Sentences with phrase «labour conference by»

Responding to the address today (Wednesday 27 September) to the Labour conference by party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the leader Unite, the UK's largest union, hailed «a prime minister in waiting».

And late at night in the Grand Hotel, shadow business minister (and leading member of parliamentary rock group MP4) Kevin Brennan treated onlookers to a late night piano sing - along — a role previously performed at Labour conferences by Ben Bradshaw.

Not exact matches

Backed by Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and former Labour spin - doctor Alastair Campbell, the group said it is also planning marches in Europe, to political party conferences and organising for stalls to be set up in busy town centres.

In his closing speech at this week's Labour conference, Mr Corbyn pledged to curb rents in the private sector and said any redevelopment of a housing estate under a Labour government would have to be backed by a council ballot of residents.

There seemed to be real pathos in the presentation by Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan at his Edmonton press conference Monday morning: the cri de couer of a spurned lover, perhaps,...

A growing labour shortage is projected to increase, with a study by the Conference Board of Canada projecting 113,800 unfilled jobs by 2025.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

They say: «In the months prior to becoming Labour's Shadow Schools Minister in October 2016, Mike Kane was gifted # 5,218.55 by the Catholic Bishops» Conference of England and Wales, also to cover the costs of a parliamentary intern for 10 months.»

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

And he welcomed the show of unity put forward by the Labour party this week, saying it was a «close run thing but I think we've had a very good conference indeed».

The protest which was organized by a non-governmental organization, Be The Change Organization (BCO) also saw labour unions, Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), artisans, market women, youth organizations and student bodies taking part.

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to speak at the Labour 2.0 conference in London, organised by Progress and sponsored by MessageSpace and Blue State Digital.

Chaired by NASUWT President Geoff Branner, the meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester highlighted how savage economic policies are wreaking havoc on children's education.

The photograph of Miliband was taken at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool in 2011 and is now being used a stock image by picture agency Getty.

«I would hope that it would be completed in time for the new leader to be in post by the time of the Labour party conference.

Because as well as the official Labour conference, Momentum - the driving force behind Jeremy Corbyn — are staging their own «happening» (I've been instructed by James Schneider, a Momentum big wig, that it is NOT a conference... erm... okay) up the road in Liverpool at the same time.

The former shadow chancellor's new book is due to be published by Hutchison in September, just before this year's Labour party conference gets under way.

In his book Power Trip, Damian McBride recalls his frustration — and sneaking admiration for — Tony Blair's annual conference Houdini act: «Each year we'd come in with Tony under pressure, probably assisted by some unhelpful splashes from me in the Sunday papers; Gordon would make an ecstatically received speech appealing to Labour's soul and adding to the pressure; and Tony would then deliver an even better - received speech dashing Gordon's hopes and putting him back in his box.»

In the UK, the tendency has been for Labour to shift from movement politics to consumer politics - a focus group of eight people sipping wine in Kettering having more weight than policies developed within the party and decided by conference.

This brings Labour level, the first time this has happened in a Mori since 2008, and will greeted with glee by the party, which still remains without a leader until September 25th, the eve of its conference.

The association will sponsor the Rural Reception at each of the party conferences and will be joined by the Angling Trust at the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat conferences.

[83] On 5 July, Labour MPs voted overwhelmingly by a margin of 196 to 41 to back the rule change, paving the way for NEC and conference approval, which was secured in September 2011.

Unite's Policy Conference sent a very clear message to rebel Labour MPs yesterday by voting by an overwhelming majority to support a rule change to the Labour Party rulebook to reintroduce mandatory reselection of MPs before each general election.

Labour has been buffeted by events ever since a hubristic party conference.

At the carefully stage - managed Labour women's training conference in mid-July, defence of the proposals by Baroness Hollis and new Labour MP and ex-NUS president Lorna Fitzsimons as not pleasant but «necessary» contrasted with a well attended and heated Labour Women's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent benefits.

Shortly after the 2014 conference, private polling conducted by James Morris and Stan Greenberg showed Labour doing slightly — but not dramatically — worse than published polls suggested.

To do this, we need you to get our Motion passed in your CLP and submitted for the upcoming Labour Party Conference by 12 noon on Thursday 12th September.

A majority of its members favour backing airstrikes in spite of the four conditions laid down by Labour's conference only two months ago not being met.

Such a move would require a change to Labour's constitution to be passed by the party conference, but given that the unions — most of which back Corbyn — hold 50 % of the votes, it would be possible.

Press coverage On the eve of the Labour Party Conference in Manchester, an op - ed piece by Radice and Diamond appeared in The Financial Times outlining the pamphlet's key findings and their vision for the electoral future of the party.

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.

[38] He launched his campaign during a speech given at a Fabian Society conference and was nominated by 62 fellow Labour MPs.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

This brought him to the attention of party leader Tony Blair, and shortly after his defeat by the SNP he was welcomed at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness where he spoke immediately before Blair in the critical debate on abolition of Clause 4.4 of the Labour Party Constitution.

The matter could be clarified by a change to Labour's constitution, but that would have to wait until the party conference in September.

The Labour leader will use his conference speech to commit Labour to reinstating a migrant impact fund for those areas affected by high levels of immigration.

The Labour conference will be dominated by the election of a new leader, the winner to be announced on the Saturday night.

After a summer in which he plans to maintain election fitness with yet more rallies and campaigning, Jeremy Corbyn will be greeted like a hero by his adoring fans at Labour's conference in Brighton.

In 2015 we conducted an event at the 2015 Conservative Party annual conference at which we presented analysis of the Conservative's electoral position and prospects, we were invited to submit independent scholarly evidence to Labour's Learning the Lessons Review, chaired by Margaret Beckett, and we co-hosted a 2015 post-election event in June 2015 with cross-party attendance and participation by a broad political range of commentators, and also leading UK journalists.

The demand for a minister with a seat in the cabinet will come in a new research report to be launched by the union at the Labour party conference on Sunday (24 September).

Deputy leader Tom Watson will accuse gambling companies of deliberately targeting vulnerable people «driven by greed» in a speech at Labour's conference.

Firstly the NEC can eliminate the possibility of a coup by submitting the appropriate rule change proposal to Labour's national conference to tidy up Labour's rules.

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 provided the framework for the other correct polices that began to be laid out at the Labour Party conference — for example on the National Investment Bank, opposition to removing the budget deficit by cuts to welfare.

In this context he has carried out extensive work on the Labour Party conference and how it has been managed by the party leadership so as to present a united front to the media and thereby the wider electorate.

- the gulags, the oppression of eastern europe: all the things that have been conveniently forgotten by the Dave and Deirdre Sparts who were still singing about Lenin's red flag last week at the Labour party conference...

At a conference fringe event hosted by Open Labour, Mr Lewis said: «It's imperative that we begin to put aside our differences to find out that which unites us, which we have in common - and there is a lot.

The «one nation'theme first unveiled in last year's barnstorming conference speech is demonstrating its flexibility by being used to underline the all - inclusive nature of Labour's approach.

The association is sponsoring the Rural Reception at each of the four major party conferences and will also be joined by the Angling Trust at the Conservative and Labour conferences.

Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer accepted a motion at Labour's annual conference saying the Lords had to be as democratic as possible, including direct or indirect elections or appointment by a democratic body, or a mix of the three.