Sentences with phrase «of economic credibility»

In an interview with the World at One, Livermore welcomed the fact that McDonnell was trying to address the issue of economic credibility, but argued that simply copying a policy from 2015 was not enough.

Sound economic management, the currency of economic credibility, is not an alternative to advancing left wing values, improving working class conditions or tackling climate change.

«Sound economic management, the currency of economic credibility, is not an alternative to advancing left wing values, improving working class conditions»

A party so denuded of economic credibility that the Tories can increase the deficit by # 75bn, miss all of their fiscal targets, and still maintain a double digit poll lead over Labour, on who is most trusted to manage the economy.

Labour has failed the first test of economic credibility.»

The sheer weight of Ed Milband as a drag anchor on Labour was unveiled and was quite startling - as was the disastrous failure of Labour to even come close to regaining any semblance of economic credibility.

They made the number one test of their economic credibility keeping the triple A credit rating — but on their watch Britain has been downgraded, not once but twice.

Not exact matches

Economic credibility matters for the future of this party.

The improved credibility of the central bank's commitment to keep inflation low and stable should, in turn, allow it to deliver better inflation outcomes with fewer short - run costs to economic growth and employment.

A strengthened (more resources), and more independent (report to Parliament) PBO would promote greater understanding of complex budget issues; it would strengthen credibility by encouraging simplification and forcing the government to defend its economic and budget forecasts; it would improve the budget process by promoting a straightforward and more understandable and open process; it would promote accountability by commenting on the government's projections and analysis; finally, by being nonpartisan it would provide analysis and research to all political parties.

This could undermine the credibility of the budget and the government's reputation as «good economic managers», a reputation that has been sinking fast recently.

The stock market whiplash also poses a credibility problem for the Communist regime, particularly with regard to its economic and financial liberalization program, of which the progressive opening of the domestic share market was meant to be a part.

These two initiatives would further increase the credibility of the economic and fiscal forecasts.

Adoption of sound and consistent economic policies may gradually build credibility, but the economy may remain vulnerable during this building process.

Continual upward revisions to the deficit would undermine the credibility of the government's economic and fiscal strategy.

Then there is the issue of the Bank's credibility in terms of its obligation to the broader community to do what it can to sustain economic activity and employment.

It is like the Heritage Foundationâ $ ™ s Index of Economic Freedom and the Cato / Fraser Instituteâ $ ™ s Economic Freedom of the World Report, but supported by the World Bankâ $ ™ s credibility and clout.

In the context of the economic crisis of the Great Depression, the moral reform precedents lent credibility to a radical understanding of the Constitution.

How can Mr. Varney report the news with any credibility when he can not differentiate criticism of some aspects of an economic system with criticism of «a specific political system?»

Nanjing LianJia has been holding high - quality, high - efficiency, credibility and the principle of reciprocity, which aims to customers supremacy to establish a long - term economic trade relations.

The government has maintained the move is to enhance policy credibility and not an admission of failure on the economic front.

This approach has a big weakness: critics will see in this outspoken attack on the Labour party a natural willingness of the Lib Dems to lean towards the credibility of their economic strategy over fairness.

All kinds of things change - the importance of being seen as the better leader with the greater economic credibility is heavily downgraded, the importance of the right - wing press is blown to pieces, the vice-like grip of older voters disappears.

Labelled as the continuity Blair candidate, David's victory speech — secured across all three sections of the electoral college, albeit very narrowly with a higher - than - expected turnout from USDAW members in the trade union component, emphasised the need to capture economic credibility.

Concerned to yank back economic credibility from the Tories, he reaffirmed the Darling plan to halve the deficit over the course of the parliament, and made points around the need to develop a proper industrial strategy.

Labour took its first step to economic credibility by Jeremy Corbyn's appointment of John McDonnell as Shadow Chancellor.

If it wasn't obvious one month ago, it certainly is now: economic credibility will take on cost - of - living issues when Miliband takes on Cameron in the struggle for Downing Street.

He needs also to paint in the big ideas of social justice and economic credibility on the big canvass of national politics, not the assiduous detail of small town and party campaigning.

The party was widely perceived to be lacking strong leadership and economic credibility, which it assumed it could overcome with a «35 % strategy» of holding onto its core vote from 2010 and grafting on some Liberal Democrat defectors.

A lot of the government's troubles this month have been laid at the feet of the Budget, and while Conservative supporters are more positive about it than other voters — as we would expect — there are signs that the government's reputation for economic credibility has taken a hit.

A few years later, with the gift of hindsight, retrospective analysis has allowed us to question the credibility of naming Brown an economic guru.

Miliband himself has now begun to outline how he believes Labour will triumph come 2015, stating that the party «must regain its economic credibility, have a credible program of reform for public institutions, and capture the imagination of the majority of Britons to want to get on in life and see their families prosper».

Labour last night accused the Conservatives of failing to prove the credibility of their economic promises to cut taxes and deliver new policies.

The June Political Monitor shows mixed news on the relative economic credibility of the parties following last week's speeches by Ed Miliband and Ed Balls.

It features some of the best campaigners that the party has, balanced with the experience and economic credibility that our party has developed over the last five years in government.

Welfare reform has been on of the areas that the Lib Dems have found particularly hard in in Government, trying to walk the tightrope between economic credibility in reducing spending and social justice.

Asked yesterday about the cut to support for some of the most vulnerable people in the country, Hammond insisted that the government had to push ahead in order to maintain Britain's economic «credibility».

George Osborne's economic credibility suffered a fresh blow on Thursday when Standard and Poor's became the third of the major credit ratings agency to put the UK's AAA rating on negative outlook.

Chuka Umunna, who briefly joined last year's leadership race himself before pulling out and Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellorare part of a group working separately from the shadow cabinet, to beef up Labour's economic credibility.

The acknowledgment of a golden rule of British politics, that the voting public demand reassurance from the centre - left about our economic credibility in a way that they don't from the Tories, is welcome.

Either way they have served to undermine the credibility of government and its economic management team.

• He said that Ed Balls was jeered in the Commons yesterday not because of his stammer, but because he did not have economic credibility.

He runs through the familiar story, which many ministers have told this week in Birmingham, of having to form a strong government to protect the UK's economic credibility.

Most of our English voters, sceptical about Labour's economic credibility, just dismissed the announcement.

I was never sure whether the economic thinking of the Treasury originated with officials within that department, seeking to retrieve their credibility after the financial crisis, or with George Osborne and his political advisers.

The letter is the biggest ever endorsement by business leaders of a political party and will further undermine the economic credibility of Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, and Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor.

Against this terrific backdrop we should be ten points ahead of a Labour Party with zero economic credibility and a leader who was Gordon Brown's special adviser in the Treasury for more than a decade and a member of his catastrophic Government.

He did add that the judgements of the rating agencies are «a reflection of the credibility» of the government's economic policy, but, still, it's that «not the be-all and end - all» line that stands out.

While winning economic credibility should remain a Labour priority and I've written in the current Progress magazine on how this might be done, it may be that a perceived dearth of authenticity, rather than economic credibility, is the most immediate cause of a heightened risk that Labour will not form the next government.

The Balls approach always envisaged a commitment to remaining within the government's future spending totals — as Gordon Brown's main adviser in the 1990's, he had been the leading champion of matching government plans — but this was for much later in the parliament, once Tory economic credibility had been destroyed.