Sentences with phrase «since new labour»

KC says that a culture of «control freakery» was being introduced to Westminster on a wide scale since New Labour came in.

But they are not a risk to the working class, since New labour intend to become the New Thatcherite party.

Not exact matches

«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.

Defeat at home to Burnley in the Carling Cup was humiliating, while the Blues have been labouring in the Premier League since the turn of the new year.

Two years since Corbyn became Labour leader, the top lobbying consultancies remain dominated by Tories and characters closely associated with the New Labour years.

The MP is an ardent New Labour supporter with a majority of nearly 12,000 and has served since the 1999 by - election.

Even before the rush to print since the general election, several New Labour leaders had put out their versions, but they have been overshadowed by the more recent tomes - notably Tony Blair's A Journey and Peter Mandelson's The Third Man.

A Labour councillor for New Cross ward since 2014, she came third in the race to be Labour's candidate for Lewisham mayor after running as the only BME and only female candidate.

Labour is enjoying its strongest polling since Gordon Brown's honeymoon, as a new survey shows Conservative voters are growing less likely to vote at the next election.

Since November I have been working on a new website which aims to be the place on the web where Labour minded people can go, as our slogan puts it, to «share news, views and have a laugh».

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

New Labour's first term did more to reform the British state than any government since 1911.

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It has been 18 months since Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as leader of the Labour party, promising «a new kind of politics».

Since leaving Labour, I have made quite a lot of new friends who have asked me what took me so long to resign.

He has since weighed into the debate again this week warning against any shift away from New Labour.

Moreover, a third (31.4 %) of the new members are not completely new to the party, since they had been Labour members in the past.

Labour strategists wanted to energise voters who had drifted away from the party since 1997's New Labour landslide.

The average age of Labour Party members is generally thought to be around 52 although a recent estimate suggested that the influx of new members since the general election has seen that fall to 42.

LibDem membership passes 80,000 — 1000 + new since May's speech, half since Labour confirmed they'll vote to trigger article 50 come what may

Even by its own limited standards Labour's move to the Right failed, since the endless attempt to triangulate in search of the «floating voter» erodes trust and alienates Labour's base; 5 million lost voters over the New Labour years is testament to that.

When asked about whether the Conservatives should match Labour's «big strides» on increasing women's representation through all - women shortlists, Morgan - in her first comments on the issue since taking on her new job - did not rule the option out.

A Labour peer since 1978, Lord Taylor of Blackburn was described in 2007 as «the primary conduit between the defence industry and New Labour.

That it was not enthusiasm for New Labour which produced the landslide in seats is further confirmed by the turnout — overall the smallest since 1935 with nine out of ten of the lowest turnouts in safe Labour seats.

During their first Commons encounter since the reshuffle, the new Welsh Secretary and his Labour shadow agreed to use the opportunity of the reshuffle to make «a fresh start» in relations between Welsh and UK Governments.

New Labour has already jettisoned 5 million votes since 1997 and looks set to jettison more, mine included.

In his only clear nod to the LibDems on PR he promised a full report on the success of the new voting methods used since Labour came to power.

According to a new Populus poll, Labour was one point ahead of the Conservatives on 38 per cent, a rise of one point since September.

And, while Ukip did indeed attract more former Labour voters during the later New Labour years, they have won a substantially higher proportion of Tory voters since the coalition came to power.

Brown's vision of a «skills - based meritocracy» has been central to New Labour since its inception, yet inequality of wealth and income have gone up.

The Labour leader needs to remind himself of this fact and also bear in mind that he can't afford to lose his bloc of ex-Lib Dem voters, who have ensured his party has had a poll lead since 2010 and who won't be keen on an opposition that brings back the nasty «British jobs for British workers» rhetoric of the New Labour days.

Don't Labour [and Polly Toynbee] understand the irony of bleating for another windfall tax, at the same time that it was announced that the New Deal has cost # 3.6 bn, and yet youth unemployment has actually risen since 1997.

The YouGov poll for the Times found that the one - time New Labour stars have since become major electoral turn - offs for the party.

Gordon says social mobility is his new priority, yet the Labour Party has blocked council house sales, the single greatest boon to social mobility since free education for all.

Lord Layard, often cited as the origin of many New Labour economic policies such as the «New Deal», has since devoted his attention to «happiness economics».

It's been over twenty - four hours since the one - time boy wonder of the new Labour movement announced his intention to stand down from Parliamentary politics and head off across the pond.

But New Labour was last elected by the lowest percentage (22 %) of those eligible to vote since the 1940s and the Iraq fiasco was launched on the back of just such positive framing.

Labour's drive to register new voters ahead of the election has not had an impact in other targets - the number of voters registered in Newcastle - under - Lyme, a key Tory target, has actually fallen by more than 2,000 since 2015.

Since then, Jim Murphy, Labour's new Scottish leader, has fought pugnaciously to revive the party's fortunes, with bold new policies (such as promising to hire 1,000 more nurses from the proceeds of the UK - wide Mansion tax, which very few Scots will pay).

Angus Robertson said that with Labour searching for a new leader since Ed Miliband's resignation, the SNP will be offering a strong voice for people across the UK and not just for Scotland.

Only 44 % of those who have been members since before Ed Miliband became leader in 2010 gave their first preference to Labour's new leader.

In his biggest speech on Brexit since the referendum, the Labour leader made clear he is ready to sacrifice the UK's ability to strike new trade deals in return for staying in an EU customs union.

Since the general election, the UK Labour Party has put New Labour behind it, as a result of the Leadership election campaign and Ed's victory.

Debates have since raged about how to effectively reduce the state, to move on from a fictional New Labour «statist» approach, and to focus on concepts of community instead; Blue Labour is one prominent example.

While this is dwarfed by the nearly 200,000 new members who have joined since May 2015, it suggests that there are dissatisfied natural Labour supporters who could make up the nucleus of a new party.

Since 1900, only one new party, that would be Labour, has become a governing party of the UK.

Her backing from Labour supporters remains solid in the new poll — at 37 per cent — and she has led the race since the series of polls began.

A qualified teacher, Morgan went on to play an important role in New Labour's education programme and has since spent three years as Chair of Ofsted.

Ever since they were surprised by Ed's victory, the New Labour continuity brigade seem to have decided to carry on pretending nothing has changed, and maybe waiting for Ed to make a mistake.

Its «dossier» says the party has added up the spending commitments made by Labour since 2015, from scrapping the benefits cap to supporting the introduction of 10,000 new police officers.