Sentences with phrase «conference by party leader»

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».

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«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.

The verbal attack last week on state Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan by Cuomo's hand - picked state Democratic party executive director, reportedly sparked by the governor's anger over the conference's release of its priorities, raised eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.

As party unity talks swirl publicly and privately, Senate Democrats eyed Bronx Councilman Jimmy Vacca as an ideal candidate to challenge Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in a primary, documents obtained by Capital Tonight show.

Party conferences are usually dominated by leaders.

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.

Not so long ago party conferences were dominated by leaders asserting that they were not for turning and had no reverse gears.

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 Constituparty 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 ConstituParty 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 ConstituParty Constitution.

Plaid Cymru will stand in staunch opposition to the spending cuts planned by the UK coalition government, its leader Ieuan Wyn Jones will say in a speech at the party's conference on Friday.

At a Westminster press conference the Lib Dem leader insisted his party was unaware of the «truly horrific» actions carried out by Sir Cyril.

[14] However, referring to a Conference speech by the party's former leader, Campaign Manager Andrew Mitchell said: «William Hague made a great speech which many people will judge to be better than all the other leadership candidates put together.

While Cameron did not give an exact time table for his departure, he said that he wanted a new leader to be in place by the start of the Tory Party conference in October.

The unification plan put forth by leaders of the New York State Democratic Party, predicated on a special election likely to be held after the state budget is approved in late March or early April, would bring together the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) with the 23 mainstream Democrats in the Senate.

Labour leaders will try to stifle dissent at the conference by arguing that the party will alienate voters if it indulges in «navel - gazing» during the global financial crisis.

Liberal Democrats leader Sir Vince Cable says the party can not succeed by being just «Ukip in reverse», he told their conference in Bournemouth.

For the first time since he became leader, Jeremy Corbyn's supporters will be in a position to dictate not only party policy but also the rules by which it is rubber - stamped by conference or the membership.

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

The comments by Paul, the state's junior senator, came at a news conference with McConnell in Louisville that was focused on building party unity following a bruising campaign in which the minority leader's opponent, Matt Bevin, got 35 % of the primary vote.

Meanwhile, Grisanti is forging ahead with his re-election bid on the Independence Party line, and flirting with IDC Leader Jeff Klein, who is clearly trying to strengthen his post-election bargaining position with the so - called «regular» Democrats by growing his conference.

The Lib Dem leader in his conference Q+A rode on his relief from winning a vote on economic policy this morning by continuing to confront the left of his party

Timed to coincide with celebrations of Gordon Brown's impassioned and well - delivered leader's speech, the Sun headline all - but detonated the conference by undermining Labour just at the moment the party felt a glimmer of hope about its electoral prospects.

Sources close to the acting leader stress that it was drawn up by the 2014 Collins Review into party reform and agreed at a special conference last year.

The 29 to 21 voted proceeded mostly on party lines, as leaders of the Senate Democratic conference pushed approval the bill, which was drafted by Gov. David Paterson and passed the Assembly late last month.

Under Labour's mechanism for deposing a leader, a nomination is required before the autumn conference, in just a month's time, and it must be supported by 20 per cent of MPs in the Parliamentary Labour Party.»

«While some of the Senate Democratic leaders are ready and willing to negotiate in good faith, the public comments by other Senate Democratic officials and leadership of the Working Families Party have cast a dark shadow over serious discussions,» a source close to the conference said.

In his first year as mayor, Mr. de Blasio tangled with a senate that is governed by a coalition of breakaway Democrats and the Republican Party — even with an ally in State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a Republican majority still looms to potentially stifle a leftist, urban platform that polls poorly in many GOP strongholds throughout the state.

In a letter released Monday evening by leaders of the Democratic State Committee, a quartet of party insiders said the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference should break its alliance with the Senate's 31 Republicans and instead coalesce with Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and her 23 mainstream Democrats.

So by early September, and conceivably much sooner than that, the Conservative party will have a new leader who will then be hosannaed at the party conference in October in a choreographed display of adulation.

Labour party rules give the leader the power to play down conference motions by ultimately choosing the «time and method» of pursuing them in the Commons.

In his conference speech, the Lib Dem leader fleshed out announcement that his party will boost mental health provision by # 150m.

It follows a call for a day of action against the proposals by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at the party's conference in Liverpool last week.

In the most poignant words ever spoken by David Cameron, the Tory leader offered these thoughts to yesterday's Conservative Party Conference:

The Speaker and other floor leaders are chosen by the Democratic Caucus or the Republican Conference, depending on whichever party has more voting members.

The statement went on to say, «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.

«These are clearly coordinated efforts by professional campaign operatives,» Schenectady County Democratic Party Chairman Joe Landry wrote in a letter this week to GOP Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Sen. Cathy Young, who heads the conference's campaign efforts.

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.

Still, Long said anyone seeking his party's nod should attend his annual Albany conference in January, where he is anticipating appearances by other potential candidates: businessman Harry Wilson, Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb, state Sen. John DeFrancisco and Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro.

The Minister admitted yesterday to telling a journalist about a story which suggested that a section of Mrs May's speech at the Conservative party conference had been lifted from a speech made by the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage.

Ballots of the three sections of the electoral college will be conducted in time for the new leader to be named by the party's annual conference in Manchester at the end of September.

While Democratic party leaders were difficult to reach by phone, Michael Conigliaro, executive director of the Queens County GOP, eagerly organized a conference call with the office's boisterous digital outreach crew, requesting that Gotham Gazette list all of their names (Fred Darowitsch, Ryan Kelly, Michael Janis, Angela Ferri, Gabriel Miller).

A 0.5 % tax on the assets of the wealthy, modelled on the French system, and an «accessions tax» on the beneficiaries of estates will be considered by Liberal Democrats at their annual conference next month after the party leader, Nick Clegg, proposed a new levy on the rich.

UKIP is assembling at Doncaster Racecourse for its annual conference, riding high on some major victories over the past few months and preparing for a by - election that could well secure the party its first seat in the Commons and, next year, for a general election that will see the leader himself, Nigel Farage, contesting a parliamentary seat.

Leader signals break with Farron years in conference speech, and says party must not be consumed by Brexit

The Ukip leader will attempt to ensure the party's conference in Doncaster comes to a close with a bang by setting out research that outlines how it is making major inroads in Labour's heartlands.

His speech at the 2005 Conservative party conference, and a lacklustre speech by the then frontrunner David Davis saw him become the favourite and he was elected leader of the Conservative party in December 2005, despite allegations of drug use surfacing during the campaign.

Incidentally the Odds now show that the Parties will face leadership elections in the following order: UKIP, LibDem, SNP, Labour, Tory so the consensus now seems to be May will go after Brexit with a new Leader in place by the 2019 Tory Conference.

In between the Labour and Conservative Conferences Britain's three principal broadcasters agreed a proposal for three debates between the three party leaders - each one transmitted by a different broadcaster.

The Daily Telegraph today reported that Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman, rather than Lord Mandelson, will front the party's election campaign by hosting daily televised media conferences.

Hevesi's plan, which is being sponsored in the Senate by Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx) and was first reported in September by the Daily News, has previously been backed by anti-homeless advocates, 111 state Assembly members from both parties, and a range of other public officials.