Sentences with phrase «on economic credibility»

The Tories were miles ahead on economic credibility and leadership, Labour had the SNP thing hanging round their neck and the public thought Miliband was a joke.

The key measure to watch on economic credibility is which party is seen as the best on managing the economy.

Not exact matches

The best way for Ukraine to gain instant credibility as a serious voice for economic security through transparency and good governance is to put its own record up for scrutiny and implement expert recommendations on institutional reform at home.

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.

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in office.

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.

«The government's economic credibility is now in tatters because we have a chancellor who is anti-growth and fixated on austerity.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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».

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.

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.

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.

He needs to keep people working if he wants any credibility on economic development.»

The first concerted attempt to map out a new agenda for Labour urges greater economic credibility on public spending cuts.

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.

Danny Alexander needs to realise that economic credibility comes from delivering on what you promise.

That explains why Labour's poll ratings are at a 6 - month high (currently higher than they were after the New Labour cheerleaders» insistence on the leadership bashing the unions or on getting «economic credibility», which only resulted in a slide in the polls).

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.

Yet for Labour, if this wake - up call on credibility is to prove truly significant, it should transform much more than the party's headline economic commitments.

The ratio's credibility was boosted further when Professor Sharpe won a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 for his work on the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).

But in 1998 ExxonMobil gave $ 10,000 to Singer's institute, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, and $ 65,000 to the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, which shared building space with SEPP and declared on its website, «For those who believe public policy should be based on sound science, Dr. Singer offers a wealth of information, credibility and encouragement.»

Imagine the lack of credibility at any world economic gathering of a Canadian government led by Mr. Ignatieff, with Mr. Layton whispering in his left ear while Mr. Duceppe adjusts his grip on the Liberal leader's short hairs.