Sentences with phrase «thinktank progress»

Peer to concentrate on charitable causes as Labour thinktank Progress says it will turn to members to make up its shortfall

The thinktank Progress urges the new Labour leader to set out an agenda which is «post-Blair, not anti-Blair, building on the achievements of the past decade, not running away from them».

Later today General Sir Richard Dannatt, chief of the general staff, will tell centre - left thinktank Progress that he believes the armed forces should be «the very epitome of the welfare state».

Not exact matches

We analyse Blair's speech to the centre - left Progress thinktank and conclude that Blair's biggest legacy is a style of political language which has made obfuscation easier and political vision harder.

Osborne's boasts that impressive progress has been made ahead of the review were played down by Tony Dolphin, the chief economist of centre - left thinktank IPPR.

At a packed rally hosted by the Progress thinktank, Ms Blears also renewed her implicit criticism of Gordon Brown originally made to the Independent on Sunday, in which she said the prime minister needed to demonstrate more «emotional intelligence».

In a keynote speech to Progress, the Blairite thinktank, the business secretary said the government recognised the need to «prioritise and economise» once Britain emerges from recession, but would do so while protecting frontline services.

It is expected to take place on Monday and will include a speech to a Washington thinktank the Centre for American Progress highlighting the confluence in Labour and Democrat thinking about the broken link between economic growth and shared prosperity.

McCluskey, dismissing Progress as an organisation whose ideas were locked in the past, said he was relaxed about defeating the thinktank in arguments and that the furore was due to the «amount of money being ploughed in» to the group.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville, one of Tony Blair's biggest champions and a major donor to the Labour party until Miliband took over the leadership reins, is the biggest funder to the thinktank since Progress was set up in 1996.

Congress can override the president if the House of Representatives and Senate both pass joint - resolutions — a kind of formal statement — as thinktank the Centre for American Progress and blog Climate Progress point out.

Blame their thinktanks for this lack of progress and rather significant failure to participate in the SCC debate with any quantitative input.

Thanks to the lobbying work of the coal and oil companies, and the vast army of thinktanks, PR consultants and astroturfers they have sponsored, thanks too to the domination of the airwaves by loony right shock jocks, the debate over issues like this has become so mad that any progress at all is little short of a miracle.

Via Joe Romm at Climate Progress this report by Thomas Sterner and Martin Persson from the leading US environmental thinktank, Resources for the Future *, endorsing the key conclusions of the Stern Review.