But the Tories are reluctant to advance this argument too vigorously, because they know it will make them vulnerable to the perennial Labour charge that they intend to privatise the National Health Service.
The Tories' response to Labour's charge of raised taxes was to claim that living standards had risen.
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Shadow chancellor George Osborne said the comments shattered Labour's charge that only the Conservatives oppose the VAT measures.
The implication is that we would have lost the top credit rating even sooner, had Labour been in charge, with a somewhat looser approach to borrowing.
When it comes to economic migrants, the charge that Labour has allowed more people in is irrefutable.
Some of his ministers, including those in charge of labour, had been making heavy weather of their jobs.
In charge of Labour's relations with the Lib Dems is Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, who is himself an articulate electoral reformer.
If the new treatment centres hit a raw nerve for many Labour members, the charge that they represent poor value for money is just as painful for ministers.
The fact that the prime minister had put both of them in charge of Labour's election campaign guaranteed a flood of stories about rows between them in the run-up to the election.
In return for allowing Ms Merkel to become chancellor, the SPD is to get control over more ministries than the CDU, including weighty ones such as foreign affairs, finance and the ministry in charge of labour-market reform.
Ed Miliband is expected to seek to draw a line under the Blair-Brown era and tell Labour delegates that a new generation is in charge, in his first speech as Labour leader.
The mother of two grown-up children, with a lifetime of political campaigning behind her, Mrs Kinnock was never afraid to speak her mind during her husband's period in charge of the Labour Party.
SNCF, where he was initially put in charge of safety and labour relations.
This week, he brought Mr Baroin into the government as budget minister, replacing Eric Woerth, who takes Mr Darcos's place at the labour ministry and is thus in charge of the sensitive pension-reform issue.
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Does supporting Labour's Budget plans and leading the charge against one of its senior ministers perhaps fall into the category of political expediency - or even hypocrisy?
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When Labour came to power, he was put in charge of a new super-ministry of the environment, transport and the regions.
Like Labour's Harold Wilson, the man in charge the last time Britain had a referendum, David Cameron has promised to renegotiate Britain's relationship with Europe.
He compared the idea with measures introduced by the Labour government - such as longer periods of pre-charge detention - which he said were justified at the time on security grounds but had proved to be damaging.
The Tories protest that this will weaken British influence in Brussels as conflicting British and Scottish views could emerge, especially if, say, Labour is running the Scottish government and the Tories are in charge at Westminster.
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Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne, who is in charge of the party's policy review, said Labour needed to seize the centre ground of British politics - and regain economic credibility.
The Labour Party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), in charge of the election rules, will decide what process to follow this time.
The dispute burst on to the streets and into the courts this week after Patrick, the company leading the charge, sacked its entire dockside workforce in favour of non-union labour.
If he were in charge before the local and regional elections on May 3rd, it could help Labour to avoid electoral meltdown in them, some of his supporters believe.
Labour seeks to outdo the Tories' Public Finance Initiative, by putting a minister in charge of driving the process forward, and by legislating to give public bodies the necessary powers to enter into contracts.
It mirrors the Tory charge, again put pungently and vividly by Mr Hague on Friday, that Labour plans an unfair, rigged and premature referendum to 'bounce' this country into the Euro if they win on June 7.
The big difference this time is that Birmingham is a Labour city now, following the defeat of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition which had been in charge for eight years.
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The Conservatives came back after the Christmas break determined to rebut the charge that they are the "do nothing" party, a criticism constantly being made by Labour.
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