Sentences with phrase «coalition government took»

Many organisations have highlighted the funding cuts affecting the sector since the Coalition Government took office in 2013.

After 2010, when the Coalition government took over, any school with an «outstanding» rating from Ofsted was able to apply to become an academy.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) claimed that pay freezes and below - inflation rises had left public sector workers # 2,245 worse off on average since the UK coalition government took office.

However, ever since the coalition government took office four and a half years ago, this target has proved impossible to keep and May admitted earlier this year that it was proving harder and harder to aim for.

Not exact matches

Italy appeared to be taking a step closer to forming a coalition government on Wednesday, with the country's president seeking to push coalition talks between the biggest political parties.

However, analysts warned it could take months before Rutte managed to form a new coalition government.

The federal government has secured opposition support to pass one of the most substantial budget packages since the Coalition took office in 2013, making trade - offs on renewable energy funding and welfare payments to pick up about $ 6 billion in savings.

Greek TV networks predict that New Democracy will take about 127 seats in the parliament, which when combined with the 32 seats for PASOK, give the coalition more than the 151 seats needed to form a government.

The Canadian government has already taken steps on this front, announcing in June 2017 that Canada would co-chair the Equal Rights Coalition, the first intergovernmental coalition advancing LGBTCoalition, the first intergovernmental coalition advancing LGBTcoalition advancing LGBTQ rights.

A new coalition government led by Chancellor Merkel still seemed the most likely outcome, although negotiations between the various parties looked set to take some time, mainly due to the difficulties of accommodating the opposing views of the junior partners in the proposed coalition, the economically liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens.

Complicating the situation further is the fact that the Catholic bishops advocate many of the same positions taken by the Catholic Alliance / Christian Coalition, including strong opposition to abortion, and the selective return of power to state and local governments.

I am under no illusions about the significant political risks both parties in the Coalition are now taking by now facing up to these difficult decisions in government.

Legal challenges to the government's consultation, concerns over the hybrid nature of the legislation (this means it takes much longer to work its way through parliament) and the coalition's decision to split the legislation into two parts are worrying interested spectators — like Labour's Eagle.

The call put him at odds with the coalition government, who are refusing to take any refugees from the country.

He told politics.co.uk his policy committee functioned as an «early warning system» against steps taken by the coalition government which «could cause significant problems for a significant number of Liberal Democrat MPs».

The Coalition Government's dual offering of austerity and the Big Society takes the Thatcherite enterprise of rolling back the frontiers of the state to its natural — and perhaps dangerous — conclusion.

The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

This coalition government has taken the decision to fly in the face of these hard fought traditions and has instead, become hell bent on passing the responsibility and burden of the national debt onto those who can least afford it.

Given that the armed insurgents in the north and south have only one political agenda, the removal of Berisha, the international community wisely took the most politically neutral goal available — securing humanitarian aid... Italy's center - left coalition government has traditionally been very supportive of Berisha.

The previous government had planned to increase employer national insurance contributions by one per cent as part of its deficit reduction strategy (Alistair Darling, the then chancellor, has subsequently stated that he would have preferred to have increased VAT instead), and after taking office the coalition government only partially reversed this decision.

In 2010 a coalition government formed between the Conservative party and Liberal democrats took office.

There was a notable lack of details in this morning's Times story, in which Klein said «some type» of coalition government would take the politics out of policy debates and end the «constant hyperpartisan bickering» in the chamber.

Cameron may praise Thatcher for having «saved Britain», but in his actions he is a pragmatist who has worked hard to govern amid all the painful give - and - take negotiations of coalition government.

He was taking the helm of a conference that held a narrow majority in the Senate and was expected to lose seats in the 2016 election — forcing him to either fall into the minority or form a coalition government with the Independent Democratic Conference.

Brian: if you can't see the difference between a minority Labour government that - in your words (from your original posts on this issue)- dares the Lib Dems to vote it down, and a coalition government based on a mutually agreed set of objectives, then you need to take a second look.

If Ed Miliband were to announce that the next Labour Government would reverse this privatisation, then not only would he sweep the countryside that both Coalition parties have abandoned, but he would also stop that privatisation itself, since no potential buyer would take the risk.

What will happen at Glasgow is a series of votes where Ministers will tell Conference representatives that it would be politically damaging for the party to fight the 2015 election on positions different to those taken by the Coalition Government.

But he has earned Cameron's gratitude by taking a hefty pay cut to enter No 10 on a special adviser's salary of # 140,000 a year, having helped with the negotiations that created the Coalition Government.

This electrification programme, except for the Cardiff to Swansea section of the Great Western, is also being taken forward by the coalition government.

According to companies that are being pulled in for a chat surrounding the government plans, roughly a year after the Foreign Secretary William Hague's Cyber Crime summit in London, the coalition could introduce a system of insurance that would require the owners of PC's to take out cover against data loss and the costs of investigation to identify the culprits.

A coalition of New York public health, environment and healthy schools advocacy groups have banded together as they push state government leaders to take action.

«For those new to the process, it takes coalition building and compromise to get things done in government,» she said.

It took the Lib Dems» involvement in a Coalition government to bring these policies into law.

It is this twentieth - century politics that allowed the Conservatives to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats - the ideological obstacles to forming a government only took five days to overcome.

Child Victims Act Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

Clegg admitted that the party had taken «big knocks» due to a perception that the coalition government had returned to the Thatcherism of the 1980s.

Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

In a poll of British voters taken in May, 60 per cent said they expected the coalition government would be effective in its efforts to reduce the deficit.

Meanwhile, the Scottish National Party and the Democratic Unionist Party are taken seriously by journalists as potential members of a future coalition government.

[19] With no party having an overall majority, the Lib Dems agreed to form a coalition government with the Conservatives, with Clegg becoming Deputy Prime Minister and other party members taking up ministerial positions.

Gus O'Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, recently reflected on the 2010 coalition negotiations, arguing that things «could be even messier» this May, and that «it could take quite a lot longer next time to actually form a government.»

The party has long been paying the price for having joined a coalition government with the Conservatives and now the 2015 general election is taking place in a very crowded electoral field.

Beginning the long campaign against the government's # 81 billion spending cuts, the shadow chancellor said his party would not have implemented the «slash - and - burn» approach taken by the coalition government.

A coalition of good - government, advocacy, labor and labor - aligned groups are urging U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer to enact fillibuster reform in the chamber, writing in a letter sent today that the delay tactic has hurt the legislative process in Washington and blocked federal judges from taking their seats.

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».

Worst of all is the sense that a fear pervades the Coalition Government of taking on the liberal consensus in the media.

SJuan correctly argues that these words were never supported by any significant actions (laws, Government decisions etc.) and this is also emphasized by the presence of Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania in the Government (as of now, they are officially in the opposition, but they support current coalition) who ensures some checks and balances when taking decisions that might affect the Hungarian minority.

Although the coalition parties legislated to secure fixed - term parliaments of five years - a precondition of entering into government together - there are two ways in which a general election could take place before 2015.

The coalition government has taken a particularly strict line with the corporation, arguing it must demonstrate value for money by sharing some of the financial burden on public services.

NASUWT - coalition government's bsf mistake will take a wrecking ball to the hopes of school staff and pupils»