Sentence examples for Labour parliament from inspiring English sources

She said the coalition had spent £1.7bn over the last parliament on defences when emergency funds were included, compared with £1.5bn over the last Labour parliament.

The Labour Parliament was partly a response to a lock-out of around 20,000 mill workers by the employers in Preston; its aim was to organise a levy on wages to support operatives who went on strike or were locked out.

At one meeting in October 1853, he shared the platform with John B. Horsfall and Chartist leader Ernest Jones, whose Labour Parliament Grimshaw was involved in the following year as one of the two delegates from Preston, along with Wallace Beever.

Under the Labour government, parliament has been weakened.

She voted at the last election: Labour for parliament; Green for the local council.

He wanted to lead Labour from parliament, not quit his seat (as the constitution requires) to become prime minister.

Each of us has ideas on representing Labour in parliament, but we've long ceased to be on a collective journey.

In the final count, Ed Miliband secured a margin of more than 6 percent over David Miliband in the union count, eclipsing the the older brother's lead among Labour's Parliament members and its general membership.

He said that it would "show that Labour, and parliament, is listening to those who voted leave while not chucking out the economic baby with the fiscal bath water".

That's not their personal tragedy: it means Labour in parliament will be so depleted that it can never pass a single amendment to whatever an untrammelled Tory government wants to do.

The Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill, introduced by Labour to parliament today, will make the drug more available to those with terminal illness or suffering chronic pain.