Sentences with phrase «hold over government policy»

Writing in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, he argued the emphasis on the crisis of debt having a «strong hold over government policy» was no accident - and warned Labour needs to do more to combat it.

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They argue — as Corbyn does when he claims credit for U-turns the government has performed, such as over benefit reform or economic policy — that in holding to the faith they have exercised power, because power is simply the ability to make or to prevent things happening.

IPSOS Mori data shows that Labour held a substantial advantage over the Conservatives on economic policy throughout its period of government until 2008.

«That this House commends the Speaker on the action he has taken over the past year to reassert the principle that Ministers ought to make statements to the House before they are made elsewhere; notes that paragraph 9.1 of the Ministerial Code says that when Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament; believes that compliance with this principle is essential for backbenchers to be able to represent the interests of their constituents and hold the Government to account; and invites the Procedure Committee to consider how the rules of the House could be better used or, if necessary, changed to ensure compliance with this principle and to develop a protocol for the release of information.»

New York's government was structured in the days of Tammany Hall for upstate Republicans to control the Senate, and over the last century, as New York has turned an ever deeper shade of blue, the G.O.P. has fought to hold onto the chamber, which gives it one of the three legs (the other are the Assembly and governor's office) on which budgets and policy are built.

Pro-Trident Labour MP John Woodcock told PoliticsHome: «Aside from being another sign that the «open minded» review of defence policy is nothing of the sort, Jeremy's choice to speak at the CND rally just ensures another weekend of public focus on Labour's divisions over a policy that can't change when we should be holding the Government to account and making the case to remain in the European Union.»

There have been committees in this country over the last 10 years of judges, lawyers, police, and government policy - makers who have met in collaborative, off - the - record, but successful conferences, working together despite differences of belief and approaches, often firmly held.