Sentences with phrase «to cut public spending»

Nearly half of voters thought a Labour government would be cutting public spending by less than the coalition is currently doing.

All three main parties are committed to an agenda of cutting public spending and reject the case for increasing public investment.

The government has also introduced austerity measures aimed at cutting public spending.

There, well before the fiscal crisis struck home, the leadership argued for cutting public spending on the basis that it was too high.

The need to cut public spending in order to help address ballooning national debt is now well - established.

«There is,» he continues, «a powerful argument for the UK getting on with cutting public spending more aggressively, now, in order to avoid the risk of being forced into far harsher spending cuts later.»

«envisaged the Chancellor of the Exchequer standing here in 2014 and presenting a spending review that still had years of cutting public spending ahead of it.»

On 13 March, the Liberal Democrats said they would not support any plan to cut public spending too early in the next Parliament.

And in his final March 2010 budget he resisted calls to cut public spending saying he believed such a policy would be «both wrong and dangerous».

But on the Tory commitment to cut public spending immediately, he said: «You've got to ask yourself, would either of the other parties be prepared to do that?»

The Police Federation is warning that 40,000 frontline policing jobs in England and Wales are at risk if the government presses ahead with cutting public spending by 25 per cent, as Simon Israel discovers.

Seemingly without irony, Clegg told the conference floor: «To those who ask, incredulously, what we — the Liberal Democrats — are doing cutting public spending, I simply say this: Who suffers most when governments go bust?

Only weeks ago the Tories had pledged that, although they intended to cut public spending if elected, they would protect overall health and international aid budgets.

Lord Mandelson added: «To cut public spending now as the shadow chancellor proposes could easily plunge the economy back into recession.»

Mr Brown has been aggressively attacking the Tories over what he says are their plans to cut public spending after the election, even though indepependent economists say cuts will be necessary whoever wins the election.

There are also disagreements on Europe and when to start cutting public spending.

It was seized on by Labour as evidence that the government planned «vicious cuts on the poorest» as part of its efforts to massively cut public spending to tackle the UK's record deficit.

The deficit was unavoidable if we were to avoid financial meltdown, and his Budget proposals were entirely wrong — wrong because they would, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, have two and a half times the adverse effect on the poorest as on the richest in our society, and wrong because he is seeking to cut public spending before there is any momentum for private sector spending in our economy.»

The No - Turning Back Group will call for tax cuts: «David Ruffley, a leading member of the group, said: «Some of us would like him to cut public spending even more in order to fund tax cuts to inject a fiscal stimulus int o the UK economy at the Budget.»»

Following pressure from Cabinet ministers led by Alistair Darling and Lord Mandelson, Mr Brown also seems to have accepted that Labour would have to cut public spending from next year in order to meet its pledge to halve the deficit in four years.

In a further sign of the limited room for manoeuvre Mr Osborne will enjoy 94 per cent of those questioned said the public deficit should be tackled by cutting public spending rather than raising taxes.

Politicians are falling over themselves to tell us how hard, how fast and how deep they will cut public spending in order to rein - in the spiralling Budget deficit.

Indeed, they were plans that envisaged the Chancellor... standing here in 2014 presenting a spending review that still had years of cutting public spending ahead of it.»

If shown to be accurate, it would lend considerable credence to Labour arguments that the Tories are cutting public spending too quickly and deeply.

In other words he has retreated to his core message that his opponents would wreck the recovery and cut public spending more savagely and speedily than Labour.

«That means difficult decisions to reduce benefits, cut public spending by government departments and increase taxes.

Those include loosening watertight labor protections and cutting public spending.

Governments will find their tax capacity decline as the aged population earns less income and spends less after retirement, putting pressures on governments to cut public spending or increase taxes on younger populations, the latter hurting competitiveness.

The IMF - EU rescue packages these countries accepted came with strict orders to cut public spending.

As Europe's banking crisis deepens, Greece's and Spain's fiscal crisis spreads throughout Europe and the US economy stalls, most discussions of how to stabilize national finances assume that only two options are available: «internal devaluation» — shrinking the economy by cutting public spending; or outright devaluation of the currency (for countries that have not yet joined the euro, such as Eastern Europe).

Labour lost the election, and power passed to the strongly Thatcherite administration led by Sir Horace Cutler who in turn moved to cut public spending and encourage those living in council houses to buy their own homes.

Your doctrine of so - called «expansionary fiscal contraction» — that the faster you cut public spending, the greater the boost to private investment and growth — has been exposed as intellectually bankrupt.

The coalition agreement has allowed the leadership to pursue its zeal for cutting public spending.

George Osborne's plans to cut public spending to reduce the deficit would be «devastating» for the UK, Business Secretary Vince Cable has claimed.

Therefore Conservative efforts to cut public spending would have the effect of reducing tax revenue, without any change to tax rates.

What can we learn about the future of fiscal squeeze in the UK (defined as substantial political effort to increase revenue or cut public spending or both) from looking at past cases?

[27] He promised increases in public spending of 2 % a year, [27] calling Labour charges that the Conservatives would cut public spending «a pack of lies».

That cutting public spending will not help restore economic growth and is also socially regressive has been outlined by numerous authors elsewhere (for example here and here).

In 2001 when a shadow Treasury minister he had to go into hiding during that year's election campaign after claiming the Tories wanted to cut public spending by # 20 billion rather than the # 8 billion they had publicly stated.

Matthew Sinclair is director of the TaxPayers» Alliance and the editor of «How to Cut Public Spending (and Still Win an Election)»

Mr McWilliams argued: «A more credible plan to cut public spending in the medium term than simply relying on wildly optimistic forecasts - as seen in the last Budget - is absolutely necessary.»

Matthew Sinclair, the organisation's research director, has edited How to Cut Public Spending (and Still Win an Election) which includes a detailed examination of the records of the major parties and sets out a detailed programme of potential cuts and essential reforms to ensure taxpayers get better value for money.

In a BBC interview, Mr Osborne pledged to reduce Britain's borrowing by cutting public spending — rather than increasing taxes.

Mr Darling is planning to cut Britain's debts by levying more tax and cutting public spending, though less than under Conservative plans.

«Perhaps the task ahead for our Government today is slightly greater, as Baroness Thatcher never managed to cut public spending.

We are the only party that will increase health spending in line with growth in the economy at this point, because the Conservatives will still be cutting public spending and Labour won't have balanced the books.

Conservative ministers, MPs and most newspapers support public spending cuts in general, but oppose nearly all attempts to cut public spending.