Sentences with phrase «economic competence since»

That 20 - point advantage to the Tories is the widest gap that ICM has recorded on economic competence since December 2011, when — with memories of the Brown administration recent, and with Osborne's «omnishambles» 2012 budget still in the future — the Conservative lead on this score briefly hit 21 points.

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Despite it's disastrous track - record of macro-economic management, epitomised by the Lawson boom in the late 1980s and George Osbourne's ill - timed retrenchment since 2010, the Conservatives have consistently positioned themselves as the party of fiscal discipline and economic competence, as well as the party of entrepreneurship and material affluence.

The polls on leadership and economic competence have been unrelenting since he became leader.

The efforts of the Labour Party to build its reputation for economic competence have, of course, been most damaged by its disastrous mismanagement of the public finances since 2002.

In the most successful political land - grab since Gordon Brown persuaded the electorate that Labour was the party of economic competence, the Cameroons have colonised the Blairite centre - ground.

«On competence, who do you most trust to deal with Britain's economic problems, the Cameron / George Osborne team has been static since the spring on 38 per cent, against 31 per cent for Brown and Alistair Darling.