Sentences with phrase «party of social mobility»

Leadership candidate Mr Smith attacked Mr Corbyn for allowing Mrs May to paint the Conservatives as the party of social mobility.

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The «British dream» remark may evoke bygone US presidential elections, but Woolfe's message is simple: now Brexit is on its way, he wants to pitch Ukip as the party of improving «social mobility».

This speech to the Fabian Society disproves Lammy's loyalist credentials unless he is making an inadvertent miscalulation in attacking Labour's record on social mobility — surely he must be in the wrong party to be deliberately exposing the divide between their aspiration and achievement from a position of government, and it beggars belief that a serious politician would undermine their own argument in this way after suggested he himself has been a beneficiary of the process.

The Conservative party under Mr Cameron's stewardship has faced criticism for a lack of genuine policies, and the appointment of shadow home secretary David Davis to lead a new social mobility taskforce will initially do little to change this perception.

The Conservatives will portray themselves as the party for the working families of Britain with new policies designed to revitalise social mobility, the party's leader has announced.

The Conservatives are aiming to portray themselves as the party for the working families of Britain with new policies designed to revitalise social mobility, the party's leader has announced.

In February, an all - party parliamentary group on social mobility called for character education, which includes mindfulness, to be part of the curriculum.

It is crucial that the party develops new approaches to deal with the pressing challenges of the early 21st century, such as rising inequality, declining social mobility, global financial chaos and climate change.

Bootle MP Peter Dowd claimed the newcomers were copying his own party's policies anyway: «Reports suggest that the new party's «potential policy proposals include asking the rich to pay a fairer share of tax, better funding for the NHS and improved social mobility.»

Mr Brown will today give a major speech in which he will say that encouraging «social mobility» will be the key theme of the Labour party's election campaign.

«The Labour Party should be the engine of social mobility.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has said that his party will work to block any attempt to lift the ban, claiming that grammar schools are not «drivers of social mobility».

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, Mr Hinds once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister and Ms Greening.

When asked which measures would most likely improve social mobility and help disadvantaged young people get on in life, almost half of respondents (47 per cent) chose «high - quality teaching in comprehensive schools», ahead of two social mobility policies adopted by the main parties in the recent election.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, he once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister, and his immediate predecessor, Justine Greening.

The issue of teaching character, which until now has mainly been debated within the ivory towers of academia, is suddenly all the rage in policy circles in the UK, in the wake of the report by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on social mobility, and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt's latest speech.

In this Legal Week video, deputy editor Charlotte Edmond talks to ITV director of legal affairs and third - party sales Barry Matthews, Hogan Lovells chair Nicholas Cheffings, head of Aspiring Solicitors Chris White and future Nabarro trainee Jay Whiting, about the future of social mobility in the legal profession.