Sentences with phrase «labour ministers»

He is not the only former Labour minister seeking a return to power.

The former Labour minister also reflects on his own time in office.

I have been privileged to work as PPS to four senior Labour ministers in four government departments and now feel that I can make my best contribution to the Labour effort in parliament by concentrating on helping, as a regular back - bencher, to show that Labour remains sound on matters of Defence.

Lord Adonis, the former Labour minister who used to be a Lib Dem, said that at the «macro level», he said, cooperation between Labour and the Lib Dems was difficult: «It's a bit like trying to conduct Ostpolitik at the height of the cold war», a reference to the attempts at reconciliation between West Germany and East Germany led by former West German chancellor Willy Brandt - «and neither me nor Gisela are Willy Brandt.»

The Ontario Ministry of Labour Minister of Labour Kevin Flynn on Twitter indicated that there was push back on the passing of the Bill.

Labour has split in two on the issue, with many - including former New Labour ministers John Reid and David Blunkett - preferring to keep the first - past - the - post system currently in use.

The delegations have included former Labour Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Labour's current Shadow Minister for Early Years, Tracy Brabin, and former Secretary of State for Scotland, former Government Deputy Chief Whip and Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael.

«This new legislation is part of our overall commitment to fairness in Ontario's workplaces and will help ensure that women and other groups are treated equitably,» said Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn.

Aided by federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt, who effectively stripped the unions of their ability to strike, Air Canada prevailed earlier this year.

His approach to local community campaigning is similar to the one which senior Labour ministers such as Liam Byrne are now calling for.

A previous headline referred to Jason Kenney as labour minister.

A CP Rail work stoppage would also be «extremely detrimental» to the member companies of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada who rely on rail to ship about 80 per cent of their products, CEO Bob Masterson said in an open letter to federal Labour Minister Patty Hajdu.

The Sunday Telegraph claims it has seen documents which revealed the CQC was intent on suppressing negative publicity and was under pressure from Labour ministers in the run - up to the 2010 election.

I'd almost forgotten what New Labour ministers used to be like.

By the time the Legislature broke for its second spring break (aka â $ œconstituency weekâ $) on Thursday, opposition members were growing a little weary of Labour Minister Christina Grayâ $ ™ s party piec...

The BBC's Chris Mason interviews Eddy O'Sullivan, the British National Party candidate in the Wythenshawe and Sale East by - election, which was triggered by the death of the former Labour minister Paul Goggins.

On three other occasions, federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt has blocked strikes through either back - to - work legislation or a referral to the Canadian Industrial Review Board.

The Liberals have looked to calm domestic nerves through spending on skills training programs to ensure the programs are «available at any stage or age» so displaced workers can land new jobs, said Labour Minister Patty Hajdu, who is co-hosting the meeting with Bains.

It was when he made the extraordinary claim that he knew nothing about three crucial reports that had been commissioned from international experts by Labour Minister Lord Darzi (and not the Chief Medical Officer, as Nicholson told the Committee) to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the NHS.

The deputy prime minister was asked about the issue on LBC this morning, but he rejected criticisms that the heir to the throne had acted improperly after it emerged he lobbied New Labour ministers on issues like grammar schools and GM food.

Former Labour minister tells British Chambers of Commerce conference that leaving EU would erode ability to trade abroad

Earlier in the day, former Scottish Labour minister Andy Kerr had said his party needed to apologise for an «atrocious campaign».

Cameron sought to clear up the issues raised in the interview today, after Labour minister Ben Bradshaw described his comments as a «major gaffe».

In fact not only did Corbyn have little in common with Labour ministers but little in common with the majority of Labour backbenchers.

SNP leader Alex Salmond welcomed the results, particularly as they came after a weekend in which Labour ministers lined up at the Scottish Labour party conference in Oban to condemn his party.

Much like Labour ministers under Blair and Brown, Conservative ministers will need to learn how to handle a relatively assertive House of Lords in which they lack a partisan majority.

The report was commissioned by the UK Government and produced by a group chaired by former Labour Minister Alan Milburn said that is was «especially concerned» that a smaller proportion of Welsh children who receive free school meals achieve five good GCSEs (26 %) compared to children from similar backgrounds in England (38 %).

Top Labour MPs to have been awarded peerages include former Labour ministers John Prescott and Peter Mandelson, and Tories Anne McIntosh and Michael Forsyth.

The new rules, proposed by Former Labour minister Chris Bryant, also require judges to consider the assault on 999 workers on an equal sitting with hate crimes.

The idea, championed by former Labour minister Frank Field, also has the backing on the left of the party.

«He will be joined by an array of former Labour ministers such as John Hutton, Quentin Davies, John Reid and Michael Wills.

He accused Labour ministers of pushing the cost of defence projects into future years, saying they had behaved like someone buying from a catalogue knowing they could pay later.

Former Labour minister Tom Harris has said he is not leaving Labour «yet» — despite saying «goodbye» to the party on Facebook last night.

Now make that three Labour ministers caught doing so just hours after the Labour Party launched its election manifesto telling us all how quickly and decisively the present Labour government had acted to clean up the parliamentary expenses scandal.

«While we welcome the latest initiative from Welsh Labour ministers to address shortcomings in literacy standards, to succeed, this strategy needs to win the confidence of teachers, parents and school governors,» she added.

Some British politicians, notably former British Labour minister Tony Benn, advocated British withdrawal from Ireland, but many opposed this policy, and called their prediction of the possible results of British withdrawal the «Doomsday Scenario», anticipating widespread communal strife.

Nadine Dorries MP: «On Monday afternoon a former Labour Minister asked me why I thought Labour were only 5 per cent ahead in the mid-term polls.

So, in the current labour dispute between Canada Post and CUPW, it is Canada Post that has issued a lockout notice, that will likely come into effect on Monday at 12:01 a.m.. Both Canada Post and Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuck are hoping that CUPW agrees to binding arbitration (in which an outside arbitrator would review the dispute and arrive at decision that both parties would be bound to accept) before the proposed lockout deadline.

On October 21, 2002, skills development and labour minister Graham Bruce introduced Bill 66, the public sector employers amendment act 2002.

Many readers will remember the humiliation of Labour minister Phil Woolas at the hands of Joanna Lumley, during her Gurkha campaign.

She served as a government minister for a total of 18 years, 5 months, 23 days (or 6,751 days) from 12 May 1999 to 3 November 2017 making her the longest serving Labour Minister in UK history.

As former Labour minister Andrew Adonis notes on the book's back cover: «To paraphrase Churchill, never in recent times has so much damage been inflicted by so few on so many.»

Former Labour minister Nick Raynsford provides detailed and refreshingly frank reflections on his years in government.

The Pasok deputy labour minister, Yannis Koutsoukos, who resigned in protest on Thursday, accused the «troika» — officials from the European commission, ECB and IMF — of behaving «in an extortionate manner that is completely improper and shameless».

Their alleged victims include former New Labour minister Tessa Jowell and her estranged husband David Mills, former deputy prime minister John Prescott and former Lib Dem frontbencher Mark Oaten.

Similarly, former Labour minister Denis MacShane took to Twitter to call the idea «a nice hand out for middle classes» — and was rebuked by Corbyn's former campaigns chief Jon Trickett.

Once again I feel bound to ask whether Labour ministers ever reflect on their lack of success since 1997 in achieving goals which they profess to be important to them.