Sentences with phrase «labour conference agenda»
Sadiq Khan appears to have elbowed his way back on to the Labour conference agenda after a behind - the - scenes row about whether he should be allowed on the main stage.
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«I've watched the last two Labour party conferences and the debate, and it seems to me that trade unions have an agenda not to promote some of the policy issues, but merely to defeat the government, defeat the platform,» Lord Morris told GMTV.
After Falkirk and the reform proposals — not to mention continuing tensions over a perceived lack of Labour support for the unions» anti-austerity agenda — it is shaping up to be an unforgettable conference season for us all.
The Labour leader, who said Britain needed a more responsible capitalism in his party conference speech last autumn, revealed details of his party's agenda for reforming the banking sector.
Setting out his foreign policy agenda at this year's Labour conference, the foreign secretary David Miliband also signalled a break from Tony Blair's liberal interventionism.
The problem is that it is not only Labour which will not push a trade union agenda but the trade unions themselves the leaders of which were prepared to do deals with Labour leaders to block anti-austerity policies at the recent NPF and therefore at Labour Conference too.
An initiative from the teams behind Labour Uncut, MessageSpace and Big Brother Watch, TechCentral?is putting technology and digital policy firmly on the party conference agenda for the first time.
Labour frontbenchers Mr Balls and Chuka Umunna will address the British Chambers of Commerce annual conference and stress the party's pro-business agenda following a string of attacks from senior corporate figures in recent days.
Gordon Brown's conference speech contained one announcement which is perhaps more important than many people realise: the prime minister's commitment to legislate for the goal of ending child poverty offers an important example of how entrenching Labour's legacy, defining its future agenda and testing the Conservative claim to be «progressive» all go together.
His 2001 Labour conference speech set out a broad agenda - including a just Middle East peace, African development and a commitment to human rights - as a necessary corollary to military action against al - Qaida and the Taliban.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently held the 102nd Session of the International Labour Conference, where sustainable development, decent work and green jobs were on the agenda.
With the International Labour Organization's (ILO) International Labour Conference currently taking place in Geneva from June 1 to June 17, with the agenda including an item entitled «Decent work for domestic workers», there are hopes that a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation will be adopted to afford what is seen as urgently - needed protection to domestic workers (see the ILO website for more... [more]