Sentences with phrase «of labour governments»

It combines left and right - wing values, it criticises the record of Labour governments - most especially the last - it emphasises values the left publicly abandoned some time ago, and it poses a threat to both Labour and Conservatives.

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.

«I am proud of all Labour governments from Attlee to Brown and I don't think we make ourselves feel ashamed of anyone's achievements,» she says.

We have looked at all Cameron's cabinets introduced following reshuffles, to see how the makeup of it has changed since he came to power and how this compares to those of Labour governments in the past.

«Surely the Home Secretary will be aware that leading members of the Labour Governments since 1997 were expert and very successful in using leaked material during the last Conservative Government.

In fact, as the Labour MP Gisela Stuart has pointed out, many of the rights for workers and women which are credited to our EU membership were actually initiatives of Labour governments.

I think it is fair to say that this «allergic» response to faith sometimes seems dominant among liberal - left metropolitan commentators; I thought Williams lacked any evidence that it has been the position of the Labour government.

«As for the role of the Labour government and the people around Gordon Brown, well I think there are questions to be asked of them,» he said.

Social mobility in the UK has not improved since the 1970s, despite ten years of a Labour government, a report by the Sutton Trust finds today.

Gethsemane tells the story of corruption and scandal at the very top of a Labour government: fundraising by a flamboyant music mogul in return for unspecified rewards, a dope - smoking, gangbanging teenager and a HomeSecretary with a dodgy businessman for a husband.

At the end I go through a list of feminists, Bengali socialists and British liberals who are disillusioned by the failure of the Labour government to stand by them rather than their enemies.

The situation we will inherit will require a very different kind of Labour government to those which have gone before.

And these detailed departmental reports will then inform our full zero - based examination of every pound we spend — in every department, including in any department whose spending we choose to ring - fence in our manifesto, and in annually managed expenditure too - which will be completed within the first year of the Labour government.

Of course, as Littlejohn rightly points out, after 13 years of Labour government, «if the public really did have the power to change legislation, the government would pass a law against it».

As a result, even the advent of a Labour government in 1997 was not seen as too much of an upheaval.

Although, Mr Draper said the union wholeheartedly supported the election of a Labour government at the next general election, he urged Labour leader Ed Miliband to put clear blue water between the party and the Tories.

«Look what happens when you get it right: the 11 years of Labour government between 1997 and 2008... A completely unbroken period of economic growth; we made the economy work like never before or since, and we lifted half a million children out of poverty; and lifted a million pensioners out of poverty.

«Only two parties matter, neither of them is Labour,» he asserted, before expressing that Labour had wasted their time in power: «thirteen years of Labour government — what a mandate, what a disappointment.»

Thirteen years of Labour government that ended in a record - breaking bust.

In key constituencies, the perceived risks of a Labour government to economic stability undoubtedly shored up the Conservative vote.

«The only campaign going on is to secure the re-election of a Labour government.

Yet, after 13 years of a Labour government, levels of inequality are higher than before it came to office, and there appears to be little recognition that, for reasons of both fairness and sustainability, we need to abandon the idea of pursuing ever greater, unrestrained economic growth.

Only William Hague fared worse, a year into thirteen years of Labour government.

Ed's leadership struggled with the tension between building a new offer of change while also trying not to define ourselves entirely against the preceding three terms of Labour government, in which he played a considerable part.

The appearance of Blair and Brown so close together (Blair on Friday, Brown sometime in the next two months) will reinforce the continuity of the Labour government in voters» minds - something Labour strategists could do without in a country where the very concept of «change» is becoming increasingly attractive.

For me, thirteen years of Labour Government made Britain a better place.

RDAs, creations of the Labour government, have put # 3 million into struggling steel companies, the union's general secretary Michael Leahy says.

Ed Balls argued for the retention and implementation of the policies which he failed to get into law in the dying days of the Labour government.

The first nine months of the Labour government have therefore confirmed that the battle over the future of the labour movement will pass through, not outside, the Labour Party.

Harper voted against all the reform options in the last parliament when Jack Straw made a late attempt in the final years of the Labour government to burnish its reformist credentials.

At the start of the Labour government's second term in 2001, Blunkett was promoted to Home Secretary, [23] fulfilling an ambition of his.

In reviving the idea of co-operation between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, Katwala is of course resuscitating «the project» between Paddy Ashdown and Tony Blair — a process that ended with Blair's betrayal of Paddy, and was followed by ten years of Labour government highlighting precisely why liberalism would never have made an easy bed fellow with that party.

The introduction of civil partnerships has been one of the great achievements of this Labour government, bringing enormous personal happiness to many people and a broader pride for many across our country at the successful civilizing advance which this popular social change represents.

Field went on to become one of the Labour government's most vocal critics from within the party on the backbenches.

The election of a Labour Government in 1997 included a commitment to hold a referendum on the establishment of a Welsh Assembly.

Mr Hague has been critical of the Labour government's stance on collusion since the high court upheld claims by Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantanamo detainee who was tortured by US forces in Pakistan and Morocco.

Pensions spokesman Danny Alexander said it was disgraceful pensioners could be getting less than they did under Margaret Thatcher, despite ten years of a Labour government.

As much as improving Labour's polling on economics and leadership is the absolute precondition of Labour government, Miliband is right that ideas matter.

Someone in the cabinet needs to step up and express the values and purpose of a Labour government or the nation will assume there is none.

He said: «If (Alex Salmond) continues to peddle this deception then I will want to join Johann Lamont in fighting him and securing the return of a Labour Government as quickly as possible.»

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?

And voting for any of these Independents wlll by definition remove the opportunity to influence whether the general election delivers five more years of Labour Government or a new Conservative administration.

While Jeremy Corbyn may be pleased by Ireland's reunification, the breakup of the UK, closing off any Scottish Labour recovery within the union, reduces the prospect of Labour government.

Ruddock is inextricably linked with the failings of this Labour Government and the effects their policies have had on the local people of Lewisham Deptford.

Their success in this election clearly relied in part on scaring English voters about the prospect of a Labour government dependent on the SNP's support, in exchange for damaging concessions.

To paraphrase Neil Kinnock, «the grotesque sight of a Labour government, a Labour government», sending the police round to do their dirty work.

«We've got over 250,000 more affordable homes - and here's a statistic he'll like: in the last Parliament we built more council houses than in 13 years of a Labour government,» he said.

We were hit by a very well organised national campaign based on people's fear of a Labour government and the Scottish nationalists and we will see in the days that follow what are the implications.

In a clear rejection of the Labour government, the country looks as if a tin of blue paint has been spilled across the South coast through the Midlands with streaks moving North.

We all had a chuckle, but he was far from wrong — our candidates and activists have been in campaign mode for months, giving up most of their spare time in the name of a Labour government and a brighter future.