Sentences with phrase «speech on austerity»

The shadow chancellor greets me by offering a mince pie, and quickly devours one himself after a long day of political combat marked by George Osborne's speech on austerity.

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After yesterday's harsh speech from George Osborne promising more austerity in the next parliament, Cameron made a series of pledges on income tax, housing and zero hours contracts to sweeten the pill of continued spending cuts.

The UK government remains committed to austerity measures such as the cap on public sector pay; but in a speech on 20 June 2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond acknowledged public discontent with austerity, and suggested the government would consider increased borrowing to invest in economic growth.

Ed Ball's speech in particular, defining where he stands on austerity and Keysianism, the shadow chancellor's most important speech since that to Bloomberg, was made without any discussion whatsoever within the party's formal policy structure or amongst MPs.

That comes on the back of this week's Ed Balls speech, which seemed to accept the core tenants of austerity and accept the end of universal welfare by means testing the winter fuel payment.