Sentences with phrase «liberal democrat ministers»

Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers» constitutional reforms have been criticised from the start, as the Fixed Term Parliament Act deliberately linked the establishment of a five - year electoral cycle with the mechanics setting up the 2011 electoral reform referendum.

His comments, the tone of which could dismay some Liberal Democrat ministers, mark Mr Cameron's second recent foray into sensitive waters.

The draft bill, he argues, has been the result of the internal pressure applied by Liberal Democrat ministers inside the coalition government and the external debate generated by the Snowden revelations.

Mr Cameron's decision to abstain will split the coalition Government, as Liberal Democrat ministers have been told to oppose the amendment in the House of Commons this afternoon.

After a budget which exposed strains in the coalition agenda senior Liberal Democrat ministers defend a rise in VAT despite campaigning against the move during the election.

Nick Clegg and his 19 fellow Liberal Democrat ministers are giving around 10 % of their ministerial salaries to the party.

Lots of Liberal Democrat ministers, but not a single Conservative Cabinet minister on the front bench, though debate very well attended overall.

Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers are at loggerheads over plans for sweeping reforms to Britain's banks aimed at avoiding another taxpayers» bailout in a future financial crisis.

The SLF therefore reiterates its strong support for Coalition policy towards the Post Office, and calls on Liberal Democrat ministers to carefully bear in mind the impact of reforms to Royal Mail, giving full consideration to increased worker - and public - ownership.

Liberal Democrat ministers have all too often been identified with defending Conservative policies, and the party's leader has personal approval ratings which make Michael Foot look like William the Conqueror.

The pressure to speed things up will grow, not least from Liberal Democrat ministers who need to be able to demonstrate tangible success on the environment to their voters.

The rebellious backbench Tory MP stepped up his calls for the immediate breakup of the coalition after Liberal Democrat ministers voted with Labour against boundary changes earlier this week.

Dismantling at breathtaking speed every policy Liberal Democrat ministers put in place to support green industries.

David Willetts» unfortunate comment last week about higher education being a «burden on the taxpayer» suggests that not only will Liberal Democrat ministers have to continue to remind their Conservative colleagues of the importance of social mobility, but they will have to make the economic case for building a learning economy as well.

Dr Evan Harris: «The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference support for the SLF's health reform motion clearly flagged up a significant and growing disconnect between Liberal Democrat ministers and the grassroots.

Adam Fleming also spoke to Liberal Democrat ministers Steve Webb, Danny Alexander and Jeremy Browne.

Not recent political history though, as we find ourselves wading through a glut of books from former Liberal Democrat ministers who now find themselves with time on their hands.

The requirements from last March have been published and it is time for Liberal Democrat ministers to engage with what we have called for.

We need to persuade people every day between now and May the seventh that their lives will be better with Liberal Democrat councillors making a difference in their communities, Liberal Democrat MPs fighting their corner in Westminster and Liberal Democrat ministers serving them in government.

The Osborne plan (and the Coalition Agreement) called on Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers to achieve a cyclically - adjusted target to reduce government debt as a share of national income between 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 and, politically and economically most significant, to do so by achieving a budget balance by the end of the Parliament.

Clegg, and many Liberal Democrat ministers, can be aligned with an economically liberal perspective, as attested by their contributions to the Orange Book.

Where Liberal Democrat ministers can argue for fairness and social justice directly against those who seek to curtail them.

Where Liberal Democrat ministers can deliver progressive outcomes.

This is particularly exasperating for Liberal Democrat ministers, who need to communicate with their voters, who mostly do not read those two newspapers.

Proposals for mandatory jail sentences for possessing a knife, were rejected by Liberal Democrat ministers, according to cabinet papers leaked today to the Daily Mail.

David Laws was a Liberal Democrat minister in the Coalition government and has already published a well received book Coalition.

Sacked Liberal Democrat minister Jeremy Browne has compared his party to a «shopping trolley that defaults to the left» in a parting attack on the party's rank - and - file which has revived predictions of a switch to the Tories.

Cuts to support for asylum seekers should be scrutinised by parliament, former Liberal Democrat minister has urged MPs.

Well - off pensioners should face cuts to their winter fuel allowance to help pay for «catastrophic» care costs, a former Liberal Democrat minister has said.

On Tuesday the former coalition Liberal Democrat minister Sarah Teather warned MPs the labels would «set neighbour against neighbour».

Theresa May was said to be outraged last night after she learned she would have to work with a Liberal Democrat minister who believes an Iraqi hit squad killed David Kelly.

«Does he honestly think that either the teaching profession or parents will be impressed that he is now an apparent convert to the importance of qualified teacher status, when a Liberal Democrat Minister presided over its removal?»

The comments made by Loughton were branded «disgusting» by Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat minister for Women and Equalities.

This came as a critical time for Welsh Affairs, as when I began there was no Liberal Democrat minister in the Wales Office, which at the time was occupied by Mrs Gillan and Mr Jones.

Unite the union which represents managers at Royal Mail has warned (Monday 19 September) that Ed Davey's (Liberal Democrat Minister for Postal Affairs) consultation on the proposed mutualisation of the Post Office is a recipe for disaster.

Sacked Liberal Democrat minister Jeremy Browne has hit out at party leader Nick Clegg's «blurred liberalism», in a media offensive raising eyebrows in Westminster.

«Jo Swinson, minister for women and equalities, said yesterday that observers were expecting Kate to meet «impossible standards» to reduce her weight... The Liberal Democrat minister said it was wrong to believe that Kate and other women who have just given birth were «failing» if they did not work instantly to regain their pre-pregnancy figure.

The SLF has been celebrating a triumph in Government with the pension reforms delivered by Liberal Democrat Minister Steve Webb MP.

More than 2,000 tax inspectors will be recruited to crack down on tax evasion among the wealthiest people in the UK, a Liberal Democrat minister has said.

Mr Clegg said he has asked Liberal Democrat minister David Laws to act as a troubleshooter and put pressure on the Home Office to pursue the issue.»

David Laws, executive chairman of EPI and a former Liberal Democrat minister for schools, said he was «delighted» Wilshaw was joining the board.

Not exact matches

Before Justin Trudeau had uttered a word, Heritage Minister James Moore had used his fifth response to the New Democrats to scold the Liberal leader and then, in response to Mr. Trudeau's first question, Mr. Moore had pronounced further shame on him and so now Mr. Trudeau attempted a rallying cry.

VICTORIA — Christy Clark's health minister cut nearly 100 local jobs and put the health and safety of his own community at risk to outsource hospital laundry services to a big B.C. Liberal donor, say B.C. New Democrats.

Former defence minister Rob Nicholson stonewalled the accountability demands of the New Democrats and Liberals, who pointed out the Americans keep a running, publicly reported tab of their expenses.

«Don McRae needs to answer to his constituents, many of whom strongly support the protection of farmland, whether or not he stands with British Columbian farmers, or if he sides with B.C. Liberal MLA Bill Bennett who wants to destroy the Agricultural Land Reserve,» said New Democrat agriculture critic Nicholas Simons, who noted that McRae is himself a former agriculture minister.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government remains silent on what progress has been made on implementing recommendations from the Missing Women's Inquiry, despite the minister's October timeline to report out, say New Democrats.

New Democrat environment critic Spencer Chandra Herbert noted that on Sept. 25, the B.C. Liberal's own deputy minister of the environment said, «I have to be entirely honest in saying, you know, spills unfortunately are going to happen.»

Itâ $ ™ s the kind of budget a New Democrat could love, and indeed in the first Question Period following Liberal Finance Minister Bill Morneauâ $ ™ s presentation of his big - spending, green -, child -, labou...

New Democrats pressed Justice Minister Suzanne Anton in Question Period, calling on her and the B.C. Liberal government to bring in a shuttle bus along the Highway of Tears.

Premier's Political Editor says there's no chance of the coalition government falling apart after the resignation of a Liberal Democrat Home Office minister.