Sentences with phrase «key labour policies»

I didn't cover this in my paper but can see that it could be used to weed out candidates who oppose IHT and other key Labour policies.

Not exact matches

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).

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposLabour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposlabour movement opposition.

I think the key lessons for Labour from this by - election are not about whether «One Nation Labour» is reaching «southern voters», or whether Labour needs to adopt policy x, y or z. Instead, the Eastleigh result poses two questions which Labour need to consider:

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

This collections of essays outlines some key Blue Labour policy approaches.

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.

Also the serious economic framework McDonnell has announced can restore Labour's economic credibility — the key policy failure that lost it the 2015 General Election.

There are four key elements that can be identified in Corbyn's economic strategy which he outlined in a speech last week, all of which are grounded on solid economic foundations and which have little in common with Labour's policies of the early 1980s.

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)?

The central idea was that Labour needs to introduce an emergency «anti-austerity» or «Growth4All» budget to set its key economic policies in place as soon as possible after Labour wins the 2015 election with an overall majority..

It doesn't matter that Labour will balls these policies up, what matters is that GDP not a Happy Planet Index or GWB are now acknowledged by both sides to be the key buttons to public popularity.

A majority of voters back Labour's policies in key areas such as the NHS, minimum wages and energy pricing.

Key to this criticism was the Labour policy of making students pay tuition fees, which the Liberal Democrats had promised to abolish as their price of entering a coalition, but which became merely the subject of an inquiry as the coalition was formed.

That's right, the man setting Labour's economic policies sees the UK's failure as key to his own success.

An opposition needs to be careful not to bind itself to a key economic policy long before a general election, as Labour did on the ERM in 1990 two years before the election.

If Miliband and Balls wish to present Wales as an incubator for the kind of policies that a UK Labour government would pursue, then Welsh Conservatives should gladly accept the invitation to make Labour's record in Wales a key battle - ground.

He said there was growing alarm that key policies concerning drugs, land taxes, electoral and constitutional reform could all be ditched because they were opposed by both Labour and the Tories.

It was also claimed that Corbyn policy chief Andrew Fisher - who has played a key role in drawing up the manifesto - left a copy of the draft document lying on his desk in Labour's open plan office yesterday.

As Varoufakis also argued that George Osborne has used fiscal policy «as a narrative to conduct a class war», many called for him to be given a key role in the Labour Party.

«The key policy in the Welsh Labour Government's annual budget that will support students from poorer backgrounds is the Pupil Deprivation Grant.

Highlights were policies still claimed by Labour today as among its most significant achievements — the creation of the minimum wage, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and bills to reduce class sizes — as well as one key Brownite policy whose wisdom has now become disputed: independence for the Bank of England, which also involved removing its role as City regulator.

The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said it was a «toe - curling» moment but there was a serious point - either Ms Abbott, who aspired to run the Home Office, had not done her homework on a key policy announcement, or Labour's numbers were a «bit flaky».

Pension reform is a key plank of the coalition's economic policy, it has tasked Labour peer Lord Hutton with bringing about a new system for public sector schemes that is sustainable.

Labour MPs criticised Key for not releasing specific policy information at their annual conference.

Brown was careful not to imply that there would be any reversals in the key areas of Blair's social policy, or any radical breakaway from New Labour.

She says the key aspect of Norman Lamb MP's contribution was «that he says a future coalition with Labour is possible if they were one day ever able to show they had moved on from the policy platforms of New Labour»»

Diane Abbott's presence in the race electrifies the contest not because she is a black woman (though that is not unimportant) but because she has held a very different position on a number of key policies from the New Labour government of which the four men were members.

In this role she was a key player in the first stages of the «modernisation» of the Labour Party, and along with Clive Hollick, helped set up the Institute for Public Policy Research and was its deputy director 1989 — 1994.

She will have to make headlines out of a problem that's been plaguing Labour as well as the Conservatives - splits on a key policy at the top of the party.

Labour politicians, some anxious to keep their own pet policies in the spotlight, were sceptical and argued endlessly over what the key promises should be.

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.

The last Labour government passed several key pieces of legislation — including that introducing foundation hospitals and tuition fees — thanks to the votes of Scottish MPs whose constituents were unaffected, given Holyrood's control of health and education policy.

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.

Mr Johnson went further than any senior Labour figure in suggesting they would be ready to go beyond existing party policy and open up a debate on proportional representation for Westminster elections - a key Lib Dem demand.

The Shadow Home Secretary was humiliated when she got the maths wrong on Labour's key policing policy - and suggesting paying cops just # 30 per year.

I know that many Government Members share the view of Labour Members that education is the key to social mobility, and that for all our differences on policy, they would not want the Government to waste the Department for Education's budget on an ineffective vanity project.

«This gap narrowed under Labour and Michael Wilshaw is right to say that our policies, such as London Challenge in which successful schools helped struggling ones, were key to this,» he said.

Despite the impressive volume, the key documents constituting «the EPSR» were only two — a recommendation and a draft proclamation, both almost identical in their content and both setting out 20 principles covering a wide range of areas of social policy and labour law.

As Minister Gordhan stated, «Partnership between government, business, organised labour and civil society is the key to policy coherence and more rapid development.»