Sentences with phrase «need for spending cuts»

By conceding the need for spending cuts Ed Balls has made the job of the next Conservative government a lot easier... George Osborne now wants Labour to also concede the need for tax rises

«If, God forbid, David Cameron falls under a bus William Hague would certainly be the next Tory leader Main By conceding the need for spending cuts Ed Balls has made the job of the next Conservative government a lot easier... George Osborne now wants Labour to also concede the need for tax rises»

On the face of it Clegg's determination to move the debate on from David Cameron's «honest» approach to be open about the need for spending cuts is impressive.

All of this, some would say, is simply mid-term blues, that voters accept that the country was in a dire position in 2010, people accepted the need for spending cuts and they understand that Britain's economy is suffering because of the problems in the eurozone.

The public are remarkably accepting of the need for spending cuts.

The defence experts did however agree that the SDSR was a good balance between the need for spending cuts and preserving the UK military, suggesting that many had feared far greater cuts to the budget than the 7.5 % which emerged.

This is the regime Mitchell went out of his way to hand millions of pounds of British taxpayers» money to, while waxing lyrical about the need for spending cuts at home on TV and radio broadcasts.

As pundits monitor his response to the challenge, which appears as unmoving as previous Labour leaders have been, the debate continues about whether Labour should accept the need for spending cuts at the level the coalition is making them.

As a Republican, how do you balance the need for spending cuts and reducing the deficit and the debt with the desire for constituents to get some federal dollars to this area that has been struggling so with the economy?

By lunchtime, the government's problems had become more severe, with the OECD saying the government had to be more «ambitious» and «explicit» about the need for spending cuts.

Gov. David Paterson, who perhaps has the most to gain from the ongoing state budget stalemate, sent an e-mail today to supporters that slams lawmakers for wanting to fund property tax relief with borrowing and continues his tough talk about the need for spending cuts over «fiscal tricks.»

The Liberal Democrats were influenced not just by this official advice but by the views of the Governor of the Bank of England about the need for spending cuts this year to reassure the markets.

Party members retain an appetite for the tough choices of government, whether in striking the right balance between crime and civil liberties, or being honest about the need for spending cuts.

«Former Tory Chancellors warn of the need for spending cuts Main David Cameron congratulates Chloe Smith MP and brands Labour's Norwich North campaign «utterly despicable»»

«Bathed in flickering candlelight at the plush Swedish embassy in London, George Osborne appears determined to soften the Tories» harsh message of the need for spending cuts and tax rises with an emphasis on «social cohesion» and co-operation with the unions.»

He also reveals that last summer he argued inside the cabinet for the government to be more upfront about the need for spending cuts, a battle of emphasis that Alistair Darling, the chancellor, and the business secretary, Mandelson, appeared last week to have finally won.