Sentence examples for deficit labour from inspiring English sources

But it wasn't just the debt and deficit Labour left… …it was who got hurt.

TAX AND DEFICIT Labour Would put the marginal income tax rate on earnings higher than £150,000 back up to 50p.

Anthony Painter, writing on Labour List and drawing on polling prepared by Lord Ashcroft, points out that on three of the four most salient issues – welfare dependency, immigration and cutting the deficit – Labour not only trails the Conservatives but significantly so.

Leader page: "Trust deficit: Labour's manifesto is an attempt to prove the party can be trusted over the economy.

None of this answers the pressing question of the deficit, Labour's dire polling on economic competence, or Miliband's own personal ratings.

Cutting the deficit: Labour's plan to halve deficit in four years is "starting point" but more could be raised through tax - such as a higher bank levy.

While other countries used the continuing economic boom to trim their deficits, Labour kept borrowing to fund increased spending.

"Councils need to do their bit to help pay off the deficit that Labour left.

But the Lib Dems are being tougher on the deficit than Labour, which has plans to balance current spending at some time in the next parliament.

Harold Wilson's defeat at the polls in 1970 has often been blamed on a rogue set of monthly figures which showed a deficit when Labour had made much of its success in achieving a surplus.

He has form as a deficit hawk: Labour has never been as fiscally credible in its history as it was in Gordon Brown's early years at the Treasury, when spending was kept tight and debt resolutely paid down.