Sentences with phrase «climbdown comes»

The looming climbdown comes with the Government facing a crushing defeat in Parliament over the plan to strip 370,00 disabled people of # 3,500 - a-year in vital benefits.

The climbdown came as Stephen Byers, a former cabinet minister, called on Brown to scrap ID cards and the replacement of the Trident missile programme because of the recession, warning that it would be a «fraud on the electorate» if all the parties were not open about cutbacks needed to balance Britain's books.

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The Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has referred to «major exemptions for all kinds of different groups» - both coded messages that a climbdown is coming.

The chorus of opposition was getting louder, the climbdown, when it came, was massive but inevitable.