Sentences with phrase «erm membership»

He too had backed ERM membership, but blamed John Major as fast as Osborne would later blame him.

And he will remember as I do the insistent and increasingly shrill «jaw - boning» from a defiant chancellor who could not acknowledge that continued ERM membership was making the recession worse.

Not exact matches

As I blogged in June, Peter Mandelson was instrumental in recruiting Balls amid general agreement that Brown needed to strengthen his operation after he was weakened by his support for British membership of the ERM.

The then 23 - year - old Oxford PPE graduate was one of a handful of people at the FT who were sceptical about British membership of the ERM.

Peter Mandelson likes to say that he was instrumental in recruiting Balls, whose appointment was designed to strengthen Brown's operation after he was weakened by his support for British membership of the ERM.

In the 1990s I strongly opposed Britain's membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM).