Sentences with phrase «do in a time of austerity»

The Government want a time limited debate to ensure the issue does not drag on whilst opponents of the bill claim that democratising parliament is the wrong thing to do in a time of Austerity as it is a distraction from debating the economy or watching video's of Chloe Smith on Newsnight.

Not exact matches

Confusingly, in a motion entitled Generating Jobs and Growth in a time of Austerity — due to be debated on Monday (24th September) at the party's Brighton Conference — the Lib Dems appear to want to do both.

The speech fills a political vacuum and introduces a degree of gravitas to a government which has been tainted by the accusation of pursuing issues which don't matter in times of austerity, such as gay marriage and Lords Reform.

And Alexander today in a policy motion speech to conference certainly did his damnedest to defend the coalition, opposing an amendment to his «Generating Growth and Jobs in a Time of Austerity» motion to abandon the coalition's fiscal mandate.

In times of austerity, they would almost certainly argue, we need to do everything we can to ensure productive enterprise, and that includes giving businesses flexibility when it comes to making wage decisions.

Speaking of Sarah Teather's «very sad» decision to quit as an MP, Farron described being in government as «tough... it's a stressful thing to do, to be in government at a time when you've got to deal with austerity.

At a time of economic austerity and unemployment how does making 1,500 disabled people redundant fit with the government's determination to force those same disabled people into work and claims that «we're all in this together»?

The coalition should snap out of their austerity mindset and switch to Plan B before resurgent Labour does, says Philip Collins in The Times (#)

I don't think anyone ought to stand up anywhere in politics and say there is a group that are so wealthy that they should be given a free ride and should be excluded from having to carry the kind of burdens that other people have, particularly in a time of austerity like this.

The 2017 election rewrote the rules, and though the opinion polls did well in tracking the Corbyn rise and the stagnant Tory vote, the experts largely missed the increasing popularity of Corbyn though by the time Paul Mason wrote in the FT on June 3rd that «the UK is not a left wing country, but it is a fair one that has had enough of austerity» — he captured something of the shifts taking place, and the shifts are not all to Labour.

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