Sentences with phrase «incoming labour government»

Labour's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Leeds East Richard Burgon spoke of the imperative for an incoming Labour government to reject the massive cuts being proposed by George Osborne.

Plaid Cymru policies are only likely to be implemented at Westminster if an incoming Labour government became dependent on their votes for a majority.

An incoming Labour government would have a target of «at least 200,000 new houses to be built between 2015 and 2020», said Sadiq Khan.

And I still have absolutely no idea what could be meant by «An incoming Labour government must assess the economic situation much more flexibly than it is able to do in opposition.»

Sticking to Tory spending targets, which in government the Tories would probably ditch, is one - way that an incoming Labour government could make itself deeply unpopular.

An incoming Labour government must assess the economic situation much more flexibly than it is able to do in opposition.

At its inaugural meeting, he announced a package of measures that an incoming Labour government would adopt.

Many believe the resulting spending cuts will not really begin to be felt until 2016, leaving a potential incoming Labour government to face the brunt of the blame.

Not exact matches

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.

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The government's election commitment to allow families with children under age 18 to split income would actually encourage a reduction in labour force participation.

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«Government delegation at the meeting will include Minister of Education, Minister of Finance, Chairman National Income Salaries and Wages Commission, Executive Secretary National Universities Commission and the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.

He said the government delegation at the meeting would include the ministers of Education and Finance, Chairman, National Income Salaries and Wages Commission, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission and the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress.

Both the Conservatives and Labour reject the # 8bn plea but it may still be welcomed in government, just as the 2010 Lib Dem proposal for raising the threshold for income tax was.

The MGI said government policy and labour market practices helped determine the ultimate extent of flat or falling incomes.

Of the September / October 2014 British Election Study (BES) respondents who voted Liberal Democrat in 2010 and still intend to vote Lib Dem, just 14 % strongly agree that, «government should redistribute income from the better off to those who are less well off», compared with 31 % for those that have switched to Labour.

Social mobility died a death now Labour is talking crap about 1000,000 new jobs for middle income groups what about the rest, we do need a New Government brown has nothing at all to offer.

(b.) Composition of the Federal Government representation is as follows: Minister of Labour and Employment (Chairman), Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (member), Minister of Budget and Planning (member), Minister of Finance (member), Minister of Solid Minerals (member) and Chairman National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission (member).

The committee was evidently less persuaded by the government's case and concluded that the re-introduction of «contracting - in» could have a «sizeable negative effect» on the number of union members participating in political funds and therefore on the income of the Labour Party.

But Labour under Miliband has already rid itself of the New Labour «no increase in income tax» shibboleth (erected by the New Labour diktat ahead of the 1997 election and kept in place throughout the three Blair governments).

The 50p rate was a last - ditch stunt by the outgoing Labour government, designed to place the incoming administration in a quandary: why should the rich get a tax cut when public sector pay was being squeezed?

And yet all strike and income distribution topics - the bread - and - butter of union strategy - were discarded, while Labour's public sector, welfare and counter-terror programmes - the bread - and - butter of its government strategy - were accepted wholesale.

Former jet pilot Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock had been perceived as being closer to the Labour government than the incoming Tory administration.

Government plans to change the way unions can donate money to political parties face a challenge in the House of Lords, after it was revealed that the proposals could reduce the Labour party's income by # 6m.

Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has announced that if elected a Labour government would return the rate of income tax payable on incomes above # 150,000 to 50 %.

A Labour Government will protect the incomes of twelve million pensioners by legislating to keep the «triple lock», Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, has said.

In Britain, a Labour government had Michael Foot and Tony Benn in senior cabinet positions; raised the top rate on earned income to 83 per cent and that on investment income to 98 per cent; tried to control prices and incomes across the economy; nationalised British Leyland and established a National Enterprise Board.

«Liberal Democrats are already taking action to help the lowest paid, by ensuring that over a million working people in Wales are now paying # 850 less in Income Tax than they were under the last Labour Government.

As the Tories and Labour manoeuvred each other to a standstill on tax policy, Cameron pledged to introduce a new law within the first 100 days of a Conservative government to prevent any rises in income tax, VAT or national insurance in the next parliament.

The Welsh Labour leader said he would focus his government on the economy after a year in which unemployment rose, incomes fell and uncertainty increased.

It was late one night during the Labour conference, that the he suggested this government might try to make savings in the Foreign Office budget by transfering the # 272m annual budget of the BBC World Service directly to the BBC, to paid out of income from the licence fee.

Labour are seen slipping five points to 26 per cent, suggesting a collapse in support for the government following last week's U-turn on the 10p income tax starting rate.

A rebel motion challenging the government on its income tax changes has been signed by 39 Labour MPs.

That is why Labour wants to see a lower 10p starting rate of tax to help 24 million people on middle and lower incomes and, for the next parliament, we will reverse this government's # 3bn top rate tax cut for the top 1 % of earners.

Last week, I wrote that the Government is currently on track to haul back the State's share of the economy from the ruinous 47.7 per cent of national income it reached under Labour to 39.5 per cent within five years.

ConservativeHome has been highlighting the role of the public sector unions as they pour money into Labour's marginal seats campaign and as they also build up a war chest to «unleash hell» on any incoming Tory government.

For example, only 38 per cent now agree that «the Government should redistribute income from the better off to the less well off», far below the 58 per cent who favoured that proposition in 1993, just before Tony Blair became Labour leader.

The Labour government did reduce the national debt - as shown in the national accounts - as a share of national income at the end of the last century (although it's questionable whether most people would understand this to be the «last few years» of which Brown went on to speak).

No similar punishment for Liam Byrne, now Shadow Minister for Unversities, when he left a note in 2010 to the incoming Chief Secretary to the Treasury following the defeat of the Labour government, saying, «Dear Chief Secretary, I'm afraid there is no money.

We can only speculate whether this was a deliberate strategy to damage an incoming Conservative Government and wonder how Labour ministers would have dealt with the chaos they created if they had been re-elected.

The negotiations [in 2000] with the [Labour] Government for me to join the House of Lords did not include any commitment on my part to be taxed on my worldwide income.»

«What the government can do, in the short term, is some of the things we have been doing - like cutting income tax for 25 million taxpayers by increasing the tax free personal allowances, keeping mortgage rates low and keeping fuel prices down by taking 20p a litre off (of) what Labour were planning.»

MP Tom Watson and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls unveil a Labour poster against the government changes to tax reform come into effect, including a cut in the top rate of income tax from 50p to 45p.

Keith Vaz said the 18,600 pound minimum income rule is too high and so there is the inclination to weaken the rule (Labour has form on this as the marriage age was dropped to 16 at one point in the last government).