Sentences with phrase «present labour government»

Furthermore, the way that the present Labour government is poorly spending money that the country does not have, indicates that the Conservatives will have tough economic decisions to make when in power, and hence having plenty of economists to draw upon will undeniably be invaluable.

Now make that three Labour ministers caught doing so just hours after the Labour Party launched its election manifesto telling us all how quickly and decisively the present Labour government had acted to clean up the parliamentary expenses scandal.

It was passed by the present Labour government in 1998.

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley claimed the average length of hospital stays fell in the early 1990s quicker than at any time under the present Labour government.

Not exact matches

The government presented various options on how to fix the troubled program during a closed - door meeting Thursday with stakeholders who included business representatives and labour union officials.

«When that happens, the Labour party will move, and the present government will be left holding the baby.

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.

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

Labour's criticisms appear more general at present, with Mr Alexander expressing concern that the government's wider spending cuts agenda will limit the number of jobs being created in the next few years.

«Will the next Labour government reverse the present Coalition's disastrous policies?

On launching his leadership bid, McDonnell, who vehemently opposed the Iraq War and was an ardent critic of the new Labour government, called for «a challenge to the present political consensus».

Present arrangements were introduced under the New Labour government.

At present, there are two principal measures of unemployment used by the Government: the International Labour Organisation (ILO) measure (the UK's version being known as the Labour Force Survey or LFS unemployment); and the Claimant Count.

Ed Milband presented his party as a force for fiscal responsibility, promising that Labour's manifesto contained no unfunded pledges and that a Miliband - led government would eliminate the UK's budget deficit during the next parliament.

But what underlies the decline of the present Tory government, and the evident inability of the Labour Party to present any convincing alternative, is something more fundamental.

Labour remains the single largest party in Wales but, with 22 seats at present, will not be able to form a government without coalition support.

This way of presenting the election exploits the considerable public approval of Mrs May's leadership of the government (52 percent satisfied) compared to Mr Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party (23 percent satisfied, 64 percent dissatisfied.

While I am the first to admit that the Labour Party's prospects of forming a government in the near future are not propitious, I know that the party will eventually emerge from its internecine struggle and present itself ready for government — as it has done after every period of civil war in its history.

This is not a criticism only of the present Government, but a criticism of all Governments, Labour, Conservative and coalition, going back for some time.

The government plans to bring the issue to parliament before the end of the year and there is no sign that Labour will be able or willing to present a united front in one of the most important strategic debates of our time.

One person who was present told the newspaper: «The Conservatives will be the next government because Labour has failed to make a good case for itself.

In any case, the SNP is so confident of its popularity that the new leader Nicola Sturgeon has already presented her conditions for forming a coalition government with Labour.

If Miliband and Balls wish to present Wales as an incubator for the kind of policies that a UK Labour government would pursue, then Welsh Conservatives should gladly accept the invitation to make Labour's record in Wales a key battle - ground.

Charting what he terms the «soap - opera» years of the Labour government, his book continues to ruffle feathers with an updated preface bringing the story up to the tempestuous present.

If it wasn't for the fact that most blame the last Labour government for the mess we're currently in, the opposition's advantage in the polls might be more concrete than it is at present.

Asked if he was not damaging Labour by releasing the memoirs just as the party struggled to recovery from losing power on the Today programme this morning, Lord Mandelson insisted it presented a «very good and flattering» portrait of Mr Blair, Gordon Brown and the New Labour government.

No one absorbs a brief more quickly, and his early keynote speech, at the Royal Society of Arts, presented a polished denunciation of Coalition «myths» about Labour's record, as well as admitting that the Brown government became overdependent on City tax revenues.

One was Andy Burnham unveiling a measure on housing reminiscent of the Ed Miliband approach which saw Labour lose to a poor Tory government that will continue making Britain even more divided and unequal than it is at present.

The occasion also presents the opportunity to some disgruntled labour unions to express their discontent with government's handling of issues such as their salaries and conditions of service.

Ahead of a leadership hustings debate at the Local Government Association conference this week, Mr Miliband even pledged to invite Labour's local government leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected parGovernment Association conference this week, Mr Miliband even pledged to invite Labour's local government leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected pargovernment leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected party leader.

The sense that conservatism has a moral purpose, that the Conservative Party is its political expression, and that it is for everyone who agrees with that purpose is indispensible not only if that party is to win in 2015, but if it is ever again to become Britain's natural party of government (which, at present, is Labour).

Kamara also appealed to state government to consider all issues presented to it during the interactive session held between labour leaders and government.

So Labour is working with the present government, starting with the Bill currently going through Parliament, to resolve the problems over copyrighting, piracy and intellectual property.

«The same lawyers who advised Labour that this wouldn't happen will now be advising the present government and they will seek to minimise the significance of this judgement and pretend there is nothing surprising about it, or that it might be reversed on some future occasion,» he said.

John McDonnell says «If the next Labour Government is to stand any chance of tackling the grotesque inequalities of present day Britain, it needs a trade union agenda.»

If you want public service trained, professional politicians, just look at the present Cabinet, to say nothing of Gordon Brown, and wonder why they have made a complete pig's breakfast of everything, as have every Labour government since 1945, to my personal knowledge and cost.

If the next Labour Government is to stand any chance of tackling the grotesque inequalities of present day Britain, it needs a trade union agenda.

In comparison, our regular tracker on who people blame the most for the cuts still finds 48 % blaming Labour the most and only 18 % blaming the Coalition - suggesting that people may blame the last Labour government for the generic need for cuts, but once specific cuts are announced they may begin to apportion more of the blame more upon the present Ggovernment for the generic need for cuts, but once specific cuts are announced they may begin to apportion more of the blame more upon the present GovernmentGovernment.

These figures present a huge turnaround from the last election — in a comparable question on May 3 - 4th 2005, a Labour government under Blair led a Conservative government under Michael Howard by 17 points, more interesting though is what they say about attitudes to Gordon Brown.

By 36 - 24 %, voters still blame the last Labour government more than the present coalition government for the public spending cuts.

The Labour Party in opposition needs to present itself as an alternative government, but just as importantly the role of the main opposition party in a parliamentary democracy is to seek to influence the decisions of government, and shape the political debate.

Leaders of labour unions in the State including Nigeria Labour Congress, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, and Trade Union Congress were also present at the melabour unions in the State including Nigeria Labour Congress, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, and Trade Union Congress were also present at the meLabour Congress, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, and Trade Union Congress were also present at the meeting.

However, notwithstanding the immediate favourable headlines that the government has garnered from today's figures, the present economic debate still contains numerous positives for Labour.

But what is really needed is for the Labour government after this next election to abandon the present cronyism of appointment to the Lords and replace it by an electoral system geographically based on Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the major English regions.

The Ondo State former Labour Party [LP] chairman, Dr. Olaiya Oni, today raised alarm that the present government led by Dr. Olusegun Mimiko is after his life...

The government will present Tuesday's speech as its plan for exiting the EU as demanded by Labour during a parliamentary vote.

Labour seems most confident in parading our values in debating with the Tories but we should be less abashed in doing so when squaring off against the Greens, UKIP and the SNP, while being more confident in our capacity to present ourselves as a more competent party of government than the Tories.

A Professor at Camberwell College of Arts, later on becoming a Labour peer who served in the post-war, reforming Attlee government, he painted his own murals at Buscot Park, Birmingham University and the Women's Press Club in London, and his large - scale fresco Worker of the Future Upsetting the Economic Chaos of the Present 1935 is at the Marx Memorial Library in London.

In 2010, George Osborne presented an austerity budget to the House of Commons claiming that the country faced an economic crisis with an unsustainable public debt, then at 64 % of GDP, and a huge deficit, and that this was the fault of the outgoing Labour government, which had caused the 2008 financial crash due to profligate public spending.