"It's the present parliamentary party which is unrepresentative of the people, " he said.
His plans prompted Glasgow MSP Ruth Davidson to confirm she will contest the leadership and defend the present Scottish party.
Among those present were Conservative Party chief executive Andrew Feldman, party donors Lord Sainsbury and Michael Farmer and Murdoch Maclennan, chief executive of the firm which publishes the Daily Telegraph.
BBC: David Cameron publishes list of all donors dining at No 10
At Tuesday's U.N. hearing, Biti will present evidence the party believes shows Zimbabwe's deteriorating political climate and a government trying to hold on to power, said George Sibotshiwe, a spokesman for Tsvangirai.
His mild-mannered and plain-spoken style, combined with his instinctive cultural conservatism, will make it harder for the Republicans to present the Democratic Party as the tool of bossy people from the east coast or the west.
Rather, the Democrats' present problem is the party's unwillingness to see the world as it is.
At present, no other party would consider teaming up with it in coalition.
The proposed reform would have required each political party to present a single list of candidates, rather than the current plethora.
One was Vladimir Jabotinsky, whose ideas inspired both the Irgun Zvai Leumi resistance movement in wartime Palestine and the Likud party in present-day Israel.
But even with the GOP's new push to present itself as a party of inclusion, rather than an organization of political partisans intent on going on the offensive against the Democrats -- as they did in San Diego in 1996 -- some minority members of the party remained dissatisfied Monday night.
Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel's right-wing Likud party, was set to present a coalition government for parliament's approval, after securing an agreement with the Labour Party and its leader, Ehud Barak, as well as with parties on the nationalist and religious right.
But he also said Labour had to do more to present itself as the "party of work".
So perhaps it is true, as the party's present leaders now insist, that no offence against Thatcherism was ever intended.
On the whole, America's Jewry has been a liberal body, aligning itself with Israel's Labour Party rather than the Likud Party of the present prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.
Her utterances would indeed be mad if they had not been made in the context of the present debate in the Conservative Party about relations with the European Union.
On the Labour side, Shimon Peres, a former prime minister, this week publicly declared his support for withdrawal, although the party's present leader, Ehud Barak, is firmly opposed to it.
Shiite Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, addressing the meeting, said he wished the Dawa party had been present at Monday's announcement, but negotiations will continue.
Besides, opposition is not what Britons seem at present to want from the Conservative Party.
Many politicians, past and present, from the conservative Likud party are lifelong fans.
The latest developments come at a time when Congress is trying to present an image of a reformed party.
Conservative party vice chairman Michael Fabricant said the party had struggled to present a distinctive message, while UKIP managed to attract Tory voters on issues such as crime and immigration.
The centrist People's Party backed keeping the present system.
But if it became clear that Mr Duncan Smith was for the chop, Messrs Howard and Letwin could well be the nearest the party can get in present circumstances to a dream ticket.
At present, for instance, a party needs only 2% of the total vote to get a seat in parliament, so Israeli governments are invariably hamstrung by the need to keep tiny parties on board ramshackle coalitions.
Tory Party vice chairman Michael Fabricant said the party had struggled to present a distinctive message while UKIP had managed to connect with traditional blue-collar Tory voters on issues such as immigration and crime in a way that the Conservatives had not.
But before anyone gets too carried away, it is also worth remembering that there don't as yet appear to be clear answers to two vital, linked questions: first, who would want the Tory leadership at this present moment given the state the party is in right now?
As the Tories are the largest party in local government at present, this is an easier step for them than it might be for Labour.
Most Angola observers agree that Unita is the only party with the potential to present an effective opposition to the ruling MPLA - if it can overcome its divisions.
Even Helen Liddell, who was reshuffled to the Scottish Office in the summer to take charge of political campaigning, was more often absent than present for the campaign, according to party workers.
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