Sentences with phrase «with labour down»

It kept the lead at seven points, one more than the party had a week earlier, with Labour down one point.

In the first poll on the impact of the debate on the state of the parties, a ComRes survey for ITN found the Lib Dems at 24 %, up 3 % on a similar poll two days earlier, with Labour down 1 % on 28 % and the Conservatives unchanged on 35 %.

The Conservatives were down by one seat, with Labour down by two.

But when asked how they would vote if Boris Johnson were their Conservative candidate, the margin extended to 29 points: the Tory share grew by ten points to 52 %, with Labour down five to 23 % and UKIP down three to 16 %.

Not exact matches

Update: It was revealed Thursday that the Ontario Ministry of Labour will begin cracking down on unpaid interns at magazines, starting with Toronto Life and The Walrus.

This financial picture, combined with the labour strife, has forced its share price below 90 cents, down from $ 1.10 in January and a tiny fraction of its value five years ago, when it traded at close to $ 20.

SEOUL, April 23 - General Motors Co's South Korean unit on Monday said it has reached a tentative wage deal with its labour union, meeting a key condition laid down by the U.S. automaker to prevent it filing for bankruptcy for the money - losing operation.

SEOUL, April 23 - General Motors» South Korean unit said that it has reached a tentative wage deal with its labour union on Monday, meeting a key condition laid down by the U.S. automaker to prevent it filing for bankruptcy for the loss - making operation.

Demand for labour has increased, with employment rising solidly over recent months and the unemployment rate continuing to trend down.

Diodorus writes that, «For as regards the magnitude of the deeds which he accomplished it is generally agreed that Heracles has been handed down as one who surpassed all men of whom memory from the beginning of time has brought down an account; consequently it is a difficult attainment to report each one of his deeds in a worthy manner and to present a record which shall be on a level with labours so great, the magnitude of which won for him the prize of immortality.»

Whilst I am in optimistic mood, I suppose I should be grateful that he has not yet got the hang of spitting out the various lurid - coloured medicines I coax down his throat from time to time and that he is still labouring under the illusion that I am some minor deity with the power to make all things right.

Despite high volumes, Australia's historically commodity - based markets have low margins, with high labour costs decreasing competitiveness and significant competition in saturated markets driving down prices.

Right now we do nt need him and he has had Much too Much success in suuny Madrid to come and labour in the cold soggy epl where «smaller» teams do nt roll over and die even when they are 0 - 4 down with 10 minutes to go especially when they play Arsenal.

With Spurs a goal down and labouring, Kane was thrown on to replace the struggling Emmanuel Adebayor.

That solitary win, a laboured 1 - 0 FA Cup victory against League Two side Plymouth, has been surrounded by draws and defeats, with the run reaching a nadir on Saturday as Jürgen Klopp's side went down to a shock 3 - 2 defeat to relegation - threatened Swansea...

Tonight it was three natural at any cost mothers, along with midwives insisting that epis slow down labour and increase the liklihood of instrumental deliveries.

I was encouraged to walk up and down to bring the baby down, I strolled in and out of my room had showers etc, watched the fair city omnibus, with my husband and midwife - at some stages I even forgot I was in labour as my midwife was so entertaining, she was a gem!

When I did query what was going on (having unfortunately gone along with some the bonkers instructions because it tallied slightly with what I had read — don't try and get a woman who has been in labour all night, is exhausted and wants to sleep to walk down a corridor lads, it sounds stupid and it is stupid) I was asked to move to the end of the room (the implication being I would be asked to leave if I asked any more questions).

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

I always get a surge of excitement when I'm paired with someone who wants to head down the path of an all natural labour, and I enjoy being the RN and the doula for my patient.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

With Liberal Democrats and Labour set to oppose the bill, it is certain to be voted down in the Commons unless he comes to a new deal with Nick ClWith Liberal Democrats and Labour set to oppose the bill, it is certain to be voted down in the Commons unless he comes to a new deal with Nick Clwith Nick Clegg.

When news of the email to Labour MPs emerged, my colleague at Left Foot Forward, Shamik Das, put together a picture of Hoon looking down the barrel of a gun and Hewitt giving a goofy smile with the dumb and dumber logo.

Hours after he was sworn in, Senator Omo - Agege who vied on the platform of Labour Party sat down with Vanguard to unveil his vision for the Delta Central Senatorial District.

I fully understand how the party has changed in a way that some of the grandee generation do not - perhaps because they haven't really been in touch with the Labour roots since Tony Blair stood down.»

The author revels in the details of the tale by noting how, having sent British newspapers into a frenzy, the Labour MP made it to Australia with two new identities and settled down in the suburbs of Melbourne, where «he applied to join the local jazz club».

Institutional preconditions are flexible labour markets, an education and training system with a strong emphasis on high level general education, companies with top down management enabling rapid movement of resources, and a sharp corporate governance system to enforce profitability.

Boundary changes have helped Labour ever so slightly, but with Mountford stepping down Labour don't have the incumbency factor to rely on.

In an interview with The Herald yesterday, the Witney MP acknowledged the Tories had «let down people in Scotland», saying the current choice for voters was between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, who are now running things, or the SNP.

Podemos, minus the Marxist language and with its most radical policies toned down for a centre - left Labour Party, may actually be a useful model for Labour.

New labour started to go down hill on Labours second term, but the Tories were in such a mess, now of course we know that labour had done deals about the leadership with that idiot Brown wanting to rule.

Rayner has now indicated that the answer to that question is a clear yes, with the shadow education secretary telling Nick Robinson that she is capable of being Labour leader - and would not let feminists down by saying otherwise.

«Looking at least from a top - down view, the state of play in Scotland remains bleak for Labour with the SNP's surge remaining firm since Survation's polling indicated crossover for the parties some months before the independence referendum,» chief executive Damian Lyons Lowe says.

However, his real fear, he said, was of a worst - case scenario with the Tories and the Lib Dems going into the next election with an even closer alliance — and Labour being «caught with its trousers down» again.

Labour has had a successful party conference, Ed Miliband made a powerful speech with a strong commanding narrative of Labour's objectives for government, but the only let - down was in the crucial area of economic policy.

Well done, Sunder, for not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...

Ed Miliband started off down this path, and I was hopeful that he would stick with it, and develop it further to convince the public that Labour had learnt and changed.

When the Tories got destroyed in 1997 (with more votes than Labour got in 2010) Tory activists didn't plan to force the elected government to back down from pursuing its agenda.

If he succeeds with the proposed changes, Ed Miliband will go down in history as the man who snatched Labour away from the unions in the interests of democracy.

This is the Achilles Heel of the Tory Party — one of their charges is about Labour being good with other peoples money but deep down they know they legally nick working peoples money and they know they are the Party of Exploitation!

The SNP were credited with 49 % of the vote, up three points on the company's previous poll conducted at the end of March while Labour were estimated to be on just 25 %, down four points.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

Mr Murphy stepped down as Scottish Labour leader last year after the SNP swept the electoral board taking 56 of 59 Westminster seats, including his East Renfrewshire constituency, and leaving the party with one MP in Scotland.

Since Ed Miliband would probably have to step down as Prime Minister at the moment of independence (in my scenario of no Labour majority in rump UK), the Scottish government would find itself negotiating with someone whose job depended on the negotiations» failing for as long as possible.

Reports suggest there has been relatively little damage to industrial infrastructure, but the loss of labour and expertise with the flight of so many foreign workers, including Chinese nationals, will slow down the recovery.

Alan Mendoza, Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society: With Labour heading down the route of international irrelevance, Conservatives should have the courage to explore where to stand on:

Simultaneously, Labour and its Leader's prospects have been deliberately run down, with the FT titling an article «Mandelson admits voters tired of Labour».

But then in 2007 the party turned down the possibility of doing a deal with the SNP after the nationalists had narrowly pipped Labour for the prize of largest group at Holyrood.

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

A most interesting part of Formby's election statement was «I stand for a tolerant and welcoming party, with no place for antisemitism, racism and misogyny...» Note that antisemitism comes first for her, unlike the «Islamophobia etc.» formula preferred by Corbyn and Chakrabarti, despite the fact that antisemitism is a continuing problem within Labour with Livingstone's case being kicked a few more yards down the road today.