Sentences with phrase «speech to the conference floor»

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.

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Went in to Hall on wed to hear Gareths Coop Party greetings and was there also to hear Erewash's PPC and Jacobs speech from the floor, the highlight of Conference along with Harry Smith.

After a rousing speech on the conference floor, Allen Chastanet, prime minister of Saint Lucia, tells Breaking Travel News about his plan to make the country the leading Caribbean tourism destination within a decade.

(He's skipping the conference despite taking direct heat in a YouTube message to Rio from Senator James Inhofe, the Republican of Oklahoma and steadfast ally of big coal, and indirect heat from Senator John Kerry, the Democrat of Massachusetts who gave a long floor speech on global warming and the Rio meeting yesterday, decrying «the conspiracy of silence that now characterizes Washington's handling of the climate issue.»)