Sentences with phrase «party conference speech as»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

I have listened carefully to May's speeches ever since and regard her address to the Conservative party conference last month, the one she gave that closed the conference, as one that competes, at least in terms of provocative substance, to the one she delivered to the Police Federation.

It is exactly the same message as that seen in Clegg's speech to his party's autumn conference in Glasgow: only the Liberal Democrats can be trusted to both provide fairness to ordinary people and deliver on economic trustworthiness.

Boris Johnson used his first speech to the Conservative party conference as foreign secretary to...

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

[63] In 2010, Harman referred to Danny Alexander as a «ginger rodent» in a speech to the Scottish Labour Party conference.

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.»

Boris Johnson used his first speech to the Conservative party conference as foreign secretary to show his serious side.

Chuka Umunna is among the big name Labour MPs who have left Brighton before Jeremy Corbyn makes his first conference speech as party leader.

In Australian politics, the similar phrase «the light on the hill» was famously used in a 1949 conference speech by then Prime Minister Ben Chifley, and as a consequence this phrase is used to describe the objective of the Australian Labor Party.

David Cameron finishes his speech to the 2010 Conservative party conference, his first as prime minister:

Speaking during his speech to the Labour party conference, the shadow foreign secretary admitted that the conflict damaged the party but highlighted the Libyan intervention as evidence that it should not be afraid to become militarily engaged in the future.

Delivering the first leaders speech to a Conservative conference as prime minister since 1996, Mr Cameron was keen to remind his party that it had finally returned to Downing Street after so long in the electoral wilderness.

But the prime minister had a bigger task to overcome in what could yet be his final conference speech as leader of the Conservative party.

Business restructuring expert Harry Wilson, a former candidate for state comptroller, appeared at the state Conservative Party Political Action Conference Sunday evening to pitch himself in what could eventually serve as his stump speech.

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.

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.

At that year's Labour conference, he made what was widely interpreted as the opening salvo of a leadership campaign - with a speech appealing to the party's «soul» telling activists «we are best when we are Labour».

His planned speech comes as Ed Miliband prepares for the Labour party conference, where he is expected to face questions over the timetable for constitutional reform.

David Cameron is likely to point the way forward to further repatriation in his speech to the Conservative Party conference next month as he attempts to buy time amid calls from Tory Eurosceptics for a landmark referendum on Britain's relationship with the EU.»

With polls suggesting that Ukip could replace the Lib Dems as the third party of British politics, Clegg devoted much of his conference speech to attacking Nigel Farage for playing on «un-British» fears.

In his keynote speech to the conference tomorrow, party leader Nick Clegg is expected to issue a warning that a vote for the SNP is not as «harmless» as people might think.

Carly Fiorina, the former C.E.O. of Hewlett - Packard who lost a high - profile Senate race in California in 2010, pitched herself as a contender for president in 2016, in a speech to the NYS Conservative Party's 48th annual conference.

Ed Miliband's manifesto speech has been described as «the speech he should have given at his party conference», by the BBC's political editor.

The morning before Jeremy Corbyn's first speech to the Labour conference as party leader saw the...

Tony Blair today delivered his final speech as prime minister to the Welsh Labour party's annual conference in Llandudno.

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

Miliband's address was described by the BBC's political editor as «the speech he should have given at his party conference».

As Jeremy Corbyn delivers his Labour conference speech with near total control of his party, Welsh Labour is no longer keeping its distance.

Let me translate the VC speech: This is party conference season, politician sexs up a policy review announcement to appeal to looney left / rancid right (delete as appropriate) wing of his party and get some cheap headlines.

That will start with the party's spring conference in Harrogate this weekend, during which he will make his first major speech as leader.

«Today in his speech at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) complained that characterizations of the GOP as the «Party of No» are hurtful:

For the 4.5 percenters, who, like me, backed Liz Kendall, John McDonnell's first major speech as shadow chancellor at Labour Party conference was, in many ways, a pleasant surprise.

(As I said before, the tone of this is unusual for a party conference leader's speech.

As promised earlier, here are some of the extracts from Nick Clegg's conference speech released overnight by the party.

Of course, Theresa May spent much of her speech to the Tory party conference today insisting there was no such thing as a hard or soft Brexit.

Gordon Brown was gearing up for his speech, described - much like the conference speech of any leader of any party at any time in British politics - as the most important speech of his life.

Boris Johnson's speech to the Conservative party conference was billed in advance as a serious address.

Wilkins is also known by Tory insiders as the man who wrote May's famous 2002 conference speech, which warned activists that some people had come to see the Conservatives as the «nasty party».

Read the full text of Ed Miliband's first conference speech as leader of the Labour party, on politics.co.uk

Ed Miliband is outlining his vision for Labour's future in his debut speech to the party's autumn conference as their leader.

Gordon Brown has delivered his first speech as leader to the Labour party conference.

Mandelson fears his own carefully crafted legacy of «industrial activism» built up during his two years as business secretary is under threat, and that Miliband's party conference speech in which he made the energy price pledge was driven by politics as much as economics.

William Hague remains the darling of the grassroots as was proved by the reception he received for his two Party Conference speeches.

In her speech at the party conference in Birmingham today, extracts of which have been seen by the Observer, she will say: «There are some who interpret the 23 June vote as giving a licence to harsher rhetoric and returning to policies which have been rejected in the past.

David Cameron impersonated a former party leader's famous speech to the 1977 Tory conference as a child.

Gordon Brown's top team had been celebrating what was regarded as a successful speech by the Prime Minister when news of a BBC Newsnight interview began to sweep the bars and receptions of the Labour Party conference in Manchester.

When David Cameron used his first conference speech as party leader to talk about the importance of marriage, he added that the commitment was as important for gay couples as for those who are straight.

Jeremy Corbyn has paid tribute to murdered Labour MP Jo Cox during a speech at the party's National Women's Conference, effectively his first engagement after being re-affirmed as party leader.