Given that she is being touted as a potential Shadow Chancellor should Andy Burnham win, this should worry those of us in the party
concerned with austerity and poverty.
Not exact matches
Rachael Pogois, vice-chairwoman on the council of St Andrew's International Church in Athens, said she was «very, very
concerned» about the upcoming levels of
austerity which would come
with the financial deal.
Instead the party struggled in vain
with what then seemed to be the real issue of the day, the relationship between the state and «
austerity» — that was not in any way the central
concern of Blue Labour thinkers.
Hammond had been under intense pressure to respond to the
concerns expressed by voters during the general election campaign about cuts to public services and the rising cost of living,
with several vocal MPs, including former minister Nick Boles, calling for an end to
austerity.
Quite a contrast
with President Obama (and others») invocation of a leisurely «bridge to the future» where fossil fuel use is
concerned, or of neoliberal economic policies (to say nothing of
austerity politics).
The criminal justice recommendation, thus, fits within a wider narrative of
concern at the Government's obsession
with digitalisation as a cost - saving,
austerity - driven measure.