Sentences with phrase «economic competence go»

The fine ideals are long gone; it can not be long before this coalition's last claims to economic competence go too.

Not exact matches

And if the consequences of Brexit are as catastrophic as many economists predict, Tory claims of superior economic competence are going to seem increasingly absurd.

Competence goes beyond economic policy, however.

Labour is 11 % behind on economic competence and no opposition has gone on to win the next election when trailing the government on the economy, after two and half years.

Nick Clegg, in his speech on Wednesday, is going to say that his is the only party that can now deliver both economic competence and fairness.

Some Conservative insiders worry that February 22, 2013, might go down as «Black Friday», comparable to «Black Wednesday» in 1992, when Britain fell out of Europe's currency club, the Exchange Rate Mechanism, and the Tories lost their reputation for economic competence.

The question now is if the sustained electoral success we enjoyed over 13 years will go down as an aberration, an exceptional period in our history, or the opening chapter of a series of New Labour governments dedicated to economic competence and social justice, to the right balance between markets and the state, both reformed in the public interest.