• The Livingstone campaign will also provide a rallying point for disaffected Labour members around the country who have been warning the prime minister against taking them for granted.

    BBC: Blair's mayor crisis

  • Conservative Charles Walker said the CFP had been an "absolute disaster" for the country and Labour's Kelvin Hopkins suggested the UK should threaten to withdraw from the CFP, arguing that the "only effective solution" was to seek its abolition and return fisheries to member states.

    BBC: Common Fisheries Policy has 'failed' - MP

  • It's the right thing to do for the Labour Party and it's the right thing to do for the country.

    BBC: Miliband defends backing public sector pay freeze

  • Whether accused of doling out seats in the House of Lords in exchange for donations to the Labour Party, or taking the country to war based on questionable intelligence, Blair emerged unscathed--with not a single electoral defeat to his name.

    FORBES: Tony Blair Boards With Random House

  • With Burma's economy plunging deeper into crisis, the government acted to counter the threat and has, for the first time, officially outlawed forced labour and circulated the directive throughout the country.

    BBC: Burma "slave" probe opens

  • "I go back to work tomorrow with no guarantee that the Labour Party is going to look at the way pension provision is legislated for in this country, " he said.

    BBC: That's what happens when you let the voters in, Ed

  • IMF's insistence on a flexible labour market as a condition for loans to keep the country afloat.

    ECONOMIST: All this, and a Korean election too

  • Colombia's current finance minister, Juan Carlos Echeverry, said on Thursday that the country was focusing on a bid for the presidency of the International Labour Organization rather the World Bank.

    BBC: Obama names surprise World Bank candidate Jim Yong Kim

  • Mr Miliband's argument is not just that his "one-nation" riff should be a destination for the country but it should also be a route map for a future Labour government.

    BBC: I'm so Dizzy, claims Miliband

  • The International Labour Organization has for years pressured Myanmar to eradicate forced labor, which it says is widespread in the country.

    CNN: Smiling Suu Kyi lays out 'ambitious' plan for Myanmar

  • In Britain, the Council of Churches has suggested an amnesty for illegal immigrants with children who have been in the country for more than five years, inspired by limited amnesties passed by the previous Labour government in the 1970s.

    ECONOMIST: Deportation

  • Ms Berger, Labour MP for Wavertree, said the city was hit by the country's biggest funding cut, apart from London.

    BBC: Liverpool group hands Downing Street anti-cuts letter

  • For 15 years, first Labour, then National, had guided the country away from its egalitarian past.

    ECONOMIST: New Zealand

  • Labour said the date had been "foisted on" the country for political reasons.

    BBC: Ministers under fire over consultation on AV referendum

  • As product costs include mainly capital and labour, and the capital costs for companies are nearly the same in every country, the real differences are in wages.

    ECONOMIST: Niger's information gap

  • In a country long known for labour activism, it will be only the third general strike since the union was formed in the 1940s.

    BBC: Tunisians' frustrations, two years on

  • In a statement on Monday the EU Commission said its proposal to restore GSP status for Burma was based on an International Labour Organization (ILO) conclusion that the country had made "significant" progress in tackling forced labour.

    BBC: EU plans to lift trade barriers for Burma exports

  • And he insisted the "flame" of progress no longer burned for Labour, and that the Lib Dems are the only party capable of rebuilding the country.

    BBC: Turn to us in crisis, says Clegg

  • Shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint, for Labour, accused Mr Hayes of "playing politics" with clean energy jobs and the country's energy security.

    BBC: Wind farms: 'No change' on policy, says David Cameron

  • In its projections for continental Europe the OECD assumes that two out of every three workers who remain jobless for more than a year will be lost to the labour market thereafter, adding to the country's natural rate of unemployment.

    ECONOMIST: The crunch may entrench unemployment

  • Chairman of English Nature Baroness Young of Old Scone, herself a Labour peer, said the bill "must not become a battleground for wider matters of town versus country, or simply spoiling tactics which jeopardise the bill's passage and risk sinking the first decent wildlife legislation for 20 years".

    BBC: Countryside bill 'under threat'

  • The stereotype has giant companies shifting production from one country to another in search of the cheapest sources of labour, without regard for the well-being of either the high-wage workers who stand to lose their jobs or the low-paid ones who will be hired.

    ECONOMIST: Worldbeater, Inc | The

  • Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East, Labour) pointed out the absence of a BNP candidate in his constituency and called for the electorate to rid the country of racism.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | BBC Parliament | Prime Minister's Questions

  • The first derives from what was once a basic New Labour insight: that, beneath the current bitterness, Britain is a more aspirational, capitalist country than old Labour gave it credit for.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • The immediate priority for South Africa is to find a way to prevent the labour unrest becoming a contagion that could even spread to the country's vital public services sectors.

    BBC: South Africa's mine owners flex their muscles

  • The security bond idea - designed to tackle the problem of people coming to the UK for holidays or as students and remaining in the country illegally - was floated several times by the previous Labour government but never implemented and was understood to be under development by the Home Office.

    BBC: UK Politics

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