Sentences with phrase «public spending cuts»

The VAT increase will be taking effect, and the construction sector will start to feel the pain of public spending cuts.

As I have written here before many Conservative MPs and most of the media support public spending cuts in theory and then oppose the precise cuts that follow.

Voters showed a preference for public spending cuts rather than tax rises.

The government seeks to take money out of the economy by public spending cuts and tax increases to reduce the budget deficit.

Conservative ministers, MPs and most newspapers support public spending cuts in general, but oppose nearly all attempts to cut public spending.

Tax cuts, deep public spending cuts and rewards for those folk who work hard and save.

The period since the election has highlighted the point that public spending cuts hit growth.

The country's austerity drive is now set to continue well beyond the next general election, and later this year the coalition is expected to unveil further public spending cuts.

Analysts expect unemployment to rise significantly when public spending cuts begin later in the year.

He had the determination to push through undoubtedly necessary public spending cuts in the face of opposition from within his own party (and, indeed, our own).

A policy gaffe by Oliver Letwin over public spending cuts left the party with an own goal that Labour soon took advantage of.

Coalition ministers have repeatedly blamed Labour for cutting services despite the massive public spending cuts imposed on local government as a result of last year's comprehensive spending review.

Councils have no choice but to undergo «major restructuring» to cope with public spending cuts, the Audit Commission has warned.

The new coalition government in Britain has begun a process of attacking working class living standards through public spending cuts, slashing public services and reducing public sector pay, jobs and pensions.

Blame William Hague for his spineless comments when British jobs were on the line at the Total oil refinery, blame David Cameron for not saying he'd abandon the Lisbon Treaty, and blame George Osborne for talking about public spending cuts at a time when only public sector workers are working.

He also partially distanced himself from the policy of Alistair Darling, the previous Labour Chancellor, to make public spending cuts sufficient to halve the government deficit in four years, by calling it a starting point.

Continue reading «David Leighton and John Stevenson: We must challenge Labour's spurious narrative that public spending cuts always lead to worse public services - because that has been central to the rise in government waste»»

The first concerted attempt to map out a new agenda for Labour urges greater economic credibility on public spending cuts.

But the barbarians - at - the-gate theory doesn't fully explain why countries like the U.K. are pursuing public spending cuts with such gusto.

Britain's dire economic situation could have been avoided with less drastic public spending cuts, an economic think - tank has claimed.

This is about the richest Tory front bench in living memory pledging to introduce an «age of austerity» — involving public spending cuts and pay freezes — from which their own estates will be conveniently exempt.

However, the SNP were stronger on being against public spending cuts than Labour and were also in favour of scrappint Trident.

When asked whether they think public spending cuts have not gone far enough (an obvious reference to the austerity policies pursued by the British government in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis), Tory members are far more likely to agree or agree strongly with austerity than adherents of other parties.

The former makes wild claims that Labour is irrelevant, becoming toxic and losing out to UKIP; whilst the Tories won in 2015 because they promised public spending cuts.

Remarks he had made at a private meeting of Conservative Way Forward - in which he suggested that the party could make greater public spending cuts than those to which it had publicly committed itself - were leaked to the media and his resignation as a party deputy chairman was not enough for Michael Howard.

Mr Clegg said firms propped up by the taxpayer during the credit crisis could not justify big bonus payouts at a time of sharp public spending cuts.

Meanwhile, Ed Milliband has called for Labour to end its caution over tax, telling the Independent newspaper that the balance between public spending cuts and tax increases for the rich should be shifted in favour of public services.

When it comes to public spending cuts Labour has had some success in allying itself with those who are implacably opposed when its own alternative has been nothing of the kind.

But in a two - page letter, city council leader Joe Anderson said public spending cuts had seriously undermined the ability of community groups to improve quality of life.

«The question at the general election is not who will cut spending, but which team has the vigour to deliver the intelligent public spending cuts to protect the country for our future.

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

Even if - and it is far from likely - Orbán obtains permission for such a deficit increase, economic realities will leave his government with no option other than to renege on their manifesto commitment not to implement savage public spending cuts.

«I think risking the recovery with immediate public spending cuts and a raise in VAT is economically misguided,» he says, summing up his argument.

«It is therefore highly unlikely that civil society will become «bigger» due to the large public spending cuts that are being put forward by this government.»

Addressing the Greater London Association of Trades Councils at Congress House, general secretary Brendan Barber said trade unionists had to unite to fight public spending cuts.

People deserve answers to the huge problems that led to the Leave vote, and which many of our constituents continue to raise with us: weariness after years of excessive public spending cuts; growing disillusionment about how opportunity seems less evenly spread than in previous generations; discomfort at an immigration system many perceive to be unfair.

I cannpot see how we shall get out of this hole by not inceasing some indirect taxes such as VAT plus of course public spending cuts.

Combined with the massive public spending cuts introduced under George Osborne, the government has struggled against the perception that the poorest are its primary target.

The shadow chancellor, Alan Johnson, urges an 11th hour rethink of Tuesday's planned VAT rise in a letter to the government today, as theConfederation of British Industry (CBI) warned public spending cuts could lead to a dramatic slowdown in the pace of economic recovery.

Asked whether he was prepared to go into the next election with the Conservative party proposing public spending cuts while the government pledged to increase spending, Cameron replied: «I don't care what the government does any more.

The Chancellor had unveiled plans to hike and taxes and make swinging public spending cuts to fill a # 30billion «black hole» he said would open up if we voted for Brexit.

«A moment of truth is approaching for Thigmoo — «this great movement of ours», aka the UK's once mighty trade unions, now facing their biggest test for 30 years as the Con - Lib coalition prepares public spending cuts that could threaten at least 500,000 jobs.»

And Alan Johnson said Labour and the Lib Dems had both opposed Tory plans to push through major public spending cuts this year.

First, there is the issue of who governs Scotland and who is seen as the most competent; second, the question of who is best placed to stand up and fight Scotland's corner against the Tories; third, there is a general refusal of all Scotland's parties to honestly address the age of austerity and coming public spending cuts, and finally, there is the epic next instalment of the Labour v SNP struggle.

Is it George Osborne, sliding effortlessly into the old Conservative comfort zone of quick, punishing public spending cuts?

Why should the BBC be immune from public spending cuts?

A ComRes poll for The Independent today finds 55 per cent of voters favour public spending cuts to reduce Britain's debts, against 38 per cent who want taxes to be increased.

According to the Economist, it is in a «comfortable» fiscal situation, «aided by a strongly growing economy will help to reduce the deficit without tough public spending cuts or tax rises.»