Sentences with phrase «points labour needs»

We've visited some of the reasons, but there are wider points Labour needs to take on board from the SNP's success that are -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

The first point is that even when employers choose to purchase machines instead of hiring employees, that needn't be a bad thing socially, nor bad for labour as a group.

We have no need to labour the point.

There is no need for us to labour this point, since the parable speaks far more effectively for itself than any modern author could speak for it.

City haven't had an easy time particularly away from home this season, labouring to a 2 - 0 win at Brighton on the opening weekend and then needing a dramatic late winner at Dean Court to collect three points against Bournemouth.

Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming Labour leadership debate (as I have already pointed out on this site) as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates need to answer?).

While Labour support is ebbing away, the Tories still need to be a good 10 percentage points ahead to gain a workable majority.

«Last week we announced our intention to limit access our labour market for Bulgaria and Romania when they join the EU in January next year and work is under way to introduce a points system to ensure that only people with the skills we need from outside the EU can come to this country.»

Right now, Labour needs to have a 20 - point advantage to be sure of an overall majority next time around.

Labour supporters often point to the social rights provided by the EU as evidence of the need to stay in.

A broader philosophical question also needs answering: what's the point of the Labour Party?

Jeremy Corbyn has correctly pointed out Labour needs to be «a social movement for the twenty - first century».

What we now need is a new plan like Labour's five point plan for jobs and growth.

By now you'll be on the point of spotting a trend, so we need not wait for Gordon Brown's memoirs to summarise the reactions of New Labour's senior figures to an account whose veracity none of them appears to dispute in any significant way.

«Given Labour's lack of understanding about the needs and concerns of rural Wales, the Welsh Liberal Democrats are calling on this government to implement a three point plan to give rural Wales a fighting chance of coming out of the economic downturn stronger.

CCHQ deny this - saying that the point of disseminating the graph is to show that UKIP hits Labour as well as the Conservatives; that party members don't know this - and that they need to know.

Labour needs to unite middle and lower income earners — pointing out that the Tories are putting up taxes for most people but cutting taxes for the rich is a good way of doing this.

It appears Bercow is now, more than ever, granting Labour spurious SO24 debates, Points of Order and even advising them on how to use arcane parliamentary procedures to whack the government, in an attempt to shore up the support he needs on the Labour benches.

On an equal amount of votes — 34.5 % a piece — the Conservatives would have almost fifty seats more than Labour, Labour would need to have a lead of about four points over the Conservatives just to get the most seats in a hung Parliament.

Still waiting for a response to the points made against Corbyn, essentially that it doesn't help those in need of a Labour government to select an unelectable leader.

«For the Conservatives to win an overall majority under the current boundaries, they need a seven point lead in the popular vote... However, under the proposed boundaries, they would need to lead Labour by just 3.8 %.»

On the new boundaries Labour would need a lead of 7.8 points to get an overall majority, compared to 7.4 currently

However, as Gerry Adams pointed out, what is needed is not a change of personnel but a change of policy and Labour's disastrous right wing course in government Ireland has strong lessons for Labour in Britain.

Putting all these factors, and some smaller ones, together John Curtice estimated in 2011 that the Conservatives would need a lead of more than 11 points on current boundaries to win a majority, while Labour could secure one with a lead of just three points.

«We've been reporting consistently lower poll leads recently for the Tories, at about five or six points — and this poll, in the seats they desperately need to win from Labour, is very much in line with that trend.»

With the government deprived of a majority to force its will, it will either need to grind out and sap the energy of the rebels with months of late - night sittings to win — testing loyalist resolve to breaking point — or ministers will have to cut a deal with Labour.

He pointed towards the closure of special needs schools when explaining how the number in children in special schools had fallen by 9,000 since Labour came to power.

This poses a «Brexit dilemma», the study says, pointing out that Labour needs to somehow appeal more to leave voters without alienating existing supporters who opposed Brexit.

He can't get seven points ahead of Labour, let alone ten points - and that's the kind of lead he needs to form a majority Government.

Labour has established a «convincing» 11 - point lead over Conservatives in the key marginal seats Ed Miliband would need to win to secure victory in next year's general election, according to a new poll by ComRes for ITV News.

In a recording of a lecture at Newcastle University, published today, Curtice pointed out that Labour would need a 12.5 % lead over the Conservatives just to get a majority at the next election if support for the Scottish nationalists stayed the same.

If the next Labour leader hopes at some point to lead a truly progressive administration and break with orthodoxies that have shaped Britain since the 1980s, he will need help from other parties.

On the present boundaries, Labour would need a lead in the popular vote of just one percentage point to win an overall majority.

Identifying a Labour sore point and hitting it again: Gordon Brown and Ed Balls wanted to rule out a VAT rise in the election campaign, in order to create a dividing line; Alistair Darling — to whose approach Alan Johnson is sticking — refused, knowing that a re-elected Labour government might need to do it.

He said Labour needed to change and recalled Nye Bevan saying that the «role of Parliament is to point a sword at the heart of private property.»

Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, echoed Burnham's points on Friday morning, saying the referendum was «in question» and arguing that Labour's pro-EU message needed to be conveyed more strongly.

They know they will lose a leadership election if they say openly what they did before Corbyn was elected, that Labour should be tougher on benefits than the Tories, or that we need an Australian - style points system for migrants, or that # 9,000 tuition fees are here to say.

The eight or so point poll lead over Labour he needs for an overall majority doesn't exist.

This seems an oddly technocratic point but reminds me of the view of Douglas Alexander and Jim Murphy that «Labour needs a draw on the deficit and a win on growth».

As for DD, I thought he was concerned more about detention of terrorist suspects without trial too long, rather than with Labour's curbing of basic freedoms of speech and conscience, but I may need to be corrected on that point.

To secure an overall majority, you need to extend your lead over Labour to 8 - 9 points, and for a working majority to at least ten.

A report published last autumn points out that the Swedish labour market's need for such a high number of university graduates has been overestimated.

The authors point out that China used the waste as raw materials for their expanding economy, and had the inexpensive labour needed to sort and clean the waste.

Phil pointed out that we need concrete things to ask for, because during the last Parliament Labour were critical of the transformation of legal aid, but when it came down to making promises to overturn specific cuts, more often than not they did not deliver.

IWC letter to the Minister of Labour points to the steamroller of change driven by the WSIB management and the need for adequate timeframe to prepare submissions for genuine consultation; attached to letter from ONIWG to chair Jim Thomas on tight timelines, noting that this consultation is concurrent with proposed changes to Appeals and review of an outdated MOU between the WSIB and Ministry of Labour.

The Canadian Labour Congress made the point that workers gave up the right to sue and that the Court needs to ensure fair treatment under the WC System.

Analysts point out that more needs to be done, including a stronger enforcement mechanism and domestic labour legislation in Mexico.

To support this conclusion, the Court pointed to need for labour unions to engage in expressive activity as a means of winning public support for their cause: