Sentences with phrase «told labour conference»

Jeremy Corbyn was only the most recent when he told Labour conference last year, just days after being anointed leader, that his victory would herald a new era of «straight talking, honest politics».

But Dugher told the Labour conference today in no uncertain terms that the Tories should keep their hands off the BBC:

Carwyn Jones told the Labour conference this morning: «The future we promised to Scotland must be delivered - an equal share of resources, a seat at the table, a powerful Parliament - that must be offered to Wales and Northern Ireland too.»

It's basically exactly the same as what Alistair Darling has been telling Labour conferences since 2007.

She defied a 1.7 million - strong petition to tell the Labour conference it needed to debate road pricing.

Watch the Chancellor's full speech in which he tells Labour conference delegates to «have confidence».

Not exact matches

He told Premier 150 people attended the group's mass in Brighton on the first day of the Labour Conference, but it has been the subject of some snide jokes within the party.

Addressing the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union annual conference in Bridlington, Ronnie Draper — General Secretary of the BFAWU told delegates that attacks on the NHS from the Tory led government were born out of resentment for achievements under the 1945 post war Labour administration.

We are not America when are the Labour party going to realize we do not do America politics, at the last conference they gave me a placard and said will you be willing to shout and clap when told, I gave them back the placard and told them no.

Labour advisers were equally eager to tell me how the cost of living narrative that dominated their conference was also gamed out months earlier, and was not a panicked response to a shift in the national mood over the economy.

Mind you, there are dissenters - NS political editor Martin Bright told last weekend's Progress conference that Lord Mandelson's return to government was «impressive», but he «could still end up being Labour's Sarah Palin».

And although someone should tell some of the Corbynistas that Labour actually didn't win on June 8, I predict a repeat in the conference hall of the «Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!»

«There are bubbling tensions in this country that I think could explode,» she told a fringe event at Labour conference yesterday.

Mr Miliband told Labour's youth conference on jobs in Warwick that a Labour Budget would introduce a bank bonus tax which would pay the wages of unemployed people.

«I've watched the last two Labour party conferences and the debate, and it seems to me that trade unions have an agenda not to promote some of the policy issues, but merely to defeat the government, defeat the platform,» Lord Morris told GMTV.

«UK immigration officials have been on the receiving end of a four - letter outburst by former Home Office minister», the hon. Member for Slough, who «told a conference of a Labour think tank that the job could corrupt «even quite good and moral» people.»

Labour leader Ed Miliband will today tell the Welsh Labour Conference that his party will «govern without fear or favour» so that the same rules apply to the richest and most powerful as to everyone else.

Douglas Alexander told the Scottish Labour conference that his party should hold the Lib Dems to account for their role in implementing policies such as welfare reform and a rise in tuition fees.

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».

Hilary Benn, shadow communities and local government secretary, told the Ipsos MORI event at the Labour party conference last year that the coalition has made it difficult for Labour to be heard as the media focussed on coalition differences rather than what Labour's view is.

In the run - up to the conference, Roy Hattersley told me that the Labour Party was much more socialist under Ed Miliband, but that the party shouldn't be afraid to embrace the»S» word.

'' «Our appeal is to all MPs of conscience: join us, vote against these unfair and unworkable changes and force the government to think again,» he told delegates at the Scottish Labour party's conference in Oban.

Mr Johnson told the Labour party conference in Brighton: «Despair led to the terrible events we've been hearing about.

One Labour loyalist has told Maguire that should the conference vote to abandon Trident then the defence secretary and the Northern Ireland secretary could resign immediately.

Now Labour has told members that Hazarika will «host a unique and inspiring chat show style event» at this year's Labour conference.

At one point he told the conference «independent experts tell you the truth» about Labour's spending plans.

She told a Progress fringe event at the Labour conference: «I feel I am using my talents, I haven't shirked my responsibilities in the last year.

Yesterday shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told the Labour party conference in Manchester: «Once again it's one rule for the Cabinet, another for the plebs.

Mr Corbyn told yesterday's Welsh Labour conference that the crisis had brought to the surface «something rotten at the heart of government».

Before Ed Balls strode onto the conference stage in Manchester, one Labour figure told me he expected the shadow chancellor to go all out on the attack.

The left - wing Bevan told his colleagues that their demand for unilateral nuclear disarmament would send a future Labour government «naked into the conference chamber» during international negotiations.

For too long and on too many issues, the party's leadership has set out its stall as a function of what other parties might find acceptable — the ugliest example being secret courts, where conference was told explicitly that Liberal Democrats shouldn't oppose the illiberal use of secret evidence, because both Tories and Labour support it.

The shadow home secretary and former leadership contender told the Labour Party conference: «It is time for me to turn my full focus to Greater Manchester.

John Mann told a meeting at Labour party conference that the party was losing the support of the white working class who were concerned about issues such as immigration.

Indeed, Tony Blair had made many speeches and was already leader when he told the 1994 Labour conference that Clause IV had to go...

According to Momentum, the festival will feature more than 160 hours of workshops, debates, live music, art exhibitions, children's activities, plays, and parties, including a «political games corner», interactive art exhibitions, pop up think tanks run by various groups including «Mums for Corbyn», a four day Hackathon tasked with building the tools needed to win the next election, workshops on how to make a viral video, a play telling the stories of striking miners and live streams of the Labour Party Conference.

MPs at the Labour party conference were told «a plan must be in place to deal with refugees in Europe» before a military campaign begins.

• Checking the Labour constitution would tell Peter Mandelson (It's too early to force out leader, says Mandelson, 25 September) that trying to oust a Labour leader is a hugely complicated, not to say expensive business (with party conference, timetable, re-polling etc), and it would also be a likely career suicide for anyone who challenges the immensity of the Corbyn support — until at least after the next general election.

«Divided parties are not appealing to the electorate,» Dugdale told a fringe meeting at Scottish Labour's spring conference on Friday morning.

Former Labour minister tells British Chambers of Commerce conference that leaving EU would erode ability to trade abroad

He told his party conference that Labour would create a «truly world - class 21st century health and care service».

A major theme of Gordon Brown's Conference speech will, I'm told, be fairness and how Labour not the Tories can be trusted to deliver it.

He told the Birmingham conference that his party «respects and rewards hard work» while Labour encouraged a «culture of dependency».

Nigel Farage has told the Ukip spring conference that a «dying» Labour could mean «millions» of votes for his old party.

It's very good PR for them, framing the start of Labour conference with media discussion of Miliband's position, but the polling itself doesn't actually tell us much new — people are not particularly keen on Ed Miliband and don't seem him as Prime Ministerial.

The Labour leader, who explained he struck an admiring tone of the Iron Lady in the last fortnight because «it was right to show respect», told the Scottish Labour party conference the UK once more faces the need for the same scale of fundamental reforms achieved by Thatcher — and he is the man to make that change.

And he re-used Ed Miliband's mantra from his conference speech to ridicule Labour's plans for an energy cap, as the chancellor told his own conference: «Britain can do better than that».

Labour would set up an energy regulator which was «genuinely on the customers» side», leader Ed Miliband has told his party conference as he announced a two - year price freeze.

Ed Miliband has attacked the Conservatives for their health policies and told the Labour party conference: «We have to rescue the NHS.»

She told the conference: «When Southwark Labour council did exactly that last year, the Lib Dems bitterly opposed it.»