Sentences with phrase «deficit reduction strategy»

Indeed, can you say, hand on heart, that you would support the basic deficit reduction strategy - its pace and / or its split as between spending cuts and extra taxes?

But Fitch's announcement plunges the coalition's entire deficit reduction strategy into crisis.

The Liberal Democrats went into the election promising a modest but honest deficit reduction strategy.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

The motion in Clegg's name aiming to persuade the party to back George Osborne's deficit reduction strategy in the 2015 election and beyond may be the most significant of all.

Britannia Unchained backs the current government's deficit reduction strategy as a vital first step to restoring economic growth.

The publication also explains that, within two years, nondefense discretionary spending will be a smaller percentage of our economy than ever before if lawmakers do not replace sequestration with a more comprehensive deficit reduction strategy.

Blinder recommends using carbon tax revenue to reduce the deficit and underscores the advantages of a carbon tax over other deficit reduction strategies:

The release of last week's growth figures, showing a contraction of 0.5 % in GDP, has momentarily thrown the coalition government's deficit reduction strategy into disarray.

George Mudie said the deficit reduction strategy had «stalled» for the last three years around the # 110 billion mark.

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.

It was there in the build - up to Iraq, or when then - home secretary Alan Johnson sacked the chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, or when George Osborne pursued a deficit reduction strategy identical to the one he'd branded dangerous when it was proposed by Alistair Darling.

George Osborne should put aside his pride and abandon his deficit reduction strategy, Ed Balls has told politics.co.uk.

The report will increase the pressure on the chancellor to provide a Plan B to his deficit reduction strategy and reduce the pace of structural fiscal tightening.

While he said that the economy was «on the mend», Chancellor George Osborne reaffirmed there would be no deviation from his deficit reduction strategy.

«The fact that the government is borrowing money for people to do nothing explodes the deficit reduction strategy that has sucked confidence out of every corner of the economy and caused this surge in joblessness in the first place.

Bridges» article is being viewed as an attack on the prime minister's approach to politics, at a time when the coalition is wrestling with questions on Europe and about how much to make the rich contribute to its deficit reduction strategy.

An extract was released overnight (to get maximum coverage from the national newspapers) which suggested he was calling on Britons to pay back their personal debts as soon as possible - to help with the coalition's deficit reduction strategy.

It will help the recovery by providing # 20 billion of extra lending to the engines of the recovery, Britain's small - and medium - sized enterprises, without denting the government's deficit reduction strategy one jot.

Danny Alexander: Exceeding all expectations after replacing David Laws and George Osborne's number two, Danny Alexander has been effective at arguing in favour of the deficit reduction strategy.

Mili E has no deficit reduction strategy and it is unclear whether he can construct an agenda that might appeal in the swing seats he needs to at least make Labour the largest party.

But pointing to the fact that the announcement came just a day after the transport secretary, Justine Greening, publicly defended the fuel duty rise as an important part of the government's deficit reduction strategy, Miliband said: «So it was all part of a seamless political strategy?»

The ministers recognise that the government can not be seen to be straying openly from the deficit reduction strategy, and if they did so it would only lead to a self - defeating reaction in the bond markets that drive up interest rates.

Labour politicians have long pointed to their «Plan B», and their deficit reduction strategy that would, apparently, be carried out slower than the Coalition plan, and be less «painful».

He has 18 years of experience advising clients on pension scheme reorganisations and mergers, deficit reduction strategies and restructurings, and has particular experience in pensions investment matters.