Sentences with phrase «economic credibility»

Late last year the Conservatives held a 10 point lead over Labour on economic credibility — a key metric to watch over the course of this parliament.

This is not just necessary for Labour to restore its badly damaged economic credibility with the voters.

Economic credibility matters for the future of this party.

It's clear the government is still failing to take the necessary action to restore economic credibility.

The key measure to watch on economic credibility is which party is seen as the best on managing the economy.

For much of the coalition's first two years in power Labour has lagged behind in terms of economic credibility, but Survation's respondents trusted Ed Balls more on 28 % to George Osborne's 26 %.

Ahead of Saturday 14th January's Fabian New Year Conference there is a renewed focus on how Labour gains economic credibility in proposing the economic alternative, and it is imperative that such a policy convinces the public.

But the economy wins elections and Labour must also «rebuild economic credibility», which contrary to Cruddas is not «already being done by Ed Balls».

So, however much people hate the cuts, Labour will not regain power until it first regains economic credibility.

Labour will not gain economic credibility unless it matches Tory spending plans.

Labour took its first step to economic credibility by Jeremy Corbyn's appointment of John McDonnell as Shadow Chancellor.

Stephen Kinnock might think, assisted by a global downturn shattering Tory economic credibility, that he can succeed where his father failed.

In the 21 months between now and May 2015, Labour's biggest challenge is to win economic credibility in the hearts and minds of the British people.

The first concerted attempt to map out a new agenda for Labour urges greater economic credibility on public spending cuts.

Concerned to yank back economic credibility from the Tories, he reaffirmed the Darling plan to halve the deficit over the course of the parliament, and made points around the need to develop a proper industrial strategy.

Labelled as the continuity Blair candidate, David's victory speech — secured across all three sections of the electoral college, albeit very narrowly with a higher - than - expected turnout from USDAW members in the trade union component, emphasised the need to capture economic credibility.

Most had misgivings about Ed Miliband's agenda, which was seen as too left - wing and lacking economic credibility.

They had elected their first MP, the government were implementing unpopular austerity policies and Labour were constrained in their opposition to cuts by a desire to establish their own economic credibility.

The June Political Monitor shows mixed news on the relative economic credibility of the parties following last week's speeches by Ed Miliband and Ed Balls.

@johnmcdonnellMP - For Miliband and Balls economic credibility means accepting Tory cuts and pay freezes.

Welfare reform has been on of the areas that the Lib Dems have found particularly hard in in Government, trying to walk the tightrope between economic credibility in reducing spending and social justice.

George Osborne's economic credibility suffered a fresh blow on Thursday when Standard and Poor's became the third of the major credit ratings agency to put the UK's AAA rating on negative outlook.

Labour needs economic credibility to form the next government.

With Labour's economic credibility hole only the politics matter.

Let us not forget Liam Byrne's letter, which was used to attack Labour's economic credibility before and during the 2015 election to devastating effect.

Although the party maintains a steady opinion poll lead, the deficits the party continues to run on leadership and economic credibility makes many nervous that the headline poll lead will hold water the closer we get to next May.

Danny Alexander needs to realise that economic credibility comes from delivering on what you promise.

Labour should seek to win enough economic credibility to defeat the Conservatives in this battle, while also recovering sufficient authenticity to rebuff the new insurgents.

But it didn't matter because you don't build economic credibility through micro-policies.

Let's go to some sources with more economic credibility than myself or Councillor Ford.

Labour has failed the first test of economic credibility.»

And Osborne's attempt to make deficits illegal is a great chance to face up to the past and rebuild economic credibility.

Labour needs to quickly choose between the disastrous and the unpalatable if it is to regain economic credibility.

The Balls approach always envisaged a commitment to remaining within the government's future spending totals — as Gordon Brown's main adviser in the 1990's, he had been the leading champion of matching government plans — but this was for much later in the parliament, once Tory economic credibility had been destroyed.

They did this because they had to: back then, economic credibility mattered much, much more than anything else in a party or leader.

All kinds of things change - the importance of being seen as the better leader with the greater economic credibility is heavily downgraded, the importance of the right - wing press is blown to pieces, the vice-like grip of older voters disappears.

But it works: perversely, after all the economic and social consequences of austerity, the Cameron - Osborne duo remain decisively ahead on economic credibility.

A lot of the government's troubles this month have been laid at the feet of the Budget, and while Conservative supporters are more positive about it than other voters — as we would expect — there are signs that the government's reputation for economic credibility has taken a hit.

Lead drops to only two points after Labour leader forgot to mention deficit and fails to gain economic credibility, poll finds

While Murphy is not the first frontbench Labour MP to make such a claim in recent weeks, with Ed Balls highlighting a similar approach in the latest Fabian Review, this idea was also expressed in the Fabian Society's September 2010 pamphlet The Credibility Deficit by Stephen Beer which focused on Labour rebuilding its economic credibility and in the process regaining the public's trust.

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in office.

«He is a very senior figure, a very credible figure, with, in particular, economic credibility.

A political and policy vacuum is emerging: social democratic parties must be in a position to seize the agenda as the economic credibility of Conservatism is sorely tested.

Not snakes and spiders in the jungle, but their fiscal rule broken, their economic credibility in tatters, exposed now as incompetent and unfair.

He has lost all economic credibility but it's ordinary working families who are struggling to put food on the table this winter because of his failure.

«The government's economic credibility is now in tatters because we have a chancellor who is anti-growth and fixated on austerity.

In one fell swoop the Tories had renounced their economic credibility by retreating to the surer ground of Labour's plan.

The theme: how can Labour restore its economic credibility with the electorate?