Sentences with phrase «in a labour government»

Responding to Duncan Brack's article Being A Special Adviser Under The Coalition, Richard Darlington (himself a former SpAd in the Labour government) said: «I agree that good government requires more, not fewer SpAds.

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis PC (born Andreas Adonis, 22 February 1963)[2] is a British Labour Party politician, academic and journalist who served in the Labour Government for five years.

THE DISASTROUS STATE OF THE ECONOMY FOLLOWS 13 YEARS OF BROWN»S MISMANAGEMENT IN A LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

However, you have to wonder what the role of a deputy prime minister would be in a Labour government.

Under PR the last general election would not have resulted in a Labour government.

Crucially, nuclear weapons would be included in a Labour government's strategic defence and security review.

Do party members think that Andy Burnham, chief secretary to the Treasury in the Labour government on the eve of the crash, is best placed to overcome the Conservative onslaught and convince voters that Labour can now be trusted on the economy?

Then the cabinet may just about be capable of articulating some underlying purpose in a Labour government.

In 1945, 23 Labour Co-operative MPs were elected and two had high office in the Labour government — Alexander and Alfred Barnes, who had been chair of the Party.

This month has seen Ed Balls, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, give a speech at Thomson Reuters, which looked to set out his vision for the economy in a Labour government.

It would be wrong to suggest that Labour faces electoral destruction in Westminster if it loses its Scottish constituencies - Blair's three elections would still have resulted in Labour governments, albeit with truncated majorities.

Cameron says in the Labour government ministers would not even share transport to summits.

Commissioned by Harriet Harman in her second stint as acting leader, with Margaret Beckett - the only MP to have served in every Labour government since Wilson's in the 1970s — leading the drafting team, this report is steeped in the mores and perspectives of Labour's old guard.

Blair's book, A Journey, gives fresh details of the depths of the struggle between the two most powerful men in the Labour government and reopens the wounds of the Blair - Brown era on the day the ballots were sent out in the Labour leadership election.

It is understood she still hopes to play a role in a Labour government.

The point they wish to make — that the Conservative Party is insufficiently conservative — will for many of them not be made until Cameron has been punished for his apostasy, much as the Powellites punished Heath in February 1974, even to the point of bringing in a Labour government.

In October 2008 he was made an Assistant Whip in the Labour government and acted as Assistant Regional Minister with Barbara Follett, the Regional Minister for the East of England.

The Chancellor George Osborne this morning attempted to ram home the message, claiming that every family would be left # 350 worse off if the SNP is left calling the shots in a Labour government.

In Tom Bower's excellent book, Broken Vows: Tony Blair — The Tragedy Of Power, there is a telling account of working with Adonis in the Labour government.

His last ministerial post was as junior transport minister in a Labour government.

Not exact matches

A superficial analysis might point to Canadian government investment incentives and labour costs, relative to those in parts of the U.S. and in certain emerging economies.

A war erupted inside the Labour Party, the government's official opposition, over leader Corbyn's decision to make the party's parliamentarians vote in favour of May triggering Article 50.

They are made to silence the objections of organized labour and make the government of the day appear as if it's acting in the national interest.

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.

The problem, which the federal government denies, lies in the significance given to a certificate called the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA).

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.

They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

«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.

As a condition of receiving taxpayer - funded bailouts, governments ordered GM, Chrysler and their unions to bring labour costs in line with Toyota, Honda and Nissan.

Raise interest rates in the U.S. and you could kill the recovery and exacerbate the problem of long - term unemployment, with lasting effects of labour productivity, economic growth and, yes, even government revenues.

The opposition Labour Party, which requested the figures under freedom of information, said they showed the government's «utter failure» in ensuring wealthy people and large corporations pay as much tax as they should.

«So no more hand - holding with Donald Trump - a Labour government will conduct a robust and independent foreign policy made in London.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

In Ontario, complaints about lax workplace guidelines have pushed the Liberal government to launch a formal review of provincial labour laws with an interim report due early next year.

It's really important to work with labour and government, both Ontario and federal, to make sure we attract that investment in Canada and keep it here.

It comes with the Government under pressure after losing its House of Commons majority in the general election as Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity Labour outperformed expectations.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove urged the Prime Minister and Chancellor to listen to independent bodies that review public sector pay, after a week in which Labour attacked a government «shambles» for initially raising, then playing down hopes that the cap could be lifted.

In the 1930s, governments introduced a vast collection of labour laws to assuage the grievances of a burgeoning working class, and Castelli says the laws have become ingrained in the commercial ethos of the natioIn the 1930s, governments introduced a vast collection of labour laws to assuage the grievances of a burgeoning working class, and Castelli says the laws have become ingrained in the commercial ethos of the natioin the commercial ethos of the nation.

Perhaps because of this, the government predicts labour shortages in the coming years.

Yanis Varoufakis: Isn't it astonishing that after Jeremy Corbyn was being described as «the longest suicide note by the Labour Party» about a year ago, today there is an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led government.

A Labour, Corbyn - led government, might be what is necessary in order to create better circumstances both for labour and manufacturing capital in the United KiLabour, Corbyn - led government, might be what is necessary in order to create better circumstances both for labour and manufacturing capital in the United Kilabour and manufacturing capital in the United Kingdom.

LONDON — Tory peer Michael Heseltine believes Brexit will be so damaging that he would rather see a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn in power than see Britain leave the European Union.

Parliamentarians and socialists in the UK and Europe are calling on Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party and a longtime supporter of Venezuela's leadership, to denounce the Venezuelan government in light of recent events.

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.

The opposition Labour Party, which had repeatedly called on Rudd to resign, said May was responsible and should explain her own role in the government's immigration policies.

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.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

The memo was obtained by The Canadian Press and it criticizes the Trudeau government in several areas: For too quickly rejecting U.S. proposals, for insisting on negotiating alongside Mexico, and for promoting progressive priorities like labour, gender, aboriginal and environmental issues.

«With this Bill, this government has chosen to be bold and take a significant step in the world stage,» said the Progressive Labour Party's David Burt, Bermuda's premier and minister of finance.