Sentences with phrase «public spending plans»

Let us take the central electoral issue of public spending plans.

In September 2007, ahead of the publication of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, Osborne pledged that the Conservative Party would match Labour's public spending plans for the next three years.

Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, indicated today that the government would not set out new public spending plans before the next general election, arguing it was currently impossible to forecast the economy two years ahead.

The U.S. tax overhaul and public spending plans have supercharged growth and earnings estimates, but also have added uncertainty to the economic outlook.

This lower deficit is delivered by our public spending plans and we are going to stick with those plans.

Thus, Labour accepted Osborne's public spending plans and promised to produce a budgetary surplus by the end of next parliament.

Mr Clegg rejected the suggestion the radical nature of the solutions proposed meant a commensurately radical cost to public spending plans.

We have to abandon this idea of matching Labour's public spending plans.»

In retrospect historians may look at the period before the economic crisis hit as one of consensus politics: where the Conservative opposition stuck to Labour's public spending plans.

When the party won't even publicly defend the centre - piece of its public spending plans, and be honest with its closest allies in the union movement, is it any wonder that the public have doubts about Labour on the economy?

The U.S. tax overhaul and public spending plans have boosted growth and earnings forecasts at a time when the U.S. economy is already humming, as we write in our outlook.