Sentences with phrase «scottish labour conference»

Douglas Alexander told the Scottish Labour conference that his party should hold the Lib Dems to account for their role in implementing policies such as welfare reform and a rise in tuition fees.

Perhaps it was the influence of Jeremy Corbyn, perhaps it was the soothing environment of the great and noble city of Dundee, but the Scottish Labour conference today seemed ineffably polite.

Not exact matches

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.

[63] In 2010, Harman referred to Danny Alexander as a «ginger rodent» in a speech to the Scottish Labour Party conference.

The Labour party conference in Manchester on 21 — 24 September occurred days after the Scottish referendum result.

I could only deduce from its Scottish conference last weekend that Labour remains deadlocked in the whole Brexit farrago because of the immigration issue.

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 counterintuitive solution being talked about most on the Scottish Labour left in the case of a Corbyn victory is to demand full autonomy from a Corbyn - run UK party, and to use a newly empowered conference (alongside new policy - making bodies soon to be established in Unite and potentially in other unions) to restate the socialist aims of the party.

Richard Leonard's first conference as Scottish Labour leader goes off well, but deep internal divisions remain, especially over Brexit

Speaking at a media conference after the national executive meeting, he said: «It is clear that a small minority who didn't accept my election as leader of the Scottish Labour Party just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the party.

Johann Lamont, the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, speaking to the annual conference of the train drivers» union ASLEF in Edinburgh, delivered a clear message of support for trade union rights, trade union involvement in policy - making and policies that trade unions have been seeking.

'' «Our appeal is to all MPs of conscience: join us, vote against these unfair and unworkable changes and force the government to think again,» he told delegates at the Scottish Labour party's conference in Oban.

The Blair team escaped London to go to the Scottish Labour party conference but up to 100,000 people gathered to protest outside the conference hall in Glasgow.

It came at the end of a Labour conference which was noticeably lethargic and dead, especially after the frenzied historic drama of the Scottish campaign.

Richard Leonard's first conference as Scottish Labour leader was a qualified success, but he has much more to do.

In a speech to the Labour autumn conference in Brighton, the Scottish secretary was vociferous in his criticism of David Cameron's Conservative party.

In an address to the Unite union's Scottish policy conference in Aviemore, Corbyn pledged that Labour would «not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment».

Despite this, in the last year she has twice been granted entry visas to the UK, held meetings inside the Scottish parliament, and issued credentials to the Labour Party Conference where she has met and put her case to senior government ministers.

«Divided parties are not appealing to the electorate,» Dugdale told a fringe meeting at Scottish Labour's spring conference on Friday morning.

The 33 - member ruling body agreed on Tuesday that Scottish and Welsh representatives would be added to the committee if the move was approved by Labour delegates at conference.

The party's conference in Dundee voted overwhelmingly for a «unity motion» drafted by its Scottish executive after deep divisions over Corbyn's proposals emerged between the party's centrists and the Labour leadership.

Meanwhile a separate battle for control of the party will play out at the conference as Scottish and Welsh Labour try to push through a plan to give them seats on Labour's ruling executive.

The Labour leader, who explained he struck an admiring tone of the Iron Lady in the last fortnight because «it was right to show respect», told the Scottish Labour party conference the UK once more faces the need for the same scale of fundamental reforms achieved by Thatcher — and he is the man to make that change.

[94] Lamont told Scottish Labour's 2012 annual conference she wanted her party's campaign to be one of «collective leadership» against independence, [95] a strategy which she envisaged would become a cross-party movement arguing the case for keeping Scotland in the UK.