1. A Labour government chose to sacrifice defence for welfare.

2. 25 A Labour government chose to sacrifice defence for welfare.

3. A Labour Government would help nursery nurses progress after qualifying.

4. The Labour government eased the position by reducing the levy.

5. The second Labour Government (1929–31) was dominated by the Great Depression.

6. It was a Labour government which granted independence to India and Pakistan.

7. In 1984, the Fourth Labour Government was elected amid a constitutional and economic crisis.

8. Still more tendentious is the Tory claim as it relates to a potential Labour Government.

9. His dogged refusal to countenance devaluation ensures the economic failure of a future Labour government.

10. I am only implementing the weights and measures legislation that the previous Labour Government introduced.

11. His most important role came as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government, 1945–51.

12. The election of the Fourth Labour Government in 1984 marked a new period of independent foreign policy.

13. Does my right hon. Friend by any chance recollect the average inflation rate under the last Labour Government?

14. Would not that be threatened only by the advent of a Labour Government, with their profligate spending plans?

15. The upshot was that the Liberals promised to support the Labour government in the House by their votes.

16. How the return of a Labour government would affect the political calculations in Northern Ireland is difficult to foresee.

17. Coincident with the changing Parliamentary climate was a more positive attitude towards abolition on the part of the Labour Government.

18. This agency was approved by the New Labour Government to represent some 300,000 community-based education practitioners working across the UK.

19. The 1978-9 Labour government tried to phase out these beds, but under the 1980 Health Service Act they were extended.

20. 10 Employment minister Chris Grayling said: "These figures are a sad indictment of the welfare system we inherited from the Labour government.

21. Several wartime reconstruction working parties in the Ministry had outlined plans for reorganisation very similar to those adopted by the Labour Government.

22. The depression led to the election of the First Labour Government and the establishment of a comprehensive welfare state and a protectionist economy.

23. This attitude is not contradictory to the social democratic value of labour government and the idea of the "third way" , and could be explained by the theory of social democracy.

24. In April 1951 the Labour government was hit by the resignations of three ministers—Aneurin Bevan, the future prime minister Harold Wilson, and John Freeman—over the imposition of prescription charges to pay for an increased armaments programme.