Sentences with phrase «labour conference voted»

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The voting period for the Labour leadership will open in mid-August and close on 10 September, with the winner announced at a special conference two days later.

«Donations to the Labour party buy votes at your conference, candidates and MPs in this House and pay for the votes that gave him his job,» Cameron replied.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

In April 1975, the special conference at Blackpool which debated Labour's position in that year's referendum on continued EEC membership voted 2 - to - 1 in favour of exit.

[83] On 5 July, Labour MPs voted overwhelmingly by a margin of 196 to 41 to back the rule change, paving the way for NEC and conference approval, which was secured in September 2011.

Unite's Policy Conference sent a very clear message to rebel Labour MPs yesterday by voting by an overwhelming majority to support a rule change to the Labour Party rulebook to reintroduce mandatory reselection of MPs before each general election.

Such a move would require a change to Labour's constitution to be passed by the party conference, but given that the unions — most of which back Corbyn — hold 50 % of the votes, it would be possible.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

Solidarity had a conference in Motherwell on Saturday and urged its supporters to «lend» their votes to Nicola Sturgeon's party at the general election — helping, in a small way, to increase the SNP's chances of building a left coalition against Labour.

At the Labour Party conference in April 1975, 35 per cent voted to stay in the EEC, while 65 per cent voted to leave.

In London, Blair's attempt to stop Livingstone being selected as Labour candidate for mayor suffered a setback when the regional party conference voted almost unanimously for a motion saying that all candidates nominated by 10 CLPs should be automatically shortlisted for an OMOV ballot to select the candidate.

The procedures proposed for the European selections — to have been completed, with candidates in place, before this year's Labour Party conference — would give the party membership merely a right to nominate, not to select or vote for, candidates.

Speaking at a media conference after the national executive meeting, he said: «It is clear that a small minority who didn't accept my election as leader of the Scottish Labour Party just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the party.

If you look at the polling figures it appears that Labour's recovery dates from conference — but I think that's merely a result of how granular voting intention data is.

To recap, the disastrous selection process for Labour's parliamentary candidate for Falkirk West, where allegations of malpractice triggered the resignation of Tom Watson MP as its election campaign coordinator — and which even now is subject to wildly differing versions of events — has kicked off a wholesale reform programme of everything from party funding to MP candidate selection and conference voting.

But there are growing signs that Miliband has stepped back from plans to dilute the size of the union vote at party conference, and is instead focusing on a series of reforms designed to make local parties more dynamic, and open up the party to a wider group of Labour supporters.

«If Unite elects a more moderate leader, the hard left would no longer have the votes on the NEC and at conference to push through rule changes,» says Luke Akehurst, secretary of Labour First, the network of Labour moderates.

The Parliamentary Labour Party voted to abolish Shadow Cabinet elections in 2011, [94] ratified by the National Executive Committee and Party Conference.

In the second, the leader put it to a vote at Labour's executive (carried 17 - 1) and two days later moved an emergency motion to the same effect at Labour's conference in Bournemouth (carried 2,413,000 to 170,000).

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

Labour Conference delegates back Jeremy or vote Progress / Labour First to make Labour in the whole of the UK like Labour in Scotland!

Ed Miliband used his speech to the Labour Party conference this week to announce his support for lowering the voting age to 16 for all UK elections.

'' «Our appeal is to all MPs of conscience: join us, vote against these unfair and unworkable changes and force the government to think again,» he told delegates at the Scottish Labour party's conference in Oban.

One Labour loyalist has told Maguire that should the conference vote to abandon Trident then the defence secretary and the Northern Ireland secretary could resign immediately.

«Seeking to reassure his many internal and external doubters, McDonnell made the wrong call at the Labour conference when he declared his party was now «anti austerity» but would vote for Osborne's Charter as it also sought ways of removing the deficit.

They could anger union supporters, however, given they are already wary of the new Labour leader after he mooted plans to reduce their voting influence at party conferences.

George Lansbury, a committed pacifist, resigned as the Leader of the Labour Party at the 1935 Party Conference on 8 October, after delegates voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

Members are meeting at the party's annual conference in Doncaster, with the focus on winning what it calls the «blue - collar vote» from Labour and the Conservatives.

Labour conference policy, endorsed at Liverpool after the Brexit vote, is to keep open the option of remaining in the EU if the final Brexit terms are unsatisfactory.

Andrew Lansley MP: «Last Thursday, the local medical committees, which are the statutory bodies required to represent GPs across the country, met in conference and passed a vote of no confidence in the Secretary of State and the policies of the Labour Government.

at the recent party conference, in response to one speaker's suggestion that Labour must win some Tory votes.

However, the unions will still retain a 50 % block vote at Labour's party conference and also retain their quota on the party's national executive.

Aides say the vote is a symbolic endorsing of the policy but accept it does not necessarily make the party more or less committed to it - reflecting the limited influence which the Labour conference actually has on policy decisions.

Delegates at the Labour conference take part in the Daily Politics moodbox vote.

Ed Miliband said he would support the AV voting referendum next May and the Daily Politics mood box has been testing the views of delegates at the Labour conference.

At Labour's conference in Manchester next week, delegates will be debating and voting on a number of key changes to the party's rule book, tabled both by the national executive and by constituency parties.

The Labour conference has voted to give the Welsh party more autonomy, despite opposition from supporters of Jeremy Corbyn.

«Diary of a PPC: In the week that the Labour Party converged on Brighton for its conference, Simon Kirby and his team deliver 32,000 surveys across Brighton Kemptown (whilst Gordon Brown fails to make any impact whatsoever) Main Bob Greig: Why I - a single Dad who has never voted Tory - now want to become a Conservative MP»

It has a large contingent of delegates on Labour's National Policy Forum, and wields a block vote at annual conferences that is almost as big as the votes of all the constituency Labour parties.

The vote is not binding, and must be agreed by both the party's ruling National Executive Committee and the Labour Party Conference, to take place later this month in Liverpool.

The amendments to the Labour constitution secured 80 % of the votes cast at the party conference in Liverpool.

When Labour is in Government, under party rules, an election would only happen «if requested by a majority of party conference on a card vote».

The party's conference in Dundee voted overwhelmingly for a «unity motion» drafted by its Scottish executive after deep divisions over Corbyn's proposals emerged between the party's centrists and the Labour leadership.

The campaign for members to have more say follows controversy at last year's Labour party conference when Momentum's powerful caucus effectively blocked a vote on making single market membership Labour's policy.

Armstrong was parliamentary private secretary to John Smith during his time as Labour leader, and played a large part in his successful fight to institute One member, one vote at Labour's party conference.

There is even less prospect of party conference (where half the votes lie with the trade unions) agreeing any OMOV process which would exclude trade unionists from future leadership elections even if it is supported by 56 % of Labour List readers.

Nigel Farage has told the Ukip spring conference that a «dying» Labour could mean «millions» of votes for his old party.

Labour's leadership has prevented what it sees as a premature vote on Brexit policy off the conference floor - because this might have exposed the still - important fault - line within the party over how far and fast to move towards rejecting Brexit.

There haven't been any voting intention polls since the party conference yet, but if the boost in people's perceptions of Tony Blair is in any way echoed in voting intentions Labour should see a healthy conference boost.

The point is that the real deadline for all this is when Labour's conference votes on the NEC's proposed constitutional rule changes, later on Tuesday.