Sentences with phrase «last conservative one»

By presenting the British people with such a misconceived, simple choice about which to express a «will», the last Conservative government gave a poisonous legacy to the present one and it is one which Mrs May and her colleagues are struggling to implement rationally.

It has been a political football for years, with the last Conservative government scrapping it.

More coal use will mean that we overshoot even that maximum emissions path as indicated in the last conservative IPCC report.

Calvin Coolidge was the last conservative president, until Reagan.

Labour boasts of its economic record against the last Conservative government - but are its interest rate claims on target?

Both Osborne and Cameron were junior advisers to John Major, the last Conservative PM.

The last Conservative manifesto contained 625 pledges, none intended to be taken seriously.

The government plans to cut net migration — the number of people coming into the country, minus the number leaving — from the hundreds of thousands it reached under Labour to the tens of thousands seen under the last Conservative government.

Sir Reg, who replaced David Trimble as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and is a minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, will be the last Conservative candidate to have been selected for this general election.

Mr O'Shaughnessy, who was Mr Cameron's director of policy between 2007 and 2011, was a key figure in drafting the last Conservative manifesto.

Cameron is in many respects unlike John Major, the last Conservative Prime Minister to precede him.

The last Conservative government introduced a «fit and proper» person test that was so vague as to be almost useless.

The last Conservative government left the economy in fine fettle.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Duncan Smith attacked Mr Clarke for being one of those as part of the last Conservative Government who tried to lessen the recognition of marriage in the tax system.

The last Conservative government tried to build their way out of this problem.

He has worked at the Treasury, the Number 10 Policy Unit, the Centre for Policy Studies and served as Paymaster General in the last Conservative Government.

Those were the policies that we saw in the catastrophic recessions under the last Conservative Government and they are being repeated by Conservative Front Benchers now.

But he is also the man who in 1992 managed to win more votes — 14 million — than any political leader has managed before or since, making him the last Conservative leader to win a majority.

In his strongest PMQs performance to date, he told Mr Cameron crime doubled under the last Conservative government, the number of police officers fell - and the shadow chancellor has now said there can be no more money for crime and policing.

Built a strong reputation on defence issues - including a forensic analysis of the arms - to - Iraq scandal which rocked the last Conservative government and led to the Scott inquiry.

The Christmas Bonus, which the last Conservative government started in 1972, will continue

«Surely the Home Secretary will be aware that leading members of the Labour Governments since 1997 were expert and very successful in using leaked material during the last Conservative Government.

«David Cameron would be forced into a swift and humiliating retreat on Europe if he wins power, according to one of the elder statesmen from the last Conservative Government.»

The last Conservative gain from Labour at a by - election before their 1979 general election victory was in Ilford North (1978).

He has worked at HM Treasury, the Number 10 Policy Unit, and served as Paymaster General in the last Conservative Government.

«I always argued that the last Conservative government freed up the markets, but what was missing was the next bit.

The last Conservative manifesto contained a commitment not just to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on overseas aid, but also to «legislate in the first session of a new Parliament to lock in this level of spending for every year from 2013.»

David spent many years in business as a senior executive in companies such as Asda and worked as a Special Adviser at the Treasury during the last Conservative government.

Labour's economic recordThe actions taken by the Labour government has ensured that during the biggest economic crisis in over 60 years, the number of York people claiming unemployment benefi t in December 2009 was still 45 per cent less than under the last Conservative recession.

Academies are a natural extension of the reform introduced by the last Conservative government - city technology colleges (CTC).

Baroness Boothroyd said: «The last Conservative manifesto commended us for addressing the size of the second Chamber and the retirement of Peers.

Who can forget the petulant look on the last Conservative PM's face in that famous photo in cowboy drag at the Calgary Stampede?

Over the years, Bombardier has received roughly $ 1 billion in federal support, from governments of all political stripes, including the last Conservative one.

Not exact matches

Read how novice inventor Lesli Jenkins Wang got the conservative medical industry to accept her Free2GoRollator late last year.

Last month, conservative news outlet Daily Caller published a story with a headline that read, «It's High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He's In the White House.»

(One explanation for why pollsters failed to predict Cameron's landslide victory last year was because «Brintroverts» refused to admit they intended to vote Conservative, an uncool choice in everyday conversation.)

And while a more straightforward repeal bill may be able to win back some of the conservative defectors, moderates like Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and West Virginia's Shelley Moore Capito (in addition to Collins) have already expressed concerns that a repeal - only strategy without a replacement would wreak even more havoc on Obamacare's individual insurance marketplaces by creating long - lasting uncertainty.

Let's begin with the big news from last night: At the end of the day, a band of conservative GOP lawmakers thrust the final stake through the heart of the Senate's health care bill.

Rempel is now being talked about as a contender for the Conservative leadership, a prospect she addressed in a series of sardonic tweets last year, including, «All your DMs with DO IT aren't helping.

Flaherty, 64, served as Harper's only finance minister from the time the Conservatives won office in January 2006 until last month, when he stepped down, saying he would not run in the 2015 election and wanted more time with his family.

As a record - breaking 550 influential conservative donors prepared to gather in California for their annual winter retreat, the network overseen by Charles and David Koch highlighted its preferences for an immigration bill in Congress — parts of which differ from the plan the White House laid out last week.

But the court's more conservative judges pressed Jadwat to say how long the taint of the campaign statements would last.

Hundreds of thousands flocked to an online petition and the Conservatives last week vowed to overturn the CRTC's decision if it doesn't do so itself.

In contrast to their anemic foray into governance issues, conservative U.K. prime minister Theresa May last week made a bold call for action to create a British economy and society that «works for everyone.»

In the early stages of the last boom, between 2002 and 2006, the major companies were notoriously conservative about investment, worried the rise in prices would not prove sustainable.

Westmount's richest residents equally supported Conservatives and the Liberals in the last federal election.

Breitbart and countless other conservative publications have thrived over the last few years.

«Conservative pundits all too often sound alarms over an effort to take over America and of undocumented immigration's alleged horrific impact on the U.S. economy,» said Román, who authored a book released last year on immigration.

For one, it was reported last October that the project that led to the Steele document was initially funded by the conservative Washington Free Beacon.

(Many conservatives freaked out about the sanctity of the desk last fall.)