Sentences with phrase «labour conference»

It is understood the unions were not willing to change voting arrangements for Labour conferences, or for the party's national executive.

That would appear to be the lesson to take from this year's Labour conference by his political enemies inside and outside the party.

I want to make sure I'm prepared for every exciting social occasion that each unique Labour conference promises.

My journey to labour conference always involves packing trauma.

The most striking thing about this year's main Labour conference was how flat it seemed.

It is understood the unions were not willing to change voting arrangements for Labour conferences, or for the party's national executive.

John McDonnell, Ken Loach and Horse Meat Disco have been named as three of the leading lights at this year's Momentum festival at Labour conference in Brighton.

At Labour conference in Manchester, for three days running constituency Labour parties (CLPs) have been silenced and their rights ignored.

It's very good PR for them, framing the start of Labour conference with media discussion of Miliband's position, but the polling itself doesn't actually tell us much new — people are not particularly keen on Ed Miliband and don't seem him as Prime Ministerial.

In Brown's Labour conference speech at Brighton at the end of September Brown spoke about the «difficult decisions ahead» on spending.

He's wheeled out at Labour conferences as a sign of the party's vitality, along with predictable and fairly irritating descriptions of him as the British Obama.

«Labour's manifesto uncut: How to win in 2015 and why» is launched at the PragRad fringe at Labour conference on Monday 23rd September

Ed Miliband has told the Welsh Labour Conference in Swansea he would hold an «independent root - and - branch review of the culture and practice of HMRC» if Labour wins the next general election.

Jeremy Corbyn was only the most recent when he told Labour conference last year, just days after being anointed leader, that his victory would herald a new era of «straight talking, honest politics».

John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, received loud applause from Labour conference delegates when he called from the rostrum for the party to levy a «tax» on Labour MPs with second jobs and outside earnings, and on former Labour ministers who go on to earn fortunes from consultancies and directorships.

At Labour Conference last week, Jeremy Corbyn made one big announcement on the party's plans for tackling the housing crisis in our cities — rent controls.

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

Richard Leonard has used his Scottish Labour conference speech to underline his «mission» to «fundamentally change» the economic system.

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

It's basically exactly the same as what Alistair Darling has been telling Labour conferences since 2007.

Mason has lambasted the Sun for recording a private conversation he had in a café during Labour conference in Liverpool.

Several speakers at the Liberal Democrat and Labour conferences took time out from their speeches to berate the former international development secretary over the last two weeks.

Against this background, the first Open Labour conference in London on March 11th is significant.

With the International Labour Organization's (ILO) International Labour Conference currently taking place in Geneva from June 1 to June 17, with the agenda including an item entitled «Decent work for domestic workers», there are hopes that a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation will be adopted to afford what is seen as urgently - needed protection to domestic workers (see the ILO website for more... [more]

This resilience was brought home to me at the 2004 Labour Conference when delegates openly accused Tony Blair in fringe meetings of being a war criminal.

If you attend all three conferences corporately, you'll see that the cost of attending Labour conference (for a balcony pass and a full week's worth of hotels within a 10 minute walk of the secure zone) will come to at least double the cost of attending the other two.

Young Labour conference today delivered a damning verdict on the Collins Review of the Labour - union link — voting to mandate its delegates to vote against the proposals at the upcoming special conference on 1st March.

The Momentum event will run alongside the official Labour conference in Liverpool in September.

«Our Top Ten Labour Conference karaoke tracks Main Beneath the tedium of the Lib Dem conference is an ideological battle between social democrats and classical liberals»

If things had gone differently, Ed Miliband would now be enjoying a well - earned holiday somewhere hot, eagerly pursued by a retinue of security officers and sweaty officials, planning his first Labour conference speech as Prime Minister.

The findings are a crushing blow to the Prime Minister on the eve of a make - or - break annual Labour conference in Manchester starting tomorrow.

Labour conference chiefs struggled to find a speaking slot for Sadiq Khan this year, and only gave the green light to the London mayor after angry London Labour MPs demanded it and the Conference Arrangements Committe agreed.

The Labour leader will dash back from the Yorkshire and Humber regional Labour conference on Saturday morning to address the event, which has been organised by CND, later that day.

Labour conference policy, endorsed at Liverpool after the Brexit vote, is to keep open the option of remaining in the EU if the final Brexit terms are unsatisfactory.

With the International Labour Organization's (ILO) International Labour Conference currently taking place in Geneva from June 1 to June 17, with the agenda including an item entitled «Decent work for domestic workers», there are hopes that a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation will be adopted to afford what is seen as urgently - needed protection to domestic workers (see the ILO website for more information).

Labour conference voted for a similar motion to nationalise the railways in 2004 and that never made its way into the party's 2005 election manifesto.

Not all troubles were cast away at last month's melancholy Labour conference, but the headaches of combating climate change and protecting the BBC from a belligerent Murdoch were momentarily soothed by ministers» hair - loosened swagger in the bars later on.

I arrive on Saturday exhausted (I had no idea how tiring descaling a kettle could be), climb into a taxi and in a weary voice squeak «Take me to Labour conference please?»

This is the most excited, most populous and nearly the most celebratory Labour conference any of us can remember.

«There are bubbling tensions in this country that I think could explode,» she told a fringe event at Labour conference yesterday.

ho hum new speaker speaker seat by - election then glumb labour conference in october with blears mauled by her party for disunity she avoids CGT and attacks leadership, she did not stab him in the face, she cant reach that high we told she will be replaced shortly, howe much shorter can you get

Labour leader Ed Miliband has told the Welsh Labour conference what extra powers a Labour Government at Westminster would devolve to Wales.

Part of the reason Labour Conference went so smoothly was because The Far Left handled it so intelligently, they are still running rings round the Centrists.

A city that not only has a long history of hosting Labour conferences, but also of inspirational Labour activists.

However, Schneider is understood to have a hotline to Team Corbyn and was actively helping the media operation on at least one day during the recent Labour conference.

Momentum is organising The World Transformed — an open, free, largely unstructured culture and ideas festival alongside Labour conference in Liverpool as a way of attracting non-party activists and local young people.

After a particularly active Labour conference where he popped up at fringe events left, right and centre, recent polling has shown the shadow justice secretary leaping forward in the support stakes.

This compared with equivalent Labour conference events, where 39 % of speakers were women, and the Liberal Democrat fringe talks, which were 35 % female.

It does not take a Nostradamus to predict that this year's will have to be the craziest Labour conference since 1985 or, quite possibly, ever.