Sentences with phrase «coalition came to power»

Eighty of these are the new - style academies, created since the coalition came to power and altered the scheme, which under Labour had targeted support towards deprived areas.

We've been living in a post-factual education world since the Coalition came to power, and it just gets worse and worse.

Twenty - four new free schools have sprung up in England in the 15 months since the coalition came to power - driven by individuals and groups inspired by the government's invitation to set up their own schools.

When the Coalition came to power in 2013, however, Australia saw very little substantive change of position in relation to schooling policy.

Across the UK, more than a million public sector workers took part in the industrial action, thought to be the biggest over pay since the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in May 2010.

Mr Duncan was elected MP for Rutland in 1992 replacing Sir Michael Latham and held a number of Shadow posts before the coalition came to power.

The law allowing the Home Secretary to remove citizenship was in place when Sakr left the UK, but it was not until after the Coalition came to power that it was used in his case.

He had been Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since the Tory - led coalition came to power in May 2010 until he dramatically resigned two days after Budget in March 2016.

Now an investigation by the British Medial Journal has found that since the coalition came to power it has met with the drinks industry on 130 occasions, including two times after a public consultation on minimum pricing had concluded.

Osborne stressed that because of the higher - than - expected level of inflation in September, the child tax credit will still have increased by # 390 since the coalition came to power last May.

The Conservative - led coalition came to power claiming to be equally committed to helping the poorest families.

If confirmed, those rates will mark the first rise in real pay since April 2010, a month before the coalition came to power.

A Conservative spokesman said 2.1 million apprenticeships had been created since the coalition came to power, and the majority of people had been under 25, with an average of 87,000 more young people a year taking this route into work than under the last Labour government.

But Labour said the NHS» staffing crisis was one of David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt's own making, as 4,000 nursing posts have been cut since the coalition came to power.

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.

Academies have expanded by 1,037 % since the coalition came to power.

Pay freezes and below - inflation pay rises have reduced public sector workers» pay by 20 % since the coalition came to power in 2010, public sector pensions have been attacked and public services have been slashed across the country.

The family were elated when the coalition came to power, because Nick Clegg and David Cameron had been such stalwart allies in opposition.

And, while Ukip did indeed attract more former Labour voters during the later New Labour years, they have won a substantially higher proportion of Tory voters since the coalition came to power.

Wales has already taken more pain than other parts of the country, with real wages falling # 1600 since 2010, and the further cut announced today will mean that the Welsh Government's budget is down by more than 10 per cent since the coalition came to power.

For the first time since the coalition came to power, there has been a rise in positive drug tests in prison.

12:46 - The deficit was at 11.2 % when the coalition came to power.

The number of homeless people sleeping on the streets has doubled since the coalition came to power in 2010 and has soared by 30 % in the last year alone, new figures released today reveal.

Labor first proposed the idea of an inspector - general for animal welfare in 2013, but former agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce dumped it when the Coalition came to power.

Lady Warsi was the first female Muslim member of the Cabinet when the coalition came to power four years ago.

An education act was on the statute book within seven weeks of the coalition coming to power.

Not exact matches

«The biggest reason we've seen all this action on abortion since the GOP came to power is that social conservatives are still a very important part of the Republican coalition,» says John Green, an expert in politics and religion at the University of Akron.

Burk, Moore and the Gospel Coalition seem to think that a power - struggle is okay, so long as it is the man who comes out on top.

«The Christian Coalition was a strong force in Germany» (when the Nazis came to power).

In fact, crime - related issues came 24th in the list, continuing its diminishing share of MPs» postbags since the coalition government came to power in May 2010.

Rough sleeping in England rises by more than a third since the coalition government came into power, despite David Cameron's promises to tackle the issue.

Britain's national debt will continue rising when the coalition's five years in power comes to a close, George Osborne has admitted in his autumn statement.

This continued to be the position of the Coalition government after it came to power in May 2010.

Sen. Jeff Klein has now made clear that he and his fellow IDCers would like to form a so - called coalition government with the Senate Republicans, which, in his description, entails a true bipartisan power - sharing situation when it comes to running the chamber.

Since the Coalition government came to power, 600,000 more children have been pushed into absolute poverty, Alan Milburn warned.

This comes on the back of not - always - successful attempts from the coalition to award powers, particularly over local economic development, to the eight «core cities» outside London.

The coalition Government stopped the regional level of control after coming to power in May last year, saying bodies such as Regional Development Agencies and Government Offices lacked legitimacy.

It was refreshing to hear Dromey admit that the previous Labour should have done more in terms of housing and that the UK's current housing crisis didn't start in May 2010 when the coalition government came to power.

The changes are significant — not least because both ministers have been in post since the coalition government came to power in 2010.

«WFP should learn from this rejection that power for working people comes from their independent political action, not acting as a faction of the Democratic coalition and handing over their votes to the corporate - dominated Democratic Party, which then takes their votes for granted and reduces their leverage and power to nothing.

«The Trump administration, with its actions around the census, is coming after New York's money and it's coming after our power,» said NYIC Executive Director Steven Choi, who announced his organization was joining with other advocacy groups to form a coalition called New York Counts 2020 to ensure a fair and accurate census.

The move also comes as the latest polling data reveals the coalition is losing support from low - earning working women, a key demographic responsible for bringing Mr Cameron to power.

The surprise announcement, rumored during most of the weekend, comes as Senate Republicans face stiff political headwinds this cycle — including an effort from a coalition of labor groups and Democrats to oust them from power.

Perhaps his coming reshuffle will see other dear departed ex-ministers from the coalition given another opportunity to return to power.

Rough sleeping in England has risen by more than a third since the coalition government came into power, despite David Cameron's promises to tackle the issue.

The governor's proposal also comes a day after the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference decided it would once again form a coalition with the Senate Republicans, much to the chagrin of larger Democratic caucus, which has been out of power in the body for the last six years.

Speaking on the eve of the Trades Union Congress's (TUC) first meeting since the coalition government came to power, general secretary Brendan Barber said the budget cuts have only just started to bite.

Since the coalition government came to power, reforms of the health service have been met with widespread criticism and disappointment from those in the medical profession.

The confrontation came as Norman among 91 Tory MPs to vote against a mainly elected Lords, inflicting the biggest defeat for the coalition since it came to power.

Coalition leaders said they would be following up with Espada in the coming months and warned, «We will know how to pull the lever and use the power of our vote.»