Sentences with phrase «at a fringe meeting»
He treated this like a joke when, cleverly, he made it public at a fringe meeting in 2007, before the leadership election.
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The report has been launched at a fringe meeting: Beyond 2015: Who should run our schools?
Not one person I met in the bars or who asked a question at a fringe meeting was in the business of creating jobs.
Ashdown, who remains on close personal terms with Blair and is due to speak at a fringe meeting at Labour conference, may decide to publish in two parts with the more explosive material held until after the election.
Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Bournemouth, the famous atheist and scientist told delegates that it was unacceptable to indoctrinate children into any religion or belief system.
Joint FCO - DFID minister Rory Stewart MP and Nicky Morgan MP were among the speakers at a fringe meeting titled: «Challenging the period taboo: how...
Joint FCO - DFID minister Rory Stewart MP and Nicky Morgan MP were among the speakers at a fringe meeting titled: «Challenging the period taboo: how «taps and toilets» transform the lives of women and girls».
At a fringe meeting yesterday Iain Murray and Russell Lewis examined the enormous costs of combating climate change.
One influential Conservative - supporting Jew, Dean Godson, attacked Wineman at a fringe meeting held by the Holocaust Educational Trust.
«Vince was asked at a fringe meeting to speculate on a range of options.
Hundreds of Unite members working for Fujitsu across Manchester plan to take a one - day strike tomorrow (Tuesday, 4 October) and to demonstrate at the Tory conference while their Chief Executive Officer speaks at a fringe meeting inside.
Male speakers dominated panel events at fringe meetings at the Conservative party's conference in Manchester, taking up more than two - thirds of the speaking slots.
I watched the audience at a fringe meeting in Manchester this week listen in sullen silence as one former cabinet minister, Dominic Grieve, told them it was impossible to tell if we might be better off in 30 years» time: all we could be sure of was that Brexit was «a sudden and profound shift», and therefore a huge economic risk in the short and medium term.
The so - called Blairite wing of the party was in defiant mood at the fringe meeting held by Progress in the Odeon cinema in Brighton.
The UK will halve the fatalities from malaria in the next five years in at least ten African countries, Nick Clegg will announce at a fringe meeting at the UN today.
His comments came at a fringe meeting of the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth assessing the impact of revelations about MPs» expenses abuses.
At a fringe meeting organised by the GMB union, Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, said the unions should not be threatening strike action over cuts to public sector pensions.
But at a fringe meeting on Labour - Lib Dem relations, attended by Charles Clarke and David Lammy, the loudest applause came when a Lib Dem MP attacked the Tories in language that could have come straight out of the mouth of Neil Kinnock.
The next day, at a fringe meeting just before Nick Clegg's speech, the guy from Ipsos Mori lets them have it with both barrels.
New allegations against senior Lib Dems - not involving Lord Rennard - emerged at the fringe meeting where activists said they were made to feel uncomfortable by older men.
The report Youth Work: Professionals Valued will be launched at a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference entitled: Moving forward: Rebuilding Youth Services under a Labour Government in hall 4, Hilton Brighton Metropole on Sunday (24 September) at 16.00.
Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Conference, Morgan warned that the grammar school plans were an unnecessary diversion.
At a fringe meeting in Brighton today, the respected psephologist John Curtice, of Stathcylde University, told the party it had the best chance in a generation of gaining office.
At a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference in Bournemouth, two thirds of delegates also voted in favour of tax cuts.
At the fringe meeting — where Mr Blunkett and Fabian General Secretary Sunder Katwala were joined by Lib Dems Dr Evan Harris and John Leech MP — there was some disagreement about how the Conservative - Lib Dem coalition would play out, especially when the next General Election draws nearer.
«It may just be my imagination» one shadow cabinet minister confided to me «but I was speaking at a fringe meeting and I had the impression there was a guy at the back whose job it was to keep an eye on what I was saying.
Finally, we hope to see you at our fringe meeting at Harrogate Spring Conference, where you can learn more about why we have decided to set up the Social Liberal Forum and our plans for the next few months.
Hodges reveals that one shadow cabinet minister believed they were being spied on by «someone working for the leader» as they spoke at a fringe meeting.