Sentences with phrase «deficit reduction strategy in»

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.

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And this year in Glasgow it will be conference that decides on our economic policy (including the strategy for deficit reduction), tax policy (and, most totemically, whether to return to a top 50p - in - the - pound tax rate) and nuclear defence policy again.

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.

Public confidence in the coalition is collapsing to such an extent that they are going to adopt a new strategy of claiming their deficit reduction plan is the same as Labour's.

«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.

This kind of story is probably replicated in all different scales up and down the country and highlights that a strategy of deficit reduction without a plan for growth can create a Japanese - style vicious circle.

He continued in this «tough and tender» (his words again) vein when discussing the deficit reduction plan, landing the Lib Dems headlong into the government's strategy, rather than shying away and blaming all the unpopular cuts — as some Lib Dem politicians tend to do — on the Tories, resurrected as the «Nasty Party» by Vince Cable earlier today.

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.

In his Commons statement, Mr Osborne conjured up a trick of which Gordon Brown would have been proud: the average cut in departmental spending will be 19 per cent, lower than the 20 per cent implied in Labour's deficit - reduction strategIn his Commons statement, Mr Osborne conjured up a trick of which Gordon Brown would have been proud: the average cut in departmental spending will be 19 per cent, lower than the 20 per cent implied in Labour's deficit - reduction strategin departmental spending will be 19 per cent, lower than the 20 per cent implied in Labour's deficit - reduction strategin Labour's deficit - reduction strategy.

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.

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.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.