Sentences with phrase «british people»

The key is to «energise the aspirations of the British people», he explains.

It is critically important, Mr Speaker, that we are honest with the British people about the potential consequences of the action the Prime Minister is proposing today.

That led rebel Mark Pritchard to counter by claiming that the «ultimate act of self - indulgence» would be to ignore the will of the British people, who he said were angered by rising EU spending.

«If our unelected prime minister insists on forcing the Irish people to vote twice, the case for letting the British people vote once will be morally answerable.»

I'm clear: if human rights laws get in the way of tackling extremism and terrorism, we will change those laws to keep British people safe.

«The British people have made their decision.

Both Alistair Darling and George Osborne repeatedly talked of the «choice» facing the British people.

He must now prove that he can turn this deal into real help for British people.

In May, the British people affirmed by an overwhelming majority and with their usual good sense that first past the post is the best way of running our democracy, and put to rest schemes of playing with the rules for a generation.

It needlessly fuels enervating sectarian debates that are by and large absent from the lives of most British people, who - as polls show - do not want religions or religious identities to be actively prioritised by their elected government.»

«The British people are our boss, they want the system sorted,» Cameron said.

Under rules introduced 18 months ago, British people can not bring foreign - born spouses to the UK unless they earn # 18,600 a year.

The Labour party and I'm afraid to say the Liberal Democrat party do not want to give the British people a say.

The whole point of William Hague's referendum lock is that it ensures all future parliaments can not make significant transfers of future powers to the EU without the consent of the British people.

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However, it seems the British people did not believe him or trust his judgement — and that's a position no Prime Minister can survive.

«Migrants are filling gaps in the labour market left wide open,» he will say, «by a welfare system that for years has paid British people not to work».

He also strongly criticised the party's strategy at the general election, claiming Labour's welfare policies «offended the British people's sense of fairness».

It is important to negotiate a new deal for Britain in the EU and then put the choice to the British people: stay in the EU on new terms or leave altogether.

Everyone knows this would be lost and the British people would vote to leave.

If he misses this opportunity to grasp the nettle and give the British People their say, they may eventually make him pay with the one vote they will have.»

It won't be done with the confidence of the British people while he is being held back by the Liberal Democrats.

The End Child Poverty coalition has just released the results of an opinion poll that shows 82 per cent of British people think that tackling child poverty should be a government priority.

This is our electoral offer to the British people.

Former PM says that the British people were misinformed by Brexit campaign and would be correct to change their minds

The ultimate responsibility for this wretched attempt at authoritarian Government lies with Ministers, and in a few weeks the British people will be able to pass judgement on them.»

Instead, Cameron began by praising the Remain campaign, his opponents and the British people, before inevitably moving on to his own future.

The Prime Minister is also the only one of the three main party leaders committed to giving the British people an in - out referendum on membership of a reformed EU, a Downing Street spokesman has said, as backbenchers urged David Cameron to adopt new veto powers.

«I have the highest opinion of the British people; I am a huge believer in our country, but I think that a greater Britain can be achieved inside the EU,» he said.

Bottled telling the British people the truth about the public spending cuts that are going to be necessary.

The entire global economy is sitting on the edge of an abyss and the urgent priority for the British people is to protect our economy and their jobs by getting this Eurozone crisis fixed.

But now the referendum is over, Vote Leave campaigners are already pointing out that they never said they would reduce immigration, only that the British people could if they wanted to.

Today, James Morris, the Director of Mind the Gap, argues for a much more open, networked Conservative Party - fully engaged with the hopes and fears of the British people.

After all, the British people did not always agree with Tony Blair's foreign policy but even his biggest enemies saw him as a strong leader.

Not only are the British people fully realising that Labour left us with the worst deficit in the Western world and are to blame for almost bankrupting the country, they will now see a Prime Minister who has stepped out of No. 10 with a well thought - through vision for the future and a plan to deliver.

Cameron staked his position as Prime Minister on a Remain vote, something he repeatedly told the British people was in their best interests.

The Government are clear that we need appropriate powers to deal with that threat but that those powers must not interfere with the hard - won civil liberties of the British people.

It's time we gave the British people their say via a referendum.

The pamphlet argued that the Conservative Party needed to convince the British people that it would not only advance the material interests of its core voters but that it must also become a party that cared for society's most vulnerable people and for quality of life issues like the environment.

The PM will effectively be playing 28 - dimensional chess as he tries to stitch up a package to sell to the British people in a June referendum.

In the meantime, the British people will be governed under the ineffective, flawed anti-terror legislation devised under the terms of the HRA.

Research published in 2016 shows that one in seven British people want a humanist funeral, when they die.

We mustn't lose what the British people have achieved.»

«But it is the only way to deliver a sustained, lasting improvement in the living standards of the British people.»

To waste billions on a full replacement of Trident is to take money away from other defence and social priorities, threatening members of the armed forces and the British people at large.

We must have British law for British judges if we are truly to defend and govern the British people.

Lord Malloch Brown, the Foreign Office minister who is stepping down this week, said the latest offensive in the war zone had not been sufficiently explained to the British people.

British people have built a comfortable, quiet and democratic universe in a big, old island where foreigners are respected and taken in consideration.

To govern the British people on our own terms, we must repeal the Act.

«Labour has nothing to say about tackling the massive burden of EU regulation and they can't even tell the British people if they are prepared to give up control of our ports and police to EU decision making,» he said.