Sentences with phrase «said coalition government»

Dr Napthine said the Coalition Government had a comprehensive plan to build a better education system for a smarter Victoria.

Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society said the Coalition Government's Localism Act 2011 had not been tested in any court, arguing Mr Pickles could not «simply walk in and give it any meaning that suits his purpose».

The shadow chancellor said the coalition government had given the «richest people in the country a huge tax cut» by scrapping the 50p top rate - something he said «can not be right».

Mr Barber said the coalition government is more like a «demolition government», whose current austerity drive will damage public services and cost huge numbers of jobs.

In his Queen's Speech, prime minister David Cameron said the coalition government had agreed there should be an annual limit on the number of non-European Union migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

Mr Cameron said the coalition government's academies agenda, giving local groups the opportunity to take control of their schools, reflected the popular enthusiasm for devolving power as far as possible.

It said the coalition government sought to tackle «middle - class welfare» but suggested David Cameron's Tory majority administration should go further to ensure that «social security expenditure is spent on those in need».

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, needing no such prompt to enter into the fray, said the coalition government's 20 % police cuts were putting chief constables «in an impossible position».

In a parliamentary answer recently, equalities minister Lynne Featherstone said the coalition government might introduce the religious elements into the ceremonies.

The deputy prime minister said the coalition government would not «duck the difficult decisions» by avoiding taking «decisive action to pay down the UK's towering budget deficit».

The Christian People's Alliance leader says the coalition government is «not pursuing Christian politics».

Not exact matches

«If the «bail - in» of junior bondholders is not announced simultaneously with a bailout of retail investors, the announcement likely would severely hurt the popularity of the parties belonging to the coalition government,» Fois from Barclays said.

«It's a given that the foreign minister will quit,» the government source said, adding that he expected Prodi to call a confidence vote with the hope of forcing his divided coalition to join ranks to avoid collapse.

But a colleague from D'Alema's Democrats of the Left, the largest coalition party, said that if he resigned, the whole government would have to follow suit.

Reform Government Surveillance, a coalition of tech firms established after the 2013 leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, said reforming the law remains a priority.

The ban in Sri Lanka came the same week that Germany's new coalition government says it may revise a recently - enacted law to punish internet firms that don't remove hate speech quickly enough.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

The Small UAV Coalition echoed Johnson's concerns in a November letter to the FAA that said, «State and local governments have no authority to govern or regulate the operation of aircraft, both manned and unmanned, in the National Airspace System.»

«With this new Canadian cleantech coalition, we want to create a competitive advantage for both the ecosystem and our country by focusing business, investors, strategic partners and governments on a strategic plan to promote clean technologies, nationally and internationally» said Denis Leclerc, President and CEO of Écotech Québec.

Karl Baldauf, spokesperson for the Keep Ontario Working Coalition, said the FAO report illustrates why the government should proceed with caution.

«We have already told the government that these are areas where there is no opportunity,» said Castañon, whose coalition of business groups is advising Mexico's negotiating team.

When the Alberta government released its Climate Leadership plan in November 2015, I said that Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips had made pigs fly by uniting a coalition of industry leaders and environmental leaders in our province.

Premier's Political Editor says there's no chance of the coalition government falling apart after the resignation of a Liberal Democrat Home Office minister.

Sir Gerald, a Christian, said the UK government may not have be privy to all the necessary information because the coalition wasn't in power at the time: «Much of this occurred at the time when we were not in government and we don't have access to the papers of the previous administration, so there are practical considerations here.»

The idea of coalition, by the way, and for all that I was an internal friendly critic of it for five years, I would argue that in the last couple of generations the coalition government was the best in terms of stability and certainly when you compare it to the current shambles you've got to say they were good years.

He now says, «No Iraqi government official, coalition soldier, diplomat, reporter, foreign NGO, nor contractor can walk the streets of Baghdad, nor Mosul, nor Kirkuk, nor Basra, nor Tikrit, nor Najaf, nor Ramadi, without heavily armed protection.»

Coalition for Marriage, a group which supports the traditional common - law definition of marriage, said the figures were regrettable and highlighted a need for the Government to better - support marriage via education and the tax system.

The Daily Mail says a spokesperson from The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political coalition which opposes the government, said: «The silence of the world community, especially of western countries, vis - à - vis these medieval punishments under the excuse of having nuclear talks with Iran has intensified the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran.

It has been said that the Ugandan government was influenced by evangelical Christians from the U.S., and indeed Museveni's argument that gay and lesbian people are «disgusting» has been echoed by Thabiti Anyabwile of the Gospel Coalition, who has spoken positively about similar legislation in Liberia and Russia.

Mr Joyce said since the Coalition government came to office in September 2013 the value of live animal exports has amounted to $ 1.4 billion and «is continuing to break new ground».

The Coalition said the former Labor government of establishing new protection zones in the Jervis Bay and Solitary Islands marine parks shortly before the last election to attract Greens preferences.

It's not the lefties and the greenies saying that, that's what the Coalition government and some of the biggest businesses in Australia are saying.

Also this week the CEO of SPC Ardmona, Peter Kelly, issued an urgent plea to the new Coalition government for $ 25 million in funding, saying that without the money the company will be forced to close its Shepparton plant.

Despite Coalition Government claims to make Britain the «most family - friendly country in Europe», the Index proves the UK «still has a long way to go», says Rob Williams, Chief Executive of the Fatherhood Institute.

Mr Clegg will say: «The new coalition government has committed to reaching 0.7 % of GNI in aid from 2013 - a pledge we will enshrine in law.

But others say it's the wisest reaction to coalition government.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: «Our legal challenge against the coalition government is hugely significant for workers in both the public and private sectors.

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Cameron knew Hunt was for the bid, had said the government shouldn't cave to the Mark Thompson / Channel 4 coalition, and he gave him the BSkyB bid anyway.

«When this bill is finally talked out on some dark rainy night... we have to go back to the government and say to our partners in coalition «give us a government bill».

Of the 634 voters it spoke to who ranked Labour as their first preference, 49 % said they would prefer a minority government, compared to 30 % who wanted to see a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

The coalition government could split before the next election, business secretary Vince Cable has said.

The row began over the weekend when shadow chancellor Ed Balls said a future Labour government would retain the coalition's pay squeeze on public sector workers.

Meanwhile at the party headquarters of the far right Laos party, sitting under paintings of classical Greek scenes, vice-president Georgios Georgiou explains why they left the current governing coalition (formed under Lucas Papademos last November when the Papandreou government collapsed): «I suggested we leave the coalition... we said not to touch pensions and wages and to get rid of the two million illegal immigrants... you can not have Germans coming in sitting in ministries ordering ministers what to do.»

This is in part because the governments of John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and the present Coalition Government under David Cameron and Nick Clegg, are said to have preserved the broad political settlement her governments cemented.

There was a notable lack of details in this morning's Times story, in which Klein said «some type» of coalition government would take the politics out of policy debates and end the «constant hyperpartisan bickering» in the chamber.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, says that the government's plan to cap compensation for unfair dismissal is part of a joined - up attack on workers» rights which is turning ordinary working people into scapegoats for the coalition's economic mismanagement.

Responding to Duncan Brack's article Being A Special Adviser Under The Coalition, Richard Darlington (himself a former SpAd in the Labour government) said: «I agree that good government requires more, not fewer SpAds.

My guess is that the coalition parties will continue to blame Labour for the inherited «mess» and say either that Labour will return to its profligate traditions, if elected to government, or, ignoring Jonathan Portes, say that Labour has no credible plan for paying down the coalition's budget deficit.

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