Sentences with phrase «implemented under the coalition government»

In spite of the severe cuts to public funding implemented under the coalition government, the mood of the assembled legal aid lawyers remained defiant and optimistic.

Not exact matches

For example, the fiscal squeeze that began with the «Geddes Axe» under the UK's last Liberal - Conservative coalition in 1921 - 2 (and implemented in the following three years under three different governments) was also based on spending cuts alone, and went far deeper even than the plans announced by George Osborne.

This time last week he was chief secretary to the Treasury, responsible for implementing the spending cuts which the Lib - Con coalition government says are needed to get Britain's structural deficit under control.

The top 10 % of earners pay the most under the government's austerity, the IFS said, though it admitted many of the measures hitting the richest were implemented or devised by the previous Labour government and were continued by the coalition.