Sentences with phrase «labour policy»

If however the speech is to be approached as a clarification of Labour policy then it leaves very much to be desired.

Labour policy on low incomes is to raise poverty wages slightly in six years.

If the unions are going to influence Labour policy as much as they clearly want to, fine — but all sides need to be open about it.

That's because two are the exact opposite of current Labour policy and are more based on law / principle.

I know that I have put down a lot of information but it is stuff that anyone hoping to influence Labour policy must take in and respond to.

Not, as the current Scottish Labour policy consultation paper does, offer the sparkling promise of multiple reviews!

The party has built its success on occupying a range of formerly popular Labour policies such as free university tuition, free NHS prescription charges and maintaining a public sector health service.

Some leading political commentators believe his policy suggestions are more accomplished than the entire Labour policy portfolio, such as it is.

You are correct that I voted Conservative last time, and in the absence of any current Labour policies there seems little option but to do so again.

The speech did not go into any policy specifics, except to mention historic Labour policies that she is proud of «from the NHS to the minimum wage to the equality legislation».

But it turns out that she is not the only shadow cabinet member with a penchant for using colourful language to dismiss a key plank of Labour policy.

He broke with Labour policy in 1931, and was expelled from the party and excoriated as a turncoat, as the Party was overwhelmingly crushed that year by the National Government coalition that Snowden supported.

A small but notable shift in Labour policy on an EU referendum was exposed recently when a leaked Labour document revealed not just that there would be no party whip when the EU Referendum Bill comes before Parliament next Friday, as is customary for private members» bills, but that «Labour will abstain on the Bill».

Since then, he was a leading critic of New Labour policy on the economy, outspoken on climate change and parliamentary reform.

They meet regularly to consider the submissions made through Labour Policy Forum and to hear evidence from experts, and are responsible for drafting the Challenge Papers and Policy Documents you will find on the Policy Forum website.

MPs on the House of Commons liaison committee questioned the prime minister about his policy review process, asking whether it was - as many commentators suggest - an attempt to bind his successor into New Labour policies for the next ten years.

But Abbott told BBC Newsnight that although Gardiner «seemed to suggest» Britain should quit the customs union, the plan was not Labour policy.

I only know of one Labour policy document on Education circulating and that is the very poor one issued by the National Policy forum which ignores the dramatic developments in the entire school sector.

Then at the weekend, as Miliband was launching Labour's landmark plan to devolve # 30bn of Whitehall spending to local councils, everyone was more interested in reading about comments by Labour policy chief Jon Cruddas, that a «dead hand» at the centre of the party was blocking real reform plans in favour of «cynical nuggets of policy to chime with our focus groups and press strategy».

Ed Miliband's purged the moderates and promoted those who want the same old Labour policy of more spending, more borrowing and more debt.

She chaired the 2016 leadership challenge by Owen Smith and most recently has campaigned against official Labour policy on Brexit.

If the Lib Dems had formed a coalition with LAbour, either in 1997 or in 2010, it would have been a predominant Labour policy agenda based on the votes cast.

Significantly, a majority of 79 per cent favouredchanging the Constitution to allow gay couples to enter civil marriages — in line with established Labour policy.

However, under Labour the policy was strangled to death by John Prescott and by Labour councils who despised the idea that someone might want to move on and up.

There was nothing whatsoever about Labour policy.

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

It's looking like some sort of «two and a half line whip» as I was saying earlier... Labour policy against but shadow cabinet won't be sacked

Working closely with the local Tory leader and Boris» muck - raking hack - for - hire Andrew Gilligan, they've repeatedly joined forces to scupper Labour policies just because Lutfur's the one proposing them.

(Milibands's reforms also created the new category of registered supporter, allowing those paying # 3 and supporting Labour policies, to have a vote in electing the party leader.)

Corbyn's recent remarks, in which he undermined Labour policy by stating that he would never sanction a nuclear strike, and more recently when he changed his mind over the so - called «shoot - to - kill» policy in the event of a potential Paris - style attack in the UK, have deeply angered many members of the parliamentary group.

The conference was a success, bringing together Labour policy makers and front bench spokespeople with progressive and left economists as well Labour militants keen to engage with economic policy.

As the former Prime Minister listed Labour policies, Mr Clegg interrupted him: «No!

In an interview with the NS editor, Jason Cowley, he memorably spoke of the «red thread» that should run through Labour policy.

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.

Critics claim the move, combined with other Labour policies, will spark an exodus of the super-rich from London and lead to a long - term fall in Treasury revenues.

Corbyn spoke in a way that was absolutely unprecedented about the rights of women, which he placed at the heart of both this speech and future Labour policy.

These are issues that need to be central to SEA's work and to Labour policy so this should be a great opportunity to explore them in detail.

In having Woolas shadow his former post Miliband is saying Labour policy was correct, isn't he?

As the Guardian's Andrew Sparrow put it: «if I were David Cameron's speechwriter, I would already be working up a passage for Cameron's conference speech about how Labour policy is now being decided... by whichever stranger Miliband happens to meet in his local park.»

Friday 27 May, 2.30 pm Wales Stage, # 5 Polly Toynbee and David Walker - The Verdict Did Labour policies worsen the recession?

On the very day that Ed Balls made his speech last week, there was a joint meeting of the three Labour policy commissions that deal with aspects of the economy, but the macroeconomic stance of the next Labour government was not on the agenda.

The Welsh First Minister also revealed he had to correct untruths regarding Labour policy while campaigning from stories picked up on Facebook by the public.

Local issues may also have helped, especially the huge housing development planned for the open land between Thurmaston and Barkby, which the Tories claimed were a Central Government Labour policy, but still went ahead after the 2010 GE; I would guess this lost the local Tory Party a lot of credibiliity.

Articles on immigration and Labour policy often begin with an opening line stating how immigration is an «awkward subject» for us in the Labour Party.

The creation of a European Unemployment Fund (EUF) and strengthening the European Labour Policy.

Last month the party's NEC postponed the election for a new chair of the National Policy Forum, the body that sets Labour policy, at the last minute.

She claimed it was a good opportunity to publicise Labour policies and politics.

However, in Labour policy circles Blue Labour quickly ran into difficulties.

The Fabians who founded the party would surely be disappointed to see the low levels of intelligence that inform Labour policy - making a century on.