Sentences with phrase «labour issues now»

«During the Harrison years, they had labour issues now and then,» says Kam Hon, managing director at bond rating agency DBRS, «but the disrupt ions were never extensive, so it never really hurt CN's performance.»

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Christian Labour MP Emma Lewell - Buck, whose bill urging the Government to measure food insecurity will be read in Parliament on Friday, said: «Now is the time for the Government to sit up and tackle the growing issue of hunger in our country.

Telling the truth about tough issues is now impossible in the modern day Labour Party.

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

These are issues which we will address now as we prepare for the zero - based spending review — a root and branch review of every pound the government spends from the bottom up — which Labour will complete in our first year in office.

Nigel Farage tweeted: «Telling the truth about tough issues is now impossible in the modern day Labour Party.»

All five candidates for the Labour Leadership have now responded positively to the campaign run by Dronfield Blather to issue «Manifestos of Intent».

Conservatives, Labour, and Liberal Democrats alike agreed to even stronger devolution than is now the case, with the now - permanent Scottish Parliament being given plenary powers regarding taxation and some important social issues, especially involving the operation of the modern welfare state.

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

The second major way in which the former Labour now SNP voters are distinct is by being much more left - wing on a variety of economic values and issues.

The Labour leader has called a special conference taking place next spring, which he hopes will resolve the issue, but support from Unite now seems conditional on Miliband lurching to the left.

They are now working closely with Keep the Party Labour on those issues on which they agree.

Corbynites have until now argued that Labour's Brexit stance, including ending free movement, allowed them to shut down the issue on the election doorstep and - in a phrase once beloved of Blairites - earned them «the right to be heard» on the issues they really wanted to talk about.

Labour and the Lib Dems have now converged on a new issue.

The biggest potential issue is the «cut now, cut later» argument; that dominated the debate (ironically) between Labour and the Conservatives in the run up to polling day.

Now that we know he has precisely the same non-dom status as prominent Labour donors such as Sir Ronald Cohen, Lord Paul and Lakshmi Mittal, it is going to be difficult for Labour to make any serious mischief on this issue — which rather reinforces the point that he should have come clean much sooner.

«There's really unique circumstances in Copeland, the Labour vote has been eroding over a number of elections now but this issue about the future of nuclear industry clearly dominated that election campaign, «he told BBC News.

The GMB resolution at the Labour Party conference stressed defending employment and social rights and not aligning with the Tories, and was a welcome starting point for what should now be a major issue for Labour's left, namely determining that Labour's campaign is distinctively left wing and not indistinguishable from the general In campaign.

Former Schools Secretary and now Labour leadership contender, Ed Balls, has written in today's Observer about the issue of immigration.

Apart from the issue of proportional representation for elections to the Commons, where the Lib Dems have an obvious vested interest, and Iraq (a bitter disagreement but now largely behind us), the Lib Dems have not set out fundamental differences of principle with New Labour.

Your problem is that the Cymraeg issue now has full cross party support — Plaid, Labour, Lib Dem, Tory and even though they have no representatives now UKIP as well, so you feel disenfranchised.

Now, less than three months on, it is still utterly unclear whether Labour did tell Clegg that they would accept electoral reform without taking the issue to the country.

Since the referendum, Labour MPs have been transfixed by the belief that their vote in the north and the Midlands was now Ukip's for the taking because of the issue of immigration.

Today's poll found Labour voters are now evenly split on the issue with 37 % saying it would be a good thing and 37 % a bad thing.

The main issue now will be whether Ed Miliband can clearly express Labour's position - that it would also have vetoed the proposal but that it could have avoided such a scenario through better negotiation and contact - building.

Before we left, we received a message that Brown was now asking all Labour Cabinet Ministers to contact their Lib Dem opposite numbers to discuss agreement on policy issues.

Right now there are probably four years to an election, so as long as Labour recognise the issue and address it, it doesn't need to be a problem at all — the best position for them to build up more positive support again is from a position of strength.

Lots of humour in the Commons right now... but the issue remains: would Labour use the veto, or is it better not to reveal your hand?

We mention the issue now in the context of the Labour Party's class war attacks on the Conservative Party.

On most issues, I agree with social democrats and I disagree with the hard left who now control the Labour party.

It implies that Labour accepts the Tory framing of the election that Labour caused an almightly economic mess, that the deficit is now the central issue and that deep cuts in pay, benefits and public services were the right way to deal with the deficit.

Their position on issues is now similar to their position at the end of last summer when they enjoyed a much larger lead in voting intentions (The Conservatives are ahead by 20 on law and order, 24 on immigration, 7 on education, 10 on tax, 4 on unemployment (traditionally a «Labour issue»), 8 on the economy.

The first real shot was fired recently from the Fabian Society in an interesting article by their relatively new General Secretary Andrew Harrop, in which he introduced the concept of Ed's Converts — 2010 Lib Dem voters who were now overwhelmingly voting Labour, and who were — on the whole — more left than right - wing on a range of issues.

On yesterday's Daily Politics, Labour rising star Stella Creasy was challenged over the issue, and she conceded that it is now «difficult» to be selected for a parliamentary seat without the backing of the unions.

The real issue today is not that Blair wants to get back into politics he can if he likes because I'm not voting labour any way not this mess we have now any way.

«There is a debate going on, but we're in a situation now where we will see in the council elections there could be a real danger to Labour because in parts of the country Labour voters have been disillusioned by some of our views, not just on the EU but on other issues and they've been moving away from us.»

Labour may get away with its tribalism in Westminster elections, but in the context of Scottish and Welsh elections, in which separatism is no longer an issue, it is increasingly unhelpful against what are now established Left of Centre parties.

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This has become a more salient issue over time as organizations are now more likely to be involved in «political disputes over funding, the role of labour unions, abortion and other matters».

The other labour issue here on the left coast is the diminution of profits from the sale of B.C. bud, now that Washington State has thwarted B.C.'s once largest export by legalizing weed.