Sentences with phrase «negotiations with labour»

«Nick Clegg has now instead requested formal negotiations with the Labour Party, with a view to exploring an alternative way forward and this is patently an important development.

They also wished him to continue negotiations with Labour.

Brown remained as Prime Minister while the Liberal Democrats entered separate negotiations with Labour and the Conservatives with a view to forming a coalition government.

Number one takes Balls back to the coalition negotiations with Labour, when he and others refused to compromise on the bulk of Labour's manifesto.

As a result of budget negotiations with Labour's Welsh Government who have been one seat short of a majority we have led budget negotiations that have delivered substantial extra finance for the region's schools, discounted bus travel for over 24,000 of the region's young people, and so much more which would not be happening without the Welsh Lib Dems.

It has become clear, listening to Ed Balls and Ed Miliband describe how keen Huhne was during the coalition negotiations with Labour to abandon the Lib Dems» manifesto pledge to delay spending cuts, that he has far fewer ideological objections to Osbornian austerity than some of us might have assumed in the not - too - distant past.

Backstairs negotiator during current Liberal Democrat negotiations with Labour.

-LRB-...) Keidanren, the largest and most influential business lobby group, seems willing to recommend that its members prepare for the first increase in base salaries since 2008, when they enter spring negotiations with labour unions.

Not exact matches

Then an expected agreement on the start of free trade talks with China did not materialize during Justin Trudeau's Beijing visit earlier this week, blocked by Chinese objections to including «progressive elements,» such as labour and gender rights, in the negotiations.

Concluding bilateral free trade negotiations, with potential emphasis on agriculture, energy and labour mobility

The last time they hit the headlines was under the Labour government, during the passage of Ed Balls» fortunately doomed Education Bill, when after a supposedly heroic process of negotiation with the government, they almost totally capitulated.

Malam Muhammad Garba said the council, under the chairmanship of the state deputy governor, Professor Hafiz Abubakar, approved the payment, from June 2017, following negotiations with Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT).

I fully agree with Alan Johnson (Labour, Hull West and Hessle) that «the detail of the coming article 50 negotiations will be crucial» but I am not convinced that «there is sufficient cross-party determination to ensure that there is close parliamentary scrutiny, regardless of whether Labour's amendments to that effect are carried or not.»

It is likely that, while these talks are going on, Labour will hold parallel negotiations with other broadly left - wing parties like the Lib Dems, Greens, the Scottish National Party and the SDLP from Northern Ireland.

He was reputed to favour a Lib - Lab deal and, given his SDP background, was a member of Labour's negotiation team that attempted to form a government with the Liberal Democrats.

Plaid formed a coalition with Labour, making progress on a referendum on further powers the key plank of their negotiations.

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.

In addition it was increasingly clear during the negotiations that many senior members of the Labour party did not want a coalition with us and preferred the option of going into opposition.

It also means thinking, for the first time, about what it can hope to get from negotiations with a minority Labour government.

The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations has hinted that negotiations on a minimum wage and base pay are scheduled to begin soon and end by the close of February.Nii Armah Ashietey said it is likely there will be a new wage though he said that will be contingent upon the outcome of the negotiations.Mr Ashietey was speaking with TV3...

I want Labour's plans to be written not in some secret negotiation and then presented without a mandate, but in dialogue with patients and professionals.

«As we spelled out in our election manifesto, Labour believes that the Brexit negotiations should put jobs and the economy first, with the priority of tariff - free access to the European single market.

The Prime Minister faced catcalls from Labour MPs as Jeremy Corbyn accused her of overseeing a shambolic negotiation with the EU.

• Jeremy Corbyn feels the Labour MPs trying to oust him should respect the mandate he has been handed by a majority of Labour members (We can't leave the negotiations with Europe to the Tories, 8 July).

Despite polls predicting little room between Labour and the Conservatives and pundits forecasting weeks of coalition negotiations with a range of possible unions, David Cameron achieved something that had not been seen since Thatcher in 1983.

The money was secured by the Welsh Liberal Democrats in budget negotiations with the Welsh Labour Government last year.

But Clegg had earlier told Cameron that the negotiations with Miliband showed why he did not want to enter a coalition with the Labour, despite the fact that Labour and the Lib Dems were closer on press reform.

Negotiations were also held with the Labour Party.

Mr McDonnell, who is one of Jeremy Corbyn's closest allies, made clear that Labour would not look to stop Article 50 going through, but would take on the Government over the upcoming negotiations with Brussels.

She went on to suggest Labour will «draw up an agenda» which they expect to see reflected in the negotiations - but won't go so far as to say they'd work with the Tories.

[60] However, in his account of Labour's negotiations with the Liberal Democrats, Andrew Adonis — who participated in the talks — writes that the general consensus among members of Gordon Brown's cabinet was that talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats would reach an impasse.»

The Labour Party will engage with utmost sincerity and determination at these negotiations to seek a successful outcome.

PR negotiations Drawn on the question of PR electoral reform and whether Labour would negotiate over PR with Nick Clegg in the event of a hung parliament, schools secretary Ed Balls dismissed it, claiming the Labour Party are aiming for an outright majority government.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has warned new leadership of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, to stop further «meddlesome interloping» in the ongoing negotiations with...

Michael, I clearly remember that, during the negotiations in the week following the election, the news media were clearly reporting THEN that Labour were offering the Lib Dems a bill through Parliament to introduce AV, with a referendum on further changes to introduce PR.

The negotiations [in 2000] with the [Labour] Government for me to join the House of Lords did not include any commitment on my part to be taxed on my worldwide income.»

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, had in an interview with State House correspondents at the end of Wednesday's Federal Executive Council meeting given an indication that Osinbajo had taken over the negotiation.

He says he worked for a Labour MP when he left university, spent his adult life trying to defeat Tories and acknowledges for the first time that when coalition negotiations began «I was one who argued that we should explore a coalition with Labour».

Any energy company could see that the Labour and then coalition governments had openly declared their negotiation position for new nuclear: over a barrel, with no trousers.

Minerva Bellorin specialises in Corporate and Business Law, Tax and labour structures, joint ventures and franchising, real estate, telecommunications (regulatory matters, permits, negotiations with regulatory authorities), intellectual and industrial property.

Bowmans drew on its strong cadre of employment and labour law specialists and was engaged right from the beginning of negotiations — testament to the firm's longstanding relationship with the client.

In addition, Frédéric has extensive experience with respect to collective labour relations between producers and artists and in collective bargaining negotiations, having served as both lead negotiator and external counsel in connection with numerous collective bargaining negotiations in a variety of industries, from film and television production, to the private education and industrial manufacturing sectors, at both the provincial and federal levels.

«Subject, of course to negotiations, remaining in a form of customs union with the EU is a possible end destination for Labour,» he said.

The closure, which had been announced the day an arbitrator was appointed to resolve an impasse in negotiations for a first collective agreement with the union certified for that establishment, led to a series of proceedings based on various sections of the Labour Code, CQLR, c. C ‑ 27 («Code»), and the Act respecting labour standards, CQLR, c. N ‑ 1.1 («A.L.S.&raLabour Code, CQLR, c. C ‑ 27 («Code»), and the Act respecting labour standards, CQLR, c. N ‑ 1.1 («A.L.S.&ralabour standards, CQLR, c. N ‑ 1.1 («A.L.S.»).