Sentences with phrase «plans more austerity»

The chancellor, George Osborne, certainly plans more austerity, hoping to achieve a budget surplus and a rapidly declining debt - to - GDP ratio by the end of the decade (four years later than he originally predicted).

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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.

This is unlikely to make them very receptive to accepting the need for more austerity - as the Lib Dems and Conservatives have been forced to - by offering joint spending plans to 2017/18.

What's now the difference between Labour and Tory austerity plans except that Labour will supposedly take one more year to get there?

On the heels of six years of austerity budgets dating to 2008, the Executive Budget proposes another year of spending cuts in a host of areas, and lays out a multi-year plan of steep spending cuts that will extend the austerity measures for three more years, thus completing an «austerity decade» for New York.

A curiously political and surprisingly honest criticism of the Labour plan to halve the deficit in four years rather than to eliminate the structural deficit altogether — that it would mean going into the next election with more pain and austerity ahead.

George Osborne is to introduce yet more austerity measures as he sticks to his failed economic strategy, but has he costed this tax cut into his budget plans for 2016/17?

«Austerity policies under this Government and its Coalition predecessor have already resulted in cuts to early years education and Sure Start provision, but yet more attacks are planned.

Bank economists praised the budget plan as feasible, but said if the economy worsened the government should be wary of more extreme austerity measures like those that have hammered growth in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.