Sentences with phrase «with labour policy»

Further, once in parliament the Greens are more likely to vote with Labour policy than the Conservatives would be.
That was immediately followed by a further vote concerning Scottish independence in which delegates in line with Labour policy to overwhelmingly reject calls to break from the UK.
Although with the Labour policy of not selecting candidate for seat until after the boundary review, we might be caught on the hop......

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With over 90 % of the labour force in the informal economy, it is very difficult to assess the impact of policy actions and measure true growth.
There are no easy fixes for Canada's labour problems, with think - tanks and policy wonks suggesting everything from a reduction in EI to a Youth Employment Guarantee.
«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.
«So no more hand - holding with Donald Trump - a Labour government will conduct a robust and independent foreign policy made in London.
The economic implications will be profound with more competitive international labour markets and the need to adopt technologies and policies to encourage people to work longer.
She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.
The guiding mentality of Tony Blair - style «New Labour» policy is economic loyalty to Europe's financial centers as government spending is slashed, public infrastructure privatized and banks bailed out with «taxpayer» burdens that fall mainly on labor.
Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.
Compared with previous episodes of booming commodity prices, a floating currency, a sound but flexible medium - term framework for monetary policy and a flexible labour market mean we are doing much better this time than in the mid 1970s or early 1950s.
For all those complexities, though, I still believe that we will cope best with these shocks by sticking with a flexible inflation target, a floating currency and pro-flexibility supply - side policies in labour and product markets.
In September, 2012 he retired from a long career as Chief Economist and Director of Social and Economic Policy with the Canadian Labour Congress.
Subsequently, with continuing strong activity indicators, stretched labour markets and signs of possible pipeline price pressures (although core consumer prices remain benign), the Federal Reserve tightened monetary policy by 25 basis points to 5 per cent in June and then 5.25 per cent in August (Graph 5).
CME's Director of Policy and Economics Mike Holden's Labour Force Survey Analysis — October 2015 reportis available along with analysis on GDP, trade and manufacturing sales data at our Economic Dashboard.
The signatories of this letter warn against the potential for trade agreements like NAFTA to restrict Canada's ability to enforce its own environmental regulations, maintain labour standards, and keep jobs and pollution from leaking to other states with weaker policies.
Jennifer facilitates the contribution of the Business Council of Australia's CEO members across a policy agenda that includes economic policy and competitiveness; regulation; infrastructure and sustainable growth; labour market, skills and education; engagement with Indigenous Australians, global engagement; healthcare policy; and innovation.
The ECB monetary policy is currently providing the German economy with enough funds, but the country is experiencing a catastrophic lack of youth, and its ageing labour force is not being replaced as a result of which workforce is already in short supply.
In a recent interview with Sky News, he said «God is not left - wing or right - wing» after it was implied he «takes policy positions close to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party».
He also spoke with senior researchers and staff from the Regional Australia Institute about the role of the regions on the national policy agenda and where core issues like labour force demands and decentralisation fit into the overall economic picture.
We excluded women who required oxytocin for induction of labour after the 2:1 matching with our study group, because we learned during the study that the policy with respect to the use of oxytocin for induction of labour was outside the scope of practice for midwives and family physicians in some hospitals.
«I'm quietly confident, in a non-complacent way, that the people who are flirting with the Greens, a large number of them will end up voting Labour - for positive reasons, because we've got radical policies on the environment, we've got very good policies on addressing inequality, the housing crisis, the NHS.
I think the discussion of the 2 republicanisms, and 2 communitarianisms can help social democrats come up with policies to improve public services like education, healthcare, and identify new labour laws worth implementing.
And the longer the government carries on with these failing policies, the bigger the challenge will be for the next Labour government.
That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.
When Kathy, my wife, went into the labour ward (December 5, 2003) I sat with her reading Julian Le Grand's book on motivation and public policy, working out which passages I could use for an Oxford admissions interview.
Roger has written extensively on European and British Affairs, including The Blair Revolution (with Peter Mandelson, 1996), Global Europe, Social Europe (with Anthony Giddens and Patrick Diamond, 2006) and Beyond New Labour (with Patrick Diamond, 2009), as well as several other Fabian Society and Policy Network pamphlets.
Under the current Labour system, the National Policy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy posiPolicy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy posipolicy positions.
I spoke to a contact who admitted that he and one other guy, also now working for the government, came up with the idea of the campaign over a drink while they were reading a story about Labour's policy in the Guardian.
But what happens when a Corbynite canvasser unwittingly calls a sceptical former Labour staffer with an impeccable grasp on economic policy?
Like in the past, new policy innovations are currently being explored to find new ways to deal with the social pressure resulting from the increasing obsolescence of manual labour, as can be seen in the experimenting with Universal Basic Income in Finland.
If the Lib Dems had formed a coalition with LAbour, either in 1997 or in 2010, it would have been a predominant Labour policy agenda based on the votes cast.
It is an example of a European party with hard left policies winning votes, and comparisons with UK Labour underline just how radical Podemos actually is.
For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.
Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.
In recent weeks, many Labour MPs have credited the Shadow Brexit Secretary with holding Jeremy Corbyn's often - shambolic Brexit policy together under extremely difficult circumstances.
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.
Despite Nick Clegg's suggestion that he is the «heir to Thatcher» in the run - up to the May 2010 General Election, the Liberal Democrats went into the election with a broadly similar economic policy to Labour's.
Passion and feeling are desired qualities in the next Labour leader, but the party will only regain office if it fuses these attributes with smart policy shaped in co-operation with external voices.
Meanwhile, backbench Labour MP John Mann attacked the policy shift, saying it left Labour with a «glaring» contradictory economic policy.
However, when these policies are associated with Labour, there is a notable drop in support, with the immediate reaction being «how will they pay for it all?»
Until Labour come to terms with their legacy and unveil a convincing set of new policies Ed Miliband and the shadow cabinet are always going to struggle when attacking the Conservatives.
And when I have challenged Lib Dem canvassers on the doorstep about the policy, I have met with a wall of ignorance: «Oh, I didn't know we were doing that, I'll have to go away and look it up...» (canvasser hastily retreats...) The CTF was one of the great liberal achievements of New Labour.
It would be good for the future of progress in the UK, for Labour and the lib dems to discuss what they have in common with each other, and develop policy together.
Labour's pro-public sector instincts and its hostility to «Thatcherite» policies left it in what many described as a somewhat ambiguous position with regard to Right to Buy.
Conservatives in government have responded with scorn, pointing out that until recently Labour's policy was to take away freedoms over the curriculum away from academies.
This approach presents a problem for the Labour leadership who have pursued a policy of «constructive ambiguity» in order to balance affluent middle class remainers with huge swathes of the electorate in its northern heartlands who voted to come out.
But when the public are polled about Labour's policy positions, conventional wisdom about Corbyn being out of touch with voters is challenged.
Labour peer says the government must replace «gender neutral» budgeting with economic policies that put women first
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