Sentences with phrase «chancellor bit»

Sure enough the shadow chancellor bit back, calling the story «complete rubbish».

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The chancellor jokingly acknowledged that his colleague sometimes had to do a bit of heavy lifting:

As we realised soon after the Budget statement was delivered, the spending bits of his tax - neutral package were being financed by the chancellor stealing from (a) baddies or (b) the future.

But many of the cuts announced in earlier years by former chancellor George Osborne, including a four - year freeze on many in - work benefits and reductions in the universal credit, are yet to bite.

The chancellor acknowledged «that Breakfast in the Classroom has had a little bit of a rocky start» and promised that those concerns would be addressed before the pilot program was expanded across the city.

In a year to be dominated by the economy Mr Darling's first Budget as chancellor proved a bit of a disappointment.

Former Tory chancellor Ken Clarke also urged MPs to work together, telling the Observer it was time to «abandon a bit of the tribalism in British politics».

In the story I reported for Education Next in 2008, there is surely plenty of bluster from Mayor Mike and his former trust - busting chancellor Joel Klein — an image reinforced by a vivid cover illustration of the mayor, bedecked in shining armor with shield and sword, standing atop the city's refurbished Department of Education building — and there is no doubt that Bloomberg and Klein will have to eat a bit of crow.