Sentences with phrase «public attitudes hardening»

The policy was readily adopted by the coalition because it is Lib - Dem friendly and could save the Treasury money, but with public attitudes hardening since the riots and Tory backbenchers increasingly restless, observers worry it will be rolled back when parliament returns.

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Attitudes amongst the public on welfare have been hardening putting Labour on the wrong side of the argument.

Public attitudes towards benefits claimants, Europe and immigration, for example, have hardened dramatically since Labour left office — and not even under a Tory government, but a coalition.

But the Turner prize's greatest failing, he claimed, was that its hunger for sensation has hardened public attitudes against contemporary art and played to philistine prejudice.