Sentences with phrase «liberal democrat conference»

Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, recently told delegates at the Liberal Democrat conference that renewable generation is necessary because fossil fuels will be increasingly expensive; he wants to get the country «off the oil and gas price hook».

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced the policy at last year's Liberal Democrat conference.

Launching the scheme at last year's Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow, he said: «My ambition is that every primary school pupil should be able to sit down to a hot, healthy lunch with their class mates every day».

Actor Hugh Grant has taken part in a fringe event at the Liberal Democrat conference on phone hacking.

Video: With protesters campaigning against the coalition government's cuts, John Harris tests the mood at the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool

I appreciate that most entrepreneurs don't read the Guardian and this that is an unusual weekend, since most of them don't see a Liberal Democrat conference.

After less than 48 hours of the Liberal Democrat conference, it is obvious that anger is simply not the Lib Dem mood in Liverpool.

Eric Pickles has just issued a statement describing the Liberal Democrat conference as «muddled».

Deputy Prime Minister is set to defend the coalition deal with the Conservatives to his party today at the Liberal Democrat conference, saying it is the «right government for right now».

Fraser Nelson came out as a Clegg admirer on the eve of the Liberal Democrat conference.

The Liberal Democrat conference voted for the proposals in 2006, but the idea has lain dormant since then.

The panel: Martin Kettle, Jackie Ashley, John Harris and Anne Perkins look at the highs and lows of the 2009 Liberal Democrat conference

Vince Cable's speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference, over which so much reporting ink had been spilled in advance, was crafted as a Cabinet Members» speeches usually are - not ad - libbed from notes, let alone delivered impromptu.

There is no such compensation for Clegg who, as he prepared to address the Liberal Democrat conference, hit a net negative rating of — 42.

There is no point in complaining about Vince Cable's annual left - leaning speech to the Liberal Democrat conference - the crude jokes about bankers, the re-plugging of his beloved mansions tax, the way in which support for deficit reduction is wrapped up in the garnish of social democracy, with Bevin, Cripps and Roy Jenkins prayed in aid.

In many ways, it makes for a massively boring Liberal Democrat conference... At my first Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton 23 years ago, we must have spent the entire time rejecting leadership proposals and all the rest of it.

The ten minute segment given to the Liberal Democrat conference on yesterday evening's Six o'clock News on BBC1 was nearly all good for the Government.

It's the final day of the Liberal Democrat conference, and so the final day of our intermittent live blog totting up all the anti-Tory positioning going on.

Here are the figures, comparing what we found in our poll for the Sunday Times a month ago just before the Liberal Democrat conference, and our latest survey, conducted a week after the end of the Conservative conference (and immediately before Liam Fox's resignation).

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

If that is true, it should surprise nobody who took part in debate on public spending at the 2008 Liberal Democrat conference.

Liberal Democrat conference has today called for an end to stereotypes dominating decisions on who can donate and who can't.

8.30 am: Vince Cable and Nick Clegg get centre - stage billing at the Liberal Democrat conference today.

The coalition government's schools policy comes under fire from activists at the Liberal Democrat conference - in a move that risks embarrassing the party leadership, but not a vote that threatens the coalition says political editor Gary Gibbon.

And that's when it's Liberal Democrat conference.

Vince Cable was forced to defend his proposals for a «mansion tax» on properties worth more than # 1 million as he appeared before activists at the Liberal Democrat conference.

That's the message of a new campaign launched by Professor Allyson Pollock on Saturday at the Liberal Democrat Conference.

The announcement by Nick Clegg at the Liberal Democrat conference will help the family budget.

I've now arrived in Liverpool for the Liberal Democrat conference, where we will no doubt be reminded this week of the value of persistence in politics.

The World Economic Forum places Britain in 140th place for price competitiveness for tourism out of 141 countries and the reduction in the VAT rate to 5 %, as agreed by the Liberal Democrat conference, would increase employment and raise extra revenues for the Government.»

«The danger if you don't compromise is now clear from America,» Mr Huhne told the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham.

By the end of the Liberal Democrat conference on Thursday the party will have its most «radical» manifesto yet, a senior Lib Dem strategist said today.

Cable stated at the Liberal Democrat conference that the sustainability of the present higher education funding arrangements did not keep him awake a night because he would be over 100 - years - old when its consequences came home to roost.

Liberal Democrat conference has affirmed that the majority of the membership opposes the Bill.»

No doubt they would be encouraged by the extent to which the idea of a «different future» was central to Nick Clegg's speech at the Liberal Democrat conference on 8th March.

So perhaps it is no surprise that he, as a perennial darling of the Liberal Democrat conference, is eager to play to the gallery.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat Conference is a gathering of all party members which takes place twice a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn.

Speaking as the Liberal Democrat conference gets under way in Glasgow, Mr Laws added:

Amid controversy about Conservative spending commitments and their claims about Labour's tax policy, the Liberal Democrat economic affairs spokesman today branded the Tories cynical in his speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth.

Hear the full interview with ITV News Anglia's Political Correspondent Emma Hutchinson at the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow.

Tall said that there was always a danger at a «Guardian roundtable» at a Liberal Democrat conference, of the contributors all coming from the same viewpoint and not understanding the mentality of those who came from elsewhere.

With the Liberal Democrat conference now over and Labour's annual meeting set to begin this weekend, thinktanks have expressed their dissatisfaction with the status quo.

At Liberal Democrat conference until Wednesday so please call me on my mobile: [phone] The Chartered Institute of Taxation Registered charity number 1037771 www.tax.org.uk

Danny Alexander demonstrated his complete commitment to George Osborne's «plan A» in his speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton this lunchtime.

«Following the Liberal Democrat conference at the weekend, is the prime minister planning any new amendments to his health bill?»

So you thought Vince Cable had run out of headline - making steam at the Liberal Democrat conference...

The Liberal Democrat conference has today supported tough new action to improve the party's representation among women and ethnic minorities.

This is a defensive interpretation of what Liberal Democrat conference should be for.

the journalists at the Liberal Democrat conference.

«I have been told that this is the first time ever that two particular national papers have sent their senior political editor to a Liberal Democrat conference,» he said, somewhat creepily.