Sentences with phrase «shadow government on»

«What's happening is collective unity is now collapsing in government and shadow government on difficult subjects,» the Tory MP said.

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«It is deeply concerning that the size of the Army has fallen yet again on this Government's watch,» Nia Griffith, Labour's shadow defence secretary, said on Thursday.

Pang added that the government controls on the NCDs are «just the first steps to control the growth of shadow banking,» and she expects more rules to come.

One of the examples he cited was the recently announced Digital Defense Service, a sort of Defense Department job shadowing project in which technology workers can team up with the government on projects that could last up to two years.

In addition, we think Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to continue the government's crackdown on corruption and the shadow banking system.

The turnaround is in part due to policy initiatives such as debt - for - equity swaps that helped the largest banks deal with rising debt loads, and a widespread crackdown by the government on shadow banking that has given them an edge over smaller peers.

A new study, backed by Facebook, wants to go beyond measuring the impact of internet shutdowns on the formal economy and measure the impact of internet cut - offs on «shadow economies,» namely economic activities that circumvent government regulation, oversight, and taxation.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

The Spanish embassy became very concerned and the government posted a policeman with a rifle 24 hours a day on duty, who was literally my shadow from 2004 — 2006.

A spokesman for shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare told The Australian Financial Review: «Labor welcomes reports that the government has finally made a decision on something.

SHADOW Agriculture Minister Joel Fitzgibbon wants the banks and federal Coalition government to intervene on the «extraordinary» dairy crisis in southern Australia to provide debt - relief assistance to help farmers sleep at night.

So the idea that the government has to use this piece of legislation to recommend increasing penalties on unions for secondary boycotts by — as the shadow Assistant Treasurer reminds me — 800 times the current penalty does smack of some excessiveness on behalf of even this government.

Commenting on the chief constable's claims, shadow home secretary David Davis accused the government of failing «to get a grip» on gun crime.

Commenting on the figures, Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow justice secretary, said: «The surge in female violence - fuelled by binge - drinking - is a damning indictment of this government's track record in addressing both crime and social breakdown.»

Labour's shadow minister without portfolio Jon Ashworth said: «We had warm words from the Prime Minister yesterday on the need for her Government to stand up for more than just a privileged few.

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.

Anyone who spends any time with Corbyn's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, would discern a hunger to wield power in government as he once did on the much smaller stage of the Greater London Council.

Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow education secretary, calls on the government not to betray trust of young people and create a «lost generation»:

«It is fantastic news that after over two years of unnecessary delays caused by the Conservative - led government 4G is finally on its way to the UK,» said Helen Goodman, shadow media minister.

Meanwhile Starmer and the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, will write to Davis on Wednesday with a list of 170 questions that they say remain unanswered by the government on Brexit — one for each day until article 50 is triggered in late March.

Corbyn and his allies are coming under increasing pressure to allow a free vote on bombing ISIS in the country, and shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has repeatedly refused to rule out backing the government if it comes before the Commons.

[325] The SNP has also criticised Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, for saying [326] a future UK Labour government would be even tougher on benefits than the Cameron ministry.

The shadow justice secretary is expected to use a speech on criminal justice policy to confirm the opposition would scrap the controversial ban, which forms part of the government's incentives and earned privileges scheme.

Sadiq Khan MP, shadow justice secretary, said: «The energy and time this government is spending on arguments about the Human Rights Act shows how completely out of touch it is with the British people who are not interested in cat fights between ministers but how the safety of their communities will be protected after cuts in police budgets which go too far and too fast.»

«A government that operates in the shadows and makes big decisions on behalf of the public without any public scrutiny.»

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R - Calif., told CQ Roll Call on Tuesday that it was «perhaps too soon» for his committee to look at how federal prosecutors» allegations that Mayor Vincent Gray knew about a shadow campaign scheme in the 2010 election might have contributed to his loss to Muriel Bowser.

«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the shadow Secretary of State for Justice and is now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».

«We want the government to be clearer on what stresses and strains operations in Libya are making on the core defence budget, and whether our standing commitments are or will be affected by the ongoing conflict,» shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy commented.

Commenting on the findings, shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne criticised the government's handling of the economy.

One of the shadow cabinet's most thoughtful members suggested to me that the chances of a Lib - Lab coalition winning a referendum on PR were so slim, and the scale of the difficulties facing the next government so great, that it might be worth leaving them to face the music.

The shadow home secretary also proposed a habitual residence test for jobseekers» allowance, controls on EU movement after the accession of Bulgaria and Romania and, worst of all, arrest powers for UKBA — easily the most incompetent, heartless and cack - handed division of government.

Pointing out that the shadow chancellor had last week denounced government projections on efficiency savings as «complete fiction», he added: «You are now using these fictional savings to finance your tax cut.

Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott will ask the Home Office to make a statement on the government's handling of the Windrush scandal this afternoon in the House of Commons.

In «Secrecy World,» Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca — a trove now known as the Panama Papers — as well as other journalistic and government investigations.

Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said the Tories had rejected the suggested clauses for «technical reasons» and urged the government to work with the opposition to implement them.

Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has announced that if elected a Labour government would return the rate of income tax payable on incomes above # 150,000 to 50 %.

Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, told ITV's Peston on Sunday that Nissan «has been told more about it than we have in parliament», adding that the government had «got to come clean».

Advocates for low - income families in Massachusetts are calling on the state and federal governments to increase funding for fuel assistance programs in the shadow of sequestration.

While the Conservatives have put more focus on budget cuts, shadow business secretary Ken Clarke said earlier this month that a Conservative government would not rule out raising taxes.

However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near - disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.

Hilary Benn, shadow communities and local government secretary, told the Ipsos MORI event at the Labour party conference last year that the coalition has made it difficult for Labour to be heard as the media focussed on coalition differences rather than what Labour's view is.

The same source alleged that Mr Corbyn's team had discussed sending someone to spy on shadow minister Jon Ashworth's weekly meeting on how to attack the Government.

«The figures in this report contrast sharply with what the government claim and betray a chronic deficit of information on immigration,» said shadow home secretary David Davis.

«The said Yahaya Bello, who can not claim the overall winning votes in the election, is therefore a shadow - chasing passerby on an excursion in Kogi state government house, as the so - called swearing - in ceremony, having no bearing from the votes at election, is at best an APC function.

Government borrowing will be reined in, he says, before fawning on his shadow chancellor and pledging to destroy «all those useless quangos and initiatives».

Tory shadow local government secretary Eric Pickles said: «Bin taxes are so expensive to introduce that taxes on families will have to rise as result.

Mr Fallon's call on the government «to improve the population count as a matter of urgency» was echoed by shadow immigration minister Damian Green.

In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith insisted Labour supported the government's actions and «fully accepts that Russia is responsible».

Julia Goldsworthy, Liberal Democrat shadow local government minister, said: «This survey shows the devastating effect failing to pay council tax can have on families, especially those already struggling to cope with mortgage repayments and rising bills.

He shadows Michael Gove, a man described by Blair biographer John Rentoul as the most Blairite minister in government, but Falconer is not impressed with Gove's «empty rhetoric,» on prison reform.