Sentences with phrase «year after the labour»

I became an MP less than a year after the Labour government left office.

The memoirs give a taste of the breakdown in relations between Brown and Mandelson in the years after the Labour leadership contest in 1994.

Fully 17 years after a Labour government started handing power to the periphery of Britain and to London, provincial England is still overwhelmingly run from Westminster.

Prof Jane Chapman voted for her ex-husband in last year's contest but said she would not do so this year after the Labour leader's first 12 months in charge.

It comes after a war of words erupted between the Conservatives and Labour earlier this year after Labour announced plans to restrict the number of pupils per class, something the Tories claim to already be doing.

Not exact matches

And in September, at about the first Wednesday after Labour Day, they «go haywire,» as parents with young kids scramble to readjust to a new school year.

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

Asked what would happen after five years of a Corbyn government, Heseltine, a lifelong Europhile, said: «We have survived Labour governments before.

Yanis Varoufakis: Isn't it astonishing that after Jeremy Corbyn was being described as «the longest suicide note by the Labour Party» about a year ago, today there is an air of inevitability in a Corbyn - led government.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

«The labour market continues to be strong, and for the first time in almost a year, earnings have grown slightly after inflation has been taken into account,» senior ONS statistician Matt Hughes said in a statement.

But after a series of difficult labour negotiations under CEO Calin Rovinescu, Air Canada finally obtained the concessions it needed last year to hire new employees at reduced pay for a low - cost carrier to target the vacation market.

The central bank is likely due for a pause after raising interest rates twice this summer, but the strength of the labour market will keep Bay Street talking about a third increase before the year is out.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

Britain's Labour Party adopted the song «Things can only get better» as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions for governing after 18 years in Continue Reading

Five years after the end of the last recession, and Canada's labour market is still limping along.

For the past three business cycles, an appropriate comparison is between average labour productivity growth for the 5 1/2 years after each trough in output (the current expansion has run for 5 1/2 years since the trough in output in June 1991).

He joined the board after serving six years as an elected MLA and cabinet minister for the government of British Columbia, where his various responsibilities included three cabinet posts encompassing economic development, labour and small business.

After firming considerably over the December quarter of 2004, labour market conditions have remained buoyant in the new year.

After being tortured, tried, and convicted of alleged conspiracy to overthrow the regime, he was sentenced to 25 years» hard labour, along with dozens of other Muslim Brothers.

After that came ten years labouring as a parish priest of Prouille, a period of little success in gaining converts from Catharism, although he founded a small community of nuns who wanted to remain Catholic while living a life of comparable simplicity as they would have had as Cathars.

A former pastor of one of Canada's largest churches has been released after spending two years in forced labour camps and prisons in North Korea.

The University of Virginia student was sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years in prison with hard labour after he was convicted of subversion.

Chick Young, a 57 - year - old BBC soccer pundit, had to be carried from the pitch after a nasty tackle by a Labour member of Parliament.

Latest Labour Force Survey evidence suggests that working hours are rising again, after years of decline.

Research based on the death rates of mothers and babies during labour and death or poor outcomes for babies in the first month after birth, and how those rates have changed over the last 200 years, since 1) Hospitals, 2) milk substitutes

How much does an insurance company have to shell out after some years have gone by for treating fecal and / or urinary incontinence or prolapses in these women with their marathon labours and untreated perineal tears?

When I first read this I thought it was a bit hippyish, and wasn't sure I could relate to any of it, esp after having had a traumatic first labour a few years before, BUT parts of it came back to me during labour and it really got me through.

So a base measurement which is quite often quoted in the popular press is the maternal mortality rate, that is the chances of a mother dying whilst pregnant, in labour or up to a year after birth.

(Hint: building a few houses in New Orleans five years after Katrina does not make up for using slave labour.

She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.

Just six months after Labour's defeat is the worst possible time to take a measured view of the party's 13 years in office.

He was suspended by the Parliamentary Labour Party last year after allegations he had claimed almost # 13,000 for a mortgage that was already paid.

This is what it takes to offer Labour a fresh start, which - after 13 years in government - is perhaps what the party needs most of all.

«Picture it: history in the making as a Liberal Democrat leader entered, finally, into the corridors of power, preparing to unshackle Britain after years of Labour and Conservative rule.

Delaying the question until next year or the one after would buy time until an eventual crunch when, whether Labour's for or against Trident, part of his base is going to revolt.

The last Labour government was able to plan its 1997 manifesto on the basis of rising departmental spending in the first years after the election.

However, after almost two years, the affair eventually petered out when the CPS decided there was insufficient evidence to prosecute anybody from either the Labour or Conservative parties.

It was after all, seven years ago and as I continue to remind people, the Labour Party twice promised not to introduce increased tuition fees and did so, despite having pledged the opposite.

Of course, as Littlejohn rightly points out, after 13 years of Labour government, «if the public really did have the power to change legislation, the government would pass a law against it».

It comes a year after Burnham took just 19 per cent of the votes in the battle for the Labour leadership — having started out as the clear favourite to replace Ed Miliband.

Smith was succeeded first by Liz Lynne - another fiery populist from the samemould - then after an eight - year Labour interlude, by the current MP Paul Rowen.

After ten years of Labour, UNICEF placed the UK bottom among 21 industrial countries for child well - being.

Last time that was attempted, in 2013, a year of cross-party talks collapsed after both Labour and the Conservatives opted to stick with the status quo.

After five years of coalition, last Thursday's results remind us how far Labour and the Liberal Democrats» fortunes are co-dependent — and their attacks on each other self - defeating.

Last year, Corbyn's support soared after caretaker leader Harriet Harman instructed Labour MPs to abstain from voting against the Conservative's welfare bill at the second reading.

After a year of strong economic recovery and declining trust in Labour and Miliband, any other governing party would expect to be sweeping up support by now.

The «baby of the house», 20 - year - old SNP MP Mhairi Black, is the best known of the brood after ousting Labour heavyweight Douglas Alexander from his seat in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

Over the past year, Reed has been one of the Labour leader's most vocal opponents in Westminster, having resigned from the shadow frontbench almost immediately after he was first elected in 2015.

«It is simply not good enough that forty years after the Equal Pay Act women still don't earn equal pay for equal work, and despite doing better at school and university more women end up in lower skilled and lower paid jobs than men,» Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero said.