Sentences with phrase «government holds its nerve»

And it can be turned from imagination to reality if the Government holds its nerve, and its leadership plans its strategy and tactics more effectively than it has this week over child benefit.

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LONDON — Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that Britain needs a «grown - up» debate over whether pay for public sector workers should be increased, arguing that the government must «hold its nerve» on austerity.

They should hold their nerve and wait for the UKIP bubble to collapse in 2015, when it struggles to compete under a first - past - the - post system in an election to choose the nation's government.

The call for governments to hold their nerve comes amid mounting public debate about the taxation of digital multinational companies.

We urge governments to hold their nerve and make sure these agreed reforms work and have a wide take up before attempting further fixes that risk upsetting attempts at global solutions.

Governments need to give technical experts more autonomy and hold their nerve to provide more long - term stability when investing in clean energy, argue researchers in climate change and innovation policy in a new paper published today.

, but whatever happens in the end, and regardless of whether the coalition loses its nerve, given Mr. Harper's unilateral delay of the confidence vote (contrary to his readiness to hold «confidence» votes in the last Parliament, taking advantage of the Liberals» reluctance to go to the polls), and whether the Liberal leadership candidates can indeed work together, the last week or so has been a wonderful lesson — and reminder — about our system of government and its constitutional cleverness.