Sentence examples for first time labour from inspiring English sources

It is not the first time Labour has looked across the Atlantic for inspiration.

This is hardly the first time Labour has tried to redefine a classic conservative theme and claim ownership of it.

It was to have been the first time Labour MPs would have had the right to vote in their choice for chief whip.

This is not the first time Labour has fiddled climate-change targets (Revealed: cover-up plan on energy target, August 13).

After talking up its prospects of gaining an overall majority at the Welsh assembly for the first time, Labour was playing down the idea.

According to the YouGov tracker (pdf), this is the first time Labour has been ahead on this measure since October 2012.

Confounded for a second time, Labour gave up on shortlisting and allowed everyone who wished to be the candidate to go on the selection ballot paper.

After the PM's deal was rejected for a second time, Labour's Angela Eagle asked the Speaker to rule whether it would be proper for the Commons to be asked to vote on a deal again that it had decisively rejected twice.

For the first time since Labour came to power university budgets are being cut.

It was the first time the Labour party had expelled a union in its 104-year history.

But this is the first time a Labour leader has grappled confidently with the issue of "cultural integration" and the importance of speaking English.