Sentences with phrase «public spending cuts labour»

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Labour lost the election, and power passed to the strongly Thatcherite administration led by Sir Horace Cutler who in turn moved to cut public spending and encourage those living in council houses to buy their own homes.

They will be duty bound to push for their manifesto commitments and although the Liberal Democrats argue that they would help reign in Labour profligacy, it is hard to imagine they would force a second election because public spending cuts are not deep enough.

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

cut international development spending and Labour activists go completely ballistic cut ID cards and get attacked as soft on terror, having wasted billions and being weak cut public sector jobs and have a winter of discontent pull out of Afghanistan and really annoy the Americans

Here, the public essentially said the following: (a) the cuts were necessary; (b) the cuts were good for the economy; (c) the cuts were being done unfairly (with many agreeing they were being done too quickly); (d) Labour's high - spending was largely to blame; and (e) they would sooner have David Cameron and George Osborne in charge than their Labour equivalents.

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.

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

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.

When the Labour governments elected in those years squandered their political support by wave after wave of pay restraint and finally IMF - inspired cuts in public spending, Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 and made a last ditch attempt to stem the Tory decline.

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»»

While Labour has reverted to «tax - and - spend» type, I pledge to cut taxation for the least well - off and spend precious public money more wisely

If this is true (and it hasn't been denied), it does reveal that New Labour were also planning to tackle the deficit overwhelmingly through public spending cuts, albeit slightly less so than the Tories.

According to Labour strategists, the row over Howard Flight's remarks on public spending shows that «the Tories are two parties» - unreconstructed Thatcherites such as Mr Flight who want deep spending cuts and the New Tories trying to show that the party has moved on.

We are the only party that will increase health spending in line with growth in the economy at this point, because the Conservatives will still be cutting public spending and Labour won't have balanced the books.

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.

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

At one point in the electoral cycle there was a substantial difference in the two main parties» approach, with the Tories demanding cuts to public spending and Labour veering towards promises of greater investment.

The public spending cuts will wound a sector bolstered by injections of funding under Labour from the mid-90s when money was redirected away from universities to early years learning and further education.

Come 2015 or whenever the next election is, Labour isn't going to go into the election pledging to spend # 1 billion on giving cash handouts to the richest 15 % of families, and in a fortnight there are # 12 billion in welfare cuts plus untold billions more in cutting public services which will be higher priorities to oppose and pledge to reverse.

Labour, trade unions and some economists argue that by drastically cutting spending in the public sector the government is preventing demand in the economy, just when international markets become more and more volatile.

If shown to be accurate, it would lend considerable credence to Labour arguments that the Tories are cutting public spending too quickly and deeply.

During his Labour leadership campaign, Jeremy Corbyn claimed # 120bn could be recovered from tax avoidance and evasion - enough to eliminate the UK's budget deficit without cutting welfare or public spending.

In office, Labour will not reverse the coalition's spending cuts — and that includes public sector pay which remains all but frozen.

Some Cabinet ministers fear that Mr Brown is locked into pursuing a «core vote» strategy appealing to Labour's traditional voters in the north and the Midlands, and risks alienating southern middle - class voters who may be more supportive of cuts in public spending.

Have things reached the perverse situation where in order to get elected Labour have to cut public spending for their first term although they want to increase it and the Conservatives have to increase public spending in order to get elected, usually when people vote for a different party it is because they expect something to be different from the way it was, such plans leave it wide open for the Liberal Democrats to come out and propose a series of economy measures and be the one of the 3 parties proposing the lowest levels of public spending and tax cuts targeted at the poor.

In contrast to Kashif Ali's positive campaign, Labour are misleading voters about public spending and, more specifically, police budget cuts in this by - election.

It was seized on by Labour as evidence that the government planned «vicious cuts on the poorest» as part of its efforts to massively cut public spending to tackle the UK's record deficit.

He insisted Labour's plans for extra spending on police and other public services, to be funded by an estimated # 2.7 bn in savings from reversing capital gains tax cuts, were «fully costed».

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

Nearly half of voters thought a Labour government would be cutting public spending by less than the coalition is currently doing.

Labour will reverse benefit cuts in other areas, but offers little defence against these three big hits - choosing to focus on other areas of public spending.

Mr Osborne has given an interview to the FT (of which there is more inside the paper here) in which he asserts that Labour's projected 1.1 % annual increase in public spending between 2011 and 2014 is «unsustainable» and that it will be spending cuts rather than tax rises which account for reducing the the fiscal deficit:

So we will be cutting back, not to close the # 175bn public - finance black - hole, but to spend the money on Tory winners rather than Labour winners.

The electoral map between coalition and the opposition — except for Labour in London and the Scottish Lib Dems — presents quite a stark north - south divide, which the pattern of public spending and cuts will exacerbate.

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

In other words he has retreated to his core message that his opponents would wreck the recovery and cut public spending more savagely and speedily than Labour.

Following pressure from Cabinet ministers led by Alistair Darling and Lord Mandelson, Mr Brown also seems to have accepted that Labour would have to cut public spending from next year in order to meet its pledge to halve the deficit in four years.

By 36 - 24 %, voters still blame the last Labour government more than the present coalition government for the public spending cuts.

I believe the right thing to do is, as Labour proposed in the election, to give inflation and then have a more balanced approach to public spending so that we don't have huge cuts for councils, police and schools.

«The Tory plan is clear: use inflated fears of a debt and monetary crisis to justify massive public spending cuts and an increase in VAT now; blame it all on Labour's management of the economy; and use the resulting war - chest to cut income tax before the next election,» wrote Mr Balls.

The first reason is that, almost three years after Gordon Brown left Downing Street, more people still blame Labour rather than the Conservatives for the state of the economy and the public spending cuts that Osborne has imposed.

Caretaker Labour leader Harriet Harman also questioned the coalition's spending cuts: «Already Labour is responding to people's concerns about jobs and public services and mobilising against Tory / Lib Dem decisions which will harm this country.

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

But the Labour party pointed to a new survey on the effects of spending cuts to suggest that the coalition's approach to the public finances was «reckless».

Did Brown characterise the public spending battle lines as Labour investment versus Tory cuts?

After the financial crisis, Labour - led councils avidly implemented the mandated public - spending cuts, closing care homes, squeezing wages and sacking workers.

Labour was no friend of legal aid — on the Today programme during the election campaign the only cut in public spending Ed Miliband could identify as one which Labour would make and the public would notice was legal aid.