Sentences with phrase «speech to conference today»

Not as catchy as the original, admittedly, but a perfect summation (that's a Lib Dem Conference word I've learnt) of the chief secretary to the Treasury's speech to conference today.

That being said, the advance extracts from Clegg's keynote speech to conference today look distinctly groan - inducing.

Not exact matches

And as we gather here today to discuss the road ahead, I wish to echo a few words written in the speech that Franklin Roosevelt, before his untimely death, had been writing and preparing to deliver at that fateful San Francisco Conference.

The Monday of conference is always a bit of damp squib, a hump to get over before the final debates and leader's speech, but there is an important debate on some secret justice proposals today in which Lib Dems must reaffirm their stance on fair justice.

The reforms announced today were initially confirmed in Mr Duncan Smith's speech to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.

Before today's speech the Manchester conference was dominated by a debate between those wanting to stick to Alistair Darling's approach and the more courageous, bullish stance of Ed Balls.

Today marks Mr Cameron's second speech to the CBI after he pulled out of last year's conference at the last minute.

Today, in her first speech to the conference as prime minister, May made a smart bid to revise the theme.

Chris Huhne used his conference speech today to dismantle the Conservative project from its foundations, in a fiercely hostile attack on David Cameron's resurgent party.

The Human Rights Act has led to local people not being informed of dangerous offenders moving into their area, the shadow justice secretary argued during his keynote conference speech earlier today.

Cameron's public professions that attempting to handle Johnson is futile clashes with reports in today's newspapers that he has been asked to clear his speech to conference, which takes place on Tuesday, with Downing Street.

Commenting on Ed Milliband's speech to the EEF's manufacturing conference today (6 March 2012), Unite's assistant general secretary, Tony Burke said:

«I'm actually dedicating my speech to Donald Trump, because I think that thanks to his lovely anti-immigrant rhetoric, his misogyny, his bigotry, he's really galvanizing and mobilizing and energizing immigrant communities across the nation,» Ms. Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico and the first Latina to be Council speaker, said today during a press conference at City Hall.

And Alexander today in a policy motion speech to conference certainly did his damnedest to defend the coalition, opposing an amendment to his «Generating Growth and Jobs in a Time of Austerity» motion to abandon the coalition's fiscal mandate.

Vince Cable insisted he was «pro-business» today after he was accused of attacking capitalism in a speech due to be delivered to the Liberal Democrat party conference.

George Osborne's speech to the Tory conference today was a remarkable approach to the political situation he finds himself in.

Jack Straw has waved goodbye to a decades - long career on the front bench of British politics today, with a final keynote speech to conference lambasting the coalition.

The chancellor gave a speech of honey and vinegar today to the Conservative Party Conference, with optimism about recovery but tougher measures for the unemployed

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

Commenting on Prime Minister Teresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «We welcome the fact that the Prime Minister clearly recognises that the education, social and economic policies of her predecessor have led to inequality across education and other public services.

And in her Tory conference speech, she said: «To make Britain a great meritocracy, we must move beyond this agenda and deliver real social reform across every layer of society so that those whom the system would currently miss — those just above the threshold for help today yet those who are by no means rich or well off — are given the help they need.

Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander unveiled the plans for a new «affluence team» in his speech to the party conference in Birmingham today.

The Today programme is broadcasting William Hague's speech to the Conservative party conference in 1977, when he was just 16.

Amid controversy about Conservative spending commitments and their claims about Labour's tax policy, the Liberal Democrat economic affairs spokesman today branded the Tories cynical in his speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth.

Malpass slammed Gillibrand during his acceptance speech at the convention and plans to hit her again today in a noon conference call for accepting the Working Families Party line yesterday.

In response to Jeremy Corbyn's speech at Labour conference today, Alexandra Jones, Chief Executive of the think tank Centre for Cities, said:

Maybe it was Ed, for instance, who described how he, Brown and Charlie Whelan were listening to Blair's party conference speech on a car radio when Brown suddenly started heckling («He didn't want that... He opposed that...») And surely it could only have been Whelan, still spinning even in his political grave, who described the Chancellor's fury after being «ambushed» about the Ecclestone donation on the Today programme, for who else but our Charlie would say «Gordon went mental»?

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.

But frustration at the role of the City manifested itself at fringe events today as business secretary Pat McFadden attacked bankers in his keynote speech to the conference floor.

Harriet Harman will bring a historic Labour conference to a close today when she delivers the final speech in Manchester.

David Cameron used his speech at this year's Conservative party conference to take a swipe at newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn today - accusing his opponent of «Britain - hating ideology».

In his conference speech today, Gordon Brown attacked George Osborne for words he used in response to events of recent weeks in the financial markets:

His speech to the party conference said a «new generation» was now in charge but you wouldn't know it from today's appointments.

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.

In a speech at the Scottish Conservatives conference today, David Cameron will argue there is no challenge the country is facing to which «breaking up Britain is the right answer».

In his speech at the Conservative spring conference in Manchester today, the Prime Minister will say: «For years it's been too hard to access the NHS out of hours.

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).

In a speech to the party's conference yesterday, chancellor Alistair Darling compared today's 5 per cent interest rate to the «double figures of two decades ago».

The newly - appointed shadow business secretary Ken Clarke gave his first speech in his new post today, to a conference hosted by the think - tank, Reform, at the London Stock Exchange.

In a 2011 speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Romney berated Obama for failed economic policies, saying afterward that he's «seen the failure of liberal answers before... liberal education policies fail our children today because they put pensions and privileges for the union bosses above our kids.»

Before a crowd of more than 6,000 conference attendees, Beard, in her inaugural speech, thanked her family and public school education for contributing to the person she is today.

As a teacher Ken held a variety of positions including: founding speech and debate coach of a team that grew from 15 students to 250 and was number one in Southern California, technology coordinator, conference champion football coach, a member of the USA Today All - teacher team, and National Board Certified teacher.

We told you earlier today about the Intrepidous Group who gave a speech at the Infiltrate conference about «several high risk vulnerabilities with RIM's Blackberry Playbook that allows malicious applications to access personal information, contacts, and emails from connected Blackberry phones.»

As oil flowed unabated from the Gulf of Mexico seabed, Senator John Kerry used a speech today at a green jobs conference in Washington, D.C., to press the case for an energy bill that speeds the country's journey to a post-fossil future and constrains emissions of greenhouse gases.

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.»

He reflects on his CodeX 2016 FutureLaw Conference keynote speech and expresses that his intention was to provide an overview of where the profession stands with technology in law today.

Few would disagree with the Attorney General's contention that, before the introduction of the Fraud Act 2006 (FrA 2006), deception offences were «too precise, overlapping and outmoded to give effective coverage over the breadth of frauds committed today» (speech to Annual Financial Crime Conference, 15 November 2005).

The speech recognition capability in Siri now has a 5 percent word error rate, thanks to a 40 percent reduction on the part of Apple, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, said today at Apple's 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Two key champions of health care reform — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)-- participated today in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's (CHCI) 2010 Public Policy Conference by sponsoring a networking breakfast immediately prior to First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at the morning plenary session, titled «America's Promise: The Impact of Health Care Reform.»