Sentences with phrase «unpopular budget measures»
Any Tory government will be overseeing unpopular budget measures and Labour may be imploding.
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The overhaul of the pension system — along with unpopular tax measures and an increase in VAT — form the central plank of a $ 5.4 bn package of budget cuts and reforms that Tsipras has agreed to enact in exchange for rescue funds from a third, $ 86bn bailout the country signed up to last summer.
It was always unlikely that we would see the same furore we had following the Budget, but the chancellor will also have known that even yesterday's unpopular measures are unlikely to result in lasting damage as long as people's optimism about the real economy continues to increase and our polls show this to be the case (relatively speaking at least).
With the bulk of the Health Budget already in the public domain, last night's Budget speech was less about new announcements and more about selling the already unpopular measures to the Australian public.