down an account; consequently it is a difficult attainment to report each one of his deeds in a worthy manner and to present a record which shall be on a level with labours so great, the magnitude of which won for him the prize of immortality.&raqfor him the prize of immortality.»

«There is a lot of cost pressure, and now you have Brexit as well, so there is a question over labour availability, and a lot of companies are hurt by currency swings, so to go and ask for # 10 million to build a new food factory, it's a difficult climate,» he says.

Now it gets difficult, Santi Cazorla, his injury probably ended our title hopes this year, we missed his incisive passing and quick feet in midfield this year, once he was out of the side every attack seemed so slow, laboured and uninventive, there will be rumours all summer about him returning to Spain, and the sale of Santi would go some way to pretty much pay for Xhaka's transfer, the only thing that would go against him is his defensive contribution is not as great as our other options.

Most women choose to have gas and air to relieve pain, while others choose to have an epidural; this is usually recommended for lengthy and difficult labours.

It is a difficult choice to make for most first time mothers as its hard to self assess what the different sensations of early labour mean about your progress and the length of time left until the labour gets more intense.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

After a very long and difficult posterior labour, my baby girl was taken away for seven hours while they monitored her vitals.

Delivering our Labour goals — supporting families and communities, tackling disadvantage, spreading educational opportunity, safeguarding our NHS, investing for the future — will be more difficult than at any time in our living memory, certainly since the post-war Labour government of 1945.

It's difficult now for Labour activists to grasp how attractive MacDonald was in the early days of his leadership.

And third, the next Labour government must start planning now for what will be a very difficult inheritance.

Rumbling on in the background is another example of the Labour Party making life difficult for itself, with accusations of anti-Semitism in local candidates seeing Corbyn face pressure to act.

Neil Coyle told BBC Radio 5 live that Winterton's work during a difficult period for Labour had been «underestimated».

«It's very difficult to see how the current leadership could possibly unite the elements of the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party being a key part of the that,» he argues, before singling out the role of Momentum, the grass roots movement whose aim is «to build on the energy and enthusiasm from the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaign», for its part in creating the current civil strife.

In weak labour markets, it is difficult for center - left parties to appeal to both groups.

For example, China's Public Security Bureaus are granted such vague and wide - ranging powers to sentence individuals to re-education through labour that it is often difficult to make the case that an instance of detention was in clear violation of the law.

Attacks from the Tories were dealt with by the Rapid Rebuttal and Response Unit, which would have been difficult enough, had it not been for the Labour hierarchy's insistence that they rebut and respond even more rapidly.

Of course, we will hear much in the hours and days ahead from Scottish Labour about the need to listen and learn and rebuild but with swathes of the party's traditional support having deserted it for both the SNP and the Tories, it's difficult to see how it can start that process.

After being returned as MP for Doncaster North, Miliband stated that it had been a «difficult and disappointing» night for Labour.

So many of those who have since tried to evaluate Benn's speech have also commented on how difficult it is to see both why he selected the «St. Chrispin's Day» speech as his strategy and also why so many Labour MPs voted for simplistic bombing as a solution.

Given the current Liberal Democrat pitch is one of moderating Labour's spending plans, it will be difficult for them to justify supporting a still higher spending position somewhere between the Labour and SNP preferences.

However, it is difficult to see this latest debate as a game changer for Labour.

I have long thought it would be very difficult (though not impossible) for Labour to be returned with an overall majority in the next election.

Today Mr Hutton said «none of this should come as a surprise», noting that people who had been shut out of the labour market for ten or 15 years «are obviously going to find it difficult» to move from benefits to work.

This may be difficult to sell to English, Welsh and Northern Irish voters (though perhaps easier due to the Fixed - term Parliaments Act: it could be argued that a norm had been established that MPs were elected for five years), but would clearly be in Labour's interest.

An extremely difficult task in the best of times (you try managing a capitalist economy in the interests of the many), but one that is existential for Labour as it adjusts to the new class relationships of the 21st century.

The combination is difficult for a leader to cope with, much more so than the overt disapproval of stroppy Labour MPs, not fully formed politically, who brief against Corbyn around the clock, seeming cleverer than they are.

«It was always going to be a difficult one, and I think for Labour, I mean they were getting an average vote of about 25 % during the last term... so realistically there was only one way they could go and that was up.

I wondered earlier this week here whether Labour MPs would use the Select Committee elections to make life difficult for David Cameron.

The significance of this change of direction is difficult to overstate; for decades Labour had accepted the inequality intrinsic to capitalism as a brute fact — something to be worked around, not worked against.

A victory for Khan would be seen as a major boost for Labour after a difficult start to Corbyn's leadership.

There is also some unlikely physical theatre, with singing and dancing in collective agony lamenting the «five years» left of such a difficult minority government, or in other words, «Labour Britain: it's shit, but it's equally shit for everyone.»