However, Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart of the Centre for British Politics at the University of Nottingham have a new post up on the NottsPolitics blog, which
shows more Labour MPs have defied the whip than have Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs.
Ed Miliband is under increasing pressure to back an in / out referendum on Britain's EU membership, after a survey
showed more Labour supporters are in favour of a vote on Europe than against it.
Not exact matches
Social media is fuelling a fundamental shift in
labour relations and corporate communications, and is
showing it can do
more than just complicate negotiations — it can affect control of major business announcements like divestments, layoffs, mergers and acquisitions.
The
Labour leader stated the OBR forecast
showed Mr Osborne's to eradicate the deficit fully was nothing much
more than an extremist ideological experiment that would demolish community solutions, insisting that borrowing was the only liable way to fund roadways and property developing schemes with no hitting the NHS.
Even
more significant, the strong expansion of the
labour force and employment as
shown by the (separate) household survey in February and March (averaging 388,000 per month) kept the unemployment rate at 5.0 % in March.
Economic data in the United States have been a little
more positive,
showing, among other things, stronger - than - expected GDP growth in the second quarter, improvements in business sentiment, a rise in capital goods orders and a small pick - up in industrial production in the past couple of months, though the performance of the
labour market has so far remained disappointing.
Advanced Dynamics Ltd, one of the leading filling and labelling systems suppliers in the UK, is expanding its presence at the PPMA Exhibition to
show off even
more machinery that can help boost production and reduce
labour costs.
First time mothers struggle to avoid an intervention in
labour Figures
show a lack of support nationally for mothers planning vaginal birthsafter Caesareans The HSE has released detailed figures of birth statistics from Ireland's 19 public maternity units for... Read
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Evidence
shows us that sweeps are
more likely to work if your cervix is favourable for
labour already.
Most of these figures are over 65 %
showing that
more than half of the mothers who
laboured gave birth vaginally.
TENS has not been
shown to be effective during the active phase of
labour (when contractions get longer, stronger and
more frequent).
Neither the Conservatives nor
Labour have
shown any interest in reforming Britain's drug laws, although there are reports of a
more sympathetic response from David Cameron in recent months.
We also
show that the large electoral losses for the Social Democrats between 1994 and 1998 were much
more pronounced among outsiders: according to our estimates, a typical member of the
labour force became 18 percentage points less likely to support the Social Democrats if he was an outsider, but only 8.5 percentage points less likely to do so if he was an insider.
By making freedom their polestar,
labour republicans were able to
show that equal freedom was not just a matter of having
more opportunities for consumption, but also a matter of how we organize production.
It needs
more funding and if that comes from Unions or Non Doms...
Labour has in the years
shown us membership is not a priority but ensuring Unions funding is and the hot potato is that if the Tories win the next election and the argument is about funding the Tories may hit back and state union funding is illegal.
Shame you didn't also mention the recent IFS study which
showed that
Labour's benefit system has incentivised people to work less and have
more single - parent families.
Yet, she still went out of her way to
show that
Labour has never had an «open door» approach -
showing the many repressive immigration acts passed by her party as evidence — and praising her party's pledge to introduce 1000
more border guards than the Tories to stop «illegal migrants».
More is sometimes worse, wider is often shallower, incoherence usually brutalising and the alacrity with which
labour MPs snatch their own children form schools struggling with eight languages
shows that none of this is a hopelessly nebulous when its your own.
It is now for
Labour to
show that its future agenda has substantively
more to offer those seeking a fairer,
more equal and greener society.
Thursday's results
showed the limits of that strategy once
more, as
Labour struggled past the not - very - high bar set by Ed Miliband, and the Conservatives
showed stubborn support despite the horror of Windrush and near universal boredom with endless Brexit debates.
But scores that BES respondents gave on 0 (strongly dislike) to 10 (strongly like) scales for each of the parties
show that both Conservative and Liberal Democrat voters
more strongly prefer their own party over
Labour than they prefer
Labour over the SNP.
And perhaps we can also start to be
more aware of the persistence of social class in this country, where political leaders are drawn from a narrow social elite and where birth cohort evidence
shows that parental background has a huge influence on academic attainment, health and
labour - market opportunities.
Taking the most recent poll published by each pollster in the last week, we calculate the proportion
showing a Conservative lead over
Labour of
more than 6 points as the pseudo-probability of a Conservative majority, but we allow polls with exactly a 6 point lead to contribute a 0.5 to the average.
Despite talk of a surprise win for Cooper it is still looking far
more likely that Jeremy Corbyn will emerge as the next leader of the
Labour party with all the polls still
showing him well ahead.
Whichever way you «spin'the figures Sunder; it's still
shows many (& I mean many)
more Labour pigs with their snouts in the trough than Tory pigs, now doesn't it.
There is frustration among some
Labour policy leaders at Miliband's reluctance to embrace
more of the report, designed to
show how the left set out a redistributionist agenda in the post-crash world.
And
more importantly, the global financial crisis also
showed that
Labour needed to rethink its embrace of neoliberalism.
Table 1
shows the dramatic growth in Facebook likes for Jeremy Corbyn, up by
more than 35 %, and the
Labour Party, up 71 %, during the short campaign.
After the Tory government had wrapped up its sex education policy, touchy - feely New
Labour showed up - and decided even
more was needed.
A Populus poll for the Times
showed a
more modest four - point lead for
Labour, with the opposition on 38 % (down one) and the main governing party on 34 % (down three).
I said the official feedback from
Labour party call centre
showed that Tom Watson was being named probably even
more frequently than Gordon as the instigator.
These figures not only reinforce the picture of
Labour suffering similarly if not
more than the Tories from UKIP, but they also
show an (albeit smaller) impact on the Liberal Democrats.
To coincide with Corbyn's visit,
Labour publicised NHS statistics it said
showed that in the year since May became prime minister,
more than 2.5 million people had waited
more than four hours to be seen at an A&E department, and 280,000
more people were on treatment waiting lists.
New study of public attitudes to poverty
shows that
more than in any other constituency, solidarity among
Labour voters with poor is diminishing
It's probably
more a case of a desire to be led from the front, for him to deploy against the Government the ruthlessness he
showed by denying Ed Balls the shadow Chancellor's post and ousting Nick Brown as
Labour's chief whip.
Peter Kellner's explanation, that it
shows exactly what it appears to: Ken used to be
more popular than
Labour but isn't anymore, seems perfectly feasible.
Of course, all polls are subject to a margin of error so with our polls
showing a
Labour lead of around 5 points on average, these figures aren't necessarily any
more meaningful than the narrow 2 point
Labour lead one of our polls recorded this week.
«What we've
shown is that Jeremy's message has as much appeal to residents of Crawley as it has to people in
more traditional
Labour areas.»
If we can
show people that the tax rate ultimately means they end up paying
more, we can put
Labour on the wrong side of the debate; ideologically pursuing class warfare despite the damage it does to the economy.
Breaking down 2010 Liberal Democrat voters by how much attention they pay to politics though
shows a fascinating split: 2010 Lib Dem voters who paid a lot of attention to politics were
more likely to switch to
Labour; people who voted Lib Dem in 2010 but who paid little attention to politics were
more likely to split to the Conservatives.
Polling has
shown that people in seats with a Lib Dem MP had far
more trust in their representative, than those in seats with Tory or
Labour MPs
Most opinion polls had
shown Labour comfortably ahead of the Tories for
more than a year before Thatcher's resignation, with the fall in Tory support blamed largely on her introduction of the unpopular poll tax, combined with the fact that the economy was sliding into recession at the time.
Indeed, the context in which they were written
shows why it would be
more of a shock if such memos had not been composed as
Labour's long internal battle reached a dénouement.
It's worth noting that although the Conservatives outspent the
Labour party at the general election, the figures
show that
Labour continued its streak (from 2010 onwards) of raising — and spending —
more money for the financial year overall (# 51,153,000 to # 41,887,000).
More than 100 backbench
Labour MPs are also thought to oppose the plan creating the potential for a significant showdown between Gordon Brown and his own party at a time when the polls
show that many voters think
Labour would be better off with a new leader.
Liberal Democrat voters
show more support than
Labour or Tory voters towards Assange throughout the poll.
Internal party documents
show that
Labour lost
more than 5,000 members in just one week last month amid concerns about the party's approach to the Brexit process.
More reassuringly for
Labour HQ, YouGov's monthly averages for the past year plus an average of the last 15 polls for June
showed the party was increasing the lead.
I think is fairly described as a very robust
Labour tribalist from a trade union organiser background (I would place him very much on the right of the party, though you may well approve of his rebelling on ID cards, 90 days detention, the 10p tax rate and other
more left / liberal rebellions, which
shows he is not easily pigeonholed).
Labour showed marginally
more spine on Wednesday night on an amendment to protect the rights of EU nationals in the UK, including their right to stay in the country no matter what.