Sentences with phrase «of public spending restraint»

This conclusion may not be apparent at first glance, with CSR 2007 appearing to show some degree of public spending restraint.

Since 2010, the UK has been subjected to one of the longest periods of public spending restraint over the last century.

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This brings us up to date: the membership of the Public Service Alliance of Canada has borne the lion's share of the Conservatives» recent spending restraint.

Geoffrey Howe's 1981 Budget is oft - sighted as the acme of fiscal prudence and austerity, which was punitive and unpopular in 1981, but for Thatcherites it ensconced a taxation system and a restraint on public spending that ushered in the «age of prosperity» in the mid-to-late 1980s.

When the Labour governments elected in those years squandered their political support by wave after wave of pay restraint and finally IMF - inspired cuts in public spending, Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 and made a last ditch attempt to stem the Tory decline.

He said the deficit was still too high, which is why public sector workers face another year of pay restraint and welfare spending will be capped from 2015.

Given that the entire public sector is facing sharp restraint in spending, the appetite among MPs for increasing state funding of political parties will not be high.