Sentences with phrase «long the labour government»

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Raise interest rates in the U.S. and you could kill the recovery and exacerbate the problem of long - term unemployment, with lasting effects of labour productivity, economic growth and, yes, even government revenues.

Yanis Varoufakis: Isn't it astonishing that after Jeremy Corbyn was being described as «the longest suicide note by the Labour Party» about a year ago, today there is an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led government.

The global apparel industry that I hail from has built up a particularly long history of attempting to address concerns from civil society, organized labour and governments about the industry's negative social and environmental impacts.

In the Council's pre-budget submission to this committee we urged the government to boost Canadian productivity by increasing female labour force participation, supporting women in STEM, enabling seniors to work for longer and helping Canadians navigate the changing job market.

I don't think there are many who relish another Tory Government, but frankly, when you have «New Nazi» in power for 12 long and bloody years (Iraq & Afghan Wars) you get to the stage where absolutely ANYONE BUT LABOUR will do.

Where this government's failure on growth and jobs has led to their failure on the deficit, the next Labour government will rise to the challenge: action to strengthen the recovery and our economy for the long - term; alongside a tough deficit reduction plan.

Legal challenges to the government's consultation, concerns over the hybrid nature of the legislation (this means it takes much longer to work its way through parliament) and the coalition's decision to split the legislation into two parts are worrying interested spectators — like Labour's Eagle.

But the Labour government is at fault for failing to sort it out in all its long 13 years in power, the coalition argued.

Scottish Tories currently campaigning for local government elections on May 4th tell stories about encountering long - standing Labour voters in local authority areas not exactly known for being friendly to Conservatives and who now declare their intention to vote for «Ruth» and the Tories.

And the longer the government carries on with these failing policies, the bigger the challenge will be for the next Labour government.

I watched Brown to day, he is a very very poor leader end of story, he is dragging this government into a very very long stay out of power, I do think people will see Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer lLabour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer labourlabour.

A long time ago I was a Labour councillor who inadvertently brought down the 1974 - 9 Labour government.

They have long memories in Buck House and they still smart from the constitutional crisis that ensued when the governor - general of Australia, John Kerr, dismissed the Labour administration of Gough Whitlam in 1975 and invited Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser to form a government.

They have long formed part of the benefit system in various guises, with tens of thousands of sanctions handed out under the last Labour government as unemployment rose amid the financial crisis.

[130][131] In September 2011, Miliband stated that a future Labour Government would immediately cut the cap on tuition fees for university students from # 9,000 per year to # 6,000, though he also stated that he remained committed to a graduate tax in the long - run.

That's before you consider Labour MPs with half an eye on the next government and the DUP propping the current one up... It is hard to predict how long this precarious political situation might last and what could come next, but time is ticking away.

Mike Gapes, the Labour MP for Ilford South, referred directly to Mr Corbyn when he said: «Can I remind her and the right honourable member for Islington North that it was a Labour government, with Robin Cook as Foreign Secretary, which carried out air strikes in Iraq under Operation Desert Fox in 1998 without a UN resolution, it was a Labour government that restored President Kabbah in Sierra Leone without a UN resolution, that it was a Labour government that stopped the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo without a UN resolution, and that there is a long - standing and noble tradition on these benches supporting humanitarian intervention.»

But a lot of this is Labour's doing, since as long as Ed Miliband's party refuses to sign up for the government motion, government backbench doubters have that much more power to extract concessions.

In Akinbade's words on that day before he sojourned to the Labour Party where he lost woefully recording only 8000 votes across 30 Local Governments and the Area Office in Modakeke, Fatai Akinbade II stated that he was no longer needed in PDP because you Omisore had captured everything in the Party and was still brandishing it to mock them.

Since Ed Miliband would probably have to step down as Prime Minister at the moment of independence (in my scenario of no Labour majority in rump UK), the Scottish government would find itself negotiating with someone whose job depended on the negotiations» failing for as long as possible.

Nevertheless, a Cameron minority government could easily inaugurate a long period of Conservative rule, as the economic difficulties could be blamed on Labour.

Lord Mandelson said Woodley was «passionate» in his view that Government should be spending money to enable Nissan, Honda, Jaguar, «or whoever it is», to retain all their labour during the downturn, however long it lasts, as opposed to making sure that all available cash is spent ensuring that short - term unemployment does not turn into long - term unemployment.

But there were also proposals designed to warm grassroots Labour hearts, proposals which a Conservative government would probably cast into the long grass.

A Labour government in power now would banish long - term unemployment among the young, Ed Miliband has promised.

So building on the success of Labour's Future Jobs Fund — so short - sightedly scrapped by this government — we will introduce a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee for young people and the long - term unemployed.

I would still expect their support to be squeezed as we get closer to the election, as the race focuses more upon the binary choice between a Conservative and Labour led government but events, such as further defections now a by - election is no longer unavoidable, could easily push that off course.

I predict a long, hard winter for this Labour government during which they will be even more unpopular then they are now!

In a speech to the Welsh Labour conference in Swansea, he'll announce that the Welsh Government would be given responsibility for the Work Programme, which is aimed at the long term unemployed, if Labour gains power at Westminster.

He pledged that one of the most radical programmes of any government for a «long, long time» would achieve more on political reform, civil liberties and protecting pensioners than Labour did in 13 years, combined with «an impeccably Liberal approach» to the NHS, education and welfare reform.

Voters in the south no longer see Labour as the party of fairness and believe they get «little or nothing» back from government from their taxes, a report to be published next month will argue.

After Cameron's comments to the Daily Mail and LBC questioning the «credibility» of a Labour government, how long will he squat at No 10, like Howard Hughes with rolled - up sleeves, ordering in takeaways and watching The Iron Lady on repeat, refusing to resign?

But it is no coincidence that a Conservative administration, hardly famous for craving constitutional modernisation, has chosen as a matter of priority to enact changes that damage the Labour party's prospects of electoral recovery and lay the foundations for a long - term Conservative monopoly on government.

Over 10 million households in England no longer have access to weekly collections thanks to the last Labour Government compelling councils to cut collections.

Labour's shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has described the government's trade union reform plans as» the latest in a long line of attempts to stifle reasonable democratic scrutiny, protest and challenge».

It is also stronger than the previous Labour government's Future Jobs Fund, which offered six months» work to the long - term jobless.

«For too long the Welsh Labour Government has taken a haphazard approach to housing targets.

«The simple fact is that the Welsh Labour Government has nothing in the way of a long - term economic strategy, no joined - up plan on how to create jobs and invest in infrastructure.

«For too long the Welsh Labour Government has sat back and accepted these pay - outs; this complacency must end.

«For too long the Welsh Labour Government has buried its head in the sand and ignored the catalogue of concerns and warnings that have been raised.

This money would go a long way to improve the shocking situation of youth mental health services in Wales, which have been sadly neglected by this Welsh Labour Government.»

So to those who think Ed Milliband's chosen path of trashing the previous, most electorally successful, longest lasting Labour governments ever, you enjoy your path to the electoral wilderness.

LONDON (Reuters)- The government will launch an official inquiry on Monday into the 2003 Iraq war, tackling an issue that has long divided the ruling Labour party.

There are cases also when a parliament is simply not capable of sustaining a government over the long term, such as the House of Commons elected in February 1974, in which neither the Conservatives nor Labour could achieve a majority.

«Senior figures believe the rejection of that action was not just the by - product of a political battle between Labour and the government, but revealed deeper - seated long - term trends in British society.»

A Labour government will drive forward the economic and industrial policy that Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna have been developing to create more high quality jobs in every region of the country by reforming our banking sector, modernising our infrastructure, and working with businesses to get the long - term investment we need in growing SMEs and the high productivity, growth industries of the future.

Labour MPs have condemned the plan which is seen as an attempt to change long - standing Commons rules in the new government's favour.

If the result of AV is a long - term anti-Labour alliance, voters will, in practice, have just two choices of government, one of which — Labour — will always lose.

The whole strategy of the Conservative leadership seems to be to go for an even more image based version of the one that Tony Blair used in 1997, the pledge by Labour in the 1990s followed a situation in which the whole economic strategy of the then Conservative government had fallen apart to the point where things that had happened by accident were being described as policy and Kenneth Clarke commented that he went into a cabinet meeting in a situation in which the government no longer had an economic policy.

Labour were in a very weak position during Tony Blair's long goodbye, but then at least they had the hope that Gordon Brown's accession as Prime Minister would renew the government, be the change from Blair that people wanted.

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.