Sentences with phrase «dem leadership ballot»

The Blairite former health secretary caused a sensation this January when she and Geoff Hoon attempted to bring down Gordon Brown by urging Labour MPs to vote in a secret leadership ballot.

Membership of the Liberal Democrats rose from 45,000 to 61,000 [93] as the party prepared to hold its 2015 party leadership ballot.

Few could have anticipated the surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn, who after getting on to the Labour leadership ballot by the skin of his teeth has become remarkably popular among his party's grassroots.

Jeremy Corbyn has denounced a failed legal bid to have him kicked off the Labour leadership ballot as a «waste of time and resources».

As leadership ballot papers are despatched, here's John Slinger with his top ten for a centre - left party that is serious about winning.

P.S. Hewitt's just said on Sky that she's prepared to call for a secret leadership ballot... but not to say how she'd vote in that ballot.

Labour leadership ballot papers will be issued by the Electoral Reform Society so unions can not try to skew the votes of their members, Harriet Harman is to say.

It will be interesting to see the outcome of the Labour leadership ballot in the light of this.

As new MPs, we have thought long and hard about who should be our first preference in the leadership ballot.

Yesterday, the PM was in Normandy for the D - Day commemoration, an eerie echo of Mrs Thatcher's absence in Paris in November 1990, when the results of the first leadership ballot were declared.

Mr Balls, who could finish fourth behind the Milibands and Diane Abbott, has yet to say who he will put as his second preference on the leadership ballot.

And Barry Sherman, who called for a leadership ballot at the meeting, has just told Channel 4 News that he accepts the outcome of the meeting.

Corbyn wins bid to fight legal action aimed at stopping him getting on Labour leadership ballot

The YouGov survey for the Times found that 64 per cent of members would vote for Corbyn in another leadership ballot, indicating that any moves to ditch him as leader any time soon do not stand a chance.

Good that MPs have put Jeremy Corbyn on the leadership ballot.

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 decision of Labour's National Executive Committee this week to lower the Labour leadership ballot threshold to 10 % and set up a review into party democracy headed by Katy Clark is a welcome advance for Corbynism.

JEREMY Corbyn has won his bid to personally fight a legal action aimed at overturning the Labour Party's decision to guarantee him a place on the leadership ballot.

down to three candidates — David Davis, Liam Fox and David Cameron — and Thursday's Telegraph has what is likely to be the only poll between the first and second leadership ballots.

1.26 pm: Tony Lloyd, chairman of the PLP, has just told Sky that most members of the PLP are opposed to a leadership ballot.

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).

The letter from Martin Howe states: «Our clients are very concerned that the purpose of the special meeting is to manufacture a situation whereby Jeremy Corbyn's name will be omitted from the leadership ballot.

But she faces a battle to win enough nominations to get her name on the leadership ballot.»

July 12 - Labour's national executive committee rules that Jeremy Corbyn should automatically appear on the leadership ballot.

The Corbyn - supporting Abbott said her party's embattled leader must be on any leadership ballot as she played down talk of splits within the party and reports of political «Armageddon».

Foster, who has repeatedly criticised Mr Corbyn's tenure as party leader, launched a failed legal bid to block him from the leadership ballot triggered by a shadow cabinet revolt last summer.

Risk is not certainty, and my best guess is that there is only a 25 % per cent chance of a leadership ballot after the local elections, but is is impossible to make an accurate assessment.

Mr Corbyn will be on the leadership ballot paper, and Angela Eagle has already declared that she is running against him.

He said it would give party members and the country the chance to see and hear how each candidate performs before the leadership ballot of the wider membership.

Keeping Greg Hunt on as Minister Against the Environment signals no policy shift (and I do note that Julie Bishop was very quick to say there would be no change to our targets as Malcolm announced he'd won the leadership ballot.)

Not exact matches

In a secret ballot on 23 June 2015, Yindjibarndi people throughout the State voted by an overwhelming two - thirds majority for change in the management and leadership of Yindjibarndi Native Title business.

Butcher confirmed that the investigation found voting irregularities in the leadership contest that resulted in Clark defeating Kevin Falcon by 340 points on a regionally - weighted preferential ballot.

Jim Prentice becomes Premier After a first - ballot victory in a lack - lustre and uninspiring leadership contest, Jim Prentice started his time in office with a bang.

Unlike previous PC leadership races, according to recently changed party rules, if no candidate earns a majority of votes on the first ballot, only the first and second candidate move to the second ballot vote.

Mr. Johnston was the only MLA to support Ms. Redford on the first ballot of the PC leadership vote.

Both Minister Morton and Minister Lukaszuk supported Mr. Mar on the final ballot of the PC leadership contest.

Both Mr. Horne and Mr. Liepert were strong supporters of Mr. Mar in the leadership contest and would have likely ended up in similar positions had he not been defeated on the third ballot vote on October 1.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

He served as Kenney's scrutineer when the ballots were counted in the 2017 PC leadership race.

A deputies» union on Thursday announced that 85 percent of its members who voted — 534 out of 628 — cast ballots expressing «no confidence» in the sheriff's leadership.

Yeah but you people actually let your extremists fill the parties leadership slots, what policies you push, and which names you put on your ballot.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

The Labour leadership contest has entered into a period of calm, with the ballots closed and the result not set to be announced until Saturday.

Meanwhile, Cox has repeatedly said he has no intention of stepping down — even when anger with his leadership peaked following his failed effort to get Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy onto the gubernatorial ballot at last summer's state GOP convention.

If you are not registered for any party, and the Democratic Party allows it, you can get a No Party Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positions).

Campaigning for the Ukip leadership will take place throughout August with ballot papers being issued on September 1.

If Levy fails to get onto the ballot, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox's hold on his leadership post will likely be further imperiled.

In the Senate, even he is tainted by the formation of an IDC Coalition, which usurped the voter's wishes as indicated through the ballot box count, to have a Democratic Majority in the house, when Sen. Jeff Klein went rogue and aligned himself with the Republicans in a leadership sharing arrangement that failed to deliver for the Governor this session.

Last week she received 199 nominations in the second ballot of Tory MPs for the Conservative leadership race, and secured the top job after her rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the contest.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.