Sentences with phrase «coalition spending cuts»

As I say, it's solid - and a few years of Coalition spending cuts will make it even more so.

In any case Labour knows that it can not jettison the coalition spending cuts if it wants a sustained recovery.

Coalition spending cuts Smith has been highly critical of George Osbourne's austerity budget and came under fire for comparing it to «domestic violence».

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A coalition led by the New York State United Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education is launching a direct mail campaign today slamming Democratic senators who voted «yes» on a budget resolution that included Gov. David Paterson's proposed education spending cuts.

Assuming the coalition continues its austerity drive at the same pace as that seen in the period covered by the 2010 comprehensive spending review, all government departments will have to make cuts of 1.6 %.

The coalition will hold a one - off one - year spending review in the new year, which will reveal by the end of the first half of 2013 plans for the departmental cuts anticipated by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the 2015/16 financial year.

This is the real background to this summer's Spending Review - living standards falling, growth flatlining, a deficit reduction plan wildly off track and a coalition forced to extend cuts to public services into the next parliament.

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

Ed Miliband suffered outbreaks of heckling today as he addressed tens of thousands of people marching against the coalition's spending cuts.

The coalition government is conscious of the fact that such an unpopular tax rise would be highly damaging to public support in an environment where public spending is being drastically cut back.

In those more recent fiscal squeezes, year - to - year cuts in public spending have been notably less deep than those imposed after both world wars or the «Geddes Axe» cuts initiated by the Conservative - Liberal coalition of the early 1920s.

George Osborne is extending austerity Britain's spending cuts for another year later, as he unveils the coalition's spending review for 2015/16 after prime minister's questions.

It takes real political guts to increase spending overseas at a time of desperate cost - cutting but the coalition is doing it, from # 6.6 bn in Labour's last full year in power to a planned # 8bn this year.

Labour said the funding announced today by the chancellor was a «tiny proportion» of over # 2 billion of spending cuts to HMRC imposed by the coalition, however.

The left's debate over how to respond to the coalition's spending cuts is focusing on Ed Miliband's leadership today.

Next week is set to be one of the coalition's toughest yet, as the struggling economy makes spending cuts even worse.

The coalition's economic policies were criticised by the IMF in 2013, with its chief economist warning the UK government that if it cut spending too quickly and too deeply, it would be «playing with fire».

Instead, it's spent its years in opposition generally opposing the coalition's cuts as a matter of course, making its commitment to fiscal rectitude just as the election approaches feel like a late conversion indeed.

The coalition agreement has allowed the leadership to pursue its zeal for cutting public spending.

The coalition government have said the cuts will not effect «frontline services» - instead departments are expected to renogotiate contracts, cut out discretionary spending, control recruitment and reduce overheads.

Despite picking up some support from the Liberal Democrats, Labour is still significantly behind the coalition on key issues including welfare, immigration and the balance between tax rises and spending cuts.

The Labour - Plaid Coalition in Wales has announced its spending plans today and they include real cuts in heath spending.

Two thirds of Lib Dem voters said that on balance they supported the coalition's plans to curb spending and reduce the deficit, though a high proportion were also worried about the pace and depths of the cuts.

Critics of the idea have claimed it is a cover for the coalition's spending cuts agenda, by transferring responsibility from the state to unprepared members of the public.

For example, the fiscal squeeze that began with the «Geddes Axe» under the UK's last Liberal - Conservative coalition in 1921 - 2 (and implemented in the following three years under three different governments) was also based on spending cuts alone, and went far deeper even than the plans announced by George Osborne.

How is it that Labour can oppose many of the cuts being made by the Conservative - led coalition and promise to spend billions on new policies?

Plaid Cymru will stand in staunch opposition to the spending cuts planned by the UK coalition government, its leader Ieuan Wyn Jones will say in a speech at the party's conference on Friday.

This time last week he was chief secretary to the Treasury, responsible for implementing the spending cuts which the Lib - Con coalition government says are needed to get Britain's structural deficit under control.

Polls consistently show the coalition as being more sympathetic to the needs and interests of the rich than of «ordinary people», and many proposed spending cuts are thought unfair.

As Britain's economy rolls on into 2013, facing new perils from inflation and further unpopularity as the spending cuts are increasingly felt by voters, the creaking coalition will find it harder and harder to win the political debate.

In 2010 he announced that the main priority of the coalition was to eliminate the public deficit by 2015 and that this would be achieved through a draconian programme of public spending cuts.

In the 2014 and 2015 budgets, the Coalition government cut spending, arguing it had inherited a high spending regime from the Labor party.

Blair and Mandelson know that their political project — to eliminate trade union and rank and file influence from the Labour Party and move it towards coalition with the Liberals — and the government's economic policies, notably the goal of cutting social spending, will collide with successive layers of the labour movement.

This consensus on cutting spending needs to be opposed by the widest possible coalition.

The new coalition government in Britain has begun a process of attacking working class living standards through public spending cuts, slashing public services and reducing public sector pay, jobs and pensions.

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.

They also call into question whether the coalition's policies are more radical than many, focusing on spending cuts, have realised.

Writing in a pamphlet published today and quoted by the Observer newspaper, Reeves stated: «For what it is worth, I think the coalition tightened a little more than necessary in the first two years; relied a bit too much on spending cuts rather than tax rises to fill the hole; and above all has taken a myopically conservative approach to borrowing for investment.»

The country's austerity drive is now set to continue well beyond the next general election, and later this year the coalition is expected to unveil further public spending cuts.

Offering a stark message to delegates, Mr Miliband told the audience that a Labour government would also have cut spending in government and that it would not reverse all the coalition's cuts if it returned to power.

This caricature of the coalition is allowing the Tories and Liberal Democrats to cut back Labour spending of the last 13 years.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

Government sources acknowledge the Coalition faces a «hard grind» following the upheaval of the power - sharing deal and the announcement of huge spending cuts.

The coalition says it is still committed to cutting back on public spending.

«Nick Clegg signalled a fresh battle over budget cuts with George Osborne on Sunday after warning that it would be «wholly unrealistic» for the coalition to pursue further reductions in welfare spending without increasing taxes on Britain's richest 10 %.»

Not only will the effect of the coalition's public spending cuts have set in, but the party is preparing for losses at the local elections in May.

He said the spending cuts and tax hikes that make up the coalition's deficit reduction drive are calculated to cost Britain's economy around 1.4 % of GDP.

Labour would have made 80 % of the coalition's spending cuts, after all.

As pundits monitor his response to the challenge, which appears as unmoving as previous Labour leaders have been, the debate continues about whether Labour should accept the need for spending cuts at the level the coalition is making them.

The BRC's warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from public services, which will result from the spending review revealed on October 20th.