Sentences with phrase «from a labour government»

In 2011, Theresa May revamped the aforementioned PREVENT de-radicalization programme inherited from the Labour government.

The fact that both Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown shared an enthusiasm for this idea helped to ensure that rather more of the Cook - Maclennan agenda of constitutional change was achieved through our co-operation than might have been expected from a Labour government with a large majority.

The dramatic and continuing cuts in living standards of the majority of people in this country require serious action from a Labour government.

Now, with Labour's policy review making steady progress under the direction of Jon Cruddas, Miliband has pledged to provide more details of the alternatives on offer from a Labour government in 2013.

The prime minister recounted allegations from the Labour government era and then said the opposition leader was «just a bit late» with his questions, claiming the Fox bandwagon had moved on.

What does the revelation that the late Labour minister and good guy Malcolm Wicks saved child benefit from a Labour government cut in 1976 have to do with the row over Lord Rennard's refusal to apologise to female Lib Dem activists whom he is alleged to have harassed?

Labour needs a broader offer, where policies like repeal of the bedroom tax sit within a prospectus that shows how everyone will benefit from a Labour government.

«We have inherited an almighty mess from the Labour government,» he told Channel 4 News.

He said it would be a «brave council leader» that did not take on the powers it would gain from a Labour government to build houses, while parents had their grown - up children «sofa surfing» in the family home.

The government is already relaxing a little the deep cuts inherited from the Labour government in capital spending.

From what I can make out, in the change from a Labour government to a largely Tory coalition (right wing), «green» policies have remained intact.

Not exact matches

And because the majority of Eritrean youths were now conscripted in the National Service, any business requiring their labour had to effectively rent them from the government.

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

There are currently no federal labour rules about drug and alcohol testing outside the military and successive governments from the late 1980s have stayed away from the issue.

The government is working through the multiple issues before making a final decision and has encouraged employers and labour groups to not walk away from the committee's work, said Stephen Laskowski, president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance.

The review comes in the wake of a report from an expert panel the government struck last year that came up with 13 recommendations to help young Canadians get into and thrive in a changing labour market.

We sourced the oilsands direct jobs figure from The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry, a 2013 Petroleum Human Resources Council report that was funded in part by the Government of Canada and The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

Just in from Paris, some fascinating quotables from the OECD: Governments must do more to help workers adapt to new global economy, says OECD Rather than seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing jGovernments must do more to help workers adapt to new global economy, says OECD Rather than seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing jgovernments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing job markets.

Finally, the Speech from the Throne stated that the Government would «work with provinces and territories» in a number of areas, including credential recognition, labour market mobility, removal of trade barriers, among others.

Webcast live, the invited audience included academics, other central bankers, private sector economists and financial market experts, labour union representatives, senior officials from government departments and Crown agencies, representatives from policy think tanks, and the media.

In an interview in April, Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuck expressed interest in making dedicated paternity leave a part of the promised changes to come from the federal government.

We should take a lesson from the recent restructuring of the North American auto industry, where cooperation among labour, business and government has restored jobs and profitability.

Hugh MacDonald Slogan: None Elected experience: MLA for Edmonton - Gold Bar from 1997 to present Background: Since stepping into his role as the opposition labour critic during his first - term and making headlines over the government's shaky handling of rotting pine shakes roofing and lack of whistle - blower protection, Hugh MacDonald earned a reputation as a dogged critic of the Tories.

Nor does it in any way restrict federal, provincial or territorial governments from implementing new laws and regulations in areas such as health and safety, labour protection, education and the environment.

Our children are packed into schools like sardines, surgeries are cancelled for lack of beds, seniors die from mistreatment, labour unions and universities are gutted and our health and environment are degraded because the government won't enforce the law.

Following the election, the Labour Party and New Zealand First formed a coalition government with support from the Green Party.

The global apparel industry that I hail from has built up a particularly long history of attempting to address concerns from civil society, organized labour and governments about the industry's negative social and environmental impacts.

As a young company, Gildan benefited from being in Canada, receiving government subsidies, and, when it hit a rough patch during the»90s, even borrowing from Quebec's labour - sponsored fund, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, which invested $ 3.5 million in Gildan shares starting in 1996 and lent the company up to $ 30 million in debentures.

We need relentless focus from government, labour and business on raising overall productivity in Canada.

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

Sustain has welcomed commitments from shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's health.

A pre-election report from the Toronto Region Board of Trade says Ontario businesses face challenges including high labour costs and energy prices, and urges the next government to cut property taxes to help keep companies competitive.

Most of those MPs will come from either the Conservative Party, who are currently in government, or the Labour Party, who are currently Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, has tabled an Early Day Motion (used by MPs to publicise a particular cause and to gain support in the Commons) calling on the government to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms.

«It may not go down well in international diplomacy... but in the Labour party it will be welcomed as a rare flash of honesty from a senior member of the government,» Peter Kilfoyle said.

Ken Clarke's departure from the government would be a disaster for the future of civil rights in this country and for any hope of clawing back some of the rights lost under a succession of deeply illiberal New Labour home secretaries.

12:24 - Right - after a question on families from a Labour MP, it's time for Ian Swales - the improbable Liberal Democrat MP from Redcar - who invites Cameron to comment on councils thinking of turning down the government's offered council tax freeze.

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin is pressuring Labour to reaffirm its support for HS2 later, as the government shifts its case for HS2 away from quicker journey times.

Labour man Frank Cook said he received a text from a constituent, the only one to support the plan, asking him to support the government or else he would put his marginal constituency at risk.

He's getting a lot of heckling from Labour MPs here as he repeats the government's position.

These are issues which we will address now as we prepare for the zero - based spending review — a root and branch review of every pound the government spends from the bottom up — which Labour will complete in our first year in office.

It is clear from the rash of recent memoirs from senior Labour figures that the Labour governments fell frequently into this trap.

It was odd praise from a politician who sucked me into active Labour politics as I opposed his short - lived government in the 1970s.

Speaking after the HMRC data loss and a fresh row over political funding in the Labour party, Mr Cameron said Mr Brown's government was now suffering from bureaucratic over-reach and incompetence.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

It came from a civil servant in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Labour had a knack of creating government departments with ugly, stilted names and this was one of them).

Labour and Lib Dem peers have inflicted a blow against the government after they passed an amendment to the political parties and elections bill barring tax exiles from donating to political parties.

The Tory Right believe that this is what they may see when looking back at the 2010s from the perspective of a Tory government in the 2020s: a failed Tory - led government, an inept Labour administration and then a resurgent radical Toryism that will rescue the nation from the quagmire of decline and depression.