Sentences with phrase «of being in government»

Let our people also enjoy the benefit of us being in government so that when someday we go back into opposition, we all chopped some, we all must work.

«I do feel sorry for him, because I think, OK, he's got the fun of being in government,» he said.

In 15 years, in fact: they were fighting seats won in their 2008 high - water mark, in broadly urban seats, after two years of being in government at a time of tough spending cuts.

Having failed to achieve a change in the voting system for the House of Commons — with the loss of last year's referendum on the alternative vote — Nick Clegg's party is determined to push ahead in order that his party can boast having forced a major constitutional change on the country as a result of being in government.

So a decent bet for Lib Dem ministers keen to keep their jobs will be to point to the longer - term pluses of being in government.

Surprisingly, more than a year of being in government, the topic of Creative Arts funding and welfare scheme from Government has obviously been given a languid approach.

Nicola Sturgeon has the benefit of being in government and setting the agenda for interviews.

Deny that you would enter a coalition with any other party, even if you have no chance of being in government on your own.

«I do feel sorry for him, because I think, OK, he's got the fun of being in government, but the problem is, Cameron and Clegg as a duo come across as people who are interested in being in government as an end in itself.»

One interesting issue in this scenario is whether Labour would seek to hasten a departure by Nick Clegg (as the Liberal Democrats did for Gordon Brown in 2010) and whether the context of being in government with Labour would affect the outcome of any Lib Dem leadership contest (for which Tim Farron is currently hotly tipped).

It is pretty obvious that we can not finish enumerating all the promises that we have fulfilled so far in the last 8 months of being in government and so, we won't start at all.

Sure, from the position of being in government, these contests are going to be harder to fight, and we musn't be unrealistic about our chances of winning seats that are always going to be difficult - Barnsley Central springs to mind, for example.

«The reality of being in government is that politicians must take responsibility for their decisions and suffer the consequences.»

The two Eds have since quietly dropped their previous position that they could not conceive of being in government with Nick Clegg.

«You might one day be complaining at conference that it would be good to have a spell in opposition because we're so fed up of being in government all the time,» he told the delegates.

There are also public relations benefits of being in government too, as David Cameron understands very well.