Sentences with phrase «labour conference when»

«Seeking to reassure his many internal and external doubters, McDonnell made the wrong call at the Labour conference when he declared his party was now «anti austerity» but would vote for Osborne's Charter as it also sought ways of removing the deficit.

Not exact matches

John Reid today raised the odds that he might stand as Labour leader when he set himself out as a strong and powerful leader at the party conference in Manchester.

Gordon Brown continued to publicly back a tougher approach at this year's Labour conference, when he said any foreign national involved in gun or drug crime would be deported.

It seems to me that people sneered at Ed [Miliband] when he took up energy prices at the Labour party conference.

We are not America when are the Labour party going to realize we do not do America politics, at the last conference they gave me a placard and said will you be willing to shout and clap when told, I gave them back the placard and told them no.

All in all this conference could look pretty bleak for the moderate and MP wings of the party - when Dugdale stood down, it affected more than the immediate future of Scottish Labour, it impacted on the dominance of the Left within Labour for a generation to come.

The establishment of an Irish Constitutional Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 centenary.

In a stage - managed moment worthy of a Boris Johnson conference speech, Cameron pulled out the letter left by Treasury minister Liam Byrne when Labour last left government, claiming there was no money left.

The Treasury minister Sajid Javid upped the stakes, quoting back at Labour the shadow work secretary Liam Byrne's conference speech two years ago, when he said: «Let's face the tough truth — that many people on the doorstep at the last election felt that too often we were for shirkers, not workers.»

The briefings and plotting were febrile at the Labour party conference in Manchester at the end of September; in the hotels and bars the talk was about not if there would be a challenge to Brown, but when.

When Kinnock chose to take on his critics, he stood at the lectern at Labour conference, in the full glare of the television lights, and faced them down.

In the period between now and when the voters, trade unionists and party members start to realise this, Blair will use the good will he starts out with to move as fast as possible — starting at this year's conference — to suppress the mechanisms whereby alternative policies could be expressed within the Labour Party.

In London, Blair's attempt to stop Livingstone being selected as Labour candidate for mayor suffered a setback when the regional party conference voted almost unanimously for a motion saying that all candidates nominated by 10 CLPs should be automatically shortlisted for an OMOV ballot to select the candidate.

It was one of the proudest days of my life when I was elected Chair of Labour's National Executive Committee at Conference in September 2014.

Left to his own devices, as he makes clear in his diary entry for 12 October 1980, he would have stood for the leadership in October that year when Callaghan resigned in a deliberate attempt to pre-empt the decision of Labour's party conference to have the wider franchise for electing the Leader that all major parties now take for granted.

One of the most interesting guest appearances, however, was made on the MPs» team in the annual Labour Party Conference game against the press lobby, when Ed Balls met Bryan Robson at a reception the evening before our match and casually offered him a game.

Conference, as Liam Byrne has said, Labour won't stand aside when there are almost one million young people out of work, and when long - term unemployment is so high.

And Conference, when David Cameron and William Hague now have the nerve to go round saying that Parliament's refusal to be bounced into military action in Syria has «diminished» Britain, let us reply: no Labour government will ever stand aside when terrible atrocities are committed and international law is broken.

If you look at the only daily data that's available, the Phi5000 tracker on PoliticsHome, you can see that Labour and Brown's conference bounces were already receeding from their conference increase when the bank rescue came along and up they went again, and have kept on upwards since then.

I came to my first Labour conference in 1986, when the main platform was stormed by irate feminists and a kind of anarchic enthusiasm ran across the entire conference fringe.

At that year's Labour conference, he made what was widely interpreted as the opening salvo of a leadership campaign - with a speech appealing to the party's «soul» telling activists «we are best when we are Labour».

The full quote from Carwyn Jones, first minister of the Welsh government, at the Labour conference is «We are building a Wales that's a living, breathing example of what Labour can achieve when in government.»

He would be taking the initiative like he did when Brown got the election bug after the good labour conference and then Brown would have to put up or shut up and be faced with calling a risky election before he's sure he could win or looking like Chicken little again.

When the next Labour government attends the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, it will be supporting a nuclear weapons convention or ban, similar to those for chemical or biological weapons?

On Tuesday, when Miliband made his keynote speech at the Labour party conference, his time ran out.

But somehow I can't see this happening when the Labour Party conference has had most of its democracy usurped by those who benefit from these perks.

In a speech at the Lowry in Salford, Burnham appeared to borrow from Tony Blair's 1997 Labour conference speech, when the then prime minister spoke of turning Britain into «a beacon to the world».

Jeremy Corbyn was only the most recent when he told Labour conference last year, just days after being anointed leader, that his victory would herald a new era of «straight talking, honest politics».

So when Ed Balls used his conference speech to signal Labour's departure from an unquestioning commitment to HS2, all eyes turned to Adonis, who as a shadow minister for infrastructure is also a shadow cabinet colleague of Mr Balls.

Exhibit A: Tony Blair showing off his skills after opening a sports centre in Manchester when the Labour Party Conference was held there in 2006.

And, in a moment of political symbolism so perfect it should be in a David Hare play, he was actually at a right - wing libertarian conference in the US when Welsh Labour MPs were trying to warn him of the severity of the problem.

That suggests Labour should take it slow over finding the new leader - although possibly not as slow as last time, when they waited until the party conference in September.

The nearest to a Conference when we were top of the political pile in the last twenty years was 2000 after the fuel protests and in 2006 but in both cases we were only level - pegging with Labour (and in 2000 only very briefly).

First Harriet Harman bracketed the Tories with the BNP in a fundraising email but she then took things to a new low during the Labour Party Conference when - completely dishonestly - she said that George Osborne wanted to replace a SureStart in every community with a lapdancing club.

In 2008, when Miliband arrived at party conference waving one, Labour had what George Osborne is now determined to deprive us of: a robust brand.

«Local Labour branches all over the country have been debating this issue for a year and a half, and yet when it came to party conference in September the motions they had passed and the views they expressed were effectively junked.»

Tony Blair famously annoyed fellow Labour party figures in 1995 when he accepted an invitation from Rupert Murdoch to fly out to Australia to address News Corporation conference.

The pressure on Cameron to cancel the Saudi contract escalated when Jeremy Corbyn called on him in his first party conference speech as Labour leader to block the bid to provide training for the very prison system that would carry out the execution of the pro-democracy protester Ali Mohammed Baqir al - Nimr.

Gordon Brown highlighted Labour's economic record when he addressed the party's spring conference today.

He said the organised labour leaders would look into the issue when they return from the ILO conference.

Liberal Democrats cheekily tried to highlight Labour's internal battle over Progress today, when they invited the group to their party conference.

Indeed, Tony Blair had made many speeches and was already leader when he told the 1994 Labour conference that Clause IV had to go...

Harriet Harman will bring a historic Labour conference to a close today when she delivers the final speech in Manchester.

Labour's Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell MP, will today pledge that the party could invest up to # 30 billion in the North West when he addresses Labour's North West Regional Conference in Blackpool.

Coalition defence policy was attacked by Jim Murphy in his speech to the Labour conference, when he claimed «this is a government that does not listen».

John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, received loud applause from Labour conference delegates when he called from the rostrum for the party to levy a «tax» on Labour MPs with second jobs and outside earnings, and on former Labour ministers who go on to earn fortunes from consultancies and directorships.

He went to striking lengths in his conference speeches to celebrate modern Britain, even when that meant praising things that much of his party hate or giving credit to the Labour government.

Conference polls are a strange and rather artifical thing of course, Labour might well do even better after Miliband's speech tomorrow, but I'd expect them to go back behind next week when the Conservatives enjoy their own confereConference polls are a strange and rather artifical thing of course, Labour might well do even better after Miliband's speech tomorrow, but I'd expect them to go back behind next week when the Conservatives enjoy their own conferenceconference boost.

Gordon Brown's top team had been celebrating what was regarded as a successful speech by the Prime Minister when news of a BBC Newsnight interview began to sweep the bars and receptions of the Labour Party conference in Manchester.

The party conference season traditionally produces boosts for each of three political parties in turn as they benefit from media coverage from their own conference, so while the first poll lead for the Labour party in 3 years is likely to be a big morale boost for the party, past experience suggests the Conservatives will move back ahead when they receive a boost from their own party conference in a week's time.