Sentences with phrase «dem fringe meetings»

The report has been launched at a fringe meeting: Beyond 2015: Who should run our schools?

Cable told a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat conference last night that it was «possible» the two parties would go their separate ways.

Jack Straw faced staunch criticism over his record as Home Secretary at a Fabian Fringe meeting on prisons today.

I've rarely known a conference when hours outside the hall are not as much filled with real policy debate and lobbying to win the votes on the floor, and fringe meetings for or against certain proposed policies, as exchanging campaign experiences, or party gossip.

At the fringe meeting — where Mr Blunkett and Fabian General Secretary Sunder Katwala were joined by Lib Dems Dr Evan Harris and John Leech MP — there was some disagreement about how the Conservative - Lib Dem coalition would play out, especially when the next General Election draws nearer.

Militant moderates in the parliamentary party organising their own fringe meetings is the defiance of Westminster's marginalised.

The former Conservative leader told a fringe meeting that he failed to get a bounce from his election, due to the attacks on the Twin Towers.

Speaking at the Fabian fringe meeting «Is Lib - Lab coalition gone forever?»

I've just returned from a remarkable fringe meeting at the party's annual autumn conference, in which Ian Dexter, a Ukip member, former candidate in county and district elections and potential parliamentary candidate for 2015, outlined his strategy for winning over Labour voters.

Schools have a critical role in the issue of gender equality and making sure that all children and young people have the best life chances, a fringe meeting organised by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK has heard.

Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Bournemouth, the famous atheist and scientist told delegates that it was unacceptable to indoctrinate children into any religion or belief system.

Addressing the fringe meeting were Sam Smethers, Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society and Chris Keates, NASUWT General Secretary.

Chris Keates told the fringe meeting how NASUWT's work over the past decade looking at online abuse has exposed this increasing issue facing women teachers and girls.

All of our fringe meetings were very successful, leading discussion in the party on key issues of fairness in the economy: taxes, high pay and our Plan C to put sustainability and fairness at the heart of government policy.

Sir Mike was a panellist at the SLF's Conference fringe meeting «Overcoming crisis: How to move towards a more ethical capitalism», and...

• We will hold a fringe meeting at Scottish Spring Conference on Friday 2 March.

Here is the text of the presentation I gave at the ConHome fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester this week.

Sir Mike was a panellist at the SLF's Conference fringe meeting «Overcoming crisis: How to move towards a more ethical capitalism», and part of the Dispatches programme was filmed during the fringe meeting and can be seen by following the link below:

The report Youth Work: Professionals Valued will be launched at a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference entitled: Moving forward: Rebuilding Youth Services under a Labour Government in hall 4, Hilton Brighton Metropole on Sunday (24 September) at 16.00.

Joint FCO - DFID minister Rory Stewart MP and Nicky Morgan MP were among the speakers at a fringe meeting titled: «Challenging the period taboo: how...

And while we are at it, let's not be too harsh on the humble sausage roll and Pinot Grigio of the endless fringe meeting.

The key thing about modern conference lobbying is to get away from the tired old fringe meeting - exhibition stand - wheel around the CEO formula.

Mr Kennedy was seen «doing the rounds», meeting activists at various fringe meetings during the Lib Dems» annual conference in Brighton and has not ruled himself out of the contest to succeed Sir Menzies Campbell.

Speaking at an NASUWT fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, NASUWT's Deputy General Secretary Dr Patrick Roach condemned the Government's attempts to undermine the Human Rights Act and curb the ability of trade unions to advocate and represent the interests of their members through the Trade Union Bill.

A succession of speakers at the Labour First fringe meeting, including Hilary Benn, Ruth Smeeth and Yvette Cooper, promised to oppose the policies and practices of supporters of Corbyn just a day after the Labour leader was re-elected.

Following our successful fringe meeting at the Scottish Spring Conference in Perth, the Social Liberal Forum (Scotland) will hold a further meeting in Glasgow.

Over 50 Yorkshire and Humber Labour Party delegates packed into Saturday's fringe meeting in Leeds to hear from the front line in what has been labelled «A Very European Coup `.

Mr Huhne told a party conference fringe meeting that oil prices could double, wiping # 45billion off the British economy over two years.

Speaking to a Freedom Association fringe meeting during the Conservative Conference in Birmingham, the Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said:

At a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference in Bournemouth, two thirds of delegates also voted in favour of tax cuts.

Hundreds of Unite members working for Fujitsu across Manchester plan to take a one - day strike tomorrow (Tuesday, 4 October) and to demonstrate at the Tory conference while their Chief Executive Officer speaks at a fringe meeting inside.

However, elsewhere in Bournemouth, Lord Tebbit was more outspoken, telling a fringe meeting: «We know that tax cutting works, we have done it and it works.

A former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, John Bercow, told another fringe meeting that although he would not want to rule out low taxes in the future, «now is absolutely not the right time».

«Every fringe meeting, every debate, every discussion this week has fizzed with the opportunity for change.

Also at the wide - ranging fringe meeting, the straight - talking Soubry admitted she had «no idea» what the Tory manifesto said about business rates.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, was joined by Schools Minister David Laws at Beyond 2015: Reclaiming the Classroom, a fringe meeting organised by the NASUWT at the Liberal Democrats Party Conference in Glasgow.

He was accused by the Unite union of «kicking working people firmly in the teeth» after his comments at a Conservative party conference fringe meeting.

«It may just be my imagination» one shadow cabinet minister confided to me «but I was speaking at a fringe meeting and I had the impression there was a guy at the back whose job it was to keep an eye on what I was saying.

One Tory insider noted that it was not uncommon for individual whips to attend fringe meetings.

Business Secretary Vince Cable has told a fringe meeting in Liverpool that an advance release of his speech to the Lib Dem Conference on Wednesday has been «interpreted as an outburst of Marxism» and that he has «had to go round explaining that that's not what I meant».

The fringe guide indicates that around 90 % of fringe meetings are in the ICC or Hyatt.

Harsher words were exchanged at an equal opportunities commission fringe meeting where two senior Tory women clashed over affirmative action to ensure more women and MPs from ethnic minorities, a policy widely endorsed by most speakers yesterday.

Male speakers dominated panel events at fringe meetings at the Conservative party's conference in Manchester, taking up more than two - thirds of the speaking slots.

At a fringe meeting yesterday Iain Murray and Russell Lewis examined the enormous costs of combating climate change.

It was taken by a ConservativeHome reader who was one of the very few real activists to attend a fringe meeting on grammar schools.

One influential Conservative - supporting Jew, Dean Godson, attacked Wineman at a fringe meeting held by the Holocaust Educational Trust.

I'd quite like to see that fringe meeting with The Devil, Iain Dale, Dizzy, Guido & Mad Nad.

▶ Highlight of tomorrow's session The fringe meeting of the Chinese Lib Dems.

Some years ago at a party conference fringe meeting paid for by some denationalised company I had the temerity to ask their spokesman how much salary his chairman received prior to denationalisation and how much afterwards.

I watched the audience at a fringe meeting in Manchester this week listen in sullen silence as one former cabinet minister, Dominic Grieve, told them it was impossible to tell if we might be better off in 30 years» time: all we could be sure of was that Brexit was «a sudden and profound shift», and therefore a huge economic risk in the short and medium term.