• In 1900, the British Labour Party was founded with Ramsay MacDonald as its secretary.

    CNN: Friday,

  • Temporary curbs imposed in 2005 to protect the British labour market are set to expire on that date.

    BBC: UK will not extend Romania and Bulgaria migration curbs

  • There are currently 26, 000 Bulgarians and 80, 000 Romanians living in the UK, according to a British Labour Force survey.

    BBC: Council leader in immigration impact report call

  • British labour laws are, in any case, hardly onerous compared to continental ones.

    ECONOMIST: Britain's economy

  • British Labour MEP Linda McAvan used her speech to raise concerns about the "pressure" women faced from the industry to undergo breast surgery.

    BBC: Tighter breast implant controls urged by MEP

  • The flexibility of the British labour market is also important in attracting young Europeans who just want temporary or short-term employment.

    ECONOMIST: Employment

  • British Labour MEP Stephen Hughes said it did not achieve "balance" between the social and economic pillars of the internal market.

    BBC: Barnier presents single market act

  • Meanwhile British Labour MEP Stephen Hughes accused the Commission of introducing new projects - such as Europe 2020 - without setting up appropriate funding.

    BBC: Barroso warns against EU 'beauty contest'

  • Opening the debate on 21 September 2010, the Parliament's rapporteur on the directive, British Labour MEP Linda McAvan highlighted the devastating side-effects of thalidomide.

    BBC: New law to report adverse effects of medicines

  • British Labour MEP Linda McAvan was more critical, and disagreed with Commissioner Dalli's claim that ethical considerations were outside of the scope of EU legislation.

    BBC: Cloned meat debate

  • British Labour MEP Richard Howitt questioned that if Mr Sarkozy was to lose the forthcoming presidential election in France, "there could be a fairer hearing for Turkey".

    BBC: MEPs split over Turkish EU membership prospects

  • Second, he has still to reform his party, which has been subjected to none of the colonic irrigation of that other New Middler, the British Labour Party.

    ECONOMIST: A message for Europe

  • British Labour MEP Brian Simpson, who chairs the Transport Committee said he could not accept any "weakening" by the Council of laws relating to assistance for disabled passengers.

    BBC: Rights for boat passengers to be strengthened

  • Temporary curbs were imposed on Romanians and Bulgarians in 2005 to protect the British labour market, but those curbs expire in December and under EU laws cannot be extended.

    BBC: Eric Pickles: New EU 'influx' may add to housing problems

  • European right-wing parties would do well to follow the example of the British Labour Party after the 1992 election and examine why so many women have stopped voting for them.

    ECONOMIST: Banana splits

  • British Labour MEP Derek Vaughan, the author of the report, said there needed to be more co-operation between the EU institutions, such as sharing human resources, building costs and interpretation costs.

    BBC: Budget debate

  • The European Parliament's rapporteur on the agreements, British labour MEP David Martin broadly welcomed them, saying that two countries had two exports primarily destined for the EU market, namely tuna and sugar.

    BBC: EU - Pacific trade agreement

  • You will remember - indeed, we discussed earlier - when he ran for president a long time ago, and it turned out that in his speech he used some of the material from a British Labour leader.

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  • But British Labour MEP Derek Vaughan rejected Mr Van Orden's arguments, saying he was concerned that there would not be enough money in the budget to support regional development aid, which he said had an important role in fostering economic growth.

    BBC: 2012 budget debate

  • David Martin , a British Labour MEP and fellow panellist, has taken over as rapporteur on the agreement, which entails steering the deal through tumultuous negotiations in the European Parliament, a task from which his predecessor, French Socialist MEP Kader Arif, recently resigned.

    BBC: The Record: Europe

  • In 1931, as the Austrian bank Creditanstalt collapsed, pulling down the banks of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, a run on the German currency forced it off the Gold Standard in May, then the British Labour government struggled to maintain its currency peg - imposing austerity onto its own voters as the price.

    BBC: Euro: A 'loose cannon on the deck of the world'?

  • Over the next 40 years, the British imported labour from India to work the sugar plantations.

    ECONOMIST: Fiji

  • He said British farmers had turned to migrant labour because skilled British workers found they could "work lower numbers of hours for more money" in other industries and students were no longer prepared to do seasonal agricultural work, which could be physically demanding.

    BBC: British workers 'needed on farms'

  • Accommodating the Lib Dems' election pledge to relieve Scottish students of having to pay tuition fees, which were introduced for all British students by Labour a year ago, proved particularly thorny (see article).

    ECONOMIST: From now on, Britain will have to get used to coalitions

  • He jokes that he is considered too young in France, but too old by his British counterparts in the Labour Party, which is led by a 41-year-old.

    ECONOMIST: France��s Socialists

  • And the British Columbia Federation of Labour (representing 450, 000 unionised workers in the province) began a huge campaign of publicity and rallies to persuade the government to change course.

    ECONOMIST: A wild gallop to the right causes consternation

  • The prime minister argued that the "new dividing line" in British politics separated the Labour party, which is "defending the bureaucracy of the NHS", and the coalition, which sought to focus on treatments.

    BBC: PMQs: Cameron accused of 'ditching' NHS cancer targets

  • After all the British government - first Labour, now the Coalition - have been fighting Abu Qatada's lawyers in the courts for 11 years at a cost, some claim, of more than a million pounds.

    BBC: What to do about Qatada?

  • Many aspects of Britishness, especially in social and economic fields, such as the monarchy (provided people want it) or the British market in goods, labour and services, would remain in place after independence.

    ECONOMIST: Scottish nationalism

  • Often angry exchanges between British Conservative, UKIP, Labour and Green MEPs dominated parts of the debate, prompting other members in the parliament to comment that the session had turned into an internal UK argument.

    BBC: MEPs clash over EU accession to ECHR

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