Sentences with phrase «in new labour»

After its leery, 1990s adolescence as a rhinestone in New Labour's crown of «Cool Britannia», the Turner Prize has matured into a respected institution and intermittent mobile vehicle for arts based civic regeneration.

«Is Sarah Brown the most astute politician left in new Labour?»

As a former Education Minister who helped the drive for academy schools in the New Labour years, it was hoped his appointment might signal Ed Miliband's support for the Coalition's Free Schools programme.

Too often we in New Labour thought that the mixture of being in the right policy position, uttering the right language and relying on Tony's charisma was enough.

De Blasio's populist campaign, with its focus on inequality, promise to govern on behalf of the ’99 per cent» and pledge to raise taxes on the very rich, certainly appeared to «break every rule in the New Labour playbook», as Diane Abbott crowed the day after the Democrats beat the Republicans by a near - 50 point margin.

There I found a strikingly young, unflappably bright, upwardly mobile, superbly connected (in New Labour terms) unwaveringly smiling and very cool - in both senses of the word - Labour MP: James Purnell.

But he will do none of these things because he is gutless & prefers to be the prince over the water; an icon for those wallowing nostalgically in the New labour years.

What's really important is that, in future, Labour does have leadership elections, not coronations, when it needs to, and that the process ensures that future Labour Leaders do not lose touch with both the party and its supporters as happened in the New Labour years.

A lot of Labour voters voted Labour despite some of what had happened in New Labour years.

It is Miliband's involvement in the New Labour he has worked so hard to distance himself from which will be awkward for the Labour leader.

He told us that while «huge things were achieved» in the New Labour years, the party could have done much more:

A qualified teacher, Morgan went on to play an important role in New Labour's education programme and has since spent three years as Chair of Ofsted.

Even before the General Election the participants in the New Labour project and government were writing autobiographies and editing their diaries.

But as the younger Miliband argues, «remaining in the New Labour comfort zone would consign us to opposition».

Allowing Jeremy Corbyn to stand in a new Labour leadership contest without the backing of at least one - fifth of the party's MPs and MEPs would be «remarkable», according to legal advice seen by PoliticsHome.

Labour never do anything like that, hence we have a bunch of morons in new labour running after Thatcherism it's self.

It is right as well they did not dump it here which is great news, I think the BBC has to learn that while we are now in a New labour world we must tug the old cap when passing your boss if he says hello fall to the floor and kiss his boots if not his ass, we must do anything and every thing possible not to anoy employers even dirty scum like this.

And in an eye catching appointment Charlie Falconer, a minister in the New Labour years, will take the lead on «transition and planning into government.»

On the specific issue of «window dressing», the increased role of women in New Labour seems to me correlated not with some kind of feminist victory within what's left of the historical Labour Party (that, I think, is a myth unfortunately) but rather with the growth of «affective labour» in the workplace.

Byrne has also suggested that Labour should debate a new Clause 4 to replace the wording that Tony Blair came up with back in New Labour's heyday.

In New Labour's first term Falconer was appointed to so many ministerial committees that one colleague called him «the eyes and ears of the Prime Minister», and when Blair resigned a decade later Falconer followed suit, quitting front line politics and returning to his legal career.

Unite's, joint general secretary, Tony Woodley said: «No matter what Tony Blair says in his book, Britain lost faith in New Labour.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has called the disincentives to work in New Labour's welfare state a «tragedy».

He was appointed foreign secretary in the new Labour government although he lost his seat at Smethwick in a bitter contest tainted by racial slurs.

After the election defeat of 1992 a whole generation of Labour figures, who were to rise to prominence in the New Labour era from 1994 onwards, concluded that victory would only come if an intense and unyielding discipline on language and behaviour were maintained.

If you are in power it is trickier (but not impossible) to run a campaign based on difference - as in New Labour's unofficial third term slogan «vote Blair, get Brown».

It is also worth mentioning that Labour started to lose Scotland to the SNP in the New Labour era and not only in the aftermath of the independence referendum.

God I think some of you are still in the new labour dream world, would Labour win the next election if called tomorrow, it would be close but it would be hung.

Only David Miliband hinted that the question offered an old shibboleth, before showing that he was prepared to genuflect before it anyway in being «happy to sign up to» the assertion that «Labour is a democratic socialist party», a statement left in new Labour's new Clause Four in 1995.

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

Whether any of them — particularly those most complicit in the New Labour project — are capable of leading a «renewal» must be open to question.

Her vision for securing the 2012 Olympics for London, her formative role in New Labour's flagship Sure Start scheme, and most recently, her campaign for cancer research, have all been given many column inches.

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

Thanks to a BBC Radio 4 documentary, The Royal Activist, it's emerged that Charles lobbied ministers in the New Labour government on a range of issues.

Not exact matches

Labour shortages have intensified in the automotive, electrical, engineering and food trade sectors while the situation has improved in construction, according to new data.

The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

And in September, at about the first Wednesday after Labour Day, they «go haywire,» as parents with young kids scramble to readjust to a new school year.

So - called legacy carriers struggle to compete in a world filled with low - cost upstarts like Southwest and JetBlue, along with new international carriers like Emirates Airlines, which enjoy far lower labour costs than their North American rivals.

«Oil prices, economic conditions in Europe or China, further labour disruptions, a new pandemic — there are any number of possibilities.»

It's time for labour to explore creative ideas and inclusive approaches to organizing more workers in this new economic era.

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

«Today, gen X and gen Y dads want to be involved,» says Spinks, adding, «Boomer grandmas, who would have historically provided the postpartum care for mom and new baby, are still in the paid labour force.

(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)

Add in all the perks of producing at home — such as eliminating exchange rate uncertainty, lower chances of supply chain disruptions, a more plentiful supply of qualified labour and the synergies that develop when the R&D guys can easily chat with factory floor employees — and the overall costs of building a new factory in the U.S. or China are roughly equal.

That's how it looks, at least, after negotiations aimed at resolving the league's labour dispute collapsed last week in New York.

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.

The recent improvement in start - up activity despite a relatively healthy labour market indicates that a significant number of new entrepreneurs chose self - employment as a career rather than being forced to open a business due to a lack of other employment opportunities.

Even if the labour market kept adding 215,000 new net jobs a month, though, it would take until the end of 2017 for the jobless rate to drop to 6 %, TD economist Martin Schwerdtfeger noted in a brief today.

While B.C. signed the New West Partnership Trade Agreement in 2010 pledging to «remove barriers to trade, investment and labour mobility» between western provinces, Clark's demands pose the biggest barrier to interprovincial trade this country has seen for a long time.

WA engineering company RCR Tomlinson has acquired a 60 per cent share in a new company, Premium Workforce, to supplyshutdown maintenance and labour hire services throughout the state.