Sentences with phrase «conservatives out of government»

Sir John was ousted from power in the massive 1997 landslide that swept Tony Blair and New Labour to power, leaving the Conservatives out of government for 13 years.

The prime minister may be prepared to make greater concessions on electoral reform to Mr Clegg if it means keeping the Conservatives out of government.

The SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has repeated her claim that Labour would not be forgiven if Ed Miliband turned down the chance to work with her and keep the conservatives out of government following the general election.

Not exact matches

But as that occurred before the advent of the Tea Party, which was sparked in large part out of concern over the government's profligate spending, such an effort this time around would likely run into greater resistance, particularly from rank - and - file conservative House Republicans.

Although Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee did not respond to a request for comment, he has said the battle over the bank is one of philosophy, which for conservatives dictates that the government should stay out of free enterprise.

Although members of The People's Vote are quick to point out that they're asking for a different kind of vote, pro-Brexit leaders in the Conservative party, which controls the government, say the public doesn't want to vote on Brexit again.

Fifty - one years later in 2008, the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper rolled out the Tax - Free Savings Account.

With the Prime Minister having said the government would never go into deficit and with the government having created a structural deficit and with the Finance Minister having wagered on various surplus horses, the Conservatives — they, at least nominally, being conservative — must dearly wish to have these large red numbers out of the way.

Over the next 18 months, expect Trudeau and his government to remind Canadians regularly why they voted the Harper Conservatives out of office.

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target middle - class voters.

«It's certainly very hypocritical for the Conservative government to say that a member of parliament that advocates on behalf of a business in his or her constituency who advocates in favour of temporary foreign workers who meet the criteria as set out in the program, if somehow that's illegitimate for a member of parliament to advocate for a temporary foreign worker permit in his constituency,» Mr. LeBlanc explained, «then the Conservatives should ask themselves why under their watch the number of temporary foreign workers has doubled.

The federal Conservative government inherited a surplus of almost $ 14 billion in 2006 and then took actions almost immediately to wipe it out.

It's sad that this government had to create such havoc within the industry only to find out that the regime created by the Progressive Conservatives gives Albertans their fair share of resource revenues.»

«The Wildrose was not founded on political principles, like the fiscal conservatism of the Progressive Conservatives, or the social democracy of the New Democrats — but rather it was created, out of nothing, for the sole purpose of exerting political pressure on the PC government.»

Back to the federal Conservative leadership, Fildebrandt has endorsed leadership candidate Maxime Bernier, the Quebec MP known for his libertarian views briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs before resigning in 2008 after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open, apparently at his former girlfriend's home.

Why is the Conservative government throwing the rule book, for fear of competition, out the window?

Unlike the Alberta Government's method of introducing policies from out of nowhere and without electoral consent, Jason Kenney is offering United Conservative Party members the opportunity to set the Legislative course Alberta will travel into the future.

Many conservative candidates are focused on keeping the government out of everything, when sometimes the government is the only way to make sure that people get a chance to reach their dreams.

Douthat and Salam's youth» they're among the brightest lights in the next generation of conservative writers» gives them a new perspective on the contemporary political scene, allowing them to step out beyond traditional conservative fixations on tax cutting and limited government» where the supposed Reagan solution is always the correct solution» and to offer incisive criticisms of how the Grand Old Party's ideology frequently serves as a blinder to effective policies for the working class.

The Government has been formed by the Conservative Party, which won 331 seats out of 650.

Speaking at Chongqing University, Mr Cameron said a Conservative government would fit all coal power stations with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and hit out at a lack of government progress in the field.

I am just pointing out what the record IS - and that it almost certainly does include making our economy less unequal than it would be under the policies of the previous Conservative government.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

Public sector bodies and local councils in Britain are determining out how best to respond and adapt to the next wave of change driven by the cuts imposed by the Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition government.

If that message wasn't clear enough, Cameron also announced this week that a Conservative government would carry out an annual review of measures taken by the Scottish government to make sure they don't have an «adverse impact» on the rest of the UK.

In his keynote speech at the end of the Lib Dem conference in Brighton, Farron ruled out ever working with «Marxist» Jeremy Corbyn, who he said had given up on holding the Conservative government to account or winning the next election.

Hague's proposal is the first major request from the British government ahead of its renegotiation, which David Cameron has pledged will culminate in an in - or - out referendum by the end of 2017 if the Conservatives win the next general election.

Just 16 % of voters think the Conservatives and Liberal Democrat will remain in government together until 2015, according to a poll out today.

«The result not only signals that the Liberal Democrats are back in the political big time and the return to three party politics, it is a clear rejection of the Conservative Brexit government's plan to take Britain out of the Single Market,» he said.

The proposed cuts will be cherry - picked to feature items designed to annoy the conservative base (taken out of context, almost ANY government program can be made to sound stupid), and none of them is likely to pass.

David Cameron's got his hands full on his summer holidays: figuring out how to cement the Conservatives as THE party of government for the 21st century.

The promise of an In / Out referendum under a Conservative Government late in the next Parliament will draw much of the poison that has plagued the party over the EU issue since Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech - by making it clear to those MPs and party members opposed to EU membership that in such circumstances they will have an opportunity to campaign for a No vote.

Speaking before the publication of his anticipated political memoir, written after his party was reduced to eight seats in last year's general election, Clegg hit out at David Cameron and his Conservative partners in government.

«This race will be a choice between a community advocate who stands for ethics reform in government, supporting small businesses and middle class workers, and equality for all people, or a out of touch 1 % er who represents big business, back door politics as usual, and the conservative agenda,» Small said.

The tea party, and conservative, mantra has one consistent theme: government spending is out of control; and bailouts are socialism.

In fairness to the Conservative - led government, they have been clear that they believe Britain belongs in Europe and out of the eurozone.

The research forecast that the SNP would get 53 seats, which together with Labour's 268 would leave the two parties just short of the 323 votes needed to lock - out a Conservative government.

The 2020 «is trying to do the longer - term thinking... setting out a compelling, radical and progressive vision of where conservatism is going», and its key policy aim is to find the answer to the question: «What would the country look like after a successful majority Conservative government» - i.e. in 2020.

The view that the Liberal Democrats will be «wiped out» is a result of declining popularity for the Liberal Democrat and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg since entering into coalition government with the Conservatives.

In the aftermath of the General Strike, the then Conservative government sought revenge on the unions by changing the law through the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927, such that trade union members must «contract - in» — that is, make the decision to pay into the fund rather than opt out.

It is a matter of established fact that Tony Blair created more life peers than any of his predecessors: the government maintained, however, that the predominance of Labour supporters among their numbers was justified in balancing out the historic Conservative dominance in the Upper House.

Warning the Liberal Democrats must break the «stifling grip of the two - party system,» he said he «refused to believe the only alternative to a clapped out Labour government is a Conservative party which has no answers to the big issues.»

The Queen will set out the Conservative / Liberal Democrat UK Government's final programme of legislation during the State Opening of Parliament

And last night the Tory Right was out in force for the sell - out summer reception of Conservative Way Forward, the organisation which seeks to, in its own words, «defend and build upon the achievements of the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher's leadership, and to adapt the principles of her era in government to modern concerns and challenges.»

Osborne lambasted the Labour government for leaving the country after 13 years «one of the weakest economies in Europe and the last out of recession», and said that the Conservatives under David Cameron had «the ideas, energy and vision to make the economy work for everyone».

41 % of Conservative voters said that if there was not a re-evaluation of the decision by the Government, the probability of their vote being affected would be 4 or 5 out of 5 (with 5 being the most likely)

None of those recommendations have been progressed under the coalition government, since they were ruled out by both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats at the 2010 election, while Labour's always unrealistic projection of 400 - 600 million passenger movements in the UK by 2030 was further undermined by a weak economy.

Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, pointed out that the Conservatives formed a government after the last election despite winning fewer than 40 % of votes.

They set a political trap for the Conservatives, similar to the 50p tax rate, into which the Government walked, and now can not seem to get out of.

But I think my analysis has been borne out, in spite of the massive ruptions caused by the expenses scandal: «Throwing out a government that has failed them is what voters do best... Unless they make some dreadful blunder, the Conservatives will be the next government.»