Britan’s Labour Party sees sharp drop in European vote

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government is working to sign a Labour Mobility Partnership agreement with the European Union, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said here Monday. The minister, who returned from a European tour Saturday, said the landmark agreement signed with Denmark on Labour Mobility Partnership last week would "enable Danish industry and business to recruit Indians on the fast track".

September 30th, 2009 UK's Brown downplays Sun tabloid switch to ToriesLONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown is downplaying the decision of the Sun tabloid to switch its allegiance from the Labour Party to the opposition Conservatives. Brown told the BBC during an interview at this week's Labour Party conference that the British people will decide the election, not a newspaper.

September 29th, 2009 LONDON - The flagging popularity of Britain's ruling Labour Party was highlighted Tuesday by an opinion poll that showed that the party led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown had slipped to third place in the estimation of the voter. The Ipsos Mori poll, published on the day Brown is due to give a keynote speech to the annual Labour Party conference, put Labour at 24 percent, the opposition Liberal Democrats at 25 percent and the bigger opposition Conservative Party at 36 percent.

July 26th, 2009 LONDON - After a disappointing by-election defeat in Norwich North and the continuing questioning of his role as party leader, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for discipline in the new Labour Party. Brown appealed to both ministers and MPs headed off for summer break that there was work to be done during the summer.

June 21st, 2009 LONDON - Dashing hopes of Labour Party rebels, British Prime Minister has declared that he will be leading the party at the next election, and has no intention on quitting the leadership. "I'm just getting on with the job.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing a new challenge to his leadership, as his party came third behind the Conservatives and the UKIP in the European elections. The British National Party won its first two European seats.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - Britain, one of the most multi-cultural countries in Europe, woke up Monday to the news that it had sent to the European Parliament two candidates whose party will not admit Blacks and Asians as members. The news was greeted with shock and dismay by leaders of mainstream political parties, who had pleaded with voters not to vote for the British National Party (BNP), which campaigns on an anti-immigration plank and whose membership is reserved for Whites.

June 7th, 2009 Top deputy to Britain's Brown urges restraintLONDON — A top deputy to Britain's troubled Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday warned lawmakers seeking his ouster to end their rebellion — or risk making the situation of the governing Labour Party more tenuous. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr talk show, urged party dissidents to think about the consequences of an ugly leadership battle.

June 7th, 2009 Top deputy to UK's Brown urges restraintLONDON — A top deputy to Britain's troubled Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday warned lawmakers seeking his ouster to end their rebellion — or risk making the situation of the governing Labour Party more tenuous. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr talk show, urged party dissidents to think about the consequences of an ugly leadership battle.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - British voters have sent the ruling Labour Party packing in county council elctions, handing victory to the Tories. They also rubbed salt into Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wounds by reducing party's vote share by 15 points.

June 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Britain's Guardian newspaper, which has traditionally backed the Labour party, Wednesday called on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down because he had failed in government. "The tragedy for Mr Brown and his party is that his chance to change it has gone...

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - The British ministers' expenses scandal has had a devastating impact on the Labour Party and on Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for according to a populus poll for The Times found the Labour's overall position slide to 21 per cent, its lowest in polling history. When asked how they would vote in next week's European election, for the first time the Labour Party was placed way behind the UK Independence Party and the Tories.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party is heading for a humiliating third place, trailing the Liberal Democrats as well as the Tories as it heads into the June 4 elections in 34 English local authorities. Brown has been battered by revelations over ministerial expenses and a series of embarrassing climb-downs, which would be affecting his party's election prospects in next month's local elections.

April 1st, 2009 JERUSALEM - Israel's Knesset Tuesday night approved the government presented by incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by a vote of 69 in favour to 45 against. There were no abstentions, but five legislators from the Labour Party, a coalition ally of Netanyahu's, refused to participate in the vote, although they were present in the plenum.

January 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming three amendments to a notification under the Employees' Pension (Second Amendment) issued in 2008 as anti-labour, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded the government withdraw it immediately. 'The three amendments withdraw major provident fund benefits available to millions of workers of the country and we demand its immediate withdrawal,' BJP national spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said here Friday.