Sentences with phrase «conservatives came to power»

In Dunmore, agricultural workers were excluded from labour relations legislation in Ontario when the Conservatives came to power in the 1990s.

Labour says the policy would cost the taxpayer around # 1.4 bn per year and that it would stem a decline in bus use by those within the age bracket since the Conservatives came to power.

Rail fare rises under Tories are «truly staggering» — Andy McDonald MP Labour compared costs on over 180 routes between when the Conservatives came to power and new prices that... Read more

Baroness Warsi was hailed by David Cameron before the Conservatives came to power, but has now halted her rise through the party's ranks - quitting as Foreign Minister over the Government's policy on Gaza.

In 1984, the Progressive Conservatives came to power by winning more seats than any party had / has in any other election before or since.

Scared at the prospect of a Conservative victory in an early general election, EU powers are apparently willing to prioritize British agenda items in the coming months, lest the Conservatives come to power and hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

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Oliver's predecessor Jim Flaherty was also a supporter of a national regulator, and had championed the initiative since the Conservative government came to power in 2006.

For the record, the then Progressive Conservative government's claim of a surplus just before the NDP came to power is nonsense.

But still, if a rich and high - powered conservative donor came to ask my advice, whether they should try to start a new college, or whether they should try the easier and apparently more civic - spirited task of helping to reform existing ones (by aiding things like existing APT programs, such as the one that employs me), I think I am obliged to advise the former.

«The biggest reason we've seen all this action on abortion since the GOP came to power is that social conservatives are still a very important part of the Republican coalition,» says John Green, an expert in politics and religion at the University of Akron.

The figure of 42,000,000 for China and Korea is based on the estimates as to the size of the Muslim community before the present government came into power, with a conservative allowance for population increase.

But when it comes to money, conservatives usually fold to their core values: power, money and self - interest.

I've seen conservatives come and go for decades, and when they get into power, they still bleed the public treasury to feather their own nests and indulge their pet priorities, They all waste.

She came to power after David Cameron's resignation in July 2016, when her other rivals pulled out of the Conservative leadership race.

There has been much talk of high principle recently, but the bare bones of the conflict come down to the fact that Conservatives need the extra seats the boundary review offers and the Lib Dems want the balance of power a proportionally elected second Chamber will give them.

On coming to power in 1997, Labour inherited a small PSNCR of around # 5 billion, and in the following years achieved a budget surplus, by sticking to the outgoing Conservatives» parsimonious spending plans until 1999, and by raising # 22.5 billion from the sale of 3G mobile phone spectrum licences.

The latest figures come after the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed in September that the number of people sleeping rough had soared by 134 per cent since the Conservative Party took power, prompting accusations from the spending watchdog that ministers have failed to tackle the problem.

Ashcroft — who gave the Conservatives # 8m while the party was in opposition and led a drive to win marginal seats — has said he decided to write the book when Cameron declined to reward him with a sufficiently senior job in government when he came to power in 2010.

Less than a year ago, however, new revelations came out about NSA surveillance as a result of Edward Snowden's leaks, and this time the Right was deeply divided: establishment Republicans continued to support the surveillance practices of the NSA, whereas conservatives and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party voiced concerns about whether the NSA was giving the government too much power.

Labour has spent around a billion pounds refurbishing government departments since coming to power, the Conservative Party claims.

Conservative leader David Cameron has also stated that «the time has come to look at those [prerogative] powers exercised by ministers.Giving parliament a greater role in the exercise of these powers would be an important and tangible way of making government more accountable».

Interestingly research conducted since the late 1970s tends to show that the average viewer thought that the BBC was biased towards the Conservatives in the 80s and 90s, but this began to taper off when Blair came to power.

The existing Conservative plans to devolve power to the North are substantial and should be felt in the coming decade.

A Conservative spokesman said 2.1 million apprenticeships had been created since the coalition came to power, and the majority of people had been under 25, with an average of 87,000 more young people a year taking this route into work than under the last Labour government.

Since coming to power in 2010, Cameron's Conservatives have made a signature issue of zealously cracking down on benefit fraud.

At Osborne's Notting Hill residence, the senior Conservatives looked at the Liberal Democrat manifesto, the Conservative manifesto and transcripts about everything Nick Clegg had promised should he come to power, the book alleges.

Whatever it takes for a REAL conservative to come to power in CD - 1.

The Conservative - led coalition came to power claiming to be equally committed to helping the poorest families.

Recent events suggest that when it comes to gender equality it's not Labour's radicals who have taken power, but Labour's conservatives.

He calls for Labour, Greens and Liberal Democrats to come together to win the AV referendum so that they can then come together and exclude the Conservatives from power:

The party has kept up the pace on green issues by coming up with specific proposals, including opposition to nuclear power, leaving the Conservatives looking relatively vague.

36 % of people, however, say they don't know and the public's perception is very much that the Conservatives, not Vince Cable, have the power when it comes to employment and business regulation.

The manifestos are mixed on this issue: while the Conservatives show no inclination to slow down their erosion of the powers of local government when it comes to school places, and UKIP make little mention of it in relation to education, Labour want to return power to local authorities along with The Greens.

Although satisfaction fell among Conservative supporters when Labour came to power, it rose by 12 percentage points to reach a high of 61 per cent in 2009.

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Across the UK, more than a million public sector workers took part in the industrial action, thought to be the biggest over pay since the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in May 2010.

Critics claim that the government has used the trials to bully critics, including academics with political views different from those of the religiously conservative AK Party, which came to power in 2002.

Conservative estimates predict about 55 - 75 GWe of global electricity will come from SMRs by 2035, equivalent to over 1000 NuScale Power Modules, it added.

The typically brash, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), better known as Iron Man, is surprisingly conservative when it comes to the group's use of power.

These subjects often come as unexpected and uncalled for, leaving the conservatives offended, but most of the audience seems to be thrilled by the power of drawing which makes the vulgarity seem harmless.

Apple has also always been conservative when it comes to radio technology and willing to wait for subsequent generation chipsets that offered better balances of performance and power efficiency.