Sentences with phrase «under labour»

But under Labour, between 1997 and 2010, only 226 were sold.

Last week, I wrote that the Government is currently on track to haul back the State's share of the economy from the ruinous 47.7 per cent of national income it reached under Labour to 39.5 per cent within five years.

First, voters have apparently come to the view that the increase in spending on public services under Labour should come to a halt.

The Conservatives point to emails showing that the Department of Health under Labour tried to stop details emerging of a hospital scandal involving higher - than - normal death rates relating to relate to Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

, «No need to work under Labour!»

The Department of Health under Labour tried to stop details emerging of a hospital scandal involving higher - than - normal death rates, emails have revealed.

DC should tell the public about the 3 million unemployed that is looming, the dire state of the economy under labour and the huge debt that we are all in.

Emails released by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) watchdog under freedom of information laws showed that the Department of Health under Labour tried to stop details emerging of a hospital scandal involving higher - than - normal death rates.

New email data showing the Department of Health under the Labour government attempted to stop details emerging of a hospital scandal makes Andy Burnham's position as Shadow Health Secretary «untenable», according to the Tory MP who instigated the release of the details.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he was «surprised» that Mr Burnham wanted to mention events at Tameside, as the hospital had «high death rates for eight years under Labour» and the then - Government «ignored warnings».

In his first major intervention in the election campaign, Brown said May's policies would reverse the progress made in tackling poverty under Labour and leave the country more «economically divided and socially polarised than any other prime minister in living memory».

Under Labour's plans, people with homes worth between # 2m and # 3m would pay about # 3,000 a year.

Our leaders should have been working together to ensure that whilst the going was good under a Labour government, they prepared for the future should the situation change.

«They are crushed by caution because this is difficult and they are worried about saying people will pay more tax under Labour,» Lamb said.

Here is a breakdown of what email data showing the Department of Health under the Labour government attempted to stop details emerging of a hospital scandal contained:

He asks Byrne to accept that the Office for Budget Responsibility says the rich will pay more than under Labour.

Labour should dispel the Tory lie that Public Spending was high under Labour — in fact it was * higher * under Thatcher / Major than Blair / Brown.

Gove told MPs that «social mobility went backwards under Labour.»

Under Labour in Wales the NHS has fallen below the standards set in England; waiting lists have doubled, patients are denied choice in where and when they are treated and the NHS is bloated with bureaucracy.

It was launched in 1984 (surprise, surprise) but under Labour every day felt like no smoking day so the event lost much of its impact.

«After twelve years of disappointment under a Labour Government people know the only way to see Britain's railways improve is through a change of Government.

Sorry, could have pointed out that in 2000, virtually entirely as a result of Tories we were 3 / 4/5 in the international education league tables and under Labour we are now 13/14/15.

Should he do so, the Tories will be able to argue that the looming public service cuts — cuts that the IFS already calls «inconceivably» deep — would have to be deeper still under a Labour government, since it would squander more resources on bigger benefit cheques.

Speaking to a conference organised by Reform on the decline of maths and science teaching Michael Gove will highlight the importance of science to economic growth and Britain's failure under Labour to prepare for competition from China and India.

Under the Labour government of Tony Blair, average Council Tax rates rose dramatically above inflation, [17][18] creating a degree of resentment by residents.

An in / out referendum on EU membership under a Labour government is «frankly unlikely», the shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander has said.

Given the succession of funding scandals under the Labour Government, there is a strong case for a comprehensive cap on donations - covering individuals, companies and trade unions.

The Navy especially has suffered drastic cuts under the labour government and let us not forget we are a Island Nation and the last «solo» war we waged in the Falklands was primarily only possilbe because we had a large and powerful navy.

That is the tradition of a shadow Education Minister popping up to tell is that the increased number of passes and the higher proportion of students getting top marks was because under Labour the exams were getting easier.

Borrowers would see their interest capped so that no - one pays back more than twice the amount of their original loan under a Labour Government, the shadow chancellor has announced.

«But many British taxpayers would be astonished to learn that we are still giving aid to China — and that last year, under Labour, China received in aid from the British taxpayer # 38 million.

In our research, we studied 106 schools that converted from state - maintained secondaries to academies under the Labour government.

Yet under Labour the gap between rich and poor has grown.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

Ten months later he repeated this position in spades in a shadow cabinet meeting: «the shadow chancellor bluntly warned colleagues that even under a Labour government there would have to be serious cuts», perhaps referring to the Coalition's # 30 billion «hit list» being drawn up in the treasury.

Even worse, as Balls» comments confirm, many of those cuts will actually deepen under Labour.

«We must be upfront with the British people that under Labour there would have been cuts and that — on spending, pay and pensions — there will be difficult decisions in the future from which we will not flinch,» Balls said in his conference speech today.

The issue of pre-charge detention became a symbolic battle between civil liberties activists and the Home Office under Labour, with many observers noting that the government had effectively scrapped habeas corpus, considered by many constitutional historians to be the foundation of a free society.

«Under Labour the cost of motoring has actually fallen, while the cost of using the trains has gone through the roof,» Mr Baker said.

Trade unions have been making their presence felt on the British political agenda today, as Peter Mandelson took the first steps to outline public sector cuts under Labour.

«A price freeze is workable and it will happen under a Labour government.»

«If you look at the changes we are making to the NHS - extending foundation trusts, opening up the supply of healthcare, GP commissioning and improving patient choice - these are all changes that are grinding to a slow and tortuous halt under Labour,» he said.

I am clear that under Labour, Britain will not be part of an inexorable drive to an ever closer union.

«If people want to know what went wrong under Labour, they only have to look at the Mid Staffs hospital.»

In conjunction with his visit, Downing Street issued a statement detailing the progress made in the NHS under Labour, including a fall in waiting times, and expansion of choice and the growth of foundation trusts.

Conservative leader Michael Howard said today that 69 - year - old pensioner Margaret Dixon's struggle to get an operation on the NHS showed how the health service was failing thousands of families under Labour.

Michael Winter, barred from running for a third term under Labour rules, announced he was forming a new party earlier this month, along with two other councillors, and sacked the rest of his cabinet.

The number of school days pupils are absent for has decreased under Labour, but there seems to have been little success in reducing truancy.

George Osborne listened - to his credit - and petrol is now 10p per litre cheaper than it would have been under Labour's plans.

Section 202 was enacted under the Labour government.