Sentences with phrase «at the party conference»

Exhibition space has sold out and corporate chiefs are expected to flock to the business forum at party conference, where they can mix with «prominent business leaders and senior shadow cabinet members».

These late - summer soundings are particularly important as front - benchers prepareto showcase their ideas, and themselves, at their party conferences.

John Reid today raised the odds that he might stand as Labour leader when he set himself out as a strong and powerful leader at the party conference in Manchester.

«I don't have snifters, sharpeners or liveners,» he told Tories at the party conference.

I was at our party conference recently and, as one does, found myself gravitating towards the bar with a number of other researchers.

The home secretary has refused to confirm or deny his ambitions for the Labour leadership, and at the party conference this week has kept a low - profile.

This is well - known in the Liberal Democrats: I have been the accompanist for the Glee Club at the party conference for the past few years.

Just don't expect support at the party conference a popular sitting governor.

The charity Rethink Mental Illness is calling on Liberal Democrats to vote in favor of a motion opposing aspects of the Welfare Reform Bill at their party conference tomorrow (Saturday 17 September).

In a nod to the party leadership, the group said the prime minister was right to put «strivers» at the heart of the government's agenda in his leader's speech at the party conference.

One day we may indeed see a leader «broken» at a party conference, though I can't quite imagine what it would look like.

For the first time, the Liberal Democrats are number one in Scotland,» he told delegates at the party conference in Brighton.

She had surged to apparent invincibility on the back of unabashed nationalistic fervour at the party conference.

Ms May said at party conference earlier this month that the move to Universal Credit was «an important change to the benefits system».

Nick's message echoed the SLF amendment to his economy motion that was passed at the Party conference in September that called for the burden of fiscal consolidation to be shifted towards fairer taxes, especially on wealth and land while improving provision for the most vulnerable in society.

Union and CLP votes are important at the party conference, where policies are set, and in elections to the National Executive Committee (NEC).

With their votes at the party conference, they could help to push through rule changes that assisted the centrists — perhaps to reintroduce the old electoral college for choosing leaders — and overturn the left's majority on the NEC, as they did in the early 1980s.

At the party conference Blair said, «there is no mystery about what works: an open, liberal economy, prepared constantly to change to remain competitive.

Almost one month ago, Liberal Democrat members voted overwhelmingly at party Conference against Part II of the Justice and Security Bill.

And why did the leader's speech at the party conference not mention immigration at all, when in the last few years we have undergone the greatest - ever wave of increasing immigration into our country?»

At the time, the unions controlled five - sixths of the voting strength at the party conference.

His response was basically repeating the line Vince put out in his LDV piece about it — employee ownership is good, this will only be aimed at small firms etc with no acknowledgement of any issues — but he also confirmed that it had been agreed as part of a trade off of who got to announce which policies at their party conference.

But having spent two days at the party conference, and deciding that the need for a carefully planned revival of the party is more «urgent» than ever, Mandelson agrees to make his most wide - ranging intervention on British politics since leaving the country for the European Commission in 2004.

He made a rapturously received farewell speech at party conference in 2006.

Matters may come to a head at party conference, with a motion being prepared in support of free movement.

We had a fascinating conversation about the state of the coalition, Ed Miliband, and what really goes on at party conferences.

Miliband again failed to attend his brother's Labour leader's speech at the party conference this year and it is understood that the relationship between the two men continues to be difficult.

Or he could be truly radical and bring back votes on policy at party conference.

«These [the tax proposals] will all be debated in full at the party conference and it's quite right the party conference could reject the idea of us no longer embracing a 50 pence top tax rate,» he will say in Sunday's interview.

After five years, the number of union members affiliated to the party will determine a union's voting power at the party conference.

Conservative MP and Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, who once lost in a by - election to the Liberal Democrats, sees what his coalition colleagues are up to at their party conference in Liverpool.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson talks of devolution after Brexit at the party conference in Manchester

But there are growing signs that Miliband has stepped back from plans to dilute the size of the union vote at party conference, and is instead focusing on a series of reforms designed to make local parties more dynamic, and open up the party to a wider group of Labour supporters.

Recently, at Party Conference up in Birmingham, we held an event (which is reported in full here) as well as manning an exhibition stall both of which were successful in terms of explaining our message to a wider audience and in gauging the mood towards organisations such as CFoP.

There might even be a move to oust him altogether — this would have to take place at the party conference if a new leader is to be in place in time for the election campaign.

Bridget Harris, a former special adviser to Nick Clegg, says that Rennard repeatedly touched her legs in a hotel bar at a party conference in 2003 in Swansea.

last (and perhaps least), Partnership into Power — through a national policy forum (NPF) with final decisions at party conference.

Lib Dem activists at their party conference were asked which phrase best fitted the British economy, when Adam Fleming asked for votes in the Daily Politics soapbox, an unscientific test of plastic balls and a bin.

Not only will you be able to vote in the upcoming leadership election, but you can have a say in forming our policy platform at party conferences as well as choosing local candidates.

This picture is taken from one of the videos he made, and shown at their Party Conference.

At the party conference a year ago his second attempt to supplant Gordon crumbled into embarrassment after a gauche and woolly platform speech, Newsnight's revelations about his musings on avoiding «a Heseltine moment», and of course the ridiculous banana photograph.

Miliband presses his «use it or lose it» clause, first raised at his party conference.

The reception, hosted by BASC and the Fisheries and Angling Conservation Trust (FACT), is an annual event at party conference.

Stephen Tall suggested that Nick Clegg's motion on the economy, to be debated at party conference in Glasgow, marked the beginning of the 2015 general election campaign for the Liberal Democrats.

Formerly the star of the Terminator films and a bodybuilder, Mr Schwarzenegger will be the guest of honour at the party conference due to be held in the seaside town Blackpool in September.

«I don't think the party needs saving,» declared Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson at a party conference fringe event.

As the rogue business secretary lashes out at the centre - right, his boss the DPM remains confident in avoiding the liberal leftwing drag that can be so intoxicatingly tempting to his colleagues at party conference.

Ed Miliband's manifesto speech has been described as «the speech he should have given at his party conference», by the BBC's political editor.

And the problem gets worse at party conference season.

The Liberal Democrats are expected to vote to support gay marriage at their party conference, opening up another potential division with the Conservatives.