Sentences with phrase «thing labour needs»

The most important thing Labour needs to do in opposition is to restore the idea that it can be responsible with taxpayers» money.

The last thing Labour needs is for her to be able to paint herself as an anti-establishment figure — a person who represents the British people, but also someone thwarted by unscrupulous politicians.

JON SOPEL: Yeah, you've said the last thing Labour needs right now is to cut itself adrift from the organisations which more than any other, connect it with its disillusioned core vote.

Polly Toynbee: The interventions of Blair and Mandelson are the last thing Labour needs as it considers its next leader and future path

«The last thing Labour needs is a manufactured leadership row of its own in the midst of this crisis and we call upon all Labour MPs not to engage in any such indulgence.»

Sunder is right in saying the last thing Labour needs is a «red Guido».

Not exact matches

The first point is that even when employers choose to purchase machines instead of hiring employees, that needn't be a bad thing socially, nor bad for labour as a group.

Slave labour, one milliard persons in unvoluntary hunger, life - saving medicine not available where needed too, polluted air and water, murders,...; what does any doctrine of science say about these things?

Although Christ was filled with the form of God and rich in all good things, so that he needed no work and suffering to make him righteous and saved (for he had all this eternally), yet he was not puffed up by them and did not exalt himself above us and assume power over us, although he could rightly have done so; but, on the contrary, he so lived, laboured, worked, suffered, and died that he might be like other men and in fashion and in actions be nothing else than a man, just as if he had need of all these things and had nothing of the form of God.

Your hospital bag needs to contain all the things you will need for the duration of your stay, so the items you might want in labour, such as lip balm, a comfy over sized t - shirt, your TENS machine and clothes and toiletries for after the birth.

What you will need to include is your name, your labor partner's name, your doctor's name, your doula's name (if you have one), and your baby's name (if decided already), your due date, things you would like during labour i.e. if you would like ice chips for nourishment or want to be coached when it's time to push, what you would like when it comes to pain relief, i.e. if you want an epidural or not, things that you would like to happen straight after the birth, i.e. your partner to cut the cord, if you want to hold the baby straight away or after they've been cleaned up, special requests if you need to have a C - section, concerns and fears and anything else.

But the greatest thing was that eventually on my third birth, I had the labour and birth that I truly wanted, and needed, and that was all down to completing this course.

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

I agree that the redistributive settlement needs to be embedded within society's concept of how things work rather than seen as after - the - fact «meddling» in outcomes, but I think this is incompatible with a government that very clearly is meddling in all kinds of things, as New Labour did.

We need Jeremy to do the right thing for the party, for the country and for people who most need a Labour government.

Labour, which will have been in power for 12 years by this May, can not sell itself on a concept of «change»: right now, it's only real narrative is that the last thing Britain needs to do is change its government.

Labour doesn't even need to establish a constituency of support to do these things - Labour has institutional links with the union and cooperative movements, a majority in the Commons, and has just bailed out British capitalism.

Therefore New Labour needs to talk less about clever theoretical things such as policy (because women have very small brains) and appeal rather more to their hearts (because women, though dumb as toast, do have very large hearts).

No, what struck me about my year at the heart of New Labour, was the dedication of my colleagues, and the endless checklist of things we needed to complete to ensure victory.

To succeed in becoming a part of the centre - left that can inspire its membership and gain public support Labour needs combine two things: being more ideologically rooted in clear values and principles with being decisively more pluralist and open in the way it does politics.

The last thing next generation Labour needs is to have the Blairite and Brownite labels to be inherited down the generations.

However, if Labour is to start winning over the doubters, it needs to take the initiative on these things, rather than indulge in wishful thinking about a front - loaded political deal.

Labour have to be prepared for second best: we need to try to get the Tories out of government and we should be prepared to sacrifice some things to do that if we need to.

Sensible people in the Labour party need to do three things: embrace boundary changes; take the argument to Corbyn; and pick a champion.

And we need to organise in the communities we seek to represent so voters know that the Labour party exists to help them change the things that matter to them.

«I hope all these little things add up to something material, but it doesn't seem like the comprehensive plan for jobs and growth that the country needs,» said Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury.

Kirsty Williams AM, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, said: «Labour need to realise that cigarettes and e-cigs are not the same thing, do not have the same implications on public health, and should not be lumped together when considering bans in public places.

said: «For your sake, but most importantly the sake of the people that need a Labour government, you're a decent man - do the decent thing.»

For Labour to turn things around soon they would need to be able to come up with answers on the key issues, a view voiced by Nick Clegg, who says: «The Labour leadership continue to complain about the coalition's approach, but without providing any credible alternative.

One key thing that kept Labour's internal left more or less together was the sheer need to stay united in order to be represented on internal ballots.

«They derailed the economy and if they had the chance, they'd do it all over again,» he politely informed the hall, «The last thing Britain needs is a Labour majority.»

That said, the interest in Labour in things like community organizing can be seen as an acknowledgment that «something needs to be done» to change this.

I hope to do three things: first, look at the value and the challenges that immigration has brought and continues to bring to the UK; second, lay out where I think the Government is getting hold of the wrong end of the stick; and third, suggest some areas that Labour believes need to be addressed in making migration work for everyone, especially in relation to the labour market, the EU, sham marriages and the push factors in international migrLabour believes need to be addressed in making migration work for everyone, especially in relation to the labour market, the EU, sham marriages and the push factors in international migrlabour market, the EU, sham marriages and the push factors in international migration.

The last thing the UK's centre - left wants and Labour needs, is an avuncular illiberal paternalist such as Ed Balls.

For this to change Labour needs several things to happen.

Labour needs to convince people it's economically competent enough to be trusted, certainly, but the thing that sets it apart is that it's seen as caring and fair.

Mr Campbell said a main flaw of Mr Brown was his need for «truly horrible people to be around him, doing truly horrible things in politics» which gave Labour a bad name.

These are people that need to be properly engaged with if Labour has any ambitions of securing a majority however properly engaging and pandering to their views when wrong or speaking about labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same Labour has any ambitions of securing a majority however properly engaging and pandering to their views when wrong or speaking about labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same thing.

Normally the thing we look at with boundary changes is what the party - partisan effect is, how the new boundaries would change the sort of swing that Labour need to win a general election.

We won't see anything as dramatic this time around, but Labour badly needs to put things back together before Welsh assembly elections next year.

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

And that's what we are hoping for, that's what the British people need if they could only examine those particular policies that Labour have put forward then I think things will begin to change.»

Who would set out a vision based on what the country didn't need and how Labour wouldn't contribute to things getting better?

In one, Woolas's agent and former Labour councillor, Joseph Fitzpatrick emailed Woolas and Steven Green, the MP's campaign adviser, to say: «Things are not going as well as I had hoped... we need to think about our first attack leaflet.»

The Labour party has brought great social advancement to this country, things that you just wouldn't get from the Conservative party (gay marriage, minimum wage e.t.c) The Conservative party needs the change that David Cameron has brought to it.

We need to attack on all fronts but be consistent in the message of the attack that is what Labour have learnt i.e you repeat things often enough people will believe them.

Regardless of how you feel about the Tories» NHS reforms the fact that they've been in power for most of the period since 1948 without ever looking like abolishing it, and in any case are now mostly doing things that the last Labour government also did when in power, means an election pitch which relies on convincing voters that if the Tories remain in office they'll actually destroy the NHS is simply not plausible to the sort of people Labour needs to win over.

If Labour are going to win we need to do two things.

He added: «We need a government that lasts which is why we believe, in the light of the state of talks with the Conservative Party, the only responsible thing to do is to open discussions with the Labour Party to secure a stable partnership agreement.

If it is to return to office in 2020, or perform well in local and Scottish elections next year, Labour needs to develop a clearer narrative on these things.