The Tory campaign under the direction of party chairman Chris Patten focused on hammering Labour over tax - and on the personality of John Major.
One of those implications is that the increasing shortage of labour over the past few years has led to very quickly rising wages and better working conditions.
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The impressive 22% they scored in 2005 owed much to disaffection with Labour over the Iraq war and to a Tory party that was still unattractive to high-minded floating voters.
He also taunted Labour over the power of the Unite union over its finances and the link with Ms Harman's husband, Jack Dromey, who is the union's deputy general secretary.
The Lib Dems hope that in Labour-held Bristol West, which is one of the few three-way marginal seats, an affluent, well-educated and left-leaning electorate will desert Labour over the war.
Labour had over 400, 000 members by the end of 1996, and the Conservatives maybe 350, 000.
The fall in unit labour costs over the past few years temporarily boosted profits.
The Labour lead over the Conservatives increased from 10 to 19 points in the past month.
Labour won over half the vote then, outpolling the Tories by 17 percentage points.
Meanwhile, the SNP highlighted the rebellion by Labour backbenchers over plans to privatise National Air Traffic Services (Nats).
As productivity rose wages did not, thus lowering unit labour costs over time.
When Labour took over, more than 5m working-age adults subsisted on state benefits.
It is as important as Adam Smith recognising the scale and profitability potential of specialised labour, over two hundred years ago.
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The government faced a possible House of Lords defeat on an amendment put down by a Labour peer over the issue.
Mrs Beckett has delivered a blunt warning to Paddy Ashdown not to try and push Labour around over the issue of voting reform.
Temporary and part-time workers, with little training and few career prospects, have increased from one-fifth to one-third of the labour force over the past 20 years.
Further evidence will emerge of Labour splits over the issue.
The Justice Secretary has said that there is "anger and incredulity" among Labour MPs over allegations that a number of ex-cabinet ministers were prepared to lobby ministers for cash.
Oona King was beaten by former colleague George Galloway, thrown out of the Labour party over his opposition to the Iraq war and his attitude to the role of British troops.
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Ms Joyce, who represents the Llanrumney ward, has led Cardiff council since Labour took over its running from the previous Liberal Democrat-Plaid Cymru coalition administration after the local elections a year ago.
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After all, in the most important arguments with Labour - over the role of austerity in thwarting recovery, and the scope to boost growth in the short term with higher borrowing - the OBR is still on the coalition's side.
The survey predicts that nearly half the additions to the Indian labour force over the period 2011-2030 will be in the 30-49 age group and says more needs to be done to provide this group with jobs in "higher-productivity" sectors.
Perhaps surprisingly, there is little work on the macroeconomic effect of all the extra women who have entered the labour force over the past four decades, but McKinsey reckons that America's GDP is now about 25% higher than it would have been without them.
Mr McCluskey has clashed in the past with the Labour leadership over its support for a two-year freeze on public sector pay introduced by the coalition government when it came to power and a subsequent 1% cap on pay increases until the end of the Parliament.
Plaid Cymru have made the lack of a UK government response to the first Silk report the focus of their opposition to the Queen's Speech and say they will push their amendment to a vote tonight in a device designed to highlight Labour divisions over the assembly's powers.
It is also reported that one of Labour's key education speeches contained a slip of the tongue leading to public confusion over Labour's education policy.
More likely he saw it, at the time, as a surgical strike to target Plaid Cymru over what Labour has marked out as Plaid's weakness over job creation and the economy.
Well there are two points there, first of all we were doing better than Labour, I mean we were both affording and maintaining a police force of nearly 3, 000 more than Labour are now presiding over, we had that all under Labour.
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