Sentences with phrase «course on its deficit reduction»

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg refused to acknowledge that the riots meant the government had to change course on its deficit reduction agenda, however.

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We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

If growth resumes and the deficit reduction programme remains on course, David Cameron will have every reason to expect Labour's performance before 2010 to be thought to be more at fault.