Sentences with phrase «austerity plan means»

But the failure of the Government's austerity plan means that the next Labour government is likely to inherit a deficit that still needs to be reduced.

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Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

The plan means a two - year freeze on benefits and tax credits for about 10m households, many of whom have already borne the brunt of austerity.

«The Tories are hoping that the British people can be kept in the dark about what the tax increases they are planning will mean for those on middle and low incomes, who have had to bear the brunt of seven years of austerity.

Indeed such is the need for austerity that public spending plans will mean the smallest government spending relative to the rest of the economy since the 1930s.

Then security supposedly meant EU membership, opposition to the energy price cap, and George Osborne's austerity justifying fiscal plans.

A curiously political and surprisingly honest criticism of the Labour plan to halve the deficit in four years rather than to eliminate the structural deficit altogether — that it would mean going into the next election with more pain and austerity ahead.