Sentences with phrase «first peacetime»

Tory eyebrows are likely to be raised by Clegg's declaration that the rich must pay more as Britain copes with an economic downturn that is far deeper than anything he expected when he took a «collective gamble» to form Britain's first peacetime coalition in 70 years.

Clegg now admits he and his party, which stands at 15 % in this week's Guardian / ICM poll, have been badly damaged by forming Britain's first peacetime coalition government in 70 years.

Support for Britain's first peacetime coalition in 70 years has fallen dramatically since David Cameron and Nick Clegg launched the government in the Downing Street rose garden last May, according to the latest Guardian / ICM poll.

Dennis Kavanagh and Philip Cowley, the academic authors of The British General Election 2010 (the first such volume not written or co-authored by David Butler since 1951) conclude that this was «a landmark election», confirming the importance of multi-party politics, so different from the bipolar 50s, and bringing about the first peacetime coalition since the fall of Lloyd George in 1922.

Wilson (1998 - 2002) fought a gallant rear guard against Blairite politicisation which Turnbull (2002 - 05) continued., O'Donnell (2005 - 11) oversaw the transition from Blair to Brown and the first peacetime coalition since the 1930s and finally Heywood (2012 to the present) motivated the coalition and oversaw two referendums.

Not only does it have the youngest prime minister in almost 200 years and the first peacetime coalition government in nearly 70, it has the first Muslim woman to be a full member of the Cabinet.

Not exact matches

The «first casualty» in war being truth, yet it is assumed that in peacetime the media report the truth.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg today launched a seven - page agreement which will form the basis of a five - year government programme for the first British peacetime coalition since the 1930s.

Science and technology have been responsible for over half of the growth of the U.S. economy since WWII, when the federal government first prioritized peacetime science mobilization.

In fact, the cover of the first Power Wagon sales brochure touted it as «The Army truck the boys wrote home about... now redesigned for peacetime use.»