Veteran trouble maker and Euro hater Lord Norman Tebbit failed to ignite the blue touch paper but instead called on the party to "calm down".
Ghislain Picard, Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador said some progress has been made over the years with the Liberal party but on the whole is not pleased.
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Now that things seem to be moving in the right direction is not the time to pull out according to an artificial time table driven not only by ignorance of the facts on the ground but the exigencies of party politics.
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Labour leader Ed Miliband is campaigning for a yes vote in the referendum but his party is split on the issue.
But the wounds the contest has inflicted on the party will probably take a considerable time to heal.
Schools Secretary Ed Balls told the BBC's The World This Weekend it was a testing time for the government but the party was united on a positive programme for the future.
But the state party has fallen on hard times since the days of Nixon and Reagan.
She had asked to be on the original committee, but rashly told the party whips she had a few amendments in mind, thus ensuring her exclusion.
He claimed the Liberal Democrat's "justification" for "propping up" the coalition was to act as a "restraining influence", but accused the party of failing on tuition fees, legal aid, the NHS and on Europe.
But it is also arguable that the Democrats' big problem 15 years ago was not the failure on health care but the perception that the party had moved too far left.
But the Conservative Party has called on him to take action to revoke the parole licences of any loyalist prisoners released early under the Good Friday Agreement peace accord who have been seen to be involved in the violence.
Cecil Valance stays only three days at Two Acres, the Sawle family house on the edge of North London, but the house party becomes a piece of literary history, because it is here that Cecil writes a poem for Daphne, which memorializes the house and its garden.
Wales Labour Party General Secretary Anita Gale urged the party to "pull together and support the conference decision on twinning", but at least one disgruntled party is threatening to challenge the vote in the courts.
And I hope there'll be a Tory prime minister after the election, but that will depend a great deal on the Conservative Party getting its act together at last.
But the gathering of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Dresden on November 13th-15th was anything but routine.
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Smaller but substantial losses were visited on the party in Senate and gubernatorial contests.
The couple said they had joined UKIP because of its stance on Europe, but social workers said the party had "racist" policies.
On Monday, at Belfast City Council, nationalist councillors had wanted the flag at Belfast City Hall taken down altogether, but they voted on a compromise from the Alliance party that it would fly on up to 20 designated days.
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He is of Sikh origin and says he understands the challenges facing his party - but is adamant they are on the right path.
But the party's chief whip in the Commons, Alistair Carmichael, insisted on Saturday that the party was "in a much better condition than people in the press would ever want the general public to know".
To be sure, the vibe on the Conservative benches might be for party unity after the bruising split on gay marriage, but that may well have dissipated by March, when the bill would probably come back before MPs.
But the ruling party - the ANC - still leans heavily on its liberation history, and on Mr Mandela in particular, and it does have a lot to lose.
But the Alliance party, which controls the balance of power on Belfast council, said the designated days option was in line with the recommendation from Northern Ireland's Equality Commission as an approach that would promote good relations between both sides.
But the point is that there is so much anger on the Democratic Party, not only over the war, not only at the Republican conduct of the war, but the fact that what they see as Democratic ineptitude about standing up to the war.
Both parties have been pushed towards their respective extremes, but one party must rule and so the effects on the Republicans, as the minority party, have been worse.
On display at the launch party are a few of the most elaborate (but silent) designs, framed on the wall as works of art, including the "hands" bikini.
Tunisia's dominant political force, the Islamist Ennahda party, pledges tolerance but has put pressure on the state-run media and proposed a constitution that would reduce women's rights.
But to secure a higher slot on the party list, candidates must win an impossibly large share of these second ballots.
Brown concedes the long primary campaign took a toll on the party, but she is convinced that any hard feelings will quickly pass.
Her successor was more pragmatic, but by the time he appeared on the scene the damage inside the governing party had already been done.
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