Sentences with phrase «own conference speech»

To compensate for this, he endeavoured to find out character traits to incorporate into the role through studying archive footage - including Cameron's first conference speech as leader of the Conservatives in 2006.

Ed Miliband used his conference speech last autumn to call for the voting age to be lowered from 18 to 16.

And while Corbyn's economic team may not please everybody, their conference speeches at least didn't cause a collapse in the pound, as Theresa May's did this week.

They avoid the real conflicts dominating life in coalition - particularly that over immigration policy which Cable doggedly raised in his conference speech.

But by using his conference speech highlight a pitiful amount of money on a project with such obvious flaws is a sign that Clegg doesn't really get how to sell this situation to his own party, much less the country.

George Osborne and Ed Balls have gone head to head debating the economy for years, and this gives us a great opportunity to compare their speaking styles, from autumn statement debates to party conference speeches.

Ed's badly received conference speech, considered somewhere between impenetrable and irritating by most observers, angered the business lobby by dividing companies into goodies and baddies, while irritating the left by signing up to coalition policies on welfare.

The conference speeches and by - elections indicate that debates over migration will only become more heated in the run up to the General Election and with the implementation of further restrictions on migrants» rights to citizenship and services.

I may have been one of the few hacks who thought Ed Miliband's last conference speech was interesting, but the crisis in capitalism is fertile ground for Labour if he can flesh it out in a way that makes reform tangible.

George Osborne has unveiled a tidal wave of policies during his keynote conference speech in Manchester.

Ed Miliband delivered his first conference speech as Labour leader yesterday, where he referred to his parents and his young child, but not Ms Thornton.

It was Iain Duncan Smith's two poor conference speeches in a row that convinced the Conservative elite to ditch him as their leader.

Only the unluckiest leader would lose their voice during their «make or break» conference speech.

In his Labour conference speech, McDonnell said a Labour government would legislate for a «real living wage», which he said was likely to be higher in 2020 than the # 10 level he proposed last year.

That is in a sense what Ed Miliband tried to capture in his conference speech.

This is conference speech rhetoric and I agree with him about the calibre of those three candidates, but is he right about select committees?

Speaking of great conference speeches Simon Hoggart (p. 30) explores some of the greatest ones and explains why sketch writers love it when orators fluff their lines!

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.

Prime ministers are up all night on the eve of their party conference speech.

His conference speech line about implementing socialist reforms outside the single market has never been specified - and indeed, left - wing commentators have emphasised for months how Corbyn's agenda could be easily delivered inside the single market or EU.

May made this abundantly clear in her party conference speech, where «extremism» was alternately conflated with terrorism and Isis.

Since the 2014 independence referendum, there has always been a section in Nicola Sturgeon's autumn conference speech which uses the «I» word — independence.

And it is clear that Cameron is an expert media handler, whether it is speaking without notes for party conference speeches or wooing the News Corporation press.

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.

Last year, Umunna notably blasted Theresa May over her Conservative Party conference speech on immigration as she appeared before the select committee.

For Theresa May and her inner team, September is about one thing: preparing to deliver a great conference speech.

The Premier is planning to lay out his plans in his party conference speech in early October in Manchester.

It will require all the «hard - working, can - do, bulldog spirit» Cameron referred to in his conference speech.

It speaks volumes about the priorities of the Conservative party that they see benefit cuts for the working poor as a crowd - pleasing punchline for a conference speech.»

I returned him to Blair's conference speech of 2001, delivered in the stunned, time - slowed aftermath of the 11 September attacks, as the world waited in fear for the American response.

The notes below are intended to summarise the points in Ed Balls Annual Conference speech in 22 points.

Firstly, a few focus group participants had registered Miliband's conference speech.

In her party conference speech Theresa May promised to transform the Conservatives into the «party of the workers, the party of public servants, the party of the NHS».

Sir Vince Cable will use his Lib Dem party conference speech to call for MPs on all sides to join forces and help him reverse Brexit.

The alternative is the gutting or abolition of the Act, and a withdrawl from the European Convention on Human Rights, which the Conservatives are threatening to do (David Cameron even had a populist pop at the idea of human rights in a conference speech before he became Prime Minister).

But having been smeared, derided and traduced by the press since winning the election, Corbyn was urged ahead of his party conference speech to get «professional» — in other words time to get spinning or be lost.

His failure to mention it in his 2014 party conference speech was just one sign of a rather muddled approach to the problem; after the 2010 election, the party's initial strategy was to talk about the necessity of cuts in general while opposing some of the most high - profile cuts introduced by the coalition, particularly when it came to welfare.

He praises a passage in Corbyn's annual conference speech in which the Labour leader argued that people «don't have to take what we're given».

I wrote a not entirely serious piece about that here when Brown used it in a conference speech http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/sep/26/twosidesofthesamecoin

This was the central pillar of Clegg's 2015 spring conference speech, in which he pledged to be standing up for «the liberal Britain in which we and millions of decent, reasonable people believe».

In a stage - managed moment worthy of a Boris Johnson conference speech, Cameron pulled out the letter left by Treasury minister Liam Byrne when Labour last left government, claiming there was no money left.

It's a line that Clegg might consider borrowing for his own conference speech this year.

«It is not a Liberal Democrat health bill but it is a better bill because of the Liberal Democrats, a better bill because of you,» Mr Clegg told delegates during his conference speech this afternoon.

The Treasury minister Sajid Javid upped the stakes, quoting back at Labour the shadow work secretary Liam Byrne's conference speech two years ago, when he said: «Let's face the tough truth — that many people on the doorstep at the last election felt that too often we were for shirkers, not workers.»

A marvellous example was provided by Brown himself in his party conference speech at the end of September last year:

His 2010 Conference speech called for a «Big Society Spirit»: «It's the spirit of activism, dynamism, people taking the initiative, working together to get things done.»

I said in my conference speech last September that «future» is the most important word in politics and we did not convince our fellow citizens that we were the party of the future.»

Umunna points out that he used the phrase «One Nation» in a Left Foot Forward blog before Ed Miliband used it in his conference speech.

The announcement of no compulsory ID cards got one of the loudest cheers of Brown's conference speech.

My prediction here is that we may see the type of stage managed applause for the PM that was orchestrated by party staff for Iain Duncan Smith's Tory conference speech in 2003.