Sentences with phrase «under a reforming labour»

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Tang Hui and Zhao Meifu, two women detained separately under China's re-education through labour system, have become so well known in China that they helped prompt calls for reforming the RETL system.

Yet, the critics of Labour's record on back - to - work benefits are partly right: Britain under Labour should indeed have gone faster and further on welfare reform.

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

He condemned «predatory capitalism», with calls for limits to executive pay and controls on the excesses of the financial industry; under his leadership, he said, Labour would reform capitalism, building what he called «responsible capitalism».

Labour MP Paul Farrelly, who is likely to lose his seat under the reforms, said Clegg should never have gone along with the plans.

In those five years, industrial relations law began to be transformed and that reform continued under Labour's Tony Blair.

Our party has a great tradition of social reform but we have sometimes hid our light under a bushel and allowed Labour to claim a monopoly of the moral high ground.

I do not accept your perspective on my analysis as it did not mention the New Labour Project, nor does it show any knowledge of the Labour Reform Group and Save the Labour Party organisations which were in struggle against New Labour under Blair, and of which I was an active member.

Under the Ashdown formula, the Liberal Democrats have worked with Labour on areas of mutual interest, such as constitutional reform, but have opposed the Government in other areas such as spending on health and education and preparation for the euro.

Thousands of children are no longer locked up as they were under Labour, thanks to our family immigration reforms

I am under no illusions about the Labour Party, their current response is to oppose the «severity» of the coalitions reforms and the «pace» of cuts, rather than the concept of privatising and slashing public services.

David Cameron has condemned the pace of public service reform under Labour as «frenetic» and «often contradictory» - but said he would keep most of the changes.

Labour promised to reform the House of Lords when it came to power in 1997, and under the House of Lords Act 1999 swept away the majority of the hereditary peers and replaced them with political nominees.

When initial explorations into voting reform were last made by the late Roy Jenkins, it was shown that, had the 1997 election been held under the alternative vote system, Labour's already huge majority would have gone up from 179 to 245.

Her lead role on the health portfolio will be taken over by Lord Hunt, a former minister in several departments under the previous Labour government, now shadow deputy leader of the upper house and Labour's spokesman on Lords reform.

Paul Brand and guests discuss the benefit reform that's under fire from Labour.

But a return of a majority Labour government under Gordon Brown would not provide a strong enough guarantee of reform.

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.

When Labour re-entered government in 1964, Bacon became a Minister of State at the Home Office, remaining until 1967, and served under Frank Soskice and Roy Jenkins during a period when liberalising reforms were introduced.

In a few minutes time, Ed Miliband is to introduce to Labour MPs Liam Byrne, who will oversee policy review, and report to the National Policy Forum, and the Party Reform Taskforce under Peter Hain who will report to National Executive by next summer in time for rule changes at next year's party conference.

Today, Ed Miliband will set out a series of bold reforms to Labour's relationship with its affiliated trade unions, in a bid to draw a line under the disastrous fallout from the botched Falkirk selection process.

The sum is # 2m more than initial estimates of what Labour would lose from the reforms brought in by the Conservatives under the trade union bill.

Utter rubbish, Labour did quite well in the Blair years under FPTP when they had an electable leader, now it has a poor leader the system will punish it, trying to introduce electoral reform will not help it sneak through the back door, indeed on present polling a Tory - UKIP deal would be just as likely as a Labour - LD - SNP - Green one!

But the relationship cooled under Charles Kennedy perhaps because of Labour's seeming lack of enthusiasm for reforming the voting system, long the objective of the third party.

As one senior Labour figure declared, a Lib - Lab agreement would be «the ultimate fulfilment of the New Labour mission»: Tony Blair's abortive project to overcome the century - old Labour - Liberal schism under a reformed electoral system.

Under Labour, first Tessa Jowell then James Purnell and then Andy Burnham, a keen football fan who served on the earlier Football Taskforce, tried to make headway on the issue of FA reform but made little progress.

His utterances in a pamphlet for the Howard League for Penal Reform were true to form: while he was chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel for three years under the Labour government criticisms of going soft on crime were rife.

The current redundancy model could be reformed under Labour who are offering a review of existing arrangements that are often found to be unclear by around 50 % of employers.

With the new Saskatchewan Employment Act, pending federal labour law reforms, Alberta's Bill 4 amending who has the right to strike and Ontario legislation under review, the labour relations world appears to be filled with change — and yet for practitioners many of these changes seem familiar.

It's fair to say that employers across Ontario were prepared for the provincial government to introduce at least some labour reforms as part of the Changing Workplaces Review, which put everything from the province's employment standards to human rights legislation under the microscope.

Ontario's labour laws are expected to soon be reformed by the current Liberal government under Premier Kathleen Wynne.