Sentences with phrase «party conference speech»

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 «Great Repeal Bill» — so called by the Prime Minister when she first announced it in her Conservative Party conference speech in October 2016 — will repeal the European Communities Act 1972 («ECA»), which is the primary vehicle through which EU law is given effect in the UK.

As Chief Whip, Mr Williamson was credited with quashing a leadership plot against Mrs May following her disastrous party conference speech last year.

Nicky Morgan makes her first Conservative Party conference speech as education secretary on Tuesday.

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.

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

Forgetting to include any reference to immigration and the deficit in his last party conference speech before the election.

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.

But he dismissed recent poll findings that indicated a reduced Conservative lead since Mr Brown's Labour party conference speech and said the unity of the Tory party made it more suited to government than Labour's fractured state.

So, let's take a look at Farage's style at his recent party conference speech.

David Cameron's keynote party conference speech today not only ends what has been portrayed as a winning week for the Tories, but it also brings to a full stop the sight of journalists travelling like tour groups with wheelie suitcases and laptops in tow as they hop from venue to venue to check the political view from Bournemouth (Lib Dems), Brighton and Hove (Labour) and the Manchester (Conservatives).

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.

Rebekah Brooks told David Cameron his 2009 party conference speech brought her to tears twice, a newly published text message has revealed.

True, Theresa May's Nasty Party conference speech of 2002 angered some Tory activists.

PW writes: In his visit to the school, Blair confirms that he will step down within the next 12 months and that his forthcoming party conference speech will be his last; he also apologises for the Labour party's recent conduct, saying it «has not been our finest hour».

He said: «This was probably David Cameron's most old fashioned party conference speech yet, packed with rat - a-tat lists that don't stand up to scrutiny and some rather unconvincing attacks on Labour.

David Cameron ended his Conservative Party conference speech telling delegates to pull together and lead Britain to better days.

Jeremy Corbyn has given his second party conference speech as Labour leader, after winning another decisive mandate from the membership last week.

Shortly after his appointment as Minister for Merseyside, Heseltine gave his annual party conference speech, in which he condemned talk of repatriation and called for more public spending on inner cities.

The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, reported that it was David Cameron's clear intention to make repealing the Human Rights Act the centrepiece of his own party conference speech in October.

But with a flick of a switch, Ed Miliband's party conference speech shone the spotlight back on to energy policy: bills, prices, insulation and «green levies» all became part of public debate.

The chancellor backed the scheme in his Tory party conference speech on Monday, but the shadow chancellor said last week there would be no blank cheque from Labour for the project.

And remember, IDS's demise came just weeks after a throaty party conference speech peppered with standing ovations.

He admitted to terror during David Cameron's party conference speech last year hailing in the «aspiration nation» as «one of David Cameron's newest and most junior ministers», describing the prospect of trying to build new homes across Britain as «a challenge that keeps me awake at night.»

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.

Umunna blasted Theresa May over her Conservative Party conference speech on immigration as the home secretary appeared before the home affairs select committee.

He even boasted, in his recent party conference speech, that the Tories were different because they did not «fawn» at the feet of the wealthy.

Andrew Neil asked Theresa May about her Conservative Party conference speech where she claimed an illegal immigrant was allowed to stay in the country because of his cat.

In his book he describes his horror at being told that Miliband had not included passages on reducing the deficit and immigration in his last party conference speech before the election.

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.

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.

But in his Labour Party conference speech this year, Balls promised: «no proposals for any new spending paid for by additional borrowing».

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.

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

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

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

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.

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».

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.

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

David Cameron had one overwhelming priority in his Party conference speech: to suggest (in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence) that he was actually in control of the events which would shape this country's future.

There are extraordinary similarities between the Labour MP's address this week and the Conservative leader's 2009 party conference speech.

I couldn't help but notice the extraordinary similarities between Dan Jarvis's Demos speech of 2016 and David Cameron's party conference speech of 2009.

Party conference speeches are especially significant because they are expansive, get lots of press attention, and, above all, allow leaders to set an agenda of their personal choice.

Mr Cameron made clear his ambitions in his party conference speech in Manchester only two months ago.

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.

On the contrary Ed Miliband worries about being defined as «weird» and a decent portion of yesterday's party conference speech was aimed at making him appear normal.