Sentences with phrase «labour needs»

This stream was meant to accommodate international corporate transfers and labour needs in professions with specialized skill sets.

Scottish Labour needs clarity over its key purpose and then needs to find a way of expressing it in language activists can explain and voters can understand.

As that happens, employers may find it increasingly difficult to find the skilled labour they need.

If it is to win in 2015 then labour needs to accept it was wrong to let migration drift to levels seen in the period 2004 - 10 and it has learned the lessons.

I do not think we need worry, by the time labour needs to worry about elections I'll be long dead.

Then there's a discussion about internationalism that extends as far as saying Labour needs to find a way to make it work, without offering a single idea on how.

This is the opposite of what Labour need to do.

Instead, he identified immigration, Brexit and the future of the economy as issues where Labour needed to give «greater clarity».

Corbyn is attacked for being unable to reach out even to centrist Labour voters, let alone the Tory voters Labour needs if it is ever to get back into power.

Polly Toynbee: The interventions of Blair and Mandelson are the last thing Labour needs as it considers its next leader and future path

To present a fresh face and new policies to the electorate, New Labour needed more than fresh leaders; it had to jettison outdated policies, argued the modernisers.

Just as Labour needs Clegg to hold off Tories in their winnable seats, so the Lib Dems need the Labour vote to hold up and withstand a Tory assault.

The summer Fabian Review features new research on growing inequality and highlights why Labour needs to rediscover its egalitarian core.

My guess is that being a minority government would actually be a net positive for Labour, relative to a tiny majority, because if Labour need to seek the support of the smaller parties on a case by case basis they can't do anything spectacularly unpopular or asinine.

45 % of their own voters think Labour need to make major changes to be fit for government.

But when McCluskey called for a debate about the direction in which labour needs to go, there was no doubt that he meant a shift to the left.

Regardless of how you feel about the Tories» NHS reforms the fact that they've been in power for most of the period since 1948 without ever looking like abolishing it, and in any case are now mostly doing things that the last Labour government also did when in power, means an election pitch which relies on convincing voters that if the Tories remain in office they'll actually destroy the NHS is simply not plausible to the sort of people Labour needs to win over.

China's slowly decreasing overall index (5.0 in 2014) suggests that employers are progressively finding it easier to source the skilled labour they need for their operations.

Ben Jackson, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Gregg McClymont MP, UK shadow minister for pensions, published a stunningly percipient paper, Cameron's Trap, at the end of 2011 on how Labour need to change the politico - economic narrative in order to achieve a majority at the next General Election.

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«It is certainly our belief that Labour needs more trade unionists in Parliament, as opposed to seats being handed out on a grace - and - favour basis to Oxbridge - educated «special advisers», but we make no apology for that.»

Kevin Rudd's personal popularity fell away, most notably in the marginal seats Labour needs to retain.

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program helps fill genuine and acute labour needs when Canadians are not available.

Tom Watson has told Labour it needs to stop «trashing» the legacy of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown — but it is not clear that Jeremy

To succeed in becoming a part of the centre - left that can inspire its membership and gain public support Labour needs combine two things: being more ideologically rooted in clear values and principles with being decisively more pluralist and open in the way it does politics.

by the way even if 80 % of all the addtional votes labour needs to win an election came from ukip, and labour relied on the 37 % of labour voters who voted Brexit, it would mean that more than half the people labour would need for a overall majority in 2020 voted for leave in 2016.

«Cruddas told one meeting Labour needs to treat people as «context transcending spirits»,» Prescott wrote.

An aide to Mr Cruddas said the Dagenham MP and former Downing Street adviser felt Labour needs to «refresh itself».

Labour needs only the barest lead in the popular vote to win an overall majority: not so the Conservatives.

Equally important Labour needs to arm its core supporters with the arguments against the vilification of Muslims to ensure they are not seduced by UKIP and Tory reactionary propaganda.

Momentum also had significant social media impact in areas Labour needed to win, including Cardiff, Derby, Sheffield, Canterbury and Plymouth.

I ask him what issues Labour needs to concentrate on to move forward.

It's not as though this is about currying favour with the unions because Labour needs their money, whatever the Tories say.

«The sooner there is some level of certainty over the availability of skilled labour needed by the housebuilding sector, the sooner more investment can be committed to building new homes,» comments Justin Gaze, Joint Head of Residential Development.

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in office.

So Labour need to get to the disaffected voters who maybe voted Labour in the past and not anymore; they also need to get to those who are not even interested in politics.

The signing which will take place on Tuesday, September 13, 2016, is in recognition that the victims of human trafficking and the worst forms of child labour needs special attention and collaborative measures to combat the activities of traffickers.

English Labour needs to respond to this perception — justified or not — by bringing an English dimension to our cultural, economic, political and democratic policies.

Its one sign, among many, of the way Labour needs to renew the way it does politics.

On the other hand, perhaps figures like John Reid were not being so foolish when they suggested Labour needed a stronger message on immigration and «aspiration» — that counter-intuitive code word for getting the poor to vote against their economic interests.

Tristram Hunt MP thinks that to gain a majority in England Labour needs to «more obviously show its affection» for the country.

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Labour needs real wake up call.

Going forward Labour needs to find a clear sense of direction.

We've visited some of the reasons, but there are wider points Labour needs to take on board from the SNP's success that are -LSB-...]

On this basis Labour need to achieve a PNS lead over the Conservatives approaching 10 points to convincingly claim that there is evidence that they are on course to win the next general election.

Labour needs mechanisms to ensure every new leader is elected in a contest amongst plp, members and affiliated societies.

The last thing next generation Labour needs is to have the Blairite and Brownite labels to be inherited down the generations.

Labour needs someone to capture the energy of the new young members who voted for Corbyn while appealing to a broader electorate.