Sentences with phrase «over labour day»

I stacked the wood pile from a tree that fell during the storms over labour day weekend.

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Without the emergency intervention that followed, the baby would have suffocated in the birth canal in which he was trapped and I would have bled to death, which would at least have killed me within hours rather than over several excruciatingly painful days in the case of the obstructed labour.

Labour Day is over and for some that may suggest that outdoor grilling is slowly drawing to a close.

Many hospitals are bending over backwards these days to try and meet women's needs (c.d players in the labour suites, birthing balls / bars / pools / showers, electric oil burners, electric «candles», double beds for couples to share, etc.).

The row over public services spending between the Conservatives and Labour has escalated in recent days.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

The new Labour leader will take over with just under a month before the coalition's spending review is announced on 20 October, and a matter of days after announcing the new shadow cabinet.

Labour rebels over Gordon Brown's plans to increase pre-trial detention to 42 days have taken the fight to the prime minister after tabling a Commons amendment on the subject.

The home secretary currently faces a Labour rebellion over controversial plans to extend the time suspects can be held without charge to 42 days.

Labour tends to be less ruthless than their rivals but a good performance from Miliband over the next few days would help to steady a lot of nerves.

Ministers were forced to abandon a key vote guaranteeing the passage of the Lords reform bill through the Commons over a 14 - day period after it became clear it would have been roundly defeated by Tory rebels voting with the Labour party.

While Labour offers full support, we continue to call for ministers to provide certainty over the full route to the north by bringing forward a single hybrid bill, which could be done without delaying delivery of HS2 by one day.

But long before the internal debate over Labour's new ideological orientation had been resolved, the Tories had successfully established the deficit as the most important issue of the day — and one for which Miliband's team never managed to craft a decisive message.

UKIP, under the rumbustious Nigel Farage, have fallen back from the glory days of the May local elections but are still in double figures, while Labour holds a narrowing but still decisive lead over the Tories.

Over the next few days stories were printed which stated that the Labour Party had borrowed # 3.5 million from private individuals during 2005, the year of a general election.

While some Labour MPs have bitten their tongues over Tory plans to limit child tax credits to the first two children, Phillips speaks her mind as we sit down at one of the tables behind Portcullis House on a hot summer day.

We knew we were going down; but, as in 1992, we hoped that when it came to polling day, stubby pencils would hover over the box next to the Labour candidate on the ballot paper, and people would decide to «play safe» and vote Conservative.

Some Labour MPs and the Green MP, Caroline Lucas, dismissed the offer as unacceptable, saying it represented only 12 refugees a day over the course of this parliament, adding that 20,000 sounded less impressive given the long timescale.

Despite the permanent smiles and united front the party puts on over the next few days, Labour MPs will be jittery and potentially treacherous.

Both Labour's Chris Bryant and the SNP's Pete Wishart are protesting the decision by Cameron to only stage a one day debate, despite over 150 MPs wanting to speak.

And they will restore the right to access a specific, named GP — something that Labour abolished — and guarantee same - day GP appointments for all over 75s who need them.

A pre-election survey in April and May found the Conservatives had a lead over Labour of 41 % to 27 %, but by the final days of the campaign this had turned into a virtual dead heat.

The Labour lead over the Conservatives has narrowed dramatically in recent days, and is down to just one point in three different polls, including this one from YouGov for the Sunday Times

«There's going to be some quite intense discussions over the next few days, I suspect, and I hope our party officials and our national executive will see sense on this and recognise that those people that have freely given of their time and their money to join the Labour party should be welcomed in and given the opportunity to take part in this crucial debate, whichever way they decide to vote,» he said.

Over the last two days, the Labour leader used a party political broadcast and a speech by his shadow home secretary to unveil a raft of them on immigration.

[124] Some of the opinion polls had shown a 20 - point Conservative lead over Labour before the election was called, but this lead had narrowed by the day of the 2017 general election, which resulted in a hung parliament.

If this projection is correct (and Rallings and Thrasher will be producing a much more comprehensive projection in the next few days) then it gives the Conservatives a lead over Labour similar to that achieved in 1978, and similar to that achieved by Labour in 1996.

His party started here with a far better infrastructure than in Glasgow East (which they won in July on a swing of over 20 per cent) and the confidence exuded by the SNP campaign all the way until polling day suggests that they too will have been flabbergasted by the extent of Labour's victory, on a swing to the SNP of a mere 5 per cent.

Over the final weekend before polling day, Miliband unveiled the eight - foot tablet with Labour's six pledges chiseled into its surface.

A total of 433 people joined Labour over the same seven - day period and the party's total membership still stood at 528,720, meaning it is still the largest political organisation in western Europe.

Labour has gone to war with the government over women's support services as International Women's Day is celebrated across the world.

Going forward I believe that there is huge potential for UKIP to win over many more traditional Labour supporters who have been left behind by the modern day Labour Party.

With the final day of the Labour conference overshadowed by a row over nuclear weapons, Watson also made a plea for unity.

After days of frenzy over Jeremy Corbyn's first reshuffle, the schism in the parliamentary Labour party becomes a little more formalised.

Over recent days we've also heard my shadow cabinet colleagues, Emma Reynolds and Tristram Hunt, talk about how a Labour government will ensure we get the house building we need to strengthen our economy and improve people's quality of life, and about how we raise standards in our schools to ensure our children are equipped to succeed.

The four day annual Labour Party Conference takes place in Brighton and is expected to attract thousands of delegates with keynote speeches from influential politicians and over 500 fringe events.

Mr Miliband's faltering position in the polls has triggered a near - panic in some putative leadership campaign camps in the past month, and now the election is just over 100 days away positions are hardening, says one Labour source.

That's the approach that Labour and the rest of the Remain campaign need to take over the next eight days, rather than promising to unpick the central tenets of EU membership.

In a move that is controversial with some Keynesian economists, Labour is committed to «a fiscal policy framework that broadly states that the Government should borrow for investment (the capital account) and that over the business cycle Government day - to - day spending (the Government's current account) should be in balance».

The vote, on the last day of Commons business, was over the rules on electing Speakers and was seen by Labour as an attempt to oust John Bercow.

Their concerns date back to those five febrile days in May after the cliffhanger poll result left the future of the country in the balance as Cameron, Clegg and Labour negotiators bartered behind closed doors over who would form the next government.

Blair, as Jeremy pointed out, the days of chancellor, home sectretary foreign secretary being recognized as the top jobs are over, and Norman baker was a thorn in the side of May, Danny Alexander thorn in the side of Osbourne, and labour vote went up more in 2015 than the Tory one, and them winning in 2015 isn't relevant to theft they didn't win in 2010

The claims were reported to cops on the same day Danczuk quit Labour after his party banned him from the General Election over a sexting scandal.

It adds: «The days when over 95 % of the electorate voted either Tory or Labour are long gone.

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

The impression from the papers today and over the last few days is that Ed Miliband is under attack from the Blairite «right» of the Labour Party: David Miliband's leaked victory speech (what might have been, if he'd won), the Telegraph files showing Ed Miliband and Ed Balls plotted to bring Blair's government down, the serialisation of a new booking suggesting the Milibands» relationship has broken down...

In a gaffe made worse by the speculation that Mr Miliband himself might one day stand for the Labour leadership, the environment secretary said that within six months of the chancellor taking over, the public would want Mr Blair back.

NUPENG had, in a release dated Jan. 31, given a 15 - day ultimatum to government over six labour issues between some of its members and their respective companies.

[28][29] Five days later, he defected to the Liberal Democrats on 10 December 2001, citing his disagreements with Labour whips over his opposition to military action in Afghanistan and the resulting civilian casualties.

In her last tweet explaining the row over Labour NHS policymaking, Alexander said: «One other thing: that was not the first time I was undermined but will save that for another day.»