Sentences with phrase «brown was in a government»

In response, a Vote Leave spokesman said: «Gordon Brown was in a government that gave away part of our rebate and opened our borders across the EU.

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Brown thought the remedy was for the proposed new country — Canada, to clearly separate the powers of the central government from those of the provinces, which it, in fact, did in 1867.

Now, government investigators say that in the minutes leading up to the collision, Brown was audibly warned six times to keep his hands on the steering wheel.

«What the data show,» writes Brown, «is a Democratic primary electorate disproportionately made up of those either not competing in the economic marketplace or protected from it by unions or government service.»

The Jamaican Government revised standards for the retail sales of brown and granulated sugar in order to improve the way the commodity is supplied to the consumer.

James Brown's face was plastered on every billboard in Nigeria when we got there, but he was being brought over to sing by Philip Morris, not the U.S. Government.

Were black and brown lawmakers in the federal government prepared for this fight?

Any UK government would therefore have been forced to intervene in a manner similar to Brown.

The Blair / Brown economic legacy was one of under - investment in key infrastructure, notably transport and energy; a continuing decline in manufacturing contributing to a structural balance of payments deficit; an accelerating regional economic divide; and a speculative property and construction boom financing public and private consumption through highly leveraged government and household debt.

He said: «The Labour government is going backwards with Gordon Brown's demotion of the Cabinet committee on the environment, cuts in green taxes and rising carbon emissions.

Mr Brown highlighted constitutional reform as a personal priority soon after being appointed prime minister this summer and the government is expected to publish its own paper on the governance of Britain early in 2008.

Mr Miliband's visit is the latest in a line of measures taken by the government to try and limit casualties to civilians in the region including a visit by international development minister Mike Foster and a pledge by Gordon Brown of # 2.5 million in humanitarian aid.

The launch of a new website, data.gov.uk, is the culmination of work following Gordon Brown's request to make government data available to the public in June last year.

Speaking after the HMRC data loss and a fresh row over political funding in the Labour party, Mr Cameron said Mr Brown's government was now suffering from bureaucratic over-reach and incompetence.

He served as the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office before being promoted to become chief secretary of the Treasury in Gordon Brown's government.

Mr Carswell wrote that Gordon Brown and the government had been «caught red - handed» in breaking ministerial rules forbidding the use of government money for political activity.

He was well known to be profoundly loyal to the government, urging fellow Cabinet secretaries not to rebel against Gordon Brown in public.

Gordon Brown was forced into a 180 degree policy change yesterday following a weekend of widespread criticism over his refusal to offer government support to the families of victims of the IRA in their case for compensation against the Libyan government.

He told BBC News: «Sadiq comes from that part of the Labour party that was in government under Blair and Brown.

The activities appear to have been sanctioned by government officials high up in Gordon Brown's government.

This is in part because the governments of John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and the present Coalition Government under David Cameron and Nick Clegg, are said to have preserved the broad political settlement her governments cemented.

I watched Brown to day, he is a very very poor leader end of story, he is dragging this government into a very very long stay out of power, I do think people will see Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer labour.

The coalition government is unwaveringly refusing to reverse a combination of the housing and climate change policies formulated by Ed Miliband as secretary of state for energy and climate change in Gordon Brown's last Labour government.

My father was a SpAd in the Callaghan government and I served under both Blair and Brown.

In the end when we changed government to the Tories, guess what it was no difference, Ed the Miliband may well tell us he would have done things different, but he wrote Browns manifesto which had a lot of what the Tories policies in iIn the end when we changed government to the Tories, guess what it was no difference, Ed the Miliband may well tell us he would have done things different, but he wrote Browns manifesto which had a lot of what the Tories policies in iin it.

Baroness Smith, a minister in Gordon Brown's government and now Labour's leader in the Lords, made a little heralded speech last week in which she said: «For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to the one more heave theory.»

He was a contender in the 2010 leadership election and held a number of cabinet posts in Gordon Brown's government.

One interesting issue in this scenario is whether Labour would seek to hasten a departure by Nick Clegg (as the Liberal Democrats did for Gordon Brown in 2010) and whether the context of being in government with Labour would affect the outcome of any Lib Dem leadership contest (for which Tim Farron is currently hotly tipped).

Despite massive pressure by the government to force MPs into line, 120 MPs signed a «private» letter to Gordon Brown calling for delay in the proposals at least until an assessment of the government's «Welfare to Work» policies was possible.

Take for instance, Peter Brown, the chief advisor to S.J Jung, a candidate running for State Senate in Queens, who's been working to prove that US government agents were responsible for the destruction of 7 World Trade Center.

The migration impacts fund was set up Gordon Brown in response to local government claims that they needed central help to deal with unexpected pressure on housing, schools and hospitals.

In domestic policy terms, the impact of devolution meant that the Brown government's capacity to reform public services was confined to England, where Brown had no personal democratic mandate to intervene.

The appearance of Blair and Brown so close together (Blair on Friday, Brown sometime in the next two months) will reinforce the continuity of the Labour government in voters» minds - something Labour strategists could do without in a country where the very concept of «change» is becoming increasingly attractive.

In summer 2007 Gordon Brown indicated he was prepared to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug and and in January 2009, the government reclassified cannabis as a Class B druIn summer 2007 Gordon Brown indicated he was prepared to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug and and in January 2009, the government reclassified cannabis as a Class B druin January 2009, the government reclassified cannabis as a Class B drug.

Liam Byrne was the last Chief Secretary in the Brown Government and became infamous for the note he left his incoming successor, who he assumed, wrongly, would be a Conservative.

Gordon Brown announced today that young people will be expected to do 50 hours community work in the government's new scheme to create a citizenship conscious Britain.

Only once it was clear that Brown could no longer command the confidence of the House of Commons (the key principle on which Westminster parliamentary government is based) and that Cameron would form a government in his place, did Brown meet with the Queen to offer his resignation.

Recall that until Gordon Brown announced HM Treasury policy in June 2003 about joining the Euro, the declared policy of some British government departments was for Britain to join the Euro.

In 2008 - 09 Sadiq Khan was a transport minister in Gordon Brown's government and backed a third runway at HeathroIn 2008 - 09 Sadiq Khan was a transport minister in Gordon Brown's government and backed a third runway at Heathroin Gordon Brown's government and backed a third runway at Heathrow.

Standing at the window of his hotel room in Manchester, Peter Mandelson is apprehensive as he talks about what has gone wrong with the Brown government and how best to repair the damage.

Since 2010, with a few exceptions, Secretaries of State have been allowed to have a SpAd, but other Ministers have not (in contrast to the Blair and Brown Governments).

In this way, the rise of the right - wing blogosphere has been pegged to two forces: people who strongly dislike Gordon Brown (such as Fawkes) and people who want their government back (such as the ConservativeHome activists).

12:06 - Brown: Government is about making big decision in difficult times, and Cameron's not up to it.

The chancellor is to abandon the practise, in place since Gordon Brown started at the Treasury in 1997, of producing the mid-year comprehensive reports on the government's spending plans, and instead will issue a slimmed - down statement.

You might be forgiven for thinking that the depths in spinning had been reached in the roles of Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell for the Labour Party and then for the Blair and Brown governments.

Gordon Brown downgraded the job of Chief Secretary and removed from his Cabinet colleagues their right to be involved in the overall spending decisions of government.

Mr Brown insisted the government was doing its utmost to ensure stability in the wake of the Bear Stearns crisis.

He said: «The public and the voters will save Gordon Brown and this Government when they look back at the decisions we have taken in this Budget and look at the strategy we are pursuing to get through what is by any measure the severest international recession that any of us can remember.

The papers suggest the government is preparing 9.3 % cuts in departmental budgets over the four years from 2010, Osborne said, adding that Brown had told MPs he was not planning 10 % cuts.

That by trimming their sails to policies that are anathema to many inside the party — and a betrayal of all the bold, good things that were achieved in terms of domestic policy by the Blair / Brown Labour governments — they have caused swaths of the party's supporters to turn away in bewilderment and disgust.