Sentence examples for blocked labour from inspiring English sources

Last year, the Tories blocked Labour amendments to the cities and local government devolution bill that would have made devolution work much better.

A concerted campaign blocked Labour's Titan programme.

The honours system should be boycotted unless the awards proposed by David Cameron for aides and donors are blocked, Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, has said.

The government blocked Labour's attempts to get a blanket ban on the statute books last week, but promised to reconsider the wording in the face of huge criticism that if the current libel laws weren't change, big businesses would continue to use their financial muscle to "take journalists out of the game".

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Only last week the government was blocking Labour amendments to the finance bill to bear down on this abuse.

In the 60s he joined forces with Enoch Powell, with whom he shared the title of best parliamentary orator, to block Labour efforts to reform the Lords – though he wanted it abolished, Powell wanted it left untouched.

But Liam Byrne, the shadow higher education minister said: "The fact the Lib Dems are now saying they'd try to block Labour's progressive plan to cut the costs of going to university tells everyone why they can't trust the Lib Dems.

It is to be funded from savings made by blocking Labour's plan to raise national insurance contributions for employers.

Under Proportional Representation, this isn't a problem: the split left would come together and form a coalition - and the Lib Dems would be able to block Labour's worst policies, like Iraq.

But the rank and file, often active in the trade-union movement, is blocking labour-market reform, and chafing at an orthodox economic policy that it sees as too harsh on the poor and unemployed.