Sentences with phrase «power at the party conference»

After five years, the number of union members affiliated to the party will determine a union's voting power at the party conference.

But Mr Kenny also warned that any attempt to break the unions» voting power at party conference or within the party's ruling NEC would break any deal.

Not exact matches

At the 2016 Labour conference, Sadiq Khan used his keynote speech to repeatedly hammer home the message that the party can only achieve things if it is «in power».

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

In an address read on his behalf by a leading member of the party, Samuel Nuamah Donkor at a conference organized by former NDC Municipal and District Chief Executives in Accra on Saturday, the former President said the history, strength and survival of the NDC have always hinged on the power of conviction.

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.

last (and perhaps least), Partnership into Power — through a national policy forum (NPF) with final decisions at party conference.

This party conference wasn't really about specific policies at all, but the ideas behind the different approaches of those in power and those seeking it.

This apparent eagerness to build bridges with the party in power is compounded by one of the most discussed developments of the conference - Ed Balls warning that the austerity path is necessary and that Labour would have to stick to a cuts programme at least temporarily were it to be elected.

The event, being held at the Accra International Conference Center today, December 7, marks exactly a year since the party wrestled power from the John Mahama - led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.

At one time, this Liberal Democrat party conference was expected to be a victory rally; a celebration of the party's return to power after decades in the wilderness.

This gives union general secretaries the power to write large cheques and defend having significant representation on the party's governing National Executive Committee, the votes at party conference, the choice of party leader as well as local selections.

And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, for decades to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City, forced into joining the Party and compelled, constantly, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music.

Business Secretary John Hutton told the Labour Party conference that clean coal technology and a «renaissance in nuclear power» were needed if we weren't to leave ourselves at the mercy of gas imports from unstable and unfriendly foreign regimes.

Unless on consent of the parties, the judge does not have the power to make substantive orders at a conference, but typically will make orders regarding procedural matters.

The momentous decision by Sinn Fein to support the policing and justice services of Northern Ireland ie the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the police boards, police ombudsman etc, and the court system — at a specially convened six - hour conference (the ard fheis) in Dublin, on 28 January 2007, attended by 2,000 delegates, where 900 party members voted on the motion — would appear to signal the possibility, if not probability, of the restoration of full devolutionary powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly (NIA) based at Stormont, Belfast.