Sentences with phrase «faced more labour»

The Mahama government has arguably faced more labour agitations than any other government under the 4th republic.

Not exact matches

Britain's shocking decision to remove itself from the European Union brought more political turmoil Sunday as Scotland's leader threatened to block the move and the opposition Labour Party's leader faced a coup attempt from his own legislators.

I do think that we face some skills shortages down the road which create lots of opportunities for active labour market policy to be more effective.

The Labour leader is facing a huge backlash from fellow politicians and the Jewish community over perceived failures to root out antisemitism... More

The four will take part yet more hustings, before facing a vote among Labour members and supporters.

«Sunder Katwala, the general secretary of the Fabian society and a signatory of the statement confirmed that the specific references to The Labour party and its bloggers was due to concerns that a more general code would in some way burden Green, Lib Dem and other non-Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour Labour party and its bloggers was due to concerns that a more general code would in some way burden Green, Lib Dem and other non-Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour labour blogs.

What's more, if they decide to «empty - chair» Cameron, that might give Labour a slight boost from the opportunity it gives them to attack the prime minister, but it leaves Miliband alone to face the attacks from all the smaller parties.

As the party faces more internal strife over antisemitism, it's worth considering what Labour stands for.

Here, the technophile Cameron faces a final irony: the bigger the Tory victory, the more this anti-incumbent feeling will boost Labour online.

Labour in opposition today faces a much more confused situation, having lost votes to UKIP and also the SNP.

Labour can face little more humiliation in Glasgow, where its last fortress - the city council - fell last month and all six Westminster seats are already held by the SNP.

It noted that «Labour MPs dissent more often than Conservatives; they dissent in great numbers than Conservatives; and they dissent on more issues than Conservatives» — and concluded that «judging from their current voting behaviour, there is the real possibility that any future Labour Government will face significant backbench dissent».

Umunna's decision, Burnham says, highlights the need for Labour to have a more experienced leader, no matter the allure of a fresh face.

It couldn't last: on the face of it, Labour people spent more time tearing strips off each other than their genuine opponents, and conference's chaos was reined in, first by Neil Kinnock, and then New Labour.

To present a fresh face and new policies to the electorate, New Labour needed more than fresh leaders; it had to jettison outdated policies, argued the modernisers.

This year, Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats face a much more uncertain environment than in previous elections.

Today Dawn Butler MP will announce that, under the next Labour government, all large public and private employers will be required to prove their gender equality practices or face further... Read more

By 1913, faced with the opposition of the largest Trades Unions, the Liberal government passed the Trade Disputes Act to allow Trade Unions to fund Labour MPs once more.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg faced more questions over his leadership, whilst Labour leader Ed Miliband pledged to listen to voters on the issue of immigration, as Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship reports:

The Labour leader has faced a tumultuous week in which he comprehensively lost a vote of no confidence, saw more than 50 shadow ministers walk out, and rejected calls for him to resign from leading figures.

Depressing report from Fabian Society on challenges facing us to make Labour a more credible opposition @BBCr4today

As the Labour Party once again faces years in the wilderness, this account of the creation of a more electable New Labour, and the three people at the centre of it, is more relevant than ever.

What Glasman is advocating appears to be — on the face of it — a return to what used to be called «ethical socialism», when Labour's beliefs famously owed more to Methodism than to Marx.

Having criticised the chief secretary to the Treasury for «ranting» about Labour rather than answering for the government, the Speaker then became even more annoyed when her boss appeared to pull a face.

Advising those looking to get a new face in the Commons, Osland states: «The top priority for the labour movement right now is to secure the election of more Labour MPs at the next general elelabour movement right now is to secure the election of more Labour MPs at the next general eleLabour MPs at the next general election.

Gordon Brown is facing more pressure from high - profile members of the Labour party to hold a referendum on the EU treaty, despite the foreign secretary insisting the party is not split on Europe.

The passport backlog at the Home Office and the controversy over teaching in Birmingham schools are much more significant than any of the problems currently facing the Labour leader.

Actually, I say «infographic», but it's a more a digital raspberry blown in Labour's collective face.

Craig Oliver thinks Theresa May will soon face increased opposition from more than just the Labour Party #Peston pic.twitter.com/CRW 2eNYXOj

Nick Clegg is in a slightly more awkward position as his seat Sheffield Hallam is set to be redesignated as Sheffield West and Penistone and he could face a strong Labour challenge.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

Miliband faces a more overt attack from the founder of Blue Labour, Maurice Glasman, who was ennobled following a recommendation from his party leader.

I think it's over committed and badly procured, but I can't see the Tories facing down their buddies in the defence industry, and more than Labour has.

More pertinently for Labour, how to oppose such a two - faced government?

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

Labour faces a much more complicated set of calculations.

At Labour's conference he faced more embarrassment as he was pictured holding a plea to bring back the very same job.

59 % of people agreed that Labour had «seriously lost touch with ordinary working people» (including 30 % of Labour's own supporters), 70 % that «Labour need to make major changes to their policies and beliefs to be fit for government again» (including 50 % of Labour voters), 61 % agreed that «Labour still haven't faced up to the damage they did to the British economy» and 50 % agreed that «If Labour returned to government they would put the country into even more debt».

The Labour leader, who explained he struck an admiring tone of the Iron Lady in the last fortnight because «it was right to show respect», told the Scottish Labour party conference the UK once more faces the need for the same scale of fundamental reforms achieved by Thatcher — and he is the man to make that change.

Labour is nevertheless facing calls to be more specific on how it would reform Europe and deal with immigration, for instance by ejecting overstayers out of the EU.

This seems an aptcharacterization for a Labour party leadership that has had more than two decades to face up toinevitability of constitutional change in the UK, and repeatedly refused to do so (outside a brief period from 1997 to 1999).

One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has faced more calls to be clearer about what his party stands for.

Mr Miliband admitted it was «more than a little odd» to be facing his brother David in the race to lead Labour, but said he would have been «abdicating his responsibility» if he did not stand.

The Conservatives will want to paint their own narrative of the last Labour government, of reckless spending pushing the country to the verge of bankrupcy, and have had some success in doing so: 60 % think Labour haven't faced up to the damage they did to the economy, 47 % that if Labour returned to government they'd put the country into even more debt.

Given the problems we face, as a party Labour should be exploring ways of helping the economy grow more rapidly and make the UK a more attractive place for business to flourish.

The Tories can't quite believe their luck that Labour looks set to pick Andy Burnham as its leader, someone who one senior Tory describes as «just the more presentable face of Milibandism».

Furthermore, the forthcoming general election is far more likely than the last two to end up with the third party being squeezed as the country faces a fundamental choice between Labour and the Conservatives as to who should form the Government.

The former Labour leader faces four more days of fronting the current affairs and music show while Jeremy Vine is on holiday.

Last night, after the Conservatives overturned a 5,000 Labour majority to win the Norwich seat by 7,348 votes, Labour MPs gave warning that, unless the party did more than peddle scare stories about possible Tory spending cuts, it faced a wipeout at the next election.