Sentences with phrase «cut public spending before»

Not exact matches

As I have written here before many Conservative MPs and most of the media support public spending cuts in theory and then oppose the precise cuts that follow.

Clegg tried to show a bit of Thatcherite ankle before his spring conference last weekend, praising the Great She - Elephant's victory over the trade unions as «immensely significant» and saying that the public finances should be repaired by spending cuts rather than tax rises.

There, well before the fiscal crisis struck home, the leadership argued for cutting public spending on the basis that it was too high.

«The Tory plan is clear: use inflated fears of a debt and monetary crisis to justify massive public spending cuts and an increase in VAT now; blame it all on Labour's management of the economy; and use the resulting war - chest to cut income tax before the next election,» wrote Mr Balls.

Vince Cable warned before the election that «the danger of drastic cuts in public spending right now is that it would make the recession worse and it would make the deficit worse» — but he signed up to them.

Tight restrictions on public spending have starved the railways of new equipment for years, even before the drive to cut costs in the run up to privatisation.

Shortly before being moved in last month's ministerial reshuffle, Edward Leigh, the technology minister, told journalists that the move to close Warren Spring was prompted by the need to make cuts in public spending.