Sentences with phrase «conference speech today»

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).

In his conference speech today, Gordon Brown attacked George Osborne for words he used in response to events of recent weeks in the financial markets:

«We must be upfront with the British people that under Labour there would have been cuts and that — on spending, pay and pensions — there will be difficult decisions in the future from which we will not flinch,» Balls said in his conference speech today.

Chris Huhne used his conference speech today to dismantle the Conservative project from its foundations, in a fiercely hostile attack on David Cameron's resurgent party.

Ed Miliband was spared an increasingly critical appraisal of his conference speech today, after a major coalition U-turn distracted the press from events in Manchester.

Not exact matches

Update (Nov. 18): «There is always a danger in being the 28th speaker in a conference,» said Rick Warren during his speech today at Pope Francis's marriage conference.

That being said, the advance extracts from Clegg's keynote speech to conference today look distinctly groan - inducing.

And as we gather here today to discuss the road ahead, I wish to echo a few words written in the speech that Franklin Roosevelt, before his untimely death, had been writing and preparing to deliver at that fateful San Francisco Conference.

The Monday of conference is always a bit of damp squib, a hump to get over before the final debates and leader's speech, but there is an important debate on some secret justice proposals today in which Lib Dems must reaffirm their stance on fair justice.

Commenting on today's speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Conservative Party Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union said:

The reforms announced today were initially confirmed in Mr Duncan Smith's speech to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.

Before today's speech the Manchester conference was dominated by a debate between those wanting to stick to Alistair Darling's approach and the more courageous, bullish stance of Ed Balls.

Today marks Mr Cameron's second speech to the CBI after he pulled out of last year's conference at the last minute.

Today, in her first speech to the conference as prime minister, May made a smart bid to revise the theme.

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.

Harriet Harman wrapped up today's Labour conference with a speech attacking the coalition's planned voter registration changes.

Cameron's public professions that attempting to handle Johnson is futile clashes with reports in today's newspapers that he has been asked to clear his speech to conference, which takes place on Tuesday, with Downing Street.

Commenting on Ed Milliband's speech to the EEF's manufacturing conference today (6 March 2012), Unite's assistant general secretary, Tony Burke said:

The Tory conference begins today in Birmingham and concludes on Wednesday, when Mr Cameron delivers his keynote speech.

«I'm actually dedicating my speech to Donald Trump, because I think that thanks to his lovely anti-immigrant rhetoric, his misogyny, his bigotry, he's really galvanizing and mobilizing and energizing immigrant communities across the nation,» Ms. Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico and the first Latina to be Council speaker, said today during a press conference at City Hall.

And Alexander today in a policy motion speech to conference certainly did his damnedest to defend the coalition, opposing an amendment to his «Generating Growth and Jobs in a Time of Austerity» motion to abandon the coalition's fiscal mandate.

Vince Cable insisted he was «pro-business» today after he was accused of attacking capitalism in a speech due to be delivered to the Liberal Democrat party conference.

Ed Davey, former pork pie manufacturer and current energy secretary, today gave a speech at Lib Dem conference championing the Green Deal and insisting that the Lib Dems would ensure there would be no coalition U-turns on their energy commitments.

George Osborne's speech to the Tory conference today was a remarkable approach to the political situation he finds himself in.

People being treated for cancer in England can apply for free prescriptions from today, as Gordon Brown fulfils one of the promises he made during his conference speech.

Jack Straw has waved goodbye to a decades - long career on the front bench of British politics today, with a final keynote speech to conference lambasting the coalition.

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The chancellor gave a speech of honey and vinegar today to the Conservative Party Conference, with optimism about recovery but tougher measures for the unemployed

Tony Blair today delivered his final speech as prime minister to the Welsh Labour party's annual conference in Llandudno.

Commenting on Prime Minister Teresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «We welcome the fact that the Prime Minister clearly recognises that the education, social and economic policies of her predecessor have led to inequality across education and other public services.

And in her Tory conference speech, she said: «To make Britain a great meritocracy, we must move beyond this agenda and deliver real social reform across every layer of society so that those whom the system would currently miss — those just above the threshold for help today yet those who are by no means rich or well off — are given the help they need.

Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander unveiled the plans for a new «affluence team» in his speech to the party conference in Birmingham today.

The Today programme is broadcasting William Hague's speech to the Conservative party conference in 1977, when he was just 16.

«Today in his speech at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) complained that characterizations of the GOP as the «Party of No» are hurtful:

Amid controversy about Conservative spending commitments and their claims about Labour's tax policy, the Liberal Democrat economic affairs spokesman today branded the Tories cynical in his speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth.

Malpass slammed Gillibrand during his acceptance speech at the convention and plans to hit her again today in a noon conference call for accepting the Working Families Party line yesterday.

In response to Jeremy Corbyn's speech at Labour conference today, Alexandra Jones, Chief Executive of the think tank Centre for Cities, said:

Maybe it was Ed, for instance, who described how he, Brown and Charlie Whelan were listening to Blair's party conference speech on a car radio when Brown suddenly started heckling («He didn't want that... He opposed that...») And surely it could only have been Whelan, still spinning even in his political grave, who described the Chancellor's fury after being «ambushed» about the Ecclestone donation on the Today programme, for who else but our Charlie would say «Gordon went mental»?

«The speech that Ed Miliband should make at Labour's Conference today Main Ed Miliband disowns Blair on Iraq and civil liberties, promises slower deficit reduction»

Of course, Theresa May spent much of her speech to the Tory party conference today insisting there was no such thing as a hard or soft Brexit.

But frustration at the role of the City manifested itself at fringe events today as business secretary Pat McFadden attacked bankers in his keynote speech to the conference floor.

Harriet Harman will bring a historic Labour conference to a close today when she delivers the final speech in Manchester.

David Cameron used his speech at this year's Conservative party conference to take a swipe at newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn today - accusing his opponent of «Britain - hating ideology».

His speech to the party conference said a «new generation» was now in charge but you wouldn't know it from today's appointments.

In her speech at the party conference in Birmingham today, extracts of which have been seen by the Observer, she will say: «There are some who interpret the 23 June vote as giving a licence to harsher rhetoric and returning to policies which have been rejected in the past.

In a speech at the Scottish Conservatives conference today, David Cameron will argue there is no challenge the country is facing to which «breaking up Britain is the right answer».

The United Kingdom should be «pulling together, not pulling apart», the Prime Minister will insist today in a speech at the Scottish Conservatives party conference in Stirling.

The title of today's article is taken verbatim from a speech by Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 2015 National Conference of...

At the conference today the theme is «tackling the causes of poverty» and the main speeches will come from Andrew Lansley, Michael Gove, Kenneth Clarke, Iain Duncan Smith and Andrew Mitchell.

«Michael Fallon: Ed Miliband is a deficit - denying, union - controlled, u-turning, decision - ducker Main The speech that Ed Miliband should make at Labour's Conference today»