Sentences with phrase «labour governments»

A 50 % religious discrimination cap was introduced for new faith academy schools by the last Labour Government in 2007.

The previous Labour government in 2007 commissioned colleagues and I to conduct a study around these issues.

This is not only a legacy of the race relations legislation passed under Labour governments.

The next Labour government believes that there should be sustained public investment in further and higher education due to its role in creating a fair and prosperous society.

And while the previous Labour governments failed in many of these areas, it is important to note that there were some positive steps, too.

I want any future Labour government to be brave enough to not conveniently do the same.

But at this point in the campaign, that only fuels arguments from the Conservatives about the risks involved in a minority Labour government supported by the SNP.

As I have said before, the last Labour government did not spend every pound of public money well.

A majority Conservative government is now equal with a majority Labour government as the ideal outcome of the 2015 general election and Labour's lead has been consistently reduced to single digits.

The last Labour government introduced a teaching programme in 1997.

The last Labour government made more changes to LGBT rights than any other government in history.

The best outcome of the election would be a majority Labour government.

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

Take capital investment, which was due to fall as the last Labour government left office.

To imply otherwise is misleading and undermines the confidence of teachers in using the tough powers the last Labour government gave them.

48 % of people blame the previous Labour government while only 17 % blame the coalition government.

No, they were just ordinary people who just happened to work for a cause in which they believed: the need for a reforming Labour government.

They were introduced by the first - term Labour government and involve the public sector entering into long - term contracts with private sector companies.

These negative impacts are the legacy of a climate policy that was conceived in 2006, when the previous Labour government announced that all new homes would be «zero carbon» by 2016.

The thing is the current Labour government hasn't learnt from its errors and is too arrogant to eat humble pie.

When the issue of the economy does come up we are subjected to the big lie that we are in this mess because the last Labour government spent and borrowed too much.

The great Labour governments from 1945 to 1997 all won power because they became the voice for that progressive majority.

This is now a phrase which echoes down the years of successive Labour governments.

It was passed by the present Labour government in 1998.

That's why the last Labour government put funding in place so that anyone who needs basic skills training could get it.

I am sure any responsible Labour government will jump at the chance for this sort of legislation.

The fourth Labour government also began the process of electoral reform.

On that occasion, a minority Labour government split over the question of cuts to unemployment benefit.

Both the coalition and the previous Labour government share responsibility for demanding this result, the MPs said.

People are suffering and they need to have an alternative Labour government.

The last Labour government set a target of half of young people accessing higher education and there has been a large expansion in numbers in recent decades.

The last Labour government raised the upper tax band from 40 % to 50 % in 2010 in response to the recession but the coalition has since cut it to 45 %.

And third, the next Labour government must start planning now for what will be a very difficult inheritance.

He said a future Labour government would seek «a managed and fair immigration system that takes into account the needs of our economy».

I thought what the last Labour government did overall was really good.

It is also unlikely that the SNP would tie itself completely to the maintenance of a minority Labour government.

The scheme was abandoned by the succeeding Labour government in 1974 on grounds of soaring costs and damage to the environment.

If the last labour government made one big mistake, it was to forget that economic distribution matters.

If elected, she said, an incoming Labour Government must challenge austerity.

The chances of getting another majority Labour Government is in the balance.

It's a pity previous Labour governments were unable to recognise this as a long - term goal.

Can you imagine the current Labour government having the courage to back down from an unpopular policy like the poll tax.

But he pointed out «the most popular thing that the last Labour government did was the minimum wage, a demand of the trade unions».

Following the publication of Ann Clwyd's review into the complaints system in the English NHS, Kirsty Williams AM has accused the Welsh Labour Government of continuing to stick its head in the sand.

After a long period of Labour governments appointing new peers from 1997 to 2010, both Tories and Lib Dems are committed to increasing their numbers to balance Labour's advantage.

Of all the books to come out of the Labour years — by David Blunkett, Alastair Campbell, Peter Mandelson, Mo Mowlam, Lance Price and co — not a single one makes a sustained intellectual case for Labour government.

Despite losing one seat at the assembly election, Mr Jones had said he expected to form a minority Labour government with 29 of the assembly's 60 members.

However, the nationalists in both Scotland and Wales have dismissed such talk as scaremongering by Labour governments fearful of the results of the Welsh assembly and Scottish parliament elections in May this year.

Britain needs Labour governments, however messy the compromises sometimes get.