Sentences with phrase «debated 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.

This should be a deliberative process, such as that which has historically been enabled by our policy commissions, and should culminate in a full debate at party conference later this year.

Not exact matches

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.

Key policy - makers and high profile journalists will be joining the CIOT and the Institute for Fiscal Studies at the main party conferences this autumn for a series of debates on the future of the tax system.

Confusingly, in a motion entitled Generating Jobs and Growth in a time of Austerity — due to be debated on Monday (24th September) at the party's Brighton Conference — the Lib Dems appear to want to do both.

As the party prepares to sign off on key policy points at its spring conference this weekend, an attempt will be made to seize the political agenda and set the terms of debate.

At this year's spring conference, members had the opportunity to debate the minutiae of changes to the party's constitution, the broad brushstrokes of which were agreed last year.

The details will be finalised after the party conference season, but the Liberal Democrats will be angered by the prospect of being excluded from the final debate and will press for at least one to feature Nick Clegg alongside only Cameron and Miliband.

«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.

With customary honesty Dominic Grieve admitted as much when he spoke with Shami Chakrabarti at the Conservative Liberty Forum debate at the last party conference.

The 2008 Labour Party Conference was the first at which affiliated trade unions and Constituency Labour Parties did not have the right to submit motions on contemporary issues that would previously have been debated.

That will now not be possible at this conference, and it would be foolish to attempt it, but Emily Thornberry's Defence Review must be continued via widespread debate both within and outside the party so that a decision on Trident can be determined at the 2017 conference.

``... there was an elephant in the room: the fact that if Labour party conference was restored to a meaningful part in the policy making process, then we probably wouldn't be having this debate at all».

But for several weeks there was an elephant in the room: the fact that if Labour party conference was restored to a meaningful part in the policy making process, then we probably wouldn't be having this debate at all.

Last year, delegates at our annual conference debated our affiliation to the Labour party and whether or not it should be reviewed.

The NASUWT has called for political parties to commit to genuine engagement, dialogue and partnership if they are elected on 7 May, in a motion debated today at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK.

It makes no mention of his party affiliation, which is interesting, since he's one of the more moderate members of the GOP conference — a fact that surprised some attendees at a recent debate between the congressman and his Democratic opponent, Dan Lamb, a former aide to retiring Rep. Maurice Hinchey.

For his part, Mr Davis - who had led the seven - month race until the party conference in Blackpool - said he looked at the debates between them as «not just a contest for the leadership, but a preamble to us winning the next general election».

Delegates may hope for some lighter moments as they debate party policy at their party conference.

Debates on policy are at the heart of party conference.

Both the Welsh Policy Committee and Federal Policy Committee, which are responsible for the party's policy - making process, can set up Policy Working Groups to research and write a Policy Paper for debate at Conference.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are a democratic party, and any member of the Welsh Liberal Democrats can vote on our debates and policies at Conference.

Ahead of a leadership hustings debate at the Local Government Association conference this week, Mr Miliband even pledged to invite Labour's local government leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected party leader.

Much of today's political debate is taking place behind closed doors, but chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander underlined all three parties» commitment to Lords reform before the 2010 general election at the Electoral Reform Society's annual conference.

And today the BBC has reported that Unite members will now debate terminating its relationship with the Labour party at its upcoming conference in July.

The officials at the Labour Party Conference, pursuing again as usual the hard - right bias instilled by the culture still remaining from the tenure of a previous General Secretary, Margaret McDonagh, stitched up the economic debate today.

At Labour's conference in Manchester next week, delegates will be debating and voting on a number of key changes to the party's rule book, tabled both by the national executive and by constituency parties.

Labour MP John Mann has criticised the lack of debate at the party's conference in Brighton - and said it is «reminiscent» of when Tony Blair was in charge.

He said he would rather see a big debate at conference over how to get members more involved in policymaking and party democracy.

Conservative MP Jacob Rees - Mogg challenges protesters at a party conference fringe event in Manchester to a debate.

It means that the hugely controversial issue will no longer be debated at this year's Labour party conference in Liverpool.

The former deputy leader of Liverpool City Council, who was expelled from the party in 1986 because of his membership of the Trotskyist group, praised Mr Corbyn's «charisma» and welcomed the tone of debate at the conference.

Mr Campbell's intervention taps directly into the debate at the heart of this year's conference, which divides the party into those who believe it must move away from a vote - boosting but ultimately unsustainable tax - and - spend approach towards new ways of running public services, and other grassroots supporters.

The Liberal Democrats were working on a detailed policy paper on the party's view on tax in the round, which would be debated at the 2013 LibDem conference.

Mark Ferguson has kicked off an interesting debate over at LabourList about Party Conference.

He said a conference speech was different to his previous speeches and rallies «because you're appealing to your own party and trying to give a message and direction to your own party and at the same time you're trying to deal with political debate and appeal to wider a national and international audience.

From that point on, I vowed to incorporate at least one experiential learning exercise into each unit of study: debates, press conferences, mock murder mysteries, dinner parties, salons, general assembly meetings, or TV shows like The Colbert Report and Survivor.

A regular speaker at conferences and symposia, he initiated the Arts» Party Conference 2013, a forum for artists and organizations to debate the role of art and design in schools.

He is also an associate professor at Sir John Cass Department of Art at London Metropolitan University and initiated the Arts» Party Conference in 2013, where artists and organisations came together to debate the role of arts within the education system.

For example, at a Conference of the Parties (the 17th) in Durban in December 2011, tempestuous debates over what should follow resulted in an agreement to... keep negotiating.

The end result of a costs management conference might well be that an edifying debate is had on the merits of the parties» projections, albeit at great length and with considerable delay.

Calunius is pleased to have been the headline sponsor of the conference «Third - Party Funding and International Arbitration: a 360 degree perspective» presented by the International Bar Association (IBA) on 3 December 2015 in London, at which all relevant current aspects of the subject were debated by senior practitioners.