Sentences with phrase «by coalition ministers»

As a consequence, Labour's plans to borrow an additional # 50bn over the course of the parliament were derided by coalition ministers as irresponsible and potentially ruinous to our economic health.

Our research revealed for the first time that more than 300 such tsars have been appointed since 1997, more than 100 of them by Coalition ministers alone.

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The new legislation was supported by all of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras» coalition to get across the line.

The spending review by Prime Minister David Cameron's coalition government probably dampened spirits down in Davy Jones» locker.

The 9948 Coalition has requested a meeting with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to discuss the concerns of Canadian importers about this unfair retroactive enforcement action by the CBSA.

The coalition of business associations is urging Ottawa to refrain from issuing an order, however, which was last used in 2013 - 14 by former prime minister Stephen Harper when grain shipments were similarly backlogged.

In a letter obtained by the Financial Post Tuesday, a coalition of seven business associations urged Transportation Minister Marc Garneau to instead focus on Bill C - 49, the sweeping Transportation Modernization Act currently making its way through the Senate.

In 1997, HD Deve Gowda, then head of a weak, eight - month - old coalition government, had assured the world of the reforms road that India had committed itself to — his speech was to be followed within a month by Finance Minister P Chidambaram's pathbreaking «Dream Budget», which set an enduring benchmark for economic reforms and liberalisation.

In October, the Latvian people voted in a coalition headed by the incumbent prime minister Valdis Dombrovskis, whose government had savaged social benefits, cut pay and inflated unemployment in 2009.

Read the full news release, the coalition's open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed by 78 organizations, and sign and send a message to the governments of B.C., Alberta, and Canada at ConfidenceInCanada.com.

When the Alberta government released its Climate Leadership plan in November 2015, I said that Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips had made pigs fly by uniting a coalition of industry leaders and environmental leaders in our province.

In previous German governing coalitions, the country's finance minister has traditionally been provided by the second - largest party in the coalition — in the current negotiations, the FDP — so there was also speculation that prevailing German political opinion was likely to become more resistant to any future proposals from fellow EU members to reform the region's financial markets through a mutual underwriting of eurozone debt.

And the PDAC is doing its best to ensure juniors don't get overlooked in the fray of politics on the Hill — which almost saw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government toppled by an opposition coalition in December.

A coalition government headed by Prime Minister Necmettin Erbaken is, according to his opponents, leading Turkey in a «dangerously religious» direction.

Grey brought ministers from conservative denominations to a meeting with the United Methodist bishop, and eventually forged a coalition that won a referendum by a slim margin.

Champions 12.3, a coalition of 30 CEOs, government ministers, executives of research institutions, farmer organisations and civil society groups, was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos and aims to accelerate progress toward meeting target 12.3 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which seeks to halve per capita food waste by 2030.

In the first major act of rebellion at the autumn conference voters clearly rejected schools minister Sarah Teather's attempt to water down a motion stating that «conference is concerned by the establishment of academies and free schools under coalition government policy».

«The decision to go to war in Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power in a coalition of over 40 countries led by the USA, was the hardest, most momentous, most agonising decision I took in 10 years as British prime minister.

The Former Deputy Local Government Minister and Rural Development in the Kufuor administration had described as ridiculous the call by the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) on president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to restore teacher trainee allowances within its first 100 days in office.

In parliamentary systems, that compromise is often made by politicians after elections, when they form coalitions to choose a prime minister.

Spending cuts caused by the coalition's austerity drive are driving down ministers» ability to deal with this problem.

Because the electoral system makes an overall majority for one party unlikely, the first minister is normally elected by a coalition of parties that have agreed to form the Executive.

It will be a choice between strong and stable leadership in the national interest, with me as your Prime Minister, or weak and unstable coalition government led by Jeremy Corbyn, propped up by the Liberal Democrats, who want to re-open the divisions of the referendum, and Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

Professor Kevin Theakston, at the University of Leeds, said: «For all his achievements as a successful coalition prime minister, David Cameron's reputation and place in history seems destined to be defined by Brexit and his calling and losing the referendum.»

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

Now the dynamics identified in your post (together with the simple fact of Tory numerical supremacy within the coalition) mean that those issues not decisively closed off in the agreement will tend to be decided by the Tories in their own favour, and even those items that are dealt with in an apparently decisive way in the agreement will be pulled in a more «Tory» direction in their implementation, especially where being implemented by a Tory cabinet minister (or by David Laws, which amounts to the same thing...).

To avoid the Baker scenario, the Liberal Democrats should deploy more than one junior minister in key departments that are led by the senior party of the coalition.

Rebellions by Liberal Democrat backbenchers have been sufficiently problematic for the current government that some reasonably argue that the Tories could only rely on Lib Dem ministers in a second coalition.

Holland, a minister, noted that he would be the first African - American man to lead the GOP ticket in New York and that his «historic candidacy» would «not only help with the funding gap by getting earned media but also... put together the winning coalition that is needed to win the statehouse as a Republican.»

But if May has not secured a deal with another party by Monday morning, there will be pressure on her to call off the talks, particularly if Labour can show it can form a coalition with other parties to form a working majority and send Corbyn into Downing Street as Prime Minister.

Without doubt the best book written to date by a minister inside the Conservative - LibDem Coalition is David Laws Coalition The Inside Story of the Conservative — Liberal Democrat Government (Biteback # 25).

By contrast all Cameron had done was become prime minister and form a historic coalition government.

Unison's general secretary Dave Prentis warned Labour in Britain could suffer the same fate as its namesake party in Australia, where former prime minister Kevin Rudd has been decisively defeated by Tony Abbott's Liberal - National coalition by taking 88 seats to Labor's 57.

Following David Cameron's first anniversary as Prime Minister, comment has been dominated by the state of the coalition government.

«The Israeli prime minister publicly supports a two - state solution, but his current coalition is the most right - wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme element.»

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.

The deputy prime minister said the coalition government would not «duck the difficult decisions» by avoiding taking «decisive action to pay down the UK's towering budget deficit».

There's no point in alarming these centre - right voters by reminding them that in a hung Parliament Sir Menzies would angle for a coalition with the next Labour Prime Minister.

In a recent survey of party members by LibDemVoice, Browne recorded the worst net popularity rating -LRB--18 %) of any Lib Dem minister since the coalition was formed.

The theme of coalitions continues in David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider (Little, Brown # 25) by Roy Hattersley, former Labour cabinet minister.

In a round of morning broadcasts the deputy prime minister said he stood by a law, introduced by the coalition, to hold an EU referendum if UK sovereignty is passed to the EU.

Ian Mearns, a Labour member of the Commons education select committee, said the minister was clearly «on a different planet» to the families and youngsters hit by coalition cuts.

The coalition decided to make faith an organ of government by appointing the first - ever minister for faith, Baroness Warsi.

Mkenya Solidarity is now publically supporting the CORD alliance (Coalition of Reform and Democracy) led by the Luo Prime Minister Raila Odinga, having turned its back on Uhuru Kenyatta (after publically supporting his Presidential bid in the 2002 elections and allegedly being under his patronage in the 2008 PEV).

«The demand to introduce an EU tax contravenes the position underlined by the (German) government in its coalition agreement,» the Reuters news agency quoted a finance minister spokesman as saying.

The coalition's proposals have only been subtly changed by ministers since Labour first kicked up a fuss about them last autumn.

Schools minister Sarah Teather, whose amendment to a motion damning the coalition's plans for free schools and academies was defeated by delegates this lunchtime, is the first victim of this process.

When the coalition came to power in 2010, there was a brief window in which civil liberties were exalted by ministers and some of the more draconian Labour laws were repealed.

Contrary to what the shadow Minister said, the coalition has made a great start on addressing this issue by lowering corporation tax, scrapping the jobs tax and waiving national insurance for new small businesses setting up in Yorkshire.