A fortnight after Miliband was criticised for omitting passages of his planned
conference speech which dealt with the deficit, the 19 % of voters signalling trust in Labour to run the economy equals the party's previous record low on this question, which was recorded in June 2013 (pdf).
Mr Brown returned to form in September with a fighting
conference speech which convinced most - but not all - he was the man to lead his party to the next election.
Rebekah Brooks personally texted Cameron on the eve of
his conference speech which read: «I'm so rooting for you tomorrow not just as a personal friend because professionally we're definitely in this together.
But given where this conference started, with a defection and a scandal, David Cameron must be delighted at the way it has ended:
A conference speech which is being described all over the airwaves, and back in Birmingham, as the best of his career.
Since the 2014 independence referendum, there has always been a section in Nicola Sturgeon's autumn
conference speech which uses the «I» word — independence.
Not exact matches
Last week, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May gave a
speech at the Conservative Party
conference in
which she said that, «When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.»
In a closely - watched keynote
speech at a banking
conference in Frankfurt, Draghi dropped his clearest hint yet that the ECB will expand its program of asset purchases,
which depresses interest rates by injecting money into the financial system, and may also push its official deposit rate even further into negative territory, from its current record low of -0.20 %.
Hillary Clinton urges real estate bigwigs to lobby White House for Gateway tunnels During a keynote
speech at the Regional Plan Association's annual
conference, Hillary Clinton asked attendees to throw their support behind the Gateway project,
which calls for the construction of two new train tunnels under the Hudson River.
She does like YouTube, though: In a
speech at Google's developer
conference last year, Wojcicki said she had been a strong proponent of Google's decision to buy YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in 2006, after seeing a user - uploaded video of kids lip - syncing to the Backstreet Boys get far more traffic on Google Video than the premium studio content for
which she had helped cut deals.
I recently came across this quote from Seth Klarman of the Baupost Group,
which he said during a
speech that he gave at James Grant's Investment
Conference in October 2013 (http://www.grantspub.com/mygrants/viewarticle.cfm?aid=4995).
The multi-talented entrepreneur, business cycle theorist and investor Roger Babson, an early proponent of technical analysis, had held a
speech at the Annual National Business
Conference in
which he boldly predicted that «Sooner or later a crash is coming, and it will be terrific.»
Before giving the
speech, Cruz met with the editorial board of the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website,
which then ran an obligingly alarmist account of the upcoming event with the headline «Cruz Headlines
Conference Featuring Hezbollah Supporters.»
This is the context in
which the quotation from George Shultz's
speech to a Pentagon
conference on low - intensity conflict, cited in chapter 1, above, can be understood:
They avoid the real conflicts dominating life in coalition - particularly that over immigration policy
which Cable doggedly raised in his
conference speech.
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.
In his Labour
conference speech, McDonnell said a Labour government would legislate for a «real living wage»,
which he said was likely to be higher in 2020 than the # 10 level he proposed last year.
But her first
speech in the Commons and address introducing Theresa May at the Conservative party
conference (
which went somewhat more smoothly than the PM's efforts) garnered attention from a watching establishment always keen to anoint the next big thing.
Meanwhile the takeaway line from the SNP leader's
speech, «let's resolve to put Scotland in the driving seat», like the
conference slogan «PROGRESS», was vague and eminently forgettable, while there was also a weirdly hubristic section
which implied the party might remain in government for «the next ten years and beyond».
The alternative is the gutting or abolition of the Act, and a withdrawl from the European Convention on Human Rights,
which the Conservatives are threatening to do (David Cameron even had a populist pop at the idea of human rights in a
conference speech before he became Prime Minister).
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».
This was the central pillar of Clegg's 2015 spring
conference speech, in
which he pledged to be standing up for «the liberal Britain in
which we and millions of decent, reasonable people believe».
Nevertheless, a successful party
conference in Liverpool came and went — crowned by a
speech applauded from all sides of the commentariat for setting out a vision of a Greater Britain, in
which all were to benefit from a rising tide of prosperity once the forces of conservatism had been pushed aside.
But the prime minister still managed to project optimism,
which sets him at odds with the tougher
speeches that Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband delivered at their own
conferences.
[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.
Sources close to Miliband also say he is working hard on his
conference speech,
which is expected to mark a significant chapter in his leadership.
Barnier's message came during a joint press
conference with David Davis in
which he said May's Florence
speech had «created a new dynamic in our negotiations».
In a
speech to a
conference organised by Google, the internet search engine provider, Mr Cameron called for a new measure to assess people's general well - being, or GWB, similar to gross domestic product (GDP),
which analyses a country's economic activity.
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.
In a
speech to the Welsh Labour
conference in Swansea, he'll announce that the Welsh Government would be given responsibility for the Work Programme,
which is aimed at the long term unemployed, if Labour gains power at Westminster.
Shortly after his appointment as Minister for Merseyside, Heseltine gave his annual party
conference speech, in
which he condemned talk of repatriation and called for more public spending on inner cities.
Following recent hours» spectacular triumph, Ed Miliband ought to use his
Conference speech to promise to save what little remains of Sunday trading restrictions after Thatcher and Major,
which is already declared Labour Party policy in this Parliament.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph ahead of the
speech at a national planning
conference, Mrs May took aim at housebuilders constructing «row after row of identikit red - tiled boxes» in towns and cities with the plans putting a focus on buildings
which suit their surroundings.
At the annual Stonewall Workplace
Conference this morning, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gave a thoughtful
speech championing diversity —
which she admitted begins at home, in Parliament
Her only contribution to this process was a
conference speech in October
which limited her room to manoeuvre in Brussels in exchange for short term support from her own party.
We don't even hear about «togetherness»,
which was the theme of his last
conference speech.
Review George Osborne's
speech to the Tory party
conference, in
which he pledged to freeze council tax rises for two years.
The New Statesman reports that Coleman's exit was precipitated by the
speech Corbyn gave to the Fabian
conference on Saturday, in
which he leader unveiled a set of policies that had apparently not gone through the head of policy.
Not one mention of the Big Society, and the Global Race —
which was last year's relentlessly hammered
conference speech theme — featured only once.
That forms the build up for Mr Osborne's keynote
speech to the
conference around 12:00 BST,
which we'll cover in depth on politics.co.uk.
You know, I remember the very first time I had to get up and address the Labour Party
conference... I showed him my
speech,
which was, you know, written by a — a lawyer.
But earlier this month in his keynote
speech to Labour's spring
conference, he described child poverty as a «scar that demeans Britain»
which must be healed.
Jeremy Corbyn's
speech at the end of the Labour
conference will conclude a week in Brighton
which has demonstrated that for now at least the party is united on his terms.
Since the leader's
conference speech last autumn,
which was pretty well received, he has taken a few knocks.
After a day - long
conference in London on how to move forward the political process in Libya, other developments included: An admission the Coalition did not yet fully know who made up the opposition,
which came after Nato said American intelligence had shown «flickers» of al Qaeda among the rebels; A suggestion the Coalition would be prepared to see Colonel Gaddafi go into exile if a country was willing to take him; A claim by the Italians that several nations were working on a deal involving a ceasefire, exile for Gaddafi and a talks framework between Libya's tribal leaders and opposition figures; Nick Clegg warning about the «danger of overreaching» during a
speech in Mexico, but stressing liberal interventionism must be upheld.
That will start with the party's spring
conference in Harrogate this weekend, during
which he will make his first major
speech as leader.
Business secretary wins standing ovation at the Labour
conference for highly personal
speech in
which he claims the general election is still «up for grabs»
In response to John McDonnell's
speech at Labour Party
conference — in
which he called for places across the country to «take back control» from Westminster, and also outlined plans for new regional banks — Alexandra Jones, Chief Executive of the Centre for Cities, said:
No doubt they would be encouraged by the extent to
which the idea of a «different future» was central to Nick Clegg's
speech at the Liberal Democrat
conference on 8th March.
With another no - notes
speech, he continued where he left off with his successful 2013 party
conference performance,
which yielded the energy price freeze that has made the political weather since.
The Home Secretary delivered a
speech to the Police Federation's annual
conference which was met with a stony silence throughout.