Sentences with phrase «pressure from labour»

The government has been under pressure from labour groups and some provinces to enhance the Canada Pension Plan, but Finance Minister Joe Oliver said as recently as last week that Ottawa doesn't favour the move even if Ontario opts to go it alone.

«This is a significant victory for parliament, and follows months of concerted pressure from Labour,» he said.

Following election defeats in former strongholds including Glasgow East, ministers are under growing pressure from Labour MPs to adopt policies that will appeal to the party's core vote.

The Sunday Telegraph claims it has seen documents which revealed the CQC was intent on suppressing negative publicity and was under pressure from Labour ministers in the run - up to the 2010 election.

Conservative London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson has insisted he will not change neighbourhood policing teams after pressure from Labour.

The prime minister has bowed to pressure from the Labour party, Boris Johnson and figures like Baroness Tanni Grey - Thompson and Colin Moynihan, the outgoing head of the British Olympic Association, to give the stars of London 2012 their own honours list.

The news that thousands of jobs would be safe for some years was widely welcomed, but May soon faced pressure from the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to be transparent about any sweeteners offered to Nissan.

After coming under pressure from Labour and Liberal Democrats, he told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions last week that he was ready to consider taking in refugees in cases of extreme hardship.

But the Prime Minister is likely to face pressure from Labour in the House of Commons tomorrow over why Britain has not signed up to the UN sanctuary scheme.

In further pressure from the Labour hierarchy, Tessa Jowell issued a direct plea on TV to Corbyn to stand down.

Even if Labour gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of principle will hold out.

With banks refusing in recent days to accept the latest restructuring plan, May's senior ministers met around the clock, under pressure from the Labour Party and unions not to use taxpayer money to prop up the failing company.

Not exact matches

Barden said that input costs are rising on everything from commodities to labour to energy, and the six years of retail price deflation and rising labour costs the industries had undergone «continues to cut margins, placing the sector under increasing pressure».

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin is pressuring Labour to reaffirm its support for HS2 later, as the government shifts its case for HS2 away from quicker journey times.

Apart from the argument that we have a moral duty to help those who wish to come to this country (which you may or may not accept), there is an economic case in favour of immigration in that the economy benefits from the availability of cheap labour, and there is a case against in that growth in population especially in the crowded South - East creates a lot of pressure on infrastructure such as housing, transport, hospitals, and schools (and the growth in population is largely due to immigration).

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alllabour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive allLabour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive allLabour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive allLabour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

Like in the past, new policy innovations are currently being explored to find new ways to deal with the social pressure resulting from the increasing obsolescence of manual labour, as can be seen in the experimenting with Universal Basic Income in Finland.

Labour were also under pressure from Tony Blair's indecision about his departure, and in Dunfermline «not even their next door neighbour, Gordon Brown, could save them».

Following heavy pressure from all sides of the Commons, the Tory leader said he had accepted a revised amendment to the Immigration Bill put forward by Labour peer Lord Dubs.

In his book Power Trip, Damian McBride recalls his frustration — and sneaking admiration for — Tony Blair's annual conference Houdini act: «Each year we'd come in with Tony under pressure, probably assisted by some unhelpful splashes from me in the Sunday papers; Gordon would make an ecstatically received speech appealing to Labour's soul and adding to the pressure; and Tony would then deliver an even better - received speech dashing Gordon's hopes and putting him back in his box.»

Though, in recent decades, Labour has desperately sought the approval of wealthy business owners in an attempt to drop its «anti-enterprise» image, the party is somewhat protected from these financial pressures by its links with the trade union movement.

There was also pressure from Nick Clegg about Labour's failure to apologise for past mistakes.

The extraordinary poll will put pressure on the Deputy Prime Minister, who opened his party conference in Glasgow yesterday, to start distancing himself from the Conservatives and open talks with senior Labour figures.»

Published in May 2011 after a series of seminars in London and Oxford, the text contains a foreword from Labour leader Ed Miliband, and was supported by Labour's key pressure groups The Fabian Society, Progress, Compass and the Christian Socialist Movement.

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

However, many Labour MPs are under pressure from local left - wing activists to back Corbyn and vote against airstrikes.

The Health Secretary has gradually moved, partly under pressure from Conservative backbenchers, to put some of the blame where it belongs - on the consequences of Labour's command and control targets regime.

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

Jon Lansman has confirmed he is running to be Labour's general secretary - despite coming under huge pressure from Jeremy Corbyn not to stand.

Corbyn is resisting pressure from europhiles in the party, who want him to commit Labour to keeping the UK permanently in the European single market and customs union after Brexit.

Payday lending has been on the agenda since at least 2010, and MPs like Stella Creasy and Robin Walker have applied sustained pressure from within both the Labour and Conservative parties.

A Liberal Democrat defeat, in a seat where they trailed Labour by only 103 votes last May, would inevitably increase the pressure on Mr Clegg from the doubters in his party, which is used to winning by - elections rather than losing them.

Cat Smith MP, Labour's shadow minister for youth affairs, said: «Unfortunately the findings from this survey are unsurprising given the range of pressures facing young people today.

We must also rise to the challenge of binding this new movement to the one thing that distinguishes Labour from the left ecosystem of protest and pressure groups — our electoral purpose.

The rat population doubled under the last Labour Government as a result of pressure to reduce bin collections - from people like Hilary Benn.

Pressure is mounting on Theresa May to ban the US «pickup artist» Julien Blanc from entering Britain after the Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone and Labour's Yvette Cooper called for him to be denied a visa.

Although councils had already suffered deep cuts under Labour in the 1970s, Heseltine was under pressure from Thatcher and from Conservative MPs and newspapers to cut more.

Ed Miliband is facing growing pressure from all wings of the Labour party to face down his shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, by backing a rise in national insurance contributions as a way to fund the NHS for future generations.

The Labour leader is facing mounting pressure from his own MPs to stand down in the wake of the EU referendum.

Following political pressure on the Treasury in the form of Early Day Motions from Labour MP Chris McCafferty and taken up by fellow Labour MP Dawn Primarolo in 2000, it was eventually reduced to 5 %.

The Streatham MP withdrew from the Labour leadership contest last summer, citing extreme pressure on his private life, including a reporter doorstepping his fiancee's grandmother.

Gordon Brown is facing more pressure from high - profile members of the Labour party to hold a referendum on the EU treaty, despite the foreign secretary insisting the party is not split on Europe.

However it isn't difficult to imagine a situation in which both Labour and the Conservatives could gain a majority in coalition with the Liberal Democrats help, but the Conservatives — under pressure from the backbenches — have erected a greater number of «red lines» while Labour are more open minded.

The boisterous session saw Mr Clegg come under pressure from all sides of the House, but he succeded in uniting the government benches by repeatedly questioning Labour's failure to act during their 13 years in power.

Brown under pressure Meanwhile pressure is building on Gordon Brown from within the Labour party, which lost 91 MPs and its Commons majority on Thursday.

PM and his deputy insist they will stick with cuts plan and strive for growth as pressure mounts from Labour and their own parties

This idea had some merit: Labour had failed to win key marginals across England and Wales, came under serious electoral pressure from UKIP in the north of England, and was all but wiped out in Scotland.

However, Labour's new policy measures were undermined by reported criticism from Cruddas, the man in charge of the party's policy review, which was taped at a semi-private meeting of the left - leaning Compass pressure group and passed to the Sunday Times.

Meanwhile, after their man won the Labour leadership race and the Party moved closer to their political agenda, soft left pressure group Compass responded in the only rational way possible: by walking away from the Party.

John McDonnell is to promise Labour will offer an «interventionist government» which will protect key British businesses from global market pressures.