Sentences with phrase «not labour policy»

Owen Smith also urges single market membership but Sir Keir Starmer says that's not Labour policy.

Not exact matches

Today's apparently rosy Labour Force Survey should not distract policy - makers from serious problems in Canada's labour mLabour Force Survey should not distract policy - makers from serious problems in Canada's labour mlabour market.

I was sympathetic to the Alberta Party when it came out, but when I began to talk to members about issues concerning organized labour I found that they didn't have any policies.

The ECB monetary policy is currently providing the German economy with enough funds, but the country is experiencing a catastrophic lack of youth, and its ageing labour force is not being replaced as a result of which workforce is already in short supply.

In a recent interview with Sky News, he said «God is not left - wing or right - wing» after it was implied he «takes policy positions close to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party».

When announcing this policy, Labour made clear that «this would be underpinned by the right to obtain (under an obligation of confidentiality) financial and commercial information about the business and affairs of a football club,» though the board members wouldn't be able to block takeovers or change corporate strategy.

Sure, a midwife attends me in labour but the policy is governed by obstetric practice, not midwife led or normal birth.

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.

A trio of senior ministers have demanded a full discussion on Britain's nuclear policy in the wake of the decision not to debate the issue at this year's Labour conference.

Rather, he says Labour lost the contest because it «wasn't sufficiently different to the other two main parties in the economic policy being offered».

They argue that Labour has a duty to try and actively change public opinion, not simply reflect it, particularly when a widely supported policy will inflict severe hardship on thousands of families.

The Nigeria Labour Congress National Executive Council is also meeting tomorrow and we have invitation to also attend the meeting and that is why today we have taken our position and there is no doubt that we are also going to fight for that reversal and we are not stopping on just reversal to N86.50 k, we are also going to further our struggle against the deregulation policy, against the privatization policy and the need for a political alternative and that is where we are going.

The partners of the international community in the reform process in all relevant policy areas — especially agriculture, labour legislation, public services, and social security — are all segments of BiH society, not just local political elites.

Many of those who claim to be baffled by some Labour members» unwillingness to compromise on welfare wouldn't give way on other policies that might prove electorally popular.

The downside risk lies in not moving radically beyond the policies that have lost Labour the last two elections.

Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming Labour leadership debate (as I have already pointed out on this site) as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates need to answer?).

The voting evidence suggests it is the logical one although I guess electoral reform will be the stumbling block - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mpsee.php Still, it would give Labour the chance to demonstrate that the Lib Dems are essentially a party of the centre - right in a way that we are not, to renew our policies, and to reach out to those genuinely progressive MPs who have, by some mischance, ended up in the Lib Dems.

A decision not to challenge Labour's position over Trident is being seen as a concession by the leadership towards the GMB union, which is strongly opposed to any shift in policy.

If New Labour and its fellow travellers cared about the poor they would not have bankrupted the country, inflicted dependence and slithered in a policy of redistribution that no - one wanted in the first place.

But Labour, it turns out, did not need to spell out any more on its Brexit policy.

And when I have challenged Lib Dem canvassers on the doorstep about the policy, I have met with a wall of ignorance: «Oh, I didn't know we were doing that, I'll have to go away and look it up...» (canvasser hastily retreats...) The CTF was one of the great liberal achievements of New Labour.

The shadow home secretary also pledged to properly centre the right to family life in Labour's immigration policy, saying her party «don't want to break up families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.»

When it comes to economic policy, Labour isn't too leftwing — but it does struggle to present an image of economic competence.

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

While stating that the speech would not contain a great deal of new policy, it did nonetheless reiterate several policies that were either been in the 2017 Labour Manifesto or have been highlighted by Abbott in previous statements.

Does Ed Miliband honestly expect voters to derive Labour's economic policy from his list of cuts that he wouldn't make?

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.

Raising the minimum wage, helping small businesses, and strengthening workers» rights are all backed by a majority of the public when they don't know these policies are Labour's.

the forgotten secret is that Labour had a pile of populist policies which it decided not to implement for one reason or another.

I think the key lessons for Labour from this by - election are not about whether «One Nation Labour» is reaching «southern voters», or whether Labour needs to adopt policy x, y or z. Instead, the Eastleigh result poses two questions which Labour need to consider:

That was the unhelpful but not unreasonable question posed by former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith the other day as she likened Tian Tian's lengthy but unproductive pregnancy to the Labour leader's failure to produce a single policy of note despite a three year gestation.

Yet you can still see the potential for the SNP to push for policies that Labour might favour if it didn't have compete so hard on territory occupied by the Conservatives.

Labour have tried to frame this in terms of a failing of his entire academies policy, but there was some support for Mr Gove from Sir Michael who said that structural changes were not at fault.

The same tribal tendencies and insatiable desire to criticise policies based on who came up with them, not what they are, is likely responsible both for this post and for the various of the cited LibDem criticisms of the policy when Labour had it.

Most people don't actually want an unreasonable and unfair fortress immigration policy; they just oppose that Labour «open door policy» which doesn't actually exist.

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

Whilst there are some ways in which I think Labour and the Lib Dems could work to each other's benefit at a national policy level I just can not imagine how this would effect the dynamics of local politics, as others have pointed out.

Although with the Labour policy of not selecting candidate for seat until after the boundary review, we might be caught on the hop......

Clive Lewis» speech pledging not to change Labour's pro-Trident policy was altered by spin doctor Seumas Milne on the autocue as he waited to deliver it, PoliticsHome has learned.

Labour aren't losing votes because of individuals they are losing because of policies and the interest groups they have been appealing to.

The economic policies just didn't make sense and left the Labour unable to attack the Tories economic record.

Tepid, woolly stuff, I'm afraid.The problem with Labour — and it's a tough pill to swallow if you're looking for the alternatives to the Coalition policies — is that there's sod all of substance it disagrees with: simply playing different mood music isn't good enough.

The Labour Party too readily conflates rural policy with animal rights policy, sending the message that their votes aren't wanted to the 1.6 million people who shoot game, the 350,000 who do some sort of work on shooting estates and many of the 200,000 who work in agriculture.

Therefore I shall not be supporting this labour party policy propsed for our party.

Encouraging Labour members to help shape party policy, Corbyn said: «The media commentariat simply don't understand it.

Labour needs to stop worrying about its electoral future, and start attacking the tories on POLICIES not personalities, but for that it needs to define policies that will inspire confidence in the vast majority of people in the UK, whose gross annual income is belPOLICIES not personalities, but for that it needs to define policies that will inspire confidence in the vast majority of people in the UK, whose gross annual income is belpolicies that will inspire confidence in the vast majority of people in the UK, whose gross annual income is below # 25k

Following former leader Johann Lamont's complaint that Scottish Labour was treated as a «branch office» by the UK party, Murphy vowed to make Scottish Labour «more Scottish», argued with the UK party over policy, and went as far to say he «isn't a unionist» two weeks ago.

The pamphlet — co-authored by Patrick Diamond, senior research fellow at Policy Network and former Downing street advisor, with Giles Radice, a Labour peer — revisits Radice's original work «Southern Discomfort» written in 1992 where he warned «Labour can not win without doing better in the South.»

That would really hurt in 2015 because Labour voters could think that even if the party has nice ideas, those policies are simply not credible.

Internal Labour party disputes about regional NHS policy aren't, of themselves, going to move any political markets.