Sentences with phrase «first party conference speech»

NHS protection: In his first Party Conference speech the Tory leader said his political priorities could be summarised with three letters: N H S.

The Green Party's new leader has used her first party conference speech to accuse Labour of «failing to offer a real alternative» to the coalition.

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.

The pressure on Cameron to cancel the Saudi contract escalated when Jeremy Corbyn called on him in his first party conference speech as Labour leader to block the bid to provide training for the very prison system that would carry out the execution of the pro-democracy protester Ali Mohammed Baqir al - Nimr.

He and Ed Miliband had been friends for some years and, after Miliband was elected leader in 2010, Milne was among those consulted about his first party conference speech.

The return of grammar schools, a likely new policy announcement in May's first party conference speech as Prime Minister, would be a very big leap back to the past.

Not exact matches

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.

Boris Johnson used his first speech to the Conservative party conference as foreign secretary to...

First, because in spite of the praise for Lady Thatcher in the speech and throughout the conference, it was an arresting sign of how much the Tory party has changed since her era and of how little decisive influence the party's colourful retro - Thatcherites actually enjoy.

Boris Johnson used his first speech to the Conservative party conference as foreign secretary to show his serious side.

These include his first ever TV appearance, in the audience on BBC1's Question Time in January 1981 (aged 18), when he publicly berated Barbara Castle; and another from 1989 when he and a certain Sally Illman (the future Mrs B and then an avowed Tory) stood alongside one another previewing Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party conference speech for the BBC's coverage of the event.

He and his team rolled out the global race narrative at his October party conference speech, and for the first time since the Big Society, the PM and his advisers in No 10 felt they had a key message.

Chuka Umunna is among the big name Labour MPs who have left Brighton before Jeremy Corbyn makes his first conference speech as party leader.

David Cameron finishes his speech to the 2010 Conservative party conference, his first as prime minister:

Delivering the first leaders speech to a Conservative conference as prime minister since 1996, Mr Cameron was keen to remind his party that it had finally returned to Downing Street after so long in the electoral wilderness.

There is «apparently no credible plan» as to how to replace the 490,000 public - sector jobs set to be lost, he said at Monday's CBI conference, in his first speech to business leaders since he was elected as party leader last month.

At the very first party conference I attended, Smith — with the help of a speech by John Prescott — got those reforms through.

«The Constitutional protections afforded the freedom to engage in association by the Independence Party and the Independent Democratic Conference for the advancement of beliefs and ideas through freedom of speech is a core value established by the First Amendment.

The morning before Jeremy Corbyn's first speech to the Labour conference as party leader saw the...

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.

«Your first big event is the Labour Party conference, don't make a long dull speech.

That will start with the party's spring conference in Harrogate this weekend, during which he will make his first major speech as leader.

For the 4.5 percenters, who, like me, backed Liz Kendall, John McDonnell's first major speech as shadow chancellor at Labour Party conference was, in many ways, a pleasant surprise.

The first quote comes from her conference speech of 1978 and the rest from the Conservative Party manifesto of 1979.

William Hague sought to brush over the referendum issue in his first speech to the Conservative party conference.

Read the full text of Ed Miliband's first conference speech as leader of the Labour party, on politics.co.uk

Gordon Brown has delivered his first speech as leader to the Labour party conference.

It was in his party conference speech last autumn that Mr Miliband first divided capitalism between good «producers» who ought to be encouraged and bad «predators» who had to be curbed.

When David Cameron used his first conference speech as party leader to talk about the importance of marriage, he added that the commitment was as important for gay couples as for those who are straight.

Jeremy Corbyn has paid tribute to murdered Labour MP Jo Cox during a speech at the party's National Women's Conference, effectively his first engagement after being re-affirmed as party leader.

Baroness Warsi had one of the first speeches to deliver to the Party Conference in Manchester and also one of the most difficult.

In his first conference speech Hague declared repeatedly that it was time to «move on» from the party's recent preoccupations and reach out to the wider electorate.

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

There was a new confidence and maturity in this speech that wasn't there when he first spoke to a conference as party leader in Bournemouth last year.

In his first speech to the Conservative Conference as Party Chairman, Maude presented what he calls his «killer slide».

``... the Kyoto Protocol... the first component of an authentic global governance...» — Jacques Chirac, President of France, speech to the Sixth Conference of the Parties, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nov. 20, 2000