Sentences with phrase «leader at the party conference»

John Reid today raised the odds that he might stand as Labour leader when he set himself out as a strong and powerful leader at the party conference in Manchester.

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At a long - awaited national conference on religion, held April 22 - 23 in Beijing, China's president Xi Jinping called on leaders to take the initiative in reasserting Communist Party of China (CPC) control over religion.

Exhibition space has sold out and corporate chiefs are expected to flock to the business forum at party conference, where they can mix with «prominent business leaders and senior shadow cabinet members».

The new allegations emerge as the Ukip leader told his party conference that the coming «Romanian crime wave» will be at the centre of their European election campaign.

Speaking at a fringe event at Conservative party conference, the Scottish Conservative leader suggested that constant criticism sometimes made her want to cry — or to kick a wall.

Activist Desiree Pilgrim - Hunter will officially announce her primary challenge to Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. at 11 a.m. tomorrow outside the Bronx Library Center, and she has retained a firm that is intimately familiar with the Senate and the Democratic conference to help her try to unseat an incumbent many in her party love to hate.

In a nod to the party leadership, the group said the prime minister was right to put «strivers» at the heart of the government's agenda in his leader's speech at the party conference.

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?

One day we may indeed see a leader «broken» at a party conference, though I can't quite imagine what it would look like.

The establishment of an Irish Constitutional Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 centenary.

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.

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.

The Labour leader's speech at the annual party conference also offered intriguing clues about his future direction.

«As an at - large delegate and leader of the Republican Party in New York, Senator Flanagan will be attending the convention next week,» said Scott Reif, a Senate GOP conference spokesman, in a statement.

Barring some startling shifting of the plates, it seems almost certain that Tim Farron will be giving the leader's speech at the party's Bournemouth conference this autumn.

Plaid Cymru will stand in staunch opposition to the spending cuts planned by the UK coalition government, its leader Ieuan Wyn Jones will say in a speech at the party's conference on Friday.

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?»

The Labour leader is set to press on with his bold attempt at reforming the relationship between his party and the unions, despite intense opposition from those gathered at the TUC's annual conference in Bournemouth.

At a Westminster press conference the Lib Dem leader insisted his party was unaware of the «truly horrific» actions carried out by Sir Cyril.

Without that immediate, and highly plausible, rebuttal, plebgate snowballed into a full scale scandal spawning a resignation, the revelation of a fake eyewitness account, arrests, inquiries, a Channel 4 documentary, a Scotland Yard investigation and demonstrations at the Tory Party conference, and involved the DPP, the CPS, the IPCC, the Diplomatic Protection Group, ACPO and the Police Federation, as well as drawing in all the party leaders, the home secretary and countlessParty conference, and involved the DPP, the CPS, the IPCC, the Diplomatic Protection Group, ACPO and the Police Federation, as well as drawing in all the party leaders, the home secretary and countlessparty leaders, the home secretary and countless MPs.

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?»

Ukip leader uses conference speech to hit back at critics who accuse his party of using child abuse scandal for political purposes

Miliband again failed to attend his brother's Labour leader's speech at the party conference this year and it is understood that the relationship between the two men continues to be difficult.

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.

Speaking at the Welsh Labour Conference in Swansea, the party leader said Wales would get a fair funding settlement, and more powers over ports, election and energy.

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.

The conference speech comes at the end of a gruelling few days where Prime Ministers are expected to tour the conference, dropping in to a myriad of events with party members desperate to see and hear their leader mingle and talk to them.

Labour leaders will try to stifle dissent at the conference by arguing that the party will alienate voters if it indulges in «navel - gazing» during the global financial crisis.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson talks of devolution after Brexit at the party conference in Manchester

There might even be a move to oust him altogether — this would have to take place at the party conference if a new leader is to be in place in time for the election campaign.

The MP for Bassetlaw, who has been an outspoken critic of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, said he would formally put forward a proposal to introduce «a Labour mansion tax» at the party's annual conference.

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

Curran (D - Baldwin) and Lavine (D - Glen Cove) are expected to make the announcement at a news conference in Garden City on Wednesday night with Democratic Party leaders.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Kirsty Williams today addressed members at her party's Spring Conference in Cardiff.

The comments by Paul, the state's junior senator, came at a news conference with McConnell in Louisville that was focused on building party unity following a bruising campaign in which the minority leader's opponent, Matt Bevin, got 35 % of the primary vote.

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?

Elated from the apparent win, Democratic conference leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins told POLITICO New York at Kaminksy's victory party that the Democrats are building momentum heading into November's elections.

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

Timed to coincide with celebrations of Gordon Brown's impassioned and well - delivered leader's speech, the Sun headline all - but detonated the conference by undermining Labour just at the moment the party felt a glimmer of hope about its electoral prospects.

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.

Sources close to the acting leader stress that it was drawn up by the 2014 Collins Review into party reform and agreed at a special conference last year.

They could anger union supporters, however, given they are already wary of the new Labour leader after he mooted plans to reduce their voting influence at party conferences.

Q. (from Andrew Robinson): Will you fight to get benefit cuts reversed if you are elected as leader of the Labour Party at the party conferParty at the party conferparty conference?

The Labour leader will call the spare room subsidy «a symbol of an out - of - touch, uncaring Tory Government» at his party's conference in Brighton tomorrow.

Video: Guardian sketch writer Simon Hoggart speculates on what to expect from Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's closing speech at the party's conference

The UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has told delegates at their annual conference that the party «is going after they call the «blue collar» Party leader Nigel Farage has told delegates at their annual conference that the party «is going after they call the «blue collar» party «is going after they call the «blue collar» vote.

George Lansbury, a committed pacifist, resigned as the Leader of the Labour Party at the 1935 Party Conference on 8 October, after delegates voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

So by early September, and conceivably much sooner than that, the Conservative party will have a new leader who will then be hosannaed at the party conference in October in a choreographed display of adulation.

At the party's spring conference, leader Nigel Farage, said it had caused areas of the UK to become «unrecognisable».

In his final party conference speech before the general election, the Labour leader put the NHS at the heart of his pitch, pledging a fund to pay for tens of thousands more doctors, nurses and midwives.