Sentences with phrase «key labour issue»

Despite being the favoured candidate of many Corbynistas as Jeremy's successor, the 37 - year - old Shadow Education Secretary was not as high profile as she might have been, especically since school funding was a key Labour issue.

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With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

According to the participants, the issue of improved labour productivity is a key area of Russia's socio - economic development.

Farm labour and farm succession have been identified as key issues in the federal government's agriculture white paper.

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

Labour, whose frontbench is divided on the issue, is still officially committed to leaving the single market (allowing Corbyn and McDonnell to make big state aid commitments) and ending free movement (a key concern of MPs with pro-Brexit seats).

Labour are competitive despite Corbyn — and they're competitive because of the legacy power of the Labour brand on key issues like healthcare and housing, and also because Labour have created and marketed so many retail policies (which, to be fair, has occurred under Corbyn's leadership).

This compares with 65 % of voters who felt that the economy was the Tories priority — only 29 % felt that this key issue was a priority for Labour.

Theresa May is under pressure to tackle tuition fees after Labour's pledge to scrap them was highlighted as a key issue for young voters.

Despite picking up some support from the Liberal Democrats, Labour is still significantly behind the coalition on key issues including welfare, immigration and the balance between tax rises and spending cuts.

If Labour does not restore its reputation on the key issue of economic competence, it will forgo the right to be heard on its wider aspirations for a better society.

Labour's announcements on key issues, such as the NHS, were falling flat.

The new pamphlet comes with exclusive polling data from YouGov, focussing on the key issues that led to Labour winning only 49 out of 302 seats in a region that can make or break elections.

However, the Labour chair of the European Scrutiny Committee last night raised concerns over whether the key policy issues in the treaty the government wants excluded, called «red lines», were being excluded as the prime minister claimed.

His Labour party was divided on key issues and suffering low poll ratings.

Labour also need mechanisms to ensure party leadership listens to popular opinion on key issues, like civil liberties.

Despite the ongoing and relentlessly negative noise — mainly not around key political or economic issues — from our biased media, Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party has so far proven a success.

Having failed to get the policies favoured by the left (for the most part and on the key issues) when in opposition, do you think that this will become easier when Labour is in government (and when the stakes are higher for the leadership)?

Most Labour voters voted Remain, therefore Labour should fight against hard Brexit - but Brexit isn't the key issue for most Remain voters, so Labour shouldn't worry about Brexit.

«If Labour does not restore is reputation on the key issue of economic competence, it will not earn the right to be heard on its wider aspirations for a better society,» the report warns.

David Cameron was setting London as his test, and Ken Livingstone had moved into a two - point lead after identifying tube fares, police numbers and living standards as key issues for Londoners, and mobilising the Labour vote from leafy suburbs to the inner - city core.

Brexit will be the central political issue for the coming year and key to Labour's recovery.

While in terms of electoral races in different constituencies, Nigel Farage's party impacts both the Conservatives and Labour, one area where it damages the Tories more is on trustworthiness on key issues and the electoral implications of this.

A week before the Labour party conference opens in Manchester, the issue of how to finance the health service is seen as a key test of whether Miliband will offer bold solutions that will set his party apart from the Tories in May 2015 or opt for safety first.

For Labour to turn things around soon they would need to be able to come up with answers on the key issues, a view voiced by Nick Clegg, who says: «The Labour leadership continue to complain about the coalition's approach, but without providing any credible alternative.

The Labour party lacked substance on key issues, and this was highlighted by the lack of ink in their manifesto book, and although that is not unusual for an opposition at the mid-way moment, it is starting to hurt their credibility nonetheless.

I want to talk about what I believe is a distinctive view that we in Ed Miliband's Labour Party take of one of the key issues in British politics.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has said «inequality and the cost of living crisis» is the key election issue.

ToryDiary: «The Government's pledge to reduce net migration is a key plank of the next election campaign - CCHQ regularly issues infographics and updates reminding everyone that the Coalition's record starkly contrasts with Labour's incompetence in border control.

Labour believes health will be a key electoral issue as voters start to worry less about the economy and more about the NHS as it begins to suffer from the coalition's structural shakeup, declining staff morale after years of frozen pay and a budget not increasing fast enough to cope with the ageing population.

That's what this is all about - making out that the Tories are so out - of - touch (a key Labour message which, if you look carefully, finds its way into every other press release issued by the opposition) they have to talk to working people as if they're all still wearing flat caps and heading off down the mines.

BBC London's political editor Tim Donovan looks at the key issues, with Conservative MP Bob Neill; Sadiq Khan, Labour MP, and Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat MP.

A key issue during the campaign was the proposed closure of Wimbledon police station by the Labour Mayor of London.

That was an image that illustrated not only the difference between the Miliband brothers, but the key issue that divides the majority of the PLP from the majority of the party outside, Progress from mainstream Labour.

Labour's strength in the House of Commons would be permanently diminished if its 41 MPs with Scottish seats are no longer able to vote on key issues.

The results of the General Election are in, and they represent a tremendous vindication of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour left, who have insisted since he was put on the ballot two years ago that Labour can and would make gains running from the left, and that there is a route to power that doesn't involve triangulating the Tories, or compromising on key issues such as austerity.

«Putting that big issue aside, Peter was Labour and I was Labour, we wanted the government to succeed, we wanted to win the election, Peter and I were always the people who, at key moments, were willing to go out and defend the government.

One of the key issues for Murphy will be how to play the topic of devolution, as Labour is resisting the idea of giving Holyrood full powers over tax.

For Corbyn, opposition to Trident is a key issue but to his critics it is a reminder of how out of step Labour's pacifist leader George Lansbury was in the 1930s

The immigration bill must finalise key issues such as the access that EU citizens will have to Britain's labour market and whether they will have preferential treatment as visitors.

In fact in this election Labour was the only mainstream party that placed immigration as one of its key issues.

Labour is split three ways on the issue, as Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to vote against the standing party policy of backing Trident renewal, key figures in the Shadow Cabinet will abstain, and the bulk of MPs are expected to vote in favour of the motion.

Published by the BBC on 11th May: «Labour say if the Lib Dems back them they will put the Alternative Vote system into law and then hold a referendum asking voters if they want a proportional representation voting system - a key issue for the Lib Dems.»

Labour is seeking to exploit the government's weakness and press home the anti-austerity arguments made during the general election campaign by holding a series of debates on key social policy issues.

Debating some of the key issues with local people are three cabinet - ranking politicians from the major parties: - Labour chief whip Geoff Hoon - Michael Gove, shadow secretary of state for children, schools and families, and - Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Vince Cable.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

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