Sentences with phrase «major speech today»

Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith, who made a major speech today advocating a Leave vote in June, hit back at the former home secretary.

He told people who wanted to vote with their heart for Corbyn to «get a transplant» in a major speech today, and admitted that even if he could win on a left - wing platform, he wouldn't want to.

In a major speech today, Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls called on Lib Dems to resist their party whip.

Yvette Cooper has won rave reviews for a major speech today in which she called for the UK to take as many as 10,000 people fleeing the political turmoil in the Middle East.

Ed Miliband called for the creation of two new banks as he outlined his plan for «a better banking system» in a major speech today.

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Ed Miliband was spared an increasingly critical appraisal of his conference speech today, after a major coalition U-turn distracted the press from events in Manchester.

The NHS is going to be a major battleground at the 2015 election, and after today's speech the prime minister has made it clear that he intends to cede no ground to Labour.

Nick Clegg made his first major foray into the political debate over the riots today, with a speech branding them an «attack on liberty».

Today sees the prime minister deliver his first major speech on the environment, where he will attempt to counter criticism that «Brown isn't green» by announcing tough new targets reducing emissions.

David Willetts made the case for continued science funding today in his first major speech in government.

So said John Major, signing off after a speech to the press gallery earlier today.

Mr Brown will today give a major speech in which he will say that encouraging «social mobility» will be the key theme of the Labour party's election campaign.

In one of her first major speeches as a presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today called for sweeping criminal justice reforms in the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police custody — most recently in Baltimore, plunging the city into days of unrest.

He's making a major speech on pensions today, and we'll have more later.

Higher education today gives analysts, policymakers, and critics so much to fret about — cost, free speech, leftward lurching faculty, politically trendy majors — that we haven't been paying nearly enough heed to the quality and value of the product itself.

The Chicago Teachers Union will put on a major public relations blitz today, with a rally in Springfield and a speech by President Karen Lewis in Chicago.

The education secretary Justine Greening will today defend grammar schools in a major speech, claiming that selective schools already benefit young people from «ordinary working class backgrounds».

Apparently his remarks were supposed to appease teachers who might still be upset that in Malloy's major education speech in 2012, he called for doing away with tenure while saying, «In today's (public education) system, basically the only thing you have to do is show up for four years.

The campaign released it just as Mr. McCain was planning to give a major speech on energy policy today, and a day after Al Gore, the public face of efforts to slow the warming trend, formally endorsed Senator Barack Obama.

TreeHugger: In your speech to the conference you said, «Business is the most powerful force in our society today Business has incredible power and influence over our society, all of which [it uses] in the narrow interest of business, which is to make money We would not tolerate that from any other major entity in society, but it's okay for business.»

Yes... the SCC decision provides a narrow understanding of hate speech, but I am glad the SCC considers Human Rights Code provision on hate speech is still relevant in today's society and still address very major and unrelenting issues such as opinions and expressions that continue to expose a group to hatred.

Roger Ver, a long - time crypto entrepreneur and major proponent of Bitcoin Cash, tweeted today that the suspension of the BCH account is the death of free speech:

With the Close the Gap campaign marking its 10th anniversary today, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivered his first Closing the Gap progress report, much touted as his first major speech as PM on Indigenous issues.