Sentences with phrase «questions from labour»

That's three weeks of planned questions from labour, they clearly think they are on to a winner.

Robertson, a former army officer, didn't hold back, parrying away questions from the Labour benches.

The exchanges were triggered by a question from Labour peer Baroness Thornton, who had suggested the UK could be breaking its commitments under the World Health Organisation's framework convention on tobacco control.

Responding to a question from Labour backbencher Gisela Stuart, who recently said Britain should leave the EU, the prime minister promised an imminent speech.

A question from Labour peer Lord Beecham earlier this month saw the government admit the expenditure.

12:23 - The Green Investment Bank is the subject of a question from Labour's Chris Williamson.

Then came an unfortunate question from a Labour backbencher who had got mixed up with her economic figures.

12:24 - Brown answers an absurdly friendly question from a Labour MP about how well the government is doing building hospitals.

«The honourable gentleman always brings a flavour of pantomime to our proceedings,» Cameron joked after one particularly theatrical question from Labour MP Stephen Pound.

Can he respond * effectively * to the question from Labour «Given your beliefs, how can you be prepared to serve in a Government which the Shadow Foreign Secretary has stated would NEVER join the Euro?»

12.27 pm: In response to a question from the Labour MP for Dover the Prime Minister promises that there'll be no forced privatisation of the Port Authority.

Health Minister Anne Milton reassured other MPs, responding to a question from Labour MP Nic Dakin, about the value of «free nursery milk in preparing young people for a good future and well - being in life».

David Cameron has attacked the manner of the supercasino u-turn - announced at PMQs in response to a question from a Labour backbencher.

If anything, it gets even more damning when you look at the full context of Brown's answer, to a question from Labour MP Gerald Kaufman.

In a written answer to a question from Labour MP and shadow minister Chi Onwurah, Gibb said the package would include a «national, intensive» CPD programme of at least 40 hours.

Just 35 of the 79 approved to open in 2012 have found premises, Mr Gibb said in response to a parliamentary question from Labour's Stephen Twigg.

In response to a written parliamentary question from Labour MP Kevin Brennan about the publication's timing, Mr Gibb said that after considering all the review's documentation «the government believes that schools are best placed to decide how they use and deploy teaching assistants, and to set standards for the teaching assistants they employ.

Figures released after a parliamentary question from Labour MP Diana Johnson show the government is still to claw back # 1.2 million it dished out in 2013 - 14.

In response to a question from Labour MP Chi Onwurah, who called for the introduction of a «digital bill of rights», Mr Hancock said: «It is increasingly clear that we need a new settlement with these big tech companies.»

Not exact matches

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

Vietnam's has recently jumped from low to lower - middle income, and policy makers are now facing questions about avoiding the «middle - income trap» and generating economic growth without increased exploitation of natural resources and cheap labour that would result in deteriorating environmental and social standards.

«Consumers should reward companies with ethical integrity in their supply chains and continue to demand that worlds largest chocolate companies answer the question of how consumers can be assured their chocolate is not produced using exploited child labour,» says Tim Newman from ILRF's campaigns department.

«Labour MP Damien O'Connor questioned National Party links to Chinese - owned company, which is one of a handful of New Zealand - based companies to get approval from China to export infant formula since China put tighter import rules in place in 2014.

The 100 question survey examined women's experiences from their perspectives on a variety of issues relating to care options in Irish maternity services, ante-natal care, labour and birth, and postnatal care.

Mothers and their labour support person will receive handouts, have the opportunity to ask questions and have a guided hands - on practice from a Certified Birth Doula and Prenatal Educator.

12:24 - Right - after a question on families from a Labour MP, it's time for Ian Swales - the improbable Liberal Democrat MP from Redcar - who invites Cameron to comment on councils thinking of turning down the government's offered council tax freeze.

12:12 - A rabble - rouser of a question from Mark Tami, Labour, who wonders whether Cameron will be spending Christmas with Rebekah Brooks and Jeremy Clarkson.

Following the death in 2007 of former Newark Labour MP Fiona Jones from alcoholic liver disease, the in - House drinking culture of Westminster has been further questioned.

Then comes a question from Tory MP Michael Ellis, a member of the home affairs committee, who suggests Hague could use his surveillance powers to find out what the Labour party's position actually is.

Would - be health secretaries, Labour's Andy Burnham, Conservative Andrew Lansley and Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb answered questions from nurses, doctors, NHS workers, health experts, and members of the public.

And a united Labour, he adds, is the only way to win power from the Conservatives, because «if we learned lessons in 1981 to 1983, it's if social democracy is in real trouble and you split it still further you merely reinforce the majority of your opponents and that would happen - there is no question about it.»

Doubtless that will change the further we get from June's political car crash, but the key question is whether that average can be pushed up by the six per cent necessary to breach the psychological threshold of 30 per cent, above which Labour politicians can console themselves that they are within striking distance of the Tories.

It alleges that the Blairite group has worked to undermine Labour party goals and questions the nature of the group's funding, much of which comes from large corporations.

From the Prime Minister's morning - after resignation on 24th June the country was mired in political chaos, with almost every political institution challenged and under question in the aftermath of the vote, including both Conservative and Labour parties and the existence of the United Kingdom itself, given Scotland's resistance to leaving the EU.

Thérèse Coffey (Conservative) Damian Collins (Conservative) Phillip Davies (Conservative) Paul Farrelly (Labour) Cathy Jamieson (Labour) Alan Keen (Labour Co-operative) Louise Mensch (Conservative) Adrian Sanders (Liberal Democrat) Jim Sheridan (Labour) Tom Watson (Labour) Steve Rotheram (Labour) The decent questioning comes from Watson, Mensche, Davies (sometimes) and Farrelly, in my opinion.

I think the key lessons for Labour from this by - election are not about whether «One Nation Labour» is reaching «southern voters», or whether Labour needs to adopt policy x, y or z. Instead, the Eastleigh result poses two questions which Labour need to consider:

The 2010 Labour voters who voted Yes and now intend to vote SNP are noticeably different from other 2010 Labour voters in their responses to a variety of BES questions, but they particularly stand out in two principle respects.

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.

At the time, we had been shortlisted for «Best Agency» by Research magazine — the most prestigious award in the market research industry — so I was a bit alarmed at first to receive a letter from Labour peer Lord Joffe, possibly frustrated that his attempts to change the law on assisted suicide had failed yet again, expressing unhappiness with the wording of a question.

A question from Ian Graham: «The Labour Party is now the only party with a significant presence in each of England, Scotland and Wales, while the new government's base turns the West Lothian Question on its head: the Coalition's partners hold 12 of 59 seats in Scotland, and 11 of 40 iquestion from Ian Graham: «The Labour Party is now the only party with a significant presence in each of England, Scotland and Wales, while the new government's base turns the West Lothian Question on its head: the Coalition's partners hold 12 of 59 seats in Scotland, and 11 of 40 iQuestion on its head: the Coalition's partners hold 12 of 59 seats in Scotland, and 11 of 40 in Wales.

This question, from somebody who wishes to remain Anon, but was a popular theme at Saturday's Fabian conference: «If you become Labour party leader, what will you do to ensure labour becomes more open and democratic in party structure, to ensure Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?&Labour party leader, what will you do to ensure labour becomes more open and democratic in party structure, to ensure Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?&labour becomes more open and democratic in party structure, to ensure Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?&Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?»

Here's the big question vexing Labour over the weekend: how divorced are its inhabitants of the Westminster village from the rest of the country?

Following questions in the House from Labour and DUP members, the Leader of the House announced that there would be discussions with affected parties, and in March Chris Grayling presented a written statement to the Commons, detailing a much lower reduction of around five per cent in real terms.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

Titled, «Questions all Jeremy Corbyn supporters need to answer», Jones argues Labour are heading for a disaster due to a lack of strategy from Corbyn's team, and asks supporters the following: How can the disastrous polling be turned around?

The key questions here are these: could a left - wing leader of the Labour Party ever receive more even - handed coverage from broadcasters or less vitriolic treatment from the press?

The briefing was smoked out by an «Email your MP» campaign launched by the People's Pledge just 48 hours beforehand, as Labour MPs then contacted party headquarters to ask how they should respond to questions from constituents about their voting intentions on July 5.

12:30 - The last question, on heart operations, is a friendly one from a Labour MP.

Everyone is entitled to their theory as to what went wrong: mine is that from last week's Question Time debate in Leeds, where Ed Miliband was assailed about Labour's alleged overspending, the die was cast.

To answer that question we need to look back fifteen years to Labour's botched attempt to prevent Ken Livingstone from becoming the first Mayor of London.