Sentences with phrase «own economic credibility»

Economic credibility matters for the future of this party.

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.

Not snakes and spiders in the jungle, but their fiscal rule broken, their economic credibility in tatters, exposed now as incompetent and unfair.

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.

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

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.

The theme: how can Labour restore its economic credibility with the electorate?

We are a long way from recovering the economic credibility which was once a proud boast.

Labour needs to quickly choose between the disastrous and the unpalatable if it is to regain economic credibility.

Also the serious economic framework McDonnell has announced can restore Labour's economic credibility — the key policy failure that lost it the 2015 General Election.

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.

And David Cameron will reply by rubbishing Labour's 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.

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 idea that Farron is selling is «social justice and economic credibility».

«I see those issues as our economic credibility, our relationship with business — which is linked to that — and, thirdly, immigration.»

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.

Tags: Coalition, Conservatives, Economic Credibility, Ipsos MORI, Labour, Liberal Democrats., Polling

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

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.

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.

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.

Labour has failed the first test of 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.

Stephen Kinnock might think, assisted by a global downturn shattering Tory economic credibility, that he can succeed where his father failed.

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.

The damage to Tory economic credibility is being done now.

Labour needs economic credibility to form the next government.

With Labour's economic credibility hole only the politics matter.

Ms Creagh said Labour had built up «economic credibility» over its time in office, but should not have been running even a small deficit.

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

And Osborne's attempt to make deficits illegal is a great chance to face up to the past and rebuild economic credibility.

Let us not forget Liam Byrne's letter, which was used to attack Labour's economic credibility before and during the 2015 election to devastating effect.

Tags: balanced budget, budget surplus, debt, deficit, economic credibility, George Osborne, Samuel Dale

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.

Do something to address the issue around leadership and 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.

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).

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.

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

We can't wait until 2020 to rebuild our economic credibility.