However, it was his time as a Labour whip with responsibility for Northern Ireland business in the Commons that brought him into contact with many of our local politicians.
Shaffaq Mohammed, leader of the Liberal Democrat Group in Sheffield, said the council had ignored the results of the consultation, adding that Labour needed to "take responsibility" for its decisions.
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Most of them were contract workers, explained the boss, employed by labour brokers and therefore not his responsibility.
Labour said the chancellor had to start taking responsibility for his decisions.
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Scottish Labour called on the first minister to "take responsibility" for the figures.
For Labour, it would allow them to emphasise their fiscal responsibility, their commitment to making cuts in hard times, while outflanking the Conservatives on Europe at the same time.
The balance between social rights and individual responsibility appears to be more fairly balanced In New Labour social policy than it does with the Conservatives.
But Mr Cameron said the coalition government was "taking responsibility for clearing up the mess" left by the previous Labour government.
Like Britain's centrist Labour prime minister, Tony Blair, for example, she believes in individual responsibility more than in state assistance.
The labour law is not entirely clear about what they must do: is it their responsibility to create a union, or their employees'?
The Labour Party clearly appears to have adopted a mixture of both Conservative harshness, emphasising individual responsibility, and its traditional stance which seeks to address the underlying causes of crime.
But the question remains whether the Lib Dem MSPs will have a free vote when the committee reports and if the Labour-dominated cabinet rejected its findings, would the Lib Dem members be bound by collective responsibility.
So, and I take responsibility for that, and I wrote a letter to every member of the Parliamentary Labour Party, setting out why I, why I had, I had stayed, where my doubts were and why I'd stay.
Scottish Labour MSP Mr McMahon also said that whilst welfare was a reserved issue, the Scottish government had responsibility for various aspects linked to it, such as homelessness.
Fiscal responsibility not just because it is right for the long-term, to deal with Labour's record debt, but because it is right for the short-term, to deal with Labour's recession by giving people and businesses the confidence to invest again and get the recovery going.
Mr Cameron hit back attacking Labour's record in office and adding that the government was consulting on a series of steps to "bring responsibility to the boardroom".
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