Sentences with phrase «people first labour»

«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.

In the absence of a government that puts the people first Labour must unite as a source of national stability and unity.

Not exact matches

He told Premier 150 people attended the group's mass in Brighton on the first day of the Labour Conference, but it has been the subject of some snide jokes within the party.

Labour say they'll look closely at the plans, but want more to be done to prevent people from becoming radicalized in the first place.

The labour and birth unfold slowly and it's such an honour to support not just the woman in the birth of her first baby but also in actually becoming a mother for the first time... I like to see first time couples from very early on in pregnancy and I work closely with them all through their pregnancy helping to dismiss all the nonsense that most people think labour and birth is about and support them in preparing for what will actually happen.

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

This slippery, secret - message, all - things - to - all - people rhetoric is precisely the sort of passion - sucking nonsense which makes Labour so uninspiring in the first place.

It was 1998 when Peter Mandelson first said that Labour was «intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich», while Tony Blair went on a «prawn cocktail offensive» to get the City onside.

Following New Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.

The Labour leader said: «I welcome the prime minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.»

At first sight, Labour's policies are attractive and speak to the issues that matter most to people.

First was the decision of the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties to match the Cameron pledge and agree to give the British people a say in the second half of this current parliament.

Labour now finds itself presented the problem of how to manage a core vote that has emerged as a radically Eurosceptic, conservative, insurgency and is forced for the first time to take seriously the tradition - orientated ideals, habits and orientations of the people who have supported it over generations.

First, whilst these cuts are going through, huge numbers of some of the poorest people are having their lives made much harder; can we wait for Labour?

They just remind people of all the reasons they went off Labour in the first place.

One is reminded of the response of an Israeli Labour politician, Yitschak ben Aharon, after his party lost an election for the first time in 1977, ending its 50 year domination of zionist politics: «If that is the will of the people, then the people must be changed.»

I know Diane Abbot (who I respect as our first black female MP) and other senior feel it's racist whenever we talk about immigration — but do we honestly think closing down any discussion has led us to a good place in terms of race relations and tolerance and looking closer to home, how many senior Black or Asian people work in Labour HQ or in Team Corbyn?

8th October 2016, Labour List: As we celebrate our first birthday, the only people who should feel threatened by us are the Tories

«There was a sort of hidden army of people who were so worried about Labour that they literally came out to vote for the first time.»

So Smith wants a Labour Government then with his call for another referendum on the EC (not accepting the democratic will of he people) the first thing he does is slap 17m Out voters in the face and a significant number of these are potential Labour voters!

Shadow pensions secretary Philip Hammond warned this was the «financial equivalent of kicking it into the long grass», and said it was the introduction of means - testing by Labour that had reduced people's savings and led to today's problems in the first place.

«First of all we have to stay in Labour and encourage more people who share our politics to join.

Whatever people may think of New Labour's achievements, faults and mistakes, there is an enormous difference between the timidity with which a government with a majority of 170 + proceeded in its first term, carefully implementing its incremental manifesto but always looking over its shoulder in search of the «daily mandate», and the astonishing bullishness of this Coalition despite the hung parliament.

Labour's first openly gay female MP calls on party to increase number of BAME and LGBT people in influential positions

It couldn't last: on the face of it, Labour people spent more time tearing strips off each other than their genuine opponents, and conference's chaos was reined in, first by Neil Kinnock, and then New Labour.

The 45 - year - old is the first black or minority ethnic person to be London Mayor and one of the most senior elected Labour politicians outside Westminster.

When I read the email from Ed Miliband to all party members yesterday afternoon, I thought Left Futures should run a competition with a prize for the first person who could identify «Paul», the possibly mythical figure who it is said has joined the Labour Party because of the «reforms» now backed by Labour's national executive: I -LSB-...]

Meanwhile Matthew Offord, who gained Hendon from Labour, spoke about the need to instill in people a sense of aspiration in his first Commons speech:

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.

He talks about what it was like, moving into their first council house, free education and why a Labour government can give hope to people again:

In Labour held Conservative targets, Populus asked people who said they would vote Lib Dem or «Other» how they vote if it seemed their first choice didn't have a chance of winning locally.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

Yet she emphasised the importance of «the issue about how you get people into Parliament in the first place, and to get more gay people to come forward and stand as candidates and councillors,» and said the Labour Party is working on this, particularly LGBT Labour.

First, fiscal discipline is fundamental to Labour's thinking and policy development, underpinning every proposal we make, every argument we advance — not only because our wider message will not be heard if people see us only as spenders, and not also as reformers — but also because we simply will not be able to deliver the changes we want to make in government if we do not have strong public finances.

Labour is looking for a Brexit that puts the working people first.

To help people get their first foot on the property ladder, Mr Brown also announced an extension of the shared equity scheme, with a view to achieving Labour's manifesto pledge of creating one million new homeowners.

The PM asked: «Doesn't he understand that what has happened over the last decade, where a Labour government signed treaty after treaty, gave away power after power, and never consulted the British people, is what has made this such a big problem in the first place?»

Labour's awkward compromise in this area makes it look like they can't decide, while Labour voters especially applaud the Tory approach to a get tough policy on welfare — they are often the people who see abuse of the system at first hand, and for them, fairness is about stamping on scroungers and shirkers.

Normally, if a worker from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) wants to take a job in the UK, the prospective employer must first carry out a local labour market test to establish whether there is any local unemployed person capable of doing the job.

As a farming community which engages in cocoa and crop farming and also share borders with la Cote d'Ivoire, the first lady called on the people of Bia West to join forces with government to work together to ensure that farms are not worked by any labour that is believed to be trafficked or involving child labour.

The fact is that from the first day to the last of Labour's years in power immigration was out of control — and the British people won't forget that.

The roar of disbelief from Labour in reply to the PM's final answer on the issue - «this government always puts disabled people first» - says it all.

Have things reached the perverse situation where in order to get elected Labour have to cut public spending for their first term although they want to increase it and the Conservatives have to increase public spending in order to get elected, usually when people vote for a different party it is because they expect something to be different from the way it was, such plans leave it wide open for the Liberal Democrats to come out and propose a series of economy measures and be the one of the 3 parties proposing the lowest levels of public spending and tax cuts targeted at the poor.

Jeremy's leadership inspired many tens of thousands of people to join Labour and get involved in politics for the first time, and now that fresh energy lives on in Momentum.»

The second of those is a guess, but the first at least we can be pretty certain of, since the last British Election Study checked people who said they'd voted against the marked electoral register, and those people who said they'd voted but hadn't did disproportionately claim they'd voted Labour.

The truth is that the McBride emails are by no means the first time that we have seen poisonous character assassination of those who were not signed up to the Labour agenda - be they people who exposed government shortcomings, political opponents, or even fellow Labour figures who fell out of favour.

It would be wrong to assume the 28 % who stay with Labour regardless is purely down to blind brand loyalty — people may be sticking with the main Labour party in both scenarios because they think a splinter party is doomed under First Past the Post, or because they disapprove of splitters.

People don't like Peter Mandelson or his methods, I'm sure Gordon Brown is eager to offload him and his spin which in the 1980's and first half of the 1990's helped Labour but really became the news and was not popular and hastened the fall in Labour support from 1997 to 2003, with the possible exception of David Laws these are all yesterdays men and David Cameron is severely mistaken if he thinks he can win by aping Tony Blair.

A photo of Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn looking almost unbearably sad on the night bus has got people talking online — but he's not the first serving MP to mix with the riff - raff