Sentences with phrase «one's first labour»

In the absence of a government that puts the people first Labour must unite as a source of national stability and unity.
«In the absence of a government that puts the people first Labour must unite as a source of national stability and unity,» they said in a joint statement.
His first taste of ministerial office came in 1924, when he served as Under - Secretary of State for War in the short - lived first Labour government, led by MacDonald.
She became the area's first Labour MP when she won the seat in 1997.
The long battle over a home for the latter bust caused him an untold amount of frustration, but he is back on the trail, campaigning to have his bust of Antonio Soberanis, Belize's first labour leader, occupy a place in the new Battlefield Park which was the scene of many of his meetings and demonstrations in the 1930's.
That prompted Baldwin's resignation and facilitated the appointment of Ramsey MacDonald as Britain's first Labour prime minister.
Peter Kellner: in YouGov's first Labour leadership poll, Jeremy Corbyn leads with Andy Burnham close behind (Comments: 1828)
First the Labour candidate in the biggest election this year has an address which does not exist as his home address in his nomination papers.
As first labours tend to be longer than subsequent ones, most first time mothers generally have ample time in which to arrive.
When I first read this I thought it was a bit hippyish, and wasn't sure I could relate to any of it, esp after having had a traumatic first labour a few years before, BUT parts of it came back to me during labour and it really got me through.
Well, it turns out that I didn't need all the labour aides that I had stocked up on because my sister ended up having her baby on her bathroom floor at home after a fairly quiet and speedy first labour.
First Labour brought us the swastika logo and now this, designed for the Office of Government Communications:
Nevertheless, in 1886 and 1892, the Conservatives succeeded in exhibiting that the Liberals were dependent on the Irish Nationalists; and, by rejecting Baldwin in 1924, the Liberals put Britain's first Labour government into office.
My first labour — 5.5 hr, my second — 3.5 hr.
The drive to the hospital had been one of the worst things in my first labour.
I don't think I could have been more stressed with my first labour (I wanted a cesarean and believed that there was no anesthesiologist or OR available)-- it was 5 hours from second contraction to delivery....
After my first labour was precipitous I chose induction at term for my second.
For my first labour, after a long walk and a warm bath, I just lay on my bed and breathed deeply through all the contractions until I felt ready to push.
As each labour is different many second time mothers may find that the signposts from their first labour no longer apply to their second labour, and they also arrive too soon.
Most labours last a few hours or so, but first labours are normally longer.
My first labour was quite stressful as I felt I was «arguing» with the hospital midwives about interventions that I didn't want to happen.
I didn't really want one during my first labour but as it went on so long, my baby was back to back and a decent size for my small frame, I needed something a bit stronger than gas and air!
He was the first Labour MP to be elected to the seat, which he has served since 1992.
He was the first Labour MP to quit over the expenses scandal, after allegations he had overclaimed # 15,000 in mortgage interest.
Episode two finds the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, moving into No 10.
The first Labour MP to reveal that they would not be standing again was Tom Blenkinsop, MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland and a staunch critic of Jeremy Corbyn.
Wheatley served as housing minister in the first Labour government and introduced landmark legislation that expanded the provision of council housing and drove up living standards among the poor.
The tale begins with Bondfield, Susan Lawrence and Dorothy Jewson who were the first Labour women to win election to the House of Commons, in 1923.
I read recently how Ramsey MacDonald (as you know, the first Labour Prime Minister) endured the British press trampling his reputation into the mud during the Great War because of his illegitimacy.
Unfortunately for Lees - Smith, the Conservatives stood down in the 1923 general election and he was defeated by the Liberal candidate; this defeat prevented him from being appointed as a Minister in the first Labour government.
Jeremy Corbyn is not the first Labour leader to find himself in this position and so we should consider what he can learn from the last one who faced a similar, perhaps -LSB-...]
«He was the first Labour leader to pluck young Oxbridge graduates out of nowhere and put them in charge of his office.
Corbyn stands today as the first Labour leader prepared to challenge Thatcher's speech, albeit thirty five years after the event.
Conference, we are not the first Labour generation to face a huge deficit and the need for spending restraint and a country crying out for change.
Shadow health minister Liz Kendall was the first Labour MP to say they wanted a crack at the party's top job, saying a «fundamentally new approach» was needed.
Johann Lamont is the first Labour Party leader we have had in the UK for decades who is a genuine socialist.
Sadiq Khan is the first Labour Mayor of London for 8 years after winning a landslide victory over Tory Zac Goldsmith.
I came to my first Labour conference in 1986, when the main platform was stormed by irate feminists and a kind of anarchic enthusiasm ran across the entire conference fringe.
He was soon accepted into Prime Minister Asquith's war cabinet, becoming the first Labour Party member to serve in government.
Thus, with the acquiescence of Asquith's Liberals, Ramsay MacDonald became the first ever Labour Prime Minister in January 1924, forming the first Labour government, despite Labour only having 191 MPs (less than a third of the House of Commons).
According to the Labour Party historian G.D.H. Cole, in summing up the record of the First Labour Government,
The People's History Museum in Manchester holds the minutes of the first Labour Party meeting in 1906 and has them on display in the Main Galleries.
The party gained two seats in these elections — one in the aforementioned case of Glencullen - Sandyfordand the other in Portlaoise, where Noel Tuohy won the first Labour Council seat in that electoral area in well over a generation.
[164] Nevertheless, Blair's reforms led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, resulting in the formation of the first Labour government since 1979.
Tony Blair went on to become the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a consecutive full term in office.
Following the loss of the Crewe and Nantwich by - election in 2008 he was the first Labour MP to call for Gordon Brown «s resignation (more information at They work for you)
The first Labour Party candidate stood against Rhys Hopkin Morris at the 1931 general election and polled 24 % of the vote in a straight fight against Morris, who had a 13,752 (52.0 %) majority.
So could Ramsay «Housewives» Choice» MacDonald have made it as the first Labour Prime Minister had he been scant of luscious tangles?
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