Sentences with phrase «row over reform»

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The increasingly bitter row over housing benefit reform hits the Commons today, just as it caused significant splits in the Tory party.

David Cameron's claim that he has the «support» of doctors and nurses on NHS reform has sparked a fresh row over the issue.

The row over cladding overshadowed Hackitt's ambitious proposals for reform of building safety which she said had become a «race to the bottom».

There is no row between the Government and the churches over the welfare reform measures that came into effect yesterday.

From the «betrayal» of the Lib Dems over the Jeremy Hunt vote, when Clegg's party abstained and won the enmity of vast swathes of the Tory party, or the vicious tactics of the «no» campaign in the electoral reform referendum which disgusted Lib Dems and led to open rowing at Cabinet, the «calm and businesslike» relationship between the two parties has become a myth anywhere below the most senior levels.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg have challenged critics in both their parties by declaring that the coalition will last until the next general election in 2015, as they insisted the row over House of Lords reform would not be allowed to disrupt the work of the government.

Many Tory MPs simply can not support a measure which is dear to the hearts of all Lib Dems — completing the reform of the upper house that has been stalled since Herbert Asquith embarked on the journey in the wake of the row over David Lloyd George's 1909 «people's budget».

He spoke out as sources at the civil service PCS union, which joined teachers on strike in June in a row over the Government's pension reforms, said its national executive had agreed to hold another one - day walkout in the autumn.

10 - Health chief steps down with blistering broadside against Lansley This short article concerning the retirement of Sir Roger Boyle was a minor event in the ongoing row over NHS reform, but its presence in the list shows the extent of public interest in the coalition's health care project.

But two rows behind Callaghan, elegant as always, is the redoubtable Barbara Castle, champion of the new child benefit — it was then only payable to women, not men — and recently sacked as social security secretary by Sunny Jim, an old enemy from their battle over trade union reform.

At a joint event, Cameron and Nick Clegg sought to play down the impact of last week's row over Lords reform.

Having notched up another record as the only member of the shadow cabinet and cabinet from 1997, Strathclyde broke through to the front rank when he was the beneficiary of a major internal Tory row over Lords reform in 1998.

It may have cleared its first Commons hurdle but rows over campaign spending and what reforms will be renegotiated, and the SNP are against the move.

Earlier this year in the wake of the row over candidate selection in Falkirk, Ed Miliband announced that he wanted to reform the relationship between Labour and its affiliated trade union members.

Following the House of Lords» refusal to allow the government to enact secondary legislation during the row over tax credits cuts last year, the government set up the Strathclyde Review, which suggested reforms which could alter the balance between the government and the two houses of parliament.

«Iain Duncan Smith accused his own civil servants of a lack of «professionalism» yesterday as the row deepened over the Government's troubled welfare reforms.

Nick Clegg stoked up the Cabinet row over electoral reform by denouncing claims that switching to the alternative vote system would cost # 250m as «complete and utter fiction».

It comes as the union announced it was to cut its affiliation funds in the wake of the row over party reforms.

From a front - row seat watching these reforms over decades — first, as an expert in Congress, and then as founder of the Center on Education Policy, I believe that we have missed the target on school reform.