Sentences with phrase «do at party conference»

Many Tory voters, and MPs for that matter, would love to see him lead the Conservative Party, and it's all that Johnson can do at party conference not to make himself the centrepiece.

Not exact matches

«At a stroke of a pen, what the mayor has done is risked 40,000 jobs and of course... damaged the lives of those 3.5 million Uber users,» May said in the interview, given before the start of her Conservative Party's annual conference on Sunday.

«We're just going to start doing it — not wait for the others to do it,» Trudeau told reporters at an open - air news conference disrupted by student protesters with links to the Conservative party.

At the press conference, he said «I don't play golf, I don't network, I don't go to cocktail parties.

«I don't have snifters, sharpeners or liveners,» he told Tories at the party conference.

At a press conference in Abuja party's National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, said the Independent National Electoral Commission does not appears an agency ready for a clean and fair exercise.

I was at our party conference recently and, as one does, found myself gravitating towards the bar with a number of other researchers.

The South Buffalo native did win, and insisted he planned to conference with the Democratic Party when he arrived at the state Capitol.

Just don't expect support at the party conference a popular sitting governor.

At the 2002, Tory conference, May told stunned delegates: «There's a lot we need to do in this party of ours.

We are not America when are the Labour party going to realize we do not do America politics, at the last conference they gave me a placard and said will you be willing to shout and clap when told, I gave them back the placard and told them no.

«The NPP is by this response calling for the immediate stop to all processes involved in the so - called internal cleaning of the register until all parties can satisfy themselves on the modalities and the means by which the so - called internal cleaning is being done,» Campaign Manager Peter Mac Manu directed at a press conference Thursday January 14.

Woops... I forgot: At 1:30 p.m. Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. will «address his future with the Democratic Party» at a press conference outside the Bronx Board of Elections... hmmm, might he be dis - enrolling himself before party leaders try to do it for hiAt 1:30 p.m. Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. will «address his future with the Democratic Party» at a press conference outside the Bronx Board of Elections... hmmm, might he be dis - enrolling himself before party leaders try to do it forParty» at a press conference outside the Bronx Board of Elections... hmmm, might he be dis - enrolling himself before party leaders try to do it for hiat a press conference outside the Bronx Board of Elections... hmmm, might he be dis - enrolling himself before party leaders try to do it forparty leaders try to do it for him?

Today's party conferences work on a more discursive model, one that doesn't make the News at Ten as often, but as a result allows a more detailed focus on policies.

With their votes at the party conference, they could help to push through rule changes that assisted the centrists — perhaps to reintroduce the old electoral college for choosing leaders — and overturn the left's majority on the NEC, as they did in the early 1980s.

Some will doubtless be using the conference to ask the sensible question about why the party didn't do better at the general election.

This question, from somebody who wishes to remain Anon, but was a popular theme at Saturday's Fabian conference: «If you become Labour party leader, what will you do to ensure labour becomes more open and democratic in party structure, to ensure Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?»

At the 2002 Party Conference, Theresa May stated that the Tories had to do more to not be seen as the «nasty party&raParty Conference, Theresa May stated that the Tories had to do more to not be seen as the «nasty party&raparty».

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.

And why did the leader's speech at the party conference not mention immigration at all, when in the last few years we have undergone the greatest - ever wave of increasing immigration into our country?»

Speaking at a media conference after the national executive meeting, he said: «It is clear that a small minority who didn't accept my election as leader of the Scottish Labour Party just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the pParty just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the partyparty.

To be clear: the trade union did not pass a motion to outlaw Progress, but it appears that a resolution at this summer's party conference in Manchester will seek to do that.

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.

The PM used his speech at the Tory party conference to take a swipe at Labour rival Jeremy Corbyn but what else did he have to say.

At the Welsh Liberal Democrat conference in Newport in April the party passed a motion calling for «an individual's free right to use electronic cigarettes where they like to be protected, unless there is evidence to suggest harm is being done to others.»

At a Labour focused conference earlier this year, where Labour Humanists was exhibiting, I had a rather unpleasant encounter with a rising star in the Labour party, who had seen our rather tongue - in - cheek leaflets proclaiming «Still not doing God!»

Speaking at a conference dubbed «Nana Akufo Addo speaks» at Osu Presbyterian Church hall in May 2009, Nana Akufo - Addo told a cheering party supporters that it was the responsibility of then President Mills and his administration to do something about the economy rather than constantly finding fault with members of the NPP administration.

At a press conference Tuesday, the party's National Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, said the biometric roll «did not meet the standards required to make it qualified to be a biometric register».

And so the question posed to Tim Farron at his first party conference as leader was: How on earth are you going to capitalise on this huge opportunity with next to no MPs; a dodgy electoral system that discriminates against you; a disengaged public; and a disengaged media who don't fancy giving you much of a voice?

«I don't think the party needs saving,» declared Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson at a party conference fringe event.

It'll be doing training sessions for anyone and everyone at the conferences, and will also have a presence at the Conservative conference — although the party hasn't officially embraced this software, one campaigns insider tells me, «there is a question on what the Conservative Party are doing, but they may still be wanting to use that technology&raparty hasn't officially embraced this software, one campaigns insider tells me, «there is a question on what the Conservative Party are doing, but they may still be wanting to use that technology&raParty are doing, but they may still be wanting to use that technology».

During the last party conference season we asked at the Conservative party conference whether the Tories got the North and the clear answer was that their leaders didn't.

doesn't inspire confidence...» he still made the tricky political point (in a Lib Dem Conference context at least) that his party should not shy away from calling for fairness in immigration.

There isn't a better way to sum up the PM's state of mind as we head into conference season than to recall his own words at his summer party: «And the message from the people of this country has never been clearer: «Do what's decent — even if it's difficult.

The MP for Saffron Walden, who impressed many delegates at the Conservative Party conference last October with her speech ahead of Theresa May's keynote address, added: «I don't know whether it's just a fad where people are saying these things and then they'll move on to something else or whether this is now a permanent thing.»

«Now I didn't know who was going to come out of it best, I didn't know what was going to happen at the party conference, but I wanted to put in place a process which would give the party the best possible opportunity of making an informed choice as to who ought to lead us,» Mr Howard said.

Not only did Conservative Party members form the single largest group at Conference, but over the last six years the number of Party Members attending Conferences have increased significantly — reaching a peak at Birmingham last year.

I haven't noticed other parties doing anything like this at their conferences yet, but if this kind of social action became the norm both politicians and the public might have a bit more belief in the public - spirited nature of politics.

Compass is co-sponsoring a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrats» spring conference in March aimed at establishing a radical platform within the party, and doing so in a way that will allow or progressive cross-party co-operation.

Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin wouldn't rule out a primary against Sen. Roy McDonald this afternoon at the Conservative Party Political Action Conference, criticizing Republican politicians who do not stick to signed pledges.

Commenting on the Secretary of State for Education's session at Conservative Party Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union said: «Michael Gove does not have a monopoly of concern that all children and young people should have high aspiration and the very best teaching and support to achieve.

Also, what does it say about your independence and integrity if you appear at any party instigated by a Murdoch whether it's at some conference or at the Freud's «opulent» pad.

Mr Grieve told a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester: «It's a cost - benefit analysis in terms of whether we think we will benefit from doing it and what the downsides are.»

But then we didn't come into the lobby to turn down free lobster and champagne at party conferences.)

Even when Labour conferences «made policy», making it from resolutions into NEC statements, the party programme, the manifesto and then what a Labour Government actually did involved complex inter-actions at every stage.

Still, Trump garnered 35 % of the vote in a secret ballot done at the party's annual conference last week.

Asked about reports that the Labour mayors Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham would be denied speaking slots at the party conference, Corbyn did not guarantee them a place on the platform but said: «We haven't even decided who's speaking at conference yet.»

«The worst thing to do, would be to give the keys to Number 10, to a single party government, Labour or the Conservatives», said Nick Clegg at his party conference.

May be because visitors interrupted our viewership, I didn't see former President Goodluck Jonathan, the immediate past national leader of the party, former Vice President, Namadi Sambo and founding fathers of the party such as former President Ibrahim Babangida, former Vice President Alex Ekweume, former Senate Presidents, Ken Nnamani, David Mark, former chairman of the PDP, Ahmadu Ali, former minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia among others, some of whom had been advertised as confirmed participants at the conference.

Motions passed at the Lib Dem conference — such as the one setting up a panel to examine decriminalising drugs — become party policy, but they don't become coalition policy.