Sentences with phrase «labour election procedures»
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.
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In his maiden speech in the Lords, Labour's former election strategy chief Spencer Livermore said it was a «curious anomaly» that the bill would leave trade unions as the «only organisation in Britain prohibited from harnessing technology to modernise their own democratic procedures».
Labour's leadership election procedures require candidates to be nominated initially by their fellow MPs.
It should be noted that the referendum took place 25 years before the passing of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 by the then Labour Government of Tony Blair, which introduced into British law a general procedure for the holding of UK - wide referendums and effectively created the Electoral Commission, a body that would oversee such votes and also test and research proposed referendum questions.