Sentences with phrase «relationship with labour»

Environmental groups accuse Freedom to Fly of having a snug relationship with the Labour party and say key members took time off prior to general elections to work at Millbank.

One very telling aspect of what the SLF gets up to is its increasingly warm relationship with the Labour - aligned group Compass, as evidenced by a piece in today's Guardian, and a meeting on the fringe last night.

He ended the relationship with Labour after suspecting it was turning into a trap rather than an opportunity - largely because Tony Blair failed to live up to his part of the bargain by offering a change in the electoral system.

Fran Abrams, in a biographical essay, writes that although Bondfield «was prepared to argue loud and long for adult suffrage,... she was not prepared to damage her relationship with the Labour Party for it».

Harriet Harman has squared up to Len McCluskey after he threatened to rethink Unite's relationship with the Labour Party.

And today the BBC has reported that Unite members will now debate terminating its relationship with the Labour party at its upcoming conference in July.

Emily Thornberry, the Labour MP for Islington South, and Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level, a well - received study of inequality, mounted strong defences of unions and, in Thornberry's case, of their relationship with Labour.

Given the recent polls, and the views of the PCS rank and file, Unite's long term relationship with the Labour party is now looking increasingly tenuous.

PCS members» suspicion of Labour will heap further pressure on Unite, in addition to its own internal rumblings, to revisit its relationship with Labour.

The latest offering from Mr Gove was delivered this morning at CCHQ and concerned the trade unions in general and their relationship with the Labour Party in particular.

That step meant our relationship with Labour changed for good.

Higgins, who has a long standing relationship with the Labour Party, and who clearly identifies with and advocates the ideals of democratic socialism consistent with the party's politics and constitution, has been suspended for expressing critical views through poetry.

Ed Miliband's move to shake up the trade unions» relationship with Labour looks to be simultaneously his strongest and weakest moment as party leader.

Ken's relationship with Labour is more complicated than that of the man who needs garlic.

The party's MPs could also lose up to # 850,000 a year in funding as the Co-op group review their historic relationship with Labour.

Many rank - and - file Lib Dems have been vocal in criticising what they see as a cosy and consensual relationship with Labour, especially those in areas where the two parties are engaged in cut - throat local politics.

Here he explains a complex relationship with Labour's most inspiring politician.

Why does the need for extra transparency only apply to Trade Unions and their relationship with Labour?

Odd that you take this approach to the Unions, Peter, particularly now that Labour's ruling clique appear to want to break the Union's collective relationship with Labour on the grounds of a report not even seen by the NEC.

Unite was the union which triggered Miliband to shake up the historic relationship with the Labour party, after allegations that the union was attempting to influence the selection of Labour candidates in 40 constituencies.

Not exact matches

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

Labour's shadow Culture Secretary Maria Eagle has said Culture Secretary John Whittingdale should stop making press regulation decisions following the revelation he had a relationship with a prostitute.

1 Corinthians 3:9 explains quite beautifully our relationship with God in our labours, His husbandry of our conceptualisms» sakes and our bodies being but God's buildings!

Feedback from dads suggests the benefits of the course include: • increased confidence in their role as a dad • increased knowledge about how to look after their baby • learning how to support their partner during pregnancy and labour • learning how to improve their relationship after pregnancy • learning how to cope with a huge change in their lives.

A similar proportion felt inadequately informed on a wide range of vital issues, notably about mood swings in pregnancy, what to expect in labour, post-natal depression, how to cope with the baby's crying, bathing the baby, the impact on the couple's relationship, breast - feeding and bottle - feeding.

the time of labour and delivery) factors that may be related to a mother's difficulty with establishing a breastfeeding relationship, if this is what she is choosing, should be investigated in order to help restore a mother's confidence in her ability to establish and continue breastfeeding.

Peter Riddell finds Lance Price's book deals with far more than New Labour's association with the media, providing a terrifi c history of a crucial relationship

The resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson yesterday turned up the heat on the prime minister, with Labour arguing that the Met commissioner was unable to discuss his relationship with Neil Wallis due to Mr Cameron's relationship with Andy Coulson.

Had Labour achieved a higher vote share in the 2015 general election then Miliband would now be better known to Americans as the UK prime minister who is preparing forge a working relationship with Donald Trump.

Speaking at a reporters» lunch in parliament, the Labour leader joked about his relationship with Gordon Brown before assuring the assembled journalists that he would be making radical proposals on overhauling the country's pension system.

Unlike his Labour predecessor, Lammy also has a good relationship with London's only city - wide newspaper the Evening Standard.

She has a good relationship with several Labour MPs who have been critical of Jeremy's leadership, including Conor McGinn and Vernon Coaker.»

Labour London mayoral hopeful's family relationship with Javaid sparked tabloid «extremism» stories

Politically, the two major political forces in Westminster, the Conservative and Labour parties, are in disarray about how to shape UK's ongoing relationship with the EU once we leave.

As various debates about employer intimidation and control remind us, we too are well acquainted with a wide range of concerns that labour contracts put workers in relationships of arbitrary power and domination with respect to their employers.

Arguments kick off about Labour's relationship with trade unions.

Instead the party struggled in vain with what then seemed to be the real issue of the day, the relationship between the state and «austerity» — that was not in any way the central concern of Blue Labour thinkers.

Labour also supported the air strikes in Libya, leading some — mainly on the left — criticising Miliband for appearing to have too warm a relationship with David Cameron.

Tom Quinn's research interests include British party politics, the UK coalition agreement, leadership elections, and the Labour Party's relationship with the trade unions.

The Labour leadership will amend the Lobbying Bill to ensure greater transparency in the Tory - led government's relationship with the «big six» energy companies.

Labour no longer had a relationship with the people it sought to represent.

In what sense does the UK's relationship with its constituent parts need to be resolved before Scottish Labour could, for instance, argue for EU employment powers to be repatriated to Holyrood?

My opposition, and that of most Liberal Democrats, was to any idea that we should contemplate a merger or long - term relationship with New Labour.

The Labour leader is set to press on with his bold attempt at reforming the relationship between his party and the unions, despite intense opposition from those gathered at the TUC's annual conference in Bournemouth.

Questions were raised about Labour's relationship with wealthy donors in 1997 when, following an announcement that a ban on cigarette advertising would include an exemption for Formula 1 racing, it was revealed that the formula 1 chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, had earlier donated # 1 million to the Labour Party.

If this is not possible, then a Labour - led coalition with the Liberals would be preferable to a Tory government or a Tory - Lib coalition — for the same reason that this gives the working class a slightly better relationship of forces within which to resist the assault on its living standards which will be unleashed by any government arising from the current election.

This had been a Conservative Party manifesto commitment, but went to the heart of the Labour Party's relationship with the trade unions, following the Trade Union Act 1913.

Many people categorise the economy in the Star Trek TV show to be tinkering with the concept of post scarcity socialism, because human labour is substituted with energy and that ushers in a production for use and the abolition of the worker boss relationship.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats» rocky relationship is becoming increasingly inconsistent, with conversations now revealed as having taken place at the highest level.

Cameron was fortunate that he faced Gordon Brown who had succeeded as Labour's Leader and Prime Minister after a divisive relationship with Blair, and who was probably temperamentally unsuited to be Prime Minister.