Sentences with phrase «british government»

Campbell also argued that defence spending needed to be kept at 2 %, saying that it was «a commitment which the British government has been at pains to emphasise to other allies».

The British government's representative in Ghana took to Twitter to grieve with the bereaved families and Ghanaians.

The British government has created several red lines for itself and done nothing to increase its leverage.

For years there have been warnings of the failures of both immigrant communities and the British government to facilitate integration, which have largely gone unheeded.

The chancellor confirmed the British government would push ahead with a bank levy, despite Labour arguments that it should not be adopted unilaterally.

Few have held as many senior posts in the British government as Ken Clarke.

The British government, like other western states, will be looking closely at opportunities for investment in Burma after the EU reassesses its sanctions regime against the country on April 23rd.

All those drunk so - called friends in the bar were encouraging the British government.

One of the things the British government failed to do when it wrote up the psychoactive substance bill was check how things had worked out in two other countries which had tried it: Poland and Ireland.

Hilary Benn has said the British government will offer «financial assistance» to victims of today's devastating earthquake in Indonesia.

When it has - as with the Atalanta anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa, headquartered in London - the British government has celebrated the results.

Jim Buller graduated from the University of Warwick with a BA in Politics (1991) before going on to complete an MA in British Government and Politics from the University of Essex (1992).

The Prime Minister is set to receive an open letter today calling on the British government to fight «extreme» poverty in Africa in 2005.

If they tried it, the British government would be confronted with a lawsuit from a multinational corporation, claiming the government had infringed their ability to make a profit.

Nevertheless, the best programme seems to be the one employed by Malaysia, where the government boasts of having rehabilitated 95 % of participants — which is why the country agreed on November 10th to share its experience with the British government.

The PSC, like the CFSP more generally, is almost totally unknown at even senior levels of the British government, but is no talking shop.

The problem is that the British government is drunk.

The British government has sought to dampen down concern from conservation group WWF that «water wars» are a growing threat to global security.

«I'm delighted to announce that we are going to be the first British government to formally look at what steps can be taken to address this.»

The British voters were bombarded by an incredible amount of pro-EU propaganda by the EU and even the British government itself but most of them were able to see through these tricks.

The government maintains Moscow is failing to recognise the seriousness of the crime or the British government's concern.

However, he went on to note that this assessment (and the dealings with the NTC): «does not affect our position on the legal status of the NTC: the British Government will continue to recognise States, not Governments».

First, there will be the great repeal bill, one of the largest and most dangerous pieces of legislation a British government has ever introduced, copying - and - pasting all of EU law onto the British statute book and then using a dazzling array of ministerial powers to somehow try and fix it so it it makes sense.

Of 26 member states invited to give evidence only Italy and Romania said they would, although the British government said this was «not a problem».

The British Government's response to the Asian tsunami disaster was the quickest possible, the Deputy Prime Minister has said.

There will be a sense of urgency to the coalition talks to form a new British government because the Brexit clock is ticking: formal negotiations between the British government and the EU are due to start on June 19 — just 10 days away.

He's a big beast, a talent that had been lost from the British government, from British politics.

[16] The newspaper was subsequently contacted by the British government's Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, under instruction from Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who ordered that the hard drives containing the information be destroyed.

They are subject to some restrictions as outlined in the Ministerial Code of the British government.

Beyond the well - being of the islanders, the British government knows full well that, politically, it could not afford to agree to any compromise.

Show those who are pouring out their support for those in desperate need but feel powerless to help them that the British government is still a force for good in the world.

This means that any good British regulatory innovation is likely to be expensive for British firms unless the British government can find some way to win allies for its wider adoption.

For many years, the public perception believed that the British government was going to Brussels to fend off threats to the interests and rights of Britons.

The rhetoric of the British government has become confrontational in response to aggressive statements by the Argentinean government.

The British government had called for banks to adopt a risk assessment process which would see all those judged to be low - risk exempted from facing a lengthy due diligence process.

Ghana?s voter register is a domestic issue for Ghana?s Electoral Commission to consider with political parties?The British Government is clear that the forthcoming elections in Ghana are a sovereign, domestic Ghanaian issue,?

However, Theresa May missed her chance to make a lasting impact on diversity at the highest echelons of British government.

The British government favors the theory that Russian government involvement is «highly likely».

That would be the most economically damaging decision ever knowingly taken by a British government.

For the British government it becomes even tighter now.

The British government's handling of the ongoing Mau Mau case reflects the same problem as the reaction among those who found British atrocities in Midnapore hard to believe.

The EU could threaten to expel Britain in order to bend the British government to its will, but only the British government can decide whether and how to respond to that threat.

The foreign secretary offered a very qualified reassurance to UK citizens following newspaper reports that GCHQ, the British government's Cheltenham - based eavesdropping and security agency, had been receiving intelligence from a US programme called Prism.

Other European leaders know that the British government can take the United Kingdom out of the EU.

None of these political leaders thinks it would be a good idea for Great Britain to leave Europe, but they all respect that it is within the power of the British government to do so.

The British government has made specific choices which are leading us down a certain path.

The vast majority of pornographic websites are in foreign countries, which the British government has no jurisdiction over.

At times, it'll hard for the British Government to claim that life outside the EU will bring that.

At the moment, the British government is sticking its fingers in its ears and closing its eyes, pretending it has a policy when it doesn't.

She legislated to abolish the power of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to legislate for individual Australian states, to end the British Government's consultative role in Australian state - level affairs, and to deprive the Queen's Australian subjects of their right of appeal to Her Majesty in Council.