Sentences with phrase «how labour policy»

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One that Krysia suggested though was that we go to the hospital antenatal classes too so that we could get a picture of how they expected labour and birth to progress and so that we would know what their policies were.

Chaired by NASUWT President Geoff Branner, the meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester highlighted how savage economic policies are wreaking havoc on children's education.

In the week when David Cameron told Labour it had been taking «policy - changing substances», the first PMQs in what felt like a decade revealed just how addicted MPs are to partisanship.

It is an example of a European party with hard left policies winning votes, and comparisons with UK Labour underline just how radical Podemos actually is.

In a recent blog post for (the appropriately titled) Conservative Home, the Labour party's Policy Co-Ordinator, Jon Cruddas MP (also a contributor to The Labour Tradition), reflects on Scruton's new book, How to be a Conservative: he describes his Conservatism as a love of home.

However, when these policies are associated with Labour, there is a notable drop in support, with the immediate reaction being «how will they pay for it all?»

Although it is not terribly clear what the actual mechanics of the policy of a potential Labour government would be (ie they have a lot of ideas on what they want to achieve but not how to achieve it) it seems likely that they would adopt a much more interventionist approach.

Labour making jokes about how or what or which school people went to or was he air brushed, nothing about the real problems no policies.

Whilst there are some ways in which I think Labour and the Lib Dems could work to each other's benefit at a national policy level I just can not imagine how this would effect the dynamics of local politics, as others have pointed out.

How is it that Labour can oppose many of the cuts being made by the Conservative - led coalition and promise to spend billions on new policies?

Today I have published a paper with the Centre for Policy Studies that sets out how the Labour Government has wrecked our country's finances.

The fact that anyone would ever simply assumes that the debate about Labour and its leadership is a debate solely or mostly about policy only shows how unusual — well, weird — people active in politics tend to be.

There is frustration among some Labour policy leaders at Miliband's reluctance to embrace more of the report, designed to show how the left set out a redistributionist agenda in the post-crash world.

Comparing how Conservative governments dealt with Rolls Royce Aeroengines and how the Blair government just left Marconi to sink tells us a lot about New Labour's industrial policy.

Labour under Corbyn can expect further gains by setting out its own positive policies detailing how it intends to raise people's living standards.

The question of how far the candidates should renounce the policies of New Labour has become one of the central themes of the contest.

September 2017, LSE British Politics and Policy blog: How the Labour vote reflects a values - based realignment of the British electorate

And this history is important precisely because it demonstrates, as with the later «education, education, education» nonsense, how New Labour was, right from the very beginning, much more interested in importing salesmanship from abroad than in policy needs at home.

Unions should no longer have such a large say in how Labour party policy is formulated, a former T&G leader has suggested.

Labour first suggested it would back the campaign for a time limit on detention last month but the party's immigration initiative today — which otherwise is full of «tough on immigration» policies — confirms how the party will approach the issue.

Guardian - Talk about how Labour Stole Tory Policies.

The former Labour MP Katy Clark, an ally of Corbyn who is now the Labour leader's political secretary, will lead a «party democracy review» to make the case for major changes to how the party elects leaders, selects MPs and forms policy.

What really struck me was how feminised the Labour policy agenda has become, and what powerful evidence it provides for the shift in perspective that comes from having a significant body of women at the top of the party.

So, how does Carwyn and his Team Druid justify yet another manic departure from Westminster Labour policy?

Can I firstly completely support David Pavett's reply to John Penney.Indeed I find it amazing that someone (John) with a sophisticated understanding of the policies Labour needs to develop has no understanding at all of how to get Labour in a position to implement those policies.Indeed you fall at the first hurdle, by accepting that Labour can not win in 2020 following a major split.

The policy the public are looking for is not how far Labour can out - tory the Tories over austerity, but rather a policy of growth and hope for the future.

Grayling spent the day making a speech about how trade unions were influencing Labour party policy.

Most of this speech has been about how the Labour Party makes policy.

Ed Balls» former policy chief has questioned how John McDonnell will achieve a radical alternative to austerity after the shadow chancellor's speech to the Labour conference.

His prominence was due to an interview with Labour Shadow Cabinet Minster Diane Abbot, who, under pressure to answer questions about how her party would fund an additional 10,000 police officers, could not credibly explain how much the policy would cost.

So far I've collected your ideas for the best doorstep Tory policies; the best attack lines on Labour; how best to describe our economic policy; and how to appeal to Lib / Con waverers.

We hope that she, her colleagues in Government, and those in the Labour party will take the opportunity over the next 10 months to consider how the next government will deliver rural policy.

And their reasoning was revealed by none other than Blair's polling guru Phillip Gould, who described how he argued that the 1989 Policy Review proposals which shifted Labour to the right, should not be introduced on a piecemeal basis, as was being mooted as a way of minimising opposition but to»... make one big - bang presentation... Dissent in these circumstances did not reduce our electoral appeal, but heightened it.

But the Conservatives said Ms Abbott had «floundered» when pressed over how the policy would be paid for and accused Labour of already pledging to spend the capital gains tax money on schools, welfare and the arts.

Respondents wouldn't know how many MPs went in each split, who would be the leader of the anti-Corbyn Labour faction or what specific policies the two factions would propose.

How is it possible that Labour should put in such a poor performance on the EU in terms of its policies, broadcasts and printed material without this leading to some critical reflection?

PoliticsHome revealed how Labour MPs were angry that the party had not set up a policy commission to specifically look at Brexit.

«That this House notes that the Government regulation implementing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act contradicts previous Ministerial assurances that NHS commissioners should decide when and how competition should be used to serve patient interests; acknowledges that, although the last Labour Government rolled out the red carpet to private companies to make profits from NHS services, believes that patients come before profits in our NHS; and therefore calls on HM Government to withdraw SI 257, go back to the drawing board and draw up a policy which supports an integrated NHS which encourages collaboration in the interest of patient care rather than a fragmented service driven by profit.»

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Yet while Corbyn listed at length the achievements of Labour councils across the country, there was a distinct lack of policies to help those councils make their own decisions about how to meet the challenges they face (housing aside).

Explore the different teams within Labour and how we make policy.

In other words, free education isn't just a policy, it's a whole new philosophy of how Labour should behave towards vested interests, private companies and unaccountable power when it is government.

Corbyn and his close allies are discussing how to manage the expected rebellion among Labour MPs — including some on the frontbench — against the party's policy of not frustrating Brexit.

Continuing that theme, the 2015 manifesto's welfare pledges revolve around explaining how the SNP would exert its influence on this policy area if involved in supporting a minority Labour government.

Research for the Centre for Policy Studies by Conservative MP Philip Dunne has revealed how Gordon Brown has used his control of the nation's purse strings to tilt the growth of funding towards urban Britain - much of it Labour's heartlands.

A senior Labour source said: «This raises serious questions about Andrew Lansley's judgement and it is difficult to see how he can continue on in his role as shadow health secretary when it would appear that a private health care company is helping to fund the development of Tory healthy policy.

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.

[citation needed] In a speech two days later Mrs. Thatcher attacked Labour's defence policy as a programme for «defeat, surrender, occupation, and finally, prolonged guerrilla fighting... I do not understand how anyone who aspires to Government can treat the defence of our country so lightly.»

Policies - they need binding together as a theme and the issue of how / when to announce the big policy ideas needs resolving because it appears we have been caught in the headlights over how to deal with Labour nicking our ideas or whether to get on with it anyway.

However, time and time again we hear of how the Welsh Labour Government simply isn't doing enough to allow this policy to reach its full potential.