Sentences with phrase «party economic conservatives»

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This means the government will resist taking ownership of economic growth that could fade, while the Conservative and New Democratic parties will continue to exaggerate the weaknesses.

The New Democratic Party and the Liberals, therefore, would do no better at boosting economic growth than the Conservative Party is right now.

Rebels in his Conservative party have urged the prime minister to insist on cuts to EU spending to reflect the bleak economic landscape across much of Europe.

His marks on the economy are particularly strong — half of those who voted for the rival Conservative Party, whose core political message is economic competency, give Trudeau a passing grade on the subject.

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Former Conservative Garth Turnerâ $ ™ s decision to join the Liberal caucus is one of several recent news items that highlight the extensive similarity between these two parties on economic policy.

Josh Barro wrote that «Social conservatives are more likely to signal openness to pro-middle class economic policies than the «hardheaded business types» who fund the party.: I think there is some truth to that, and I think that Barro's next observation is interesting and....

Josh Barro wrote that «Social conservatives are more likely to signal openness to pro-middle class economic policies than the «hardheaded business types» who fund the party.: I think there is some truth to that, and I think that Barro's next observation is interesting and also has some truth:

Matthew Schmitz has a terrific post which discusses Mike Murphy's suicide - for - the - Republican Party idea that the Republicans should abandon social conservatives and focus on hard headed economic conservatism.

Stricherz, one gathers, would be comfortable in a Democratic party that returned to its working - class roots and its economic focus but that made a place for social conservatives.

Both in opposition and then in government Oliver's principal aim had been to help a succession of leaders to move the Conservative Party towards a particular ideological position — social and economic liberalism, tempered by a commitment to social justice and environmental stewardship, both globally and nationally.

The economic secretary to the Treasury, who is also Gordon Brown's closest aide, attacked the Conservatives for promising to be the greenest party but rejecting the international cooperation that tackling climate change needed.

The speed and depth of the economic downturn mean it would have been very diffi cult for the Conservative Party to look ready for government if they were now saddled with lots of unaffordable commitments that predated the recession.

«At the top of the Conservative party, the narrow vote in favour of leaving the EU has now been interpreted as the pretext for a drastic cutting of ties with Europe, which would have dire economic results - and as an excuse for the most toxic rhetoric on immigration we have seen from any government in living memory,» the statement reads.

As the Conservative party's collective suitcase trundles out of the doors of the Midland hotel, as the delegates make their way back to the leafy shires, they return from the confines of the secure zone to a Britain threatened by global economic ructions.

Despite it's disastrous track - record of macro-economic management, epitomised by the Lawson boom in the late 1980s and George Osbourne's ill - timed retrenchment since 2010, the Conservatives have consistently positioned themselves as the party of fiscal discipline and economic competence, as well as the party of entrepreneurship and material affluence.

The Conservative leader will call on his party to be «the champions for real change in Europe» and face up to the union's damaging economic and environmental policies.

The party's elder statesman said he particularly hoped to attract young people «to our cause» with the Conservatives «in disarray and in retreat» and a «complacent» Labour's economic policy set to be «found out».

The chancellor's move, which will cut # 3bn a year from the welfare budget, is designed to cement the Conservatives» reputation as the party willing to take tough long - term economic decisions, even at the cost of hitting more than 5 million families characterised as working poor.

What is the most appropriate response from Liberal Democrat representatives at their Party's annual conference to an invitation to endorse and to continue with the Conservative's economic strategy?

Should the unthinkable happen, and Owen Smith be elected Labour leader, the party would lurch to the right ahead of the 2020 General Election in an attempt to triangulate both the Conservatives and UKIP, being tougher on welfare than the Tories, being tougher on migrants than the Tories, accepting the economic consensus as it is — regardless of how many people it left behind.

However, it is unlikely to win plaudits for the Party if, at the same time as making the case for far more active government, the Party insists on taking credit for Conservative measures — above all the fiscal mandate — which have frustrated recovery and intensified Britain's economic problems.

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Donald Trump implicitly criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's marquee economic development program on Wednesday after receiving the endorsement of New York's Conservative Party.

Clegg has released a video to get across his message that we can't trust the Tories on Europe, but the Conservatives are trustworthy enough for the two parties to work closely on broader economic strategy, social and welfare reforms, education policy, and crime.

BME voters are more likely to live in safe Labour seats where there may not be an active Conservative Party and statistically they are over-represented in lower socio - economic groups, so you would expect them to be more likely to vote Labour.

To date, the Conservatives» strategy has been focused on painting themselves as the only party that can be trusted to take the hard economic decisions for the long term benefit of the country.

«In an interview with the Observer, Ed Davey describes a «Tea Party tendency» among Conservative MPs who question climate change and green investment as «perverse», and says it is creating deep uncertainty for an industry that could do much to help lift the country out of the economic doldrums.»

Conservative party leader David Cameron today gave a surprise statement calling for the main political parties to work together amid the economic crisis gripping the world.

The Conservative party recently announced their support for a higher minimum wage in an attempt to head off criticism that the economic recovery is only benefiting the richest in society.

Poland's ruling party approved a law that will gradually impose a ban on Sunday shopping, meeting the demand of its conservative Catholic supporters with a measure that risks undermining economic growth and hitting corporate profits and real - estate investors.

Following losses for the US Democrats and French Socialists, the Conservatives are another party diminished by voters» frustration with the establishment over weak economic growth, migration and terror.

The Conservatives appear to have taken the message on board, with strong indications the party will put economic priorities at the centre of the conference.

Commenting on Prime Minister Teresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «We welcome the fact that the Prime Minister clearly recognises that the education, social and economic policies of her predecessor have led to inequality across education and other public services.

The Conservative party has set its strategy for Labour under Corbyn in one slogan: a «threat to our national security, our economic security and your family's security».

On economic competence, Labour's lead is down to 8 points compared to 22 points at the general election and, perhaps surprisingly given the Conservative party is in the midst of a leadership campaign, while both parties are seen as divided, more people think Labour is divided than the Tories (70 % compared to 58 %).

In a determined 59 - minute speech to the party's autumn conference in Brighton, the prime minister said the Conservatives had faced the «economic call of the century» and had called it wrong.

British Conservative economic liberalism and individualism, our hostility to European paternalist social policies and to Euro - federalism, and our propensity for the cold shower of «common sense» solutions, mean that we sit uneasily with the most important parties of the European centre right.

This shift towards economic liberalism had a major impact on the subsequent coalition with the Conservative Party.

«The Conservative party were faced with the economic call of the century and they called it wrong.

There was also no chance of a Conservative deal with the Scottish National Party (SNP), which won 35 seats but which is resolutely opposed to the Tories on both constitutional and economic questions.

State Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development efforts, tax increases and MTA woes at the state Conservative Party's annual conference on Sunday.

Looking at the position of party supporters with respect to these two dimensions, we see that Conservative supporters stand to the right of the political spectrum in economic terms and Labour and the Greens on the left, as traditionally envisioned.

Ms Wood said the party had taken the decision to ensure voters would have an alternative to the «extreme economic recklessness» of the Conservatives and to ensure Wales was represented in Westminster.

The Club for Growth coined the RINO Watch, to guard the party against «Republicans In Name Only,» and has pushed conservative primary challengers on Republicans it believes to be too moderate in their economic policies.

Despite this, the Daily Mirror remained loyal to Labour and urged its readers to vote for the party (now led by Michael Foot), condemning the Thatcher - led Tory government for its «waste of our nation», [38] condemning the rise in unemployment that Thatcher's Conservative government had seen in its first term in power largely due to monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation, though the government's previously low popularity had dramatically improved since the success of the Falklands conflict a year earlier.

On the other is a Conservative Party pledging a # 1m tax cut to the wealthiest and offering no serious economic alternative.