Sentences with phrase «deputy leader wants»

Labour's deputy leader wants to ditch the «one member one vote» system that elected Jeremy Corbyn, he has revealed.

The Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

The deputy leader wants to give the right back to MPs, giving them more control over Mr Corbyn's team if he wins.

Labour's Deputy Leader wants the rules for shadow cabinet elections to be changed so that 50 % of members have to be female.

Not exact matches

Deputy Liberal leader Ralph Goodale insists the Liberals simply want to delay the cuts.

Deputy Senate Minority Leader Mike Gianaris in a radio interview on Tuesday said he wanted a special election called to fill vacant seats in the Senate «as soon as possible.»

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco countered that it's the Assembly that's holding up the budget because Democratic members, including Heastie, want a pay raise commission.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco counters that it's the Assembly that's holding up the budget, because Democratic members, including Speaker Heastie, want a pay raise commission.

John DeFrancisco, a GOP candidate for governor and the deputy Senate leader, said he wants the state Legislature to hold hearings into the 514 tourism signs posted along numerous highways in the state.

And much as the Tories would love to take the scalp of the SNP's deputy leader, the SNP don't want to lose him.

Labour's deputy leader turns his attention to socialist group that wants members to «intervene» in Labour.

The state Senate's deputy Republican leader wants his federal indictment thrown out, arguing that...

Speaking on the same programme, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes said he believed the Tories would suffer the most from Ukip as they are most obviously attractive to people who «want to vote on the right for less public expenditure».

However, several moderates on the committee who have previously opposed significant reform, including the deputy leader, Tom Watson, have made clear they will no longer do so, believing the election result shows the Labour leader has earned the right to make the changes he wants.

PoliticsHome has learned that at the Procedures Committee meeting last week, those in attendance — including former Labour interim leader Margaret Beckett and deputy leader Tom Watson — were told Mr Corbyn wanted to call a halt to the process if today's court case goes against him.

The proposals are being driven by deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman who will say in a speech on Saturday that Labour wants to «tackle the class divide», not merely «just provide escape routes out of poverty for a talented few».

The deputy leader Kezia Dugdale may want to step up or Neil Findlay could try again after challenging last time.

However, Watson said a prerequisite for wanting to be deputy leader was not wanting the top job.

He said Lord Kinnock and Lord Hattersley — the former leader and deputy leader, who have both voiced support for Ed Miliband — wanted to «hark back to a previous age».

She also said she was backing Tom Watson for deputy Labour leader and wanted to see left - winger Jeremy Corbyn make the final cut for the leadership race.

A union pushing to hike New York's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, SEIU Local 32BJ, will single out Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco in an attack ad that calls him the $ 6 million man who doesn't want workers to earn a livable wage.

Deputy leader Tom Watson said the party's very existence was «in peril» with Mr Corbyn in charge - but insisted he did not want to take over.

Deputy leader Adrian Ramsay said that the party wanted to offer «a fresh approach to politics» and pledged to «tackle the growing inequality in society».

Tim Farron told ITV News» Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship said that the party would review the consequences of the policy, adding that leader Nick Clegg shared «the view that this is something that we want to see changed».

The Senate Deputy Majority Leader says the bill is the «last thing» the governor wants because someone else would be looking over his shoulder on the contracts.

I want to make it clear that the position of deputy governorship is not a position one «campaigns for, the party leaders alongside members choose who flies the party's ticket alongside the governorship candidate.

The Welsh Party has just finished the election of their new Deputy Leader (itself an all - female contest to balance the male Leader) but that isn't likely to be enough (and nor should it) to placate those wanting to see a greater balance in Labour's leadership positions.

«The coalition is an agreement on a whole range of things, including letting the British people decide whether they want a fair voting system and that was agreed irrespective of the views of individuals in either party,» Deputy Lib Dem leader Simon Hughes told Channel 4 News.

Labour should focus on unseating the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes and also Danny Alexander if it wants to take down Lib Dem big guns.

Mr Corbyn's allies want to impose a time limit on Mr Watson's term as deputy leader, and then change Labour rules so that next time a woman must be given one of the party's top two jobs.

«I'm a Democrat and I still adhere to Democratic values, I just don't want to be judged by the actions of others and I can no longer make excuses to my constituents for the behavior of this conference,» the Bronx lawmaker told me this afternoon following the DN's report that he had relinquished his post as deputy leader of the (now) minority conference.

Former deputy prime minister wants to give new leader Tim Farron space to build team without having to look over his shoulder, says source

Harriet Harman, the former Labour party deputy leader, has said Jeremy Corbyn should take the credit for the party's success at the general election and she would now expect all Labour MPs to want to serve in his shadow cabinet.

The interim party leader, Harriet Harman, held back from pre-launch criticism simply saying the party would not be distracted from fighting the Tories, adding she was «in her prime» and wanted to remain deputy leader for some time.

Politicians want Angela Eagle, who has stepped down as shadow business secretary, or Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, to agree about which of them will trigger the challenge if their leader continues to hold on in the face of massive hostility.

Labour deputy leader Tom Watson told Radio 5Live's Pienaar's Politics programme that his party's MPs would support Theresa May when she wants to trigger Article 50.

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GOP candidate for governor and Deputy Senate Leader John DeFrancisco says he wants the legislature to hold hearings into the 514 tourism signs posted along numerous highways in the state.

She wants to be deputy leader for her own personal reasons — she is not part of an explicit ticket,» he said.

Klein, who was deputy Senate majority leader at the time, says the in - fighting got personal and he wants to move beyond that, though he still has some harsh words for some of his former Senate Democratic colleagues.

«If you have some bad stuff in the budget where you have to vote for just as the governor wants it, to get an on - time budget — that's wrong,» Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, said during a radio interview.

Klein, who was Deputy Senate Majority Leader at the time, says the infighting got «personal» and he wants to move beyond that.

I like being a front line politician and there's no reason why as Deputy Leader I can't stay as Secretary of State for Education, provided the Prime Minister decides that what he or she would want me to do.

«Ideally, we would want schools to have the guidance a full academic year before the teaching of these subjects begins in September 2019,» said Malcolm Trobe, the deputy general secretary of the school leaders» union ASCL.

Councillor Imogen Walker, deputy leader of Lambeth Council, said: «We want every child in Lambeth to have the best education possible and a near - empty free school in an area that already has adequate provision will not help that aim in any way.»