Sentences with phrase «saying new labour»

Only Gordon Brown hated them more, say New Labour insiders.
The shadow energy secretary said New Labour had become «ideologically beached» because it was haunted by old ghosts from the past, when the party was viewed as tax - raising and anti-American.
He says the new Labour leader can not afford the «threat of open discontent or rebellion» to remain for too long.

Not exact matches

Coles said the time was right for a «new team» to lead Unifor and fight back against what he called attacks on labour by the federal government.
«Today, gen X and gen Y dads want to be involved,» says Spinks, adding, «Boomer grandmas, who would have historically provided the postpartum care for mom and new baby, are still in the paid labour force.
The rise in the Canadian dollar, which has hovered around parity with the U.S. dollar in recent months, the shortage of labour in the province, and even the new carbon tax add to the difficulties for B.C. businesses, he said.
Looking at the bigger picture, however, the latest numbers said the labour market expanded 2.1 per cent compared to a year earlier with the addition of 374,300 net new jobs.
Just in from Paris, some fascinating quotables from the OECD: Governments must do more to help workers adapt to new global economy, says OECD Rather than seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing job markets.
«It's very disturbing that Premier Clark's marching orders to her jobs minister made no mention of a job growth strategy,» said Shane Simpson, New Democrat spokesperson for economic development, jobs, labour, and skills.
«On International Workers» Day this year, lets renew our commitment to push for positive change that will benefit all workers,» says Patrick Colford, President of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, «With this year being an election year, we need to make sure that our elected representatives are accountable for improving fairness and making sure that economic prosperity benefits everyone.»
Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.&Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.&labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»
«This new legislation is part of our overall commitment to fairness in Ontario's workplaces and will help ensure that women and other groups are treated equitably,» said Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn.
«Every time there's a new scandal, everyone talks about how safeguarding is all of our business, but then once that scandal disappears people forget again until another scandal happens,» said the Labour MP.
«There is a lot of cost pressure, and now you have Brexit as well, so there is a question over labour availability, and a lot of companies are hurt by currency swings, so to go and ask for # 10 million to build a new food factory, it's a difficult climate,» he says.
Trans - Tasman building materials group Fletcher Building says Australia's labour market is becoming increasingly uncompetitive and wages were as much as 40 per cent higher than in New Zealand.
But Labour's new leader says that politics is nothing if not about leadership.
The history of New Labour from 1997 continuing through the Brown administration and on into the present Coalition is testament to the shifting of several — some might say rather too many — constitutional tectonic plates.
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.
It's sad, but imagine him now living under a New Labour idealism in which if you even say your left of center your a commie.
Our hot new forward planner, Jessica, says she has identified the perfect location for the very first commonlocation for the Labour and Conservative Party conferences: Daventry.
FoE director Tony Juniper said: «New policies are urgently needed to cut UK emissions, which have risen under Labour despite promises of substantial cuts.
Responding for the Open Britain campaign, New Labour architect Lord Mandelson said: «In terms of knowledge and experience of the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers is second to none in Whitehall.
New labour actually say very little, would blue labour Newer labour or what ever do for people at the very bottom, OK lets just say the rejects of society, in the past social housing was the life blood for these people Income support and social housing.
If Thatcherism resembled the Man from Del Monte, forever saying no, then New Labour has been more like the old TSB, the bank that liked to say yes: Thatcherism upset too many interest groups, but New Labour has shied away from the tough decisions.
Labour's most successful leader said that he wanted to take on «the new populism of left and right which exploits the anger and drives the world apart».
David Blunkett, the former New Labour home secretary, says the debate so far has already established the need for «time to do this properly».
A new report from the CMI (Chartered Management Institute) has found that despite Westminster's preoccupation with immigration only 4 % of managers say limiting the movement of labour across the EU is a priority for them.
- He confirmed discussing the looming Iraq War with Tony Blair in March 2003, but says he only met the New Labour leader two or three times a year, on average.
Embattled UK opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will stand in any new party leadership election amid calls for his resignation in light of the referendum result.
It might even be said that some of New Labour's constitutional revisions in the late 1990s had roots in Liberal Party discontent.
After Nick Clegg said «in words of one syllable» that the Human Rights Act «is here to stay», home secretary Theresa May responded this week by saying she'd like to see the New Labour legislation scrapped.
Alistair Campbell once said of the New Labour government «we don't do God», and there remains strong reasons why the current government should continue to abide by this principle.
Announcing his new - look team, Corbyn said: «I'm pleased to announce appointments to Labour's shadow cabinet.
«The next Labour government will ensure the minimum wage is properly enforced, including by giving local authorities new powers, and would set a more ambitious target with an # 8 minimum wage where its value has been eroded and undermined in recent years,» Murray says.
His predecessor in No 11, New Labour chancellor Alistair Darling, said that Osborne would reflect «in his quieter moments» that wrongdoing was taking place across the world, rather than just in Britain.
And it is those experiences, he says, which makes him «so concerned about the state of the Labour Party now and so worried for Labour MPs and what's being said and done to them, including online in new ways unthought of 30 years ago, in their constituencies.
Stuart Bruce, who helped to run Andy Burnham's 2010 Labour leadership campaign, also said that the new strategy «makes the edstone look sane».
In the messages, Jeremy Corbyn promised a «framework for a new settlement with business» and said Labour was «setting out the path to a better alternative that's about good intervention».
After all, your luck would really, really be in if your political opponents had declared the death of New Labour, vacated the centre - ground of British politics, abandoned Middle England and all the rest of the things you have all been saying over the last 48 hours.
Moreover, if the task of New Labour was actually, as Blair said it was, one of «developing human potential», then any improvement is also epiphenomenal and credit can not be claimed.
All those tired old New Labour figures came out the woodwork saying they'd been right all along and Ed Miliband was punished for being too left wing.
Shadow Home Office minister David Hanson said that Labour would consider supporting May's proposals but said they would need longer to consider the impact of any new legislation.
either substantiated or withdrawn your accusation against Liberal Democrat negotiators that they lied in saying that New Labour were intransigent on three key points.
Oldham byelection win lifts Labour leader's confidence, while shadow chancellor McDonnell says MPs should «follow new politics»
A serving Labour minister with a future stands up and says managerialism and triangulation are bad, New Labour is basically over, that Labour needs to be a movement again — gives tentative respect to the Iraq war marches, and says more public service reform and tax credits won't solve the challenges of a liveable decent society.
Announcing the timetable for the election, Ms Harman said: «Our challenge now is to use this time to listen and learn, to elect a new leader and deputy leader who will rebuild the Labour party in order to take the fight to this Tory government and to stand up for Britain.»
Lots of stuff about the centre ground of politics and the «squeezed middle», which says to me he's going for the same few thousand swing voters that Blair and New Labour did, and forget about the rest of us.
Hunt, who will call for a new focus by Labour on taxing unearned wealth, including an annual tax on property values levied on owners to replace the «unfair and outdated» council tax, will also say that both New Labour and Ed Miliband's Labour failed to make an effective case against inequalinew focus by Labour on taxing unearned wealth, including an annual tax on property values levied on owners to replace the «unfair and outdated» council tax, will also say that both New Labour and Ed Miliband's Labour failed to make an effective case against inequaliNew Labour and Ed Miliband's Labour failed to make an effective case against inequality.
We may learn little if, before anybody has properly studied this complex election, everybody just says what they thought already, repeating their favourite leftist or New Labour mantras, about losing C2s over immigration, or failing to inspire with Labour values.
He described the prospect as «new territory», but declined to say whether he would co-operate with Labour or the Conservatives.
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