Sentences with phrase «corbyn getting on the ballot paper»

In an article in the New Statesman, she added: «There is a real possibility of Corbyn getting on the ballot paper and being re-elected.

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«I've got a great MP, Keir Starmer, he's a terrific MP; I would find it very difficult to put a cross on a ballot paper if the consequence of that was to make Jeremy Corbyn prime minister of this country, because he's not up to it.»

The poll had a «who would be your first preference as leader» question with a very long list of candidates in which Corbyn got less than a majority of support, but on a mock ballot paper against Hillary Benn, Dan Jarvis, Lisa Nandy, Angela Eagle and Tom Watson he wins comfortably on the first round (62 % support, with Benn in second place on 15 %).

Jeremy Corbyn tells his MPs: Stop the sniping and get behind me Jeremy Corbyn attacks New Labour over financial crash Jeremy Corbyn warns Labour plotters he WILL be on leadership ballot paper

The left will have confirmation this week that any successor to Corbyn will be of their ilk, when a motion is passed to reduce the threshold from 15 % to 10 % for the number of MPs» votes needed to get on the leadership ballot paper (the difficulty for the left is getting backing from MPs, not from the members who ultimately chose the leader).

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) is meeting in central London to rule on whether Mr Corbyn should automatically get on the ballot paper as a sitting leader or whether he needs the nominations of 51 MPs and MEPs as his challenger Angela Eagle.