He lambasts the idea of the Lib Dems withdrawing their ministers before the next election; he admits that he might have left his party had they not proved they were serious about governing; he warns against excessive differentiation, from both sides, before 2015; he praises
the original Coalition Agreement as «fantastically ambitious»; and he emphasises the importance of spending cuts (alongside further Quantitative Easing and a bit more «investment spending» where possible, which is more or less the government's official position as well).
12 pages longer than
original Coalition agreement #paperwork
Cameron says it will be slimmer than
the original coalition agreement.
The original coalition agreement outlined a bold programme of reform.
Its new provisions didn't fire the imagination as much as those in
the original Coalition Agreement, and its publication was undermined by intra-party bickering in the days that followed.
Clegg said: «The mid-term review is not another great tablet of stone, as per
the original coalition agreement.
Both were intended to work out what the coalition should do when the measures in
the original coalition agreement had been exhausted.
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The original coalition agreement was ratified by the two parties.
Not exact matches
It is an
agreement,» Lib Dem spokesperson John Thurso said of the
original coalition deal during the debate.
To which end it's instructive to note the way in which the CGT wording shifted between the
original and final versions of the
coalition agreement, in a direction which allows a far less significant change in actual tax rates.
The Deputy Prime Minister was eager to suck the poison from this moment, claiming that this is the first time since the election that the
Coalition has broken one of the mutual bargains in their
original Agreement.
If the
coalition introduces policies not in its
original agreement, «there should be some way of checking that with the party».