Sentences with phrase «more labour governments»

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«So no more hand - holding with Donald Trump - a Labour government will conduct a robust and independent foreign policy made in London.

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Kuby was undergoing Alberta Labour's Certificate of Recognition, a government safety audit for firms with more than 10 employees.

We commend the federal government's efforts to improve gender equity and leverage untapped labour pools to create a stronger, more prosperous economy.

There's much more to do before the government can claim to be a climate leader, warns Labour's Barry Gardiner

More than 700 organizations, governments, labour unions, and companies endorsed that document.

A Labour MP has urged the Government to formally recognise the deaths of millions of people in Ukraine... More

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: «I think what we need in this country is something more robust like a War Powers Act so that governments do get held to account by Parliament for what they do in our name.»

Another cause has been the insidious notion (greatly encouraged by successive governments but particularly under New Labour - Old Labour tended to be much more traditional in its views on the family) that the family has many forms, that marriage is just one option, and that lone parenting is just as «valid» (dread word) a form as any other.

A Christian charity has expressed its disappointment in the Labour leader's call for the government to... More

There were more unemployed women over the past five years than at any time under the previous Labour Government, and real wages for women have fallen year on year since 2010.

Delivering our Labour goals — supporting families and communities, tackling disadvantage, spreading educational opportunity, safeguarding our NHS, investing for the future — will be more difficult than at any time in our living memory, certainly since the post-war Labour government of 1945.

«The next Conservative government will protect the NHS budget and continue to invest more because we know the truth - something Labour will never understand and we will never forget - you can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy.

Labour's criticisms appear more general at present, with Mr Alexander expressing concern that the government's wider spending cuts agenda will limit the number of jobs being created in the next few years.

Thus we have the David Cameron of the «hug a hoodie» and «vote blue go green» era, signs of his desire to recast the Tories in a more socially compassionate and environmentally friendly mould, not to mention George Osborne's early pledge to stick to Labour's spending plans in the first years of a Tory government.

Surely some of New Labour's right - wing excesses reflect an attitude that Labour can more or less do what it likes in government without alienating too much of its core progressive constituency as this constituency has nowhere else to go.

Miliband used the interview to suggest he would deal with the government's welfare reforms by creating more jobs and repeatedly hinted Labour could scrap universal pensioners» benefits like winter fuel allowance.

Labour's shadow minister without portfolio Jon Ashworth said: «We had warm words from the Prime Minister yesterday on the need for her Government to stand up for more than just a privileged few.

«The next Labour government will ensure the minimum wage is properly enforced, including by giving local authorities new powers, and would set a more ambitious target with an # 8 minimum wage where its value has been eroded and undermined in recent years,» Murray says.

«When we first did it, the audience's obsession was much more about the coalition government in 2010 and how that was working out, and now it's much more about what's happening in the Labour party.»

«Sunder Katwala, the general secretary of the Fabian society and a signatory of the statement confirmed that the specific references to The Labour party and its bloggers was due to concerns that a more general code would in some way burden Green, Lib Dem and other non-Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour Labour party and its bloggers was due to concerns that a more general code would in some way burden Green, Lib Dem and other non-Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour labour blogs.

Labour attacked Morgan's first policy announcement as yet more «headline - chasing» by the government.

Jeremy Corbyn said in his response to the Prime Minister's latest statement on Russia that he had «been a robust critic of the Russian government for more than 20 years» but Woodcock intervened to insist that was «Just not true» and quoted a Morning Star article by the Labour leader.

The most important thing is that analysing past elections & predicting future elections is ridiculous, since electoral reform will hopefully change the political parties and the political process anyway, to make them more responsive to the genuine majority view, instead of the tribal attitude we see when Paul suggests that we should keep FPTP as the best way of electing a Labour government.

At that point, a Labour coalition or minority government starts looking much more likely given the absence of potential Tory partners.

Responding to Duncan Brack's article Being A Special Adviser Under The Coalition, Richard Darlington (himself a former SpAd in the Labour government) said: «I agree that good government requires more, not fewer SpAds.

Baroness Smith, a minister in Gordon Brown's government and now Labour's leader in the Lords, made a little heralded speech last week in which she said: «For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to the one more heave theory.»

«Labour has called on the government to allow registration en bloc for certain institutions — such as schools, care homes and Universities — and to allow councils to use local data more extensively,» Twigg added.

Although it is not terribly clear what the actual mechanics of the policy of a potential Labour government would be (ie they have a lot of ideas on what they want to achieve but not how to achieve it) it seems likely that they would adopt a much more interventionist approach.

«Jeremy is owed a debt of gratitude for helping Labour to rediscover its radical routes, but we do need a new generation of Labour men and women to take this party forward, to get us ready for government once more.

If the SNP government is able to gain new powers from Brexit, it would mean Scottish Labour could more legitimately take some credit.

If you want to make common cuase with Labour's social liberasl, as I hope you will, then I think you need to be more willing to give your own party — and the Coalition government — some stick.

The Welsh Secretary David Jones made a speech last night which resisted the constant demands from the Labour - led Government in Wales for more powers.

But what underlies the decline of the present Tory government, and the evident inability of the Labour Party to present any convincing alternative, is something more fundamental.

But they are likely to have more power to influence a Conservative - led government than a Labour one because the Con - Lib policy preference gap is greater than the Lab - Lib one, especially on Europe.

One possible development in this scenario is that several months into a Con - Lib government (coalition or otherwise) the polls suggest both Labour and the Liberal Democrats would win more seats if there were another general election.

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A declared Conservative columnist in Tueuday's FT — Janan Ganesh — is saying that a weak economy is more likely to result in a Conservative win at the general election since voters would be more inclined to risk another Labour government if the economy is performing strongly.

Many Labour members appear more interested in controlling the party than entering government.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

Voters are warming to the idea of an Ed Miliband - led government, and Labour is contacting more voters in local constituencies.

New Labour's first term did more to reform the British state than any government since 1911.

The coalition has borrowed more in three years than the Labour government borrowed in 13.

Whether the voters believe Labour or not is another matter, but I think the fact that the spokesman is someone who was a Government rebel on 90 days, and who has been a target of surveillance himself, make Labour's position that little bit more credible.

When the Tories got destroyed in 1997 (with more votes than Labour got in 2010) Tory activists didn't plan to force the elected government to back down from pursuing its agenda.

And that is why the next Labour government must take a more radical economic approach — more radical than we had under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband.

Voting for Corbyn then becomes a free hit: if Labour can not become a party of government any time soon, why not make it a more effective party of opposition that takes on the Tories» austerity agenda and unite it on that basis?

The other two envisioned Miliband as prime minister: one had the Tories on 270 to 285, unable to form a government; the other had Labour with slightly more votes than the Tories, but with slightly fewer, or the same, number of seats.

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.

The Conservatives are therefore placing more and more emphasis on questioning the legitimacy of the most likely alternative — a Labour government working in co-operation with the SNP.