Sentences with phrase «during new labour»

During the New Labour years, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were successful in attracting funding from rich supporters and businesses.

In the third of Channel 4 News Labour leadership interviews, Diane Abbott tells Krishnan Guru - Murthy she was right on many policies during the New Labour years, adding «I'm the genuine move - on candidate».

More details have emerged of the total breakdown at the height of government during the New Labour period with the publication of the next volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries.

As with Blair and Brown during New Labour's hegemony, the real conflict is now within the governing party: Cameron vs. Johnson.

The party is seen as having been slow to respond to the open, free - ranging nature of politics on the web, the opposite of the famously control - freak tendencies apparent during New Labour's rise to prominence.

The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) is not big on accountability — command and control goes way back before Blair extended it to the rest of the Labour Party, although MPs» willingness to use even the limited levers available did rather evaporate during the New Labour years.

A «great repeal bill» will scrape unnecessary criminal legislation, of which there was a great deal during New Labour's time in office - one new offence every day, to be precise.

During New Labour attempts were made to play down the role of the song, [158][159] however it still remains in use.

As head of the Number 10 Policy Unit during New Labour's first term, he became deeply frustrated by the anti-intellectualism prevalent at the Blair court.

During the New Labour years, a few journalists strove to reveal the truth about the poisonous feuding that disfigured the government.

And now he has now spoken out about clashing with Corbyn during the New Labour years.

There is nothing here to tempt the young back, to give succour to those who turned their back on the party during New Labour, or to give hope to those who have been impoverished by the coalition.

During the New Labour years, Brown acquired a reputation as a ruthless Brownite enforcer and in his memoirs Tony Blair accused him of «working for Gordon and against me».

Not exact matches

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.

Dr. Shah's article stems from the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) new set of guidelines, published in December 2014, which offer evidence - based advice for the care of pregnant women and babies during labour and immediately after birth.

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The New Zealand College of Midwives (Inc) supports warm water immersion for women during labour as a method of pain management.

The Healthy Pregnancy Book takes you month - by - month through your pregnancy, answering all the questions you have about your baby's development, your own body's physical and emotional changes, medical technology you might need during pregnancy and childbirth, how to prepare for labour and delivery, and those first days at home with your new baby.

The book concludes by introducing a new birth chair designed around women's need for physical support in the hospital delivery room, during labour as well as for the birth, a design that will encourage women to adopt a more positive upright attitude to bringing their babies into the world.

She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.

During its time in office, New Labour passed a remarkable volume of legislation.

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.

Hence New Labour attempted no substantive challege to the outcome of Thatcher's privatisation agenda; yet at the same time the key features of the 1960s «permissive society» - e.g. legislation on divorce, abortion and homosexuality - remained largely in place during the long Tory years, despite vile aberations such as Section 28 and the laughable «Back to Basics» campaign.

She is highly - rated in New Labour circles, having been a senior figure in the Downing Street press office during Tony Blair's premiership.

Miliband was portrayed during Labour's 2015 election campaign as being genuine in his desire to improve the lives of working people and to display progression from New Labour, but was unable to defeat interpretations of him as being ineffectual, or even cartoonish in nature.

During the first term Peter Hain warned in an interview with me that New Labour was being «gratuitously offensive» to its core vote.

Ed Balls, that is, the new Old Labour dinosaur who, in particular, refused to offer a single meaningful thing during our talks with Labour.

During its nine years in office, Labour created eighty - four new immigration offences (Aliverti 2012).

Mr Gallagher was one of the leading figures in Cool Britannia, a short - lived government - inspired cultural phenomenon during the very early stages of New Labour's time in power.

During the campaign Peter Mandelson launched very public attacks on Ed Miliband, and Blair intervened to say: «I always took the view that if we departed a millimetre from New Labour, we were going to be in trouble.»

Not surprisingly, given the above, half (49 %) of Labour's new members believe the membership should have more say over policy, with the figure rising to 54 % and 65 % respectively among those who joined during and after the leadership election.

Combined with a slight boost from new members that joined during the Labour leadership election, Leonard took the first spot on the Central Scotland regional list, bypassing all incumbent Labour MSPs.

During the three - month Labour leadership campaign, the debate increasingly addressed the failings of New Labour and the polices needed to rebuild Labour's support.

This is something New Labour has failed during thirteen years to implement as evidenced by Brown's memorable and derisory 75p increase.

New Labour might not be dead, as Gordon Brown insisted yesterday, but you might have thought his 350 - odd MPs had at least entered some sort of coma given the amount of noise they made during Darling's Budget statement.

During their first Commons encounter since the reshuffle, the new Welsh Secretary and his Labour shadow agreed to use the opportunity of the reshuffle to make «a fresh start» in relations between Welsh and UK Governments.

It comes during a weekend where Labour's campaign headlines focus on Ed Miliband's pledge to build 125,000 new homes and UKIP's plans for the NHS.

And, while Ukip did indeed attract more former Labour voters during the later New Labour years, they have won a substantially higher proportion of Tory voters since the coalition came to power.

Trafford district council in Greater Manchester, which Labour held only during the absolute peak of New Labour's support between 1996 and 2002, went to no overall control from a Conservative majority, with Labour's nine - seat swing not enough to take it.

«Labour's new leadership have already drawn on some of the lessons identified during our review.

The new justice secretary expressed his objections to short sentences during a speech earlier this month, triggering dismay from right - wing Tory MPs, glee from Liberal Democrats and disdain from Labour.

First Harriet Harman bracketed the Tories with the BNP in a fundraising email but she then took things to a new low during the Labour Party Conference when - completely dishonestly - she said that George Osborne wanted to replace a SureStart in every community with a lapdancing club.

Lord Mandelson today hit back at criticism over his decision to publish his memoirs during the Labour leadership election, claiming his analysis of New Labour was at its «most relevant» as the party debates its future.

Shinwell did not resume ministerial office when Labour returned to power in October 1964, but instead the new Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed him Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and during the 1964 - 6 Parliament he worked hard to drum up backbench support for the government, which had a very narrow majority.

New Labour's successes all took place during periods of economic growth and confidence, which allowed increased spending on public services without greatly increasing the tax burden.

Spending on education as a proportion of GDP rose steadily in the period 1997 - 2009, reaching its highest point of 6.2 % of GDP in the period 2009 - 10 during Gordon Brown's New Labour government, according to the IFS.

Labour is developing a new strategy to paint David Cameron as an old - style, traditional Tory, according to confidential documents obtained by the Observer, as the parties prepare to do battle during the coming conference season.

If Miliband wants to regain the heights of New Labour's success in local government during the early years of Tony Blair, his party have a lot more work to do.

Until the Crewe and Nantwich by - election, 2008, the opposition Conservative Party had not gained a seat in almost 26 years, the last being the Mitcham and Morden by - election, 1982, which occurred during the unique circumstances of the Falklands War and the sitting Labour MP defecting to the Social Democratic Party and seeking re-election under his new party label.

The Bill had its Second Reading in the Commons yesterday, during which new Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams gave her maiden speech and David Miliband gave his first full speech as a backbencher since losing the Labour leadership.