Sentences with phrase «up to the election commitment»

One thing we do know from recent policy announcements, Conservatives will live up to their election commitments no matter how bad they are as policy commitments.

Nevertheless, it raises the issue of how the government will live up to the election commitment to keep the deficit to $ 10 billion (or does a small increase actually matter politically).

Not exact matches

He could raise the GST, but the Prime Minister has ruled that out; he could fulfill an election commitment by undertaking a serious simplification of the income tax system, which could yield substantial revenues (about $ 3 to $ 5 billion), but he seems reluctant to do that; or, he could take the easy way out and simply cut his fiscal prudence in half and «miraculously» free up $ 3billion annually for his cabinet colleagues.

Government's 2007 election commitment 4.33 In the context of ongoing community concerns about creeping acquisitions, reflecting that the regulatory responses to date had not adequately addressed the problem, the then - Opposition committed in the lead - up to the 2007 election, to introduce a law in relation to creeping acquisitions.

Finally, the Government is also fulfilling its election commitment made by the then Leader of the Opposition on the 11th July last year to set up a dedicated website that gives consumers a snapshot of local grocery prices.

The Dogs Trust «Doggy Manifesto» sets out our proposals to the political parties for commitments we would like to see them make in the run up to the next General Election.

«I'm a little dubious about his commitment because he seems to pay attention to these issues only when there's an election coming up and what he's done is put together a panel that he wants to study the issue and frankly there's no need to study the issue further,» Holland said.

Despite Boris's much - reported commitment at the mayoral election to «bear down on transport costs», from January, fares will go up by an average of 4.2 %.

However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

Despite Labour's commitment to half the budget deficit within four years (beginning in 2011 rather than 2010), and their admission that this would entail having to make cuts «worse than Thatcher», Labour politicians were rarely pressed on the subject on «The Andrew Marr Show» throughout the months leading up to the general election - unlike their Conservative opposite numbers, who were regularly pressed on the subject.

In its «Election Manifesto», Voice called for a «Commitment to set up and implement a national pay and conditions structure for all school support staff».

Under the proposals, pupils will be tested at the end of their time at primary school to make sure they all know their times tables up to 12 x 12, in line with the Conservatives» general election manifesto commitment.

Fossil fuel interests seized on the election as a mandate to gut the EPA, strip away clean air and water protections, open up public lands for exploitation, and renege on international climate commitments.

We join our colleagues in the childcare community in applauding the NDP for establishing the foundation for a national conversation around early childhood education and childcare (ECEC) leading up to the 2015 election and for their commitment to making childcare affordable for families.

In the lead - up to this year's federal election, the actions of the Abbott / Turnbull Government once again indicated a lack of conservative commitment to the universality of Medicare.

The Government went to the election with a commitment to set up a national representative body to provide an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice within government.