Sentences with phrase «radical reforming labour»

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Criticised for initially failing to impose his authority, McNicol plans to use the results as a springboard for pushing through radical reform of Labour's organisational and campaign structures.

Therefore many of Labour's most radical leaders, including Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan, and Tony Blair, have been conservative when it comes to Lords reform.

He pledged that one of the most radical programmes of any government for a «long, long time» would achieve more on political reform, civil liberties and protecting pensioners than Labour did in 13 years, combined with «an impeccably Liberal approach» to the NHS, education and welfare reform.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

And the arch-Blairite and SDP founding member Lord Adonis said: «Labour and the Labour movement is the only means to defeat Brexit and bring about a radical reforming government.

Strongest because he is being bold and ambitious in seeking a radical set of reforms which, if accomplished, would transform and revive the Labour party's ailing membership fortunes.

Lord Prescott has said «It is radical and courageous» for Ed Miliband to promise to reform Labour's relationship with trade unions.

Imagine if he'd turned out to be an unpopular leader who had stuck to his central message that Labour needed to move to the right, entertain radical reform of public services, tackle the deficit through cuts and be avowedly pro-business, even though many commentators and many in his party thought that the cost of living crisis and pre-distribution were more important themes.

Tessa Jowell produced Labour's woeful response: effectively, that these reforms were not as radical as those begun by New Labour.

I left soon after — not because Labour weren't left wing enough but because Blair was having his radical and neccessary public service reforms stifled by Brown et al..

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

«I believe Labour needs to work out how to build an economy that generates a much greater degree of prosperity, is much more successful at tackling inequality and poverty, and which is radical in pursuing more democratic and inclusive political chance, such as electoral reform.