Sentences with phrase «to bury bad news»

Labour has accused health bosses of burying bad news on royal wedding day when it emerged that the health regulator Monitor had predicted hospitals would have to make efficiency savings up to 50 % higher than previously envisaged.

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Mr Healey said: «With all eyes on the Royal Wedding, the Government is trying to bury bad news on the NHS.

The Conservatives have accused the government of burying bad news by releasing a critical evaluation of the Sure Start programme the same day as a landmark pensions report.

by Tom Watson David Cameron's press team didn't just bury bad news yesterday, they built a mass grave and emptied a juggernaut of trash into it.

At Westminster this is known as burying bad news or, after the same practice featured in an episode of West Wing, «Taking Out the Trash Day».

He's lived up to his own description of being the «quiet man», by getting a junior minister to try and bury bad news ahead of the Lords reform debate.

So when he was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body.

John Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, said putting the information out at the start of the weekend «smacks of burying bad news».

Others were more concerned that the day was being used to bury the bad news that Boaty McBoatFace is no more.

Critics have accused the government of attempting to «bury bad news» by announcing the major U-turn just hours before the result of the London Mayoral election (follow our live coverage of the election here).

today's buried bad news is this story.

He may have calculated that if the highly revealing, over-long statement was to go out at all, it was best done on the day that Blair's memoirs were published in the hope that the publicity hype surrounding the book would bury the bad news.

They believe the Royal Wedding will be a good time to bury bad news.»

Moore never actually wrote the phrase «good day to bury bad news», but the sentiment was so strong, and so ably captured the lifeless, cynical caricature we have of the political class, that it entered the lexicon anyway.

«David Cameron may think that this is a good day to bury bad news but he now has an increasing number of serious questions to answer.»

The Friday meeting was shelved after critics accused the Thruway Authority of trying to bury bad news.

The infamous «good day to bury bad news» email began a month of criticism for the transport minster.

When the stellar line - up at Leveson this week was announced, it prompted a fair few jokes about these being good days to «bury bad news».

The Eccelestone affair, Mittalgate, the Hinduja brothers, using 9/11 to bury bad news, Geoffrey Robinson's offshore trusts, Blunkett's nannygate furore, the smearing of Paddington train crash survivors....

Of course they had to wait till Friday evening to bury the bad news.

The list was sneaked out last night by the Cabinet Office, leaving the Government open to concerns that it was trying to bury bad news.

Synopsis from Sundance: When Mickey's stepson Leon is killed in a construction «accident,» Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body.

God's Pocket (Director: John Slattery, Screenwriters: John Slattery, Alex Metcalf)-- When Mickey's stepson Leon is killed in a construction «accident,» Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body.

Publishing this announcement shortly before the summer recess suggests an attempt to bury bad news.

I have been looking at Scotland's 2017 special educational needs data, published last month amid zero publicity — these days we do not even have to «bury the bad news».

A way of burying bad news, perhaps?

On Sunday morning in the week before Christmas (nice time to bury bad news) Queensland Premier Anna Bligh confirmed the state Government was walking away from ZeroGen — a $ 200 million attempt to build a CCS power plant in the centre of the state.

Until six months ago, a government that had been downgraded in this way would be holding off an election until the last possible day in the hope of burying the bad news, or else would have gone early, before releasing the bad budget news that triggered the downgrade.

If I get the sense that an applicant is concealing previous employment dates or trying to bury bad news, I send that resume directly to the trash.