Sentences with phrase «inherited from the labour»
The source said the pay cap was brought in to «deal with the mess we inherited from Labour» and acknowledged the «hard work and sacrifice» made by public sector workers, saying jobs had been protected and the deficit reduced by three quarters.
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In 2011, Theresa May revamped the aforementioned PREVENT de-radicalization programme inherited from the Labour government.
«Every opportunity is being given for military personnel to retrain either for alternative roles in the armed forces or in civilian life, but the simple fact is we have to tackle the massive deficit we inherited from Labour and the huge black hole in the defence budget,» he explained.
What we will be doing shortly, when we come forward with our response to the Browne report, is install new measures that will ensure that the way in which students go to university is fairer and less punitive on those who are disadvantaged than the system that we inherited from the Labour party.»
Instead, he returned to his favourite topics of Labour's record in Wales and the mess he inherited from Labour.
«I was making the point that thanks to the mess we inherited from Labour, we are having to make very difficult decisions, much tougher than would have been imagined in the 1980s,» he said.
The really important thing about this coalition is that we came together to sort out the economic mess that we inherited from Labour.
The modest proposals so far incorporated in Standing Orders does something to address the unfairness in the lop sided devolution settlement Conservative governments inherited from Labour.
The government is already relaxing a little the deep cuts inherited from the Labour government in capital spending.
Political editor Gary Gibbon writes: IFS analysis of the emergency budget suggests that it is «somewhat regressive» when you «take out the effect of measures inherited from Labour, when you look further into the future than 2012 - 13 and when you include some other measures that the Treasury has chosen not to model.»
He said many were wondering whether there an easier way to deal with what he described as the «catastrophic» public finances the coalition had inherited from Labour.
The system we inherited from Labour had become a trap.
Not exact matches
We must work together to find efficiency savings and switch resources to Labour's priorities; but you can not prepare now on any basis other than that you will inherit very tough spending plans from this year's Spending review.
Rather than silly Punch and Judy rhetoric about Tories it might be instructive to consider just how far and how destructively New Labour has combined a market ideology (inherited from Thatcherism, although frequently misunderstood) with a preference for social engineering once favoured by what had been the more Statist elements of the Left to create social bullying through rationing, which is what this is all about.
On coming to power in 1997, Labour inherited a small PSNCR of around # 5 billion, and in the following years achieved a budget surplus, by sticking to the outgoing Conservatives» parsimonious spending plans until 1999, and by raising # 22.5 billion from the sale of 3G mobile phone spectrum licences.
«Throughout these years, because of the perilous public finances we inherited from the last Labour administration, difficult cuts have been necessary.
«Given the opportunity to support a call for the UK Government to postpone the planned rise in fuel duty — a rise inherited from the last Labour Government — Scottish Labour astonished the parliament by abstaining.
The comments came amid calls for her resignation from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who claimed she inherited a «failing policy» and made it «worse».
Elsewhere in the exchanges, Boris Johnson was labeled the «Tory clown prince», while Gordon Brown's and Ed Balls's alleged attempts to prevent David Miliband from inheriting the Labour leadership was «like the Tudors».
Labour have been very fortunate with the economy in that previous governments have inherited a much more difficult base to work from.
«We have inherited an almighty mess from the Labour government,» he told Channel 4 News.
She said: «Lax immigration and border controls inherited from the previous Labour government have left this mess and the current Government must take all steps necessary, including abolishing the Human Rights Act, to get these people removed from Britain.
Such a politics is light years from Labour's inherited instincts.
For the moment, the Conservatives» argument that they inherited a mess that they are now having to sorting out, and that Labour is responsible for Britain's woes, still has enough appeal to prevent Labour from capitalising on the government's growing unpopularity.