Sentences with phrase «conference speech»

The speculation started when the Scottish Conservative leader impressed lobby journalists and MPs alike with her party conference speech last year.

(His emotional final conference speech as leader being a case in point).

It began with her first conference speech after the referendum.

Did his final conference speech before 2015 offer a clear vision for life under Labour?

As I said at the time, the PM's conference speech made a good start on these things, but they must keep up the momentum.

But the prime minister had a bigger task to overcome in what could yet be his final conference speech as leader of the Conservative party.

Last month only 21 per cent thought he made a good leader, now risen to 40 per cent on the back of his well - received conference speech.

That was evident from her excellent conference speech this week — her first as leader of the party.

Is he worried about fulfilling the message of his progressive conference speech?

For European success will strengthen her reputation way beyond the short term effects of a damaged Conference speech.

It took an eye - catching conference speech, delivered without notes, in what would become his trademark style, to change the minds of the party faithful.

I feel history will show that as one of the finest conference speeches ever given.

He told activists in his first party conference speech to «let sunshine win the day» and managed to get a round of applause for a mention of civil partnerships.

When he arrived on stage to deliver his first conference speech he looked relaxed and personable.

Clegg himself has said in conference speeches that his party should be «not left, not right, just liberal,» and that is certainly what The Orange Book sought to achieve.

Last year, Umunna notably blasted Theresa May over her Conservative Party conference speech on immigration as she appeared before the select committee.

These included his failed attempt at kissing his wife after his Labour conference speech last summer, his robotic ITV interview, and his lack of knowledge of grocery costs.

The Labour leader, who said Britain needed a more responsible capitalism in his party conference speech last autumn, revealed details of his party's agenda for reforming the banking sector.

Ukip leader uses conference speech to hit back at critics who accuse his party of using child abuse scandal for political purposes

As Jeremy Corbyn delivers his Labour conference speech with near total control of his party, Welsh Labour is no longer keeping its distance.

David Cameron's keynote party conference speech today not only ends what has been portrayed as a winning week for the Tories, but it also brings to a full stop the sight of journalists travelling like tour groups with wheelie suitcases and laptops in tow as they hop from venue to venue to check the political view from Bournemouth (Lib Dems), Brighton and Hove (Labour) and the Manchester (Conservatives).

He has an unfortunate habit of walking around the departments of government and reeling off their accomplishments during conference speeches.

He delivered his first Tory conference speech at the age of 16, and served as Conservative leader from 1997 until his defeat at the 2001 election.

Speaking before Cameron's Tory conference speech in which he lambasted the Labour leader as a «security threatening, terrorist - sympathising, Britain - hating» ideologue, Norman suggests that voters should be trusted to make their own minds up.

Nigel Farage delivered his Ukip conference speech from what appeared to be two pages of hastily - scribbled notes.

Since the 2014 independence referendum, there has always been a section in Nicola Sturgeon's autumn conference speech which uses the «I» word — independence.

But now, as today's autumn conference speech in Glasgow shows, things have changed.

As the Guardian's Andrew Sparrow put it: «if I were David Cameron's speechwriter, I would already be working up a passage for Cameron's conference speech about how Labour policy is now being decided... by whichever stranger Miliband happens to meet in his local park.»

In Australian politics, the similar phrase «the light on the hill» was famously used in a 1949 conference speech by then Prime Minister Ben Chifley, and as a consequence this phrase is used to describe the objective of the Australian Labor Party.

George Osborne has unveiled a tidal wave of policies during his keynote conference speech in Manchester.

The most vivid example of how Hague had failed to move on from his first conference speech came with his pre-election address.

David Cameron strenuously avoided talking about the Liberal Democrats in his first spring conference speech as prime minister.

RM: This may be the help for savers that Theresa May hinted at in her Conservative conference speech when she claimed savings were being eroded by monetary policy.

Cable is giving his major conference speech just before lunchtime and he has already been giving a series of interviews.

As David Cameron prepares for his own conference speech on Wednesday at a time of similar international upheaval, I hope he will reflect on the lessons — good and bad — he can learn from his predecessor.

Work and pensions secretary's conference speech highlights «growing underclass» dependent on welfare

Speaking of great conference speeches Simon Hoggart (p. 30) explores some of the greatest ones and explains why sketch writers love it when orators fluff their lines!

It was probably Osborne's best conference speech of recent years, constructed with all the balancing ingenuity of a tightrope artist.

As promised earlier, here are some of the extracts from Nick Clegg's conference speech released overnight by the party.

The total demo was about three minutes with Greenawalt basically redoing his Microsoft press conference speech for the rest of the session.

The Human Rights Act has led to local people not being informed of dangerous offenders moving into their area, the shadow justice secretary argued during his keynote conference speech earlier today.

He praises a passage in Corbyn's annual conference speech in which the Labour leader argued that people «don't have to take what we're given».

I wonder what the figures will be like once Clegg's closing conference speech is taken into account.

There was no lurch into the rightwing denunciation of the role of government that marked Cameron's ill - judged pre-election conference speech in 2009.

It was an excellent speech and probably his best since the Labour conference speech following the September 11th attacks in 2001.

His 2009 conference speech majored on nature metaphors.

Corbyn's conference speech represents a clear break with the New Labour consensus that private renting should operate with minimal government intervention.

The main reason he's inordinately safe in his job is timing: thanks to the torturously long process by which Labour elects its leaders, even if a formal challenge had been initiated immediately after Miliband's lacklustre conference speech, the new leader would probably still not have been in place by the start of 2015.