Sentences with phrase «opposition from labour»

While it is likely the potential re-introduction of new grammars into the education landscape will be promoted as a tool to achieve these aims, fierce opposition from Labour and the Liberal Democrats will likely question grammars» viability to deliver such aims.

Scores of Conservative MPs expected to support the amendment, which would initially limit the allowance to couples with a child aged under the age of five, when it is voted on early next month, although it is likely to fail because of opposition from Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

The northern MP has strong union support, but could face opposition from Labour's still - powerful Blairite faction.

The home secretary won the vote by 305 to 239, despite opposition from Labour and some Liberal Democrat and Tory MPs.

The prime minister still intends to push through the boundaries review, although it is far from clear he will be able to given opposition from Labour, Liberal Democrats and most smaller parties.

Not exact matches

The comments from Defense Minister Michael Fallon in an interview with the Daily Telegraph suggested that the ruling Conservative Party would not increase the top rate of income tax, striking a contrast with main opposition Labour Party.

Khan, a politician from the opposition Labour Party who is also chairman of TfL, has long criticized Uber's British management and backed the regulator's decision Thursday.

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

But Sturgeon said she believed his position could be changed if there was enough opposition from within Labour.

Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist in the opposition Labour Party by a senior party member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers in parliament.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a politician from the national opposition Labour Party who has criticized the firm in the past, said on Monday he had asked Transport for London to be available to meet CEO Khosrowshahi.

Hugh MacDonald Slogan: None Elected experience: MLA for Edmonton - Gold Bar from 1997 to present Background: Since stepping into his role as the opposition labour critic during his first - term and making headlines over the government's shaky handling of rotting pine shakes roofing and lack of whistle - blower protection, Hugh MacDonald earned a reputation as a dogged critic of the Tories.

Britain's shocking decision to remove itself from the European Union brought more political turmoil Sunday as Scotland's leader threatened to block the move and the opposition Labour Party's leader faced a coup attempt from his own legislators.

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Most of those MPs will come from either the Conservative Party, who are currently in government, or the Labour Party, who are currently Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

These private overtures were the way of escaping from the deep hatred of 2010 and 2011, when Ed Miliband appealed to disgruntled left - leaning liberals to desert to the Labour party and Clegg was painted as being a closet Tory by every opposition figure you ever met.

The silly stunt from members including Fiona McTaggart, Mary Creagh and Kevin Brennan shows how far Labour is from being a proper opposition.

Ireland's Labour Party is well - placed to gain votes from both Prime Minister Brian Cowen's Fianna Fail and the opposition leader Enda Kenny's Fine Gael.

Labour's official policy is now to stay in the single market and customs union for a transition period - a position backed by trade unions, business bodies and all opposition parties apart from the DUP.

This uncompromising opposition to the appalling displays of racism and xenophobia witnessed across the country in the last week, is exactly the kind of leadership we need from the head of the Labour Party.

We shall see if the Tories & LDs can continue to sing from the same sheet for much longer, but there may come a point (preferably after the AV referendum) that Labour's best strategy for avoiding another welfare - smashing lockout in opposition is to not take another state retrenchment (after Thatcher) lying down, & to agitate for the collapse of the Coalition, for a new Parliament, & a chance to reduce the deficit in a much cleverer, & less crude manner.

Maximus's time in slavery doesn't detract from the years he spent leading the armies of the north just as the limp Miliband years should not overshadow Ball's time at the heart of the Treasury operation that was key to New Labour's success and vanquished all opposition.

Opposition is growing from the Labour backbenches towards proposals making claimants work for their benefits contained in the welfare reform bill.

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

What we do learn anew from this poll is that Ruth Davidson has struck a chord with her claim that she would make a more effective leader of the opposition than her Labour counterpart, Kezia Dugdale.

Faced with Labour's reasoned opposition, and with substantial scepticism on their own benches, the government backed off from seeking a mandate they would not have obtained.

He was picked as Labour candidate for Keighley [citation needed] and won the seat in the 1922 general election, [4] profiting from a divided opposition.

He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party (as chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party) from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government.

It was lowest among those who thought the Lib Dems should have formed a coalition with Labour or stayed in opposition (35 %), voted in protest against the bigger parties (46 %), and to stop the party they most dislike from winning (31 %).

But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory general election victory apart from John Smith.

Perhaps the most famous act of opposition to Section 28 came when Shaun Woodward, a Conservative MP with a transgender sister, defected from the Conservative Party and his seat and joined the ruling Labour Party in opposition to the Conservatives» continued support of Section 28.

She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she has served as the Acting Leader of the Labour Party twice and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.

The anti-EU UK Independence Party led by populist Nigel Farage scored major gains and was leading the opposition Labour party and Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives in early results from Britain, where voting took place last Thursday.

The declaration was welcomed by all sides of the House, especially from opposition benches as many Labour members from the North West have constituents who were directly affected by the tragedy.

The impending boundary review, the deliberate disappearance of Labour voters from the electoral roll, the hopelessness of Scotland — all of which currently could lead to up to 10 years more in opposition.

If Labour had a majority (even a majority dependent on Scottish MPs) it need not fear a defeat from an opposition motion, assuming it could prevent rebellions.

The Labour leader is set to press on with his bold attempt at reforming the relationship between his party and the unions, despite intense opposition from those gathered at the TUC's annual conference in Bournemouth.

It was vital to appoint someone who would break from the confused economic policies pursued by previous Labour administrations and in opposition.

Criticisms of Corbyn's leadership style focused on his inept approach to internal party management and estrangement from his own parliamentary party; where Corbyn exceeded expectations was his ability to fashion a distinctive, eye - catching political agenda that captured the imagination of the electorate, and distanced the Labour party from its potentially «toxic» legacy (one of the historian Stuart Ball's key criteria for effective opposition party leadership).

Labour has failed in a bid to halt plans the Opposition claimed would hand sweeping powers to ministers to close hospitals.The Government saw off an amendment which would have cut Trust Special Administration from the Care Bill, winning a Commons vote 297 to 239, majority 58.

Resisting this «with us or against us» mindset under Ed Miliband was what brought the Labour Left in from the wilderness, staking out our opposition to austerity, to the legacy of Iraq, and arguing for another way forward for the left.

So when did Labour's policy on an EU referendum shift from opposition to abstention?

But for party finance reform more generally, the asymmetric effects of these changes are such that a future Labour or Labour - led government may exact some form of «revenge», either though excessively partisan measures or through a root and branch reform of party finance regardless of any opposition from the Conservative Party.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

But a Labour source told PoliticsHome that there had been no change of policy from the Opposition.

Blair's right wing policies will also meet opposition from pensioners — the only group who swung away from Labour on 1 May — in Ireland, and amongst every other group whose hopes he betrays.

Faced with entrenched opposition from Tory MPs coupled with Labour's refusal to back a crucial timetable for the House of Lords Reform Bill, Mr Clegg announced last month that the plans were being scrapped.

«I think we have a good shot at taking over from Labour as the opposition because Labour are imploding and Labour voters for the first time ever have defied their party, voting for leave,» Banks said on Wednesday.

His skills — or lack of them — are evident enough from the polling, where he continues to set the wrong sort of records (a recent one being that no Labour leader of the opposition has had such bad ratings on his first anniversary in office).