Sentences with phrase «labour leadership ballot»

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

But as the scandalous move to deny thousands of new voters a ballot in the ongoing leadership election shows, the Labour establishment clearly feels insecure that people are no longer as obedient as they once were.

Labour moderates were left licking their wounds this afternoon after it was confirmed that Jeremy Corbyn will not be thrown off the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest.

On 6 January 2010, Field was one of the few Labour MPs to back Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt's calls for a secret ballot of the Parliamentary Labour Party with regard to the leadership of Gordon Brown.

The Labour leadership candidate, who has built his campaign on his ability to attract votes from the Liberal Democrats, said he would «make sure he is punished at the ballot box» for joining government with the Conservatives.

The landslide victory is a boost for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who earned mixed reviews for his first showing at the ballot box, with critics warning «the clock is ticking» on his leadership.

Jeremy Corbyn this morning suggested he might take legal action against Labour's National Executive Committee if he is denied a place on the ballot in the forthcoming leadership contest.

YouGov said: «With the ballot papers out for the Labour leadership contest, Labour members will be dismayed to see the party's rating in the polls dipping below the 30 % mark once again.»

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC's Andrew Marr show he would launch a legal challenge against Labour's National Executive Committee if it decided he would not automatically be on the ballot paper in a leadership challenge.

Tomorrow's NEC meeting will rule on whether the Labour leader will need to get nominations from 51 MPs so he can stand in the leadership election, or whether he goes on the ballot automatically.

Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest after a legal challenge to force him to collect the backing of MPs was rejected by a High Court judge.

Jeremy Corbyn addressed thousands of supporters in London after finding out his name will be on the ballot paper in Labour's leadership contest.

In a challenge to his internal critics, a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said today: «Our view is that the leader of the Labour party is on the ballot paper if there's a leadership election.»

Six and a half hours after Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt emailed MPs to say a secret ballot of the entire Labour parliamentary party would clear the air of doubts about Gordon Brown's leadership, Miliband — the foreign secretary and likely next Labour leader - made a statement which fell short of the full - throated backing offered by other members of the cabinet.

Emails from irate Labour MPs obtained by LabourList show extent of dismay at yesterday's call for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership

David Miliband tonight issued a lukewarm vote of confidence in the prime minister after two former cabinet colleagues called for a secret ballot by Labour MPs to settle the question of his leadership «once and for all».

After a tense few hours of Labour's National Executive Committee meeting yesterday, the party's ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Jeremy Corbyn would have an automatic right to be on the ballot in the leadership election against Angela Eagle.

With just a handful of nominations so far, Mary Creagh can not afford any slip - ups if she is to make it through to the ballot for the Labour leadership.

So why did Diane Abbott only make it onto the ballot paper through the intervention of David Miliband, who himself only backed her in an attempt to create a more diverse Labour leadership race?

David Miliband made a plea for unity yesterday as the ballot closed in the contest for the Labour leadership.

Johanna Baxter hit out after the NEC voted by 18 - 14 in favour of putting Mr Corbyn straight onto the ballot paper for Labour's forthcoming leadership election.

«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.

As ballot papers go out for the Labour leadership election and after weeks of hustings, does it feel as though these are the people the party is talking about or talking to?

LabourList reports the disgusting remarks at a hustings of John McDonnell, the Left - wing candidate for the Labour leadership, who is unlikely to reach the ballot paper due to lack of support:

The five - month long contest for the Labour leadership ended tonight as the ballot closed, leaving the two Miliband brothers, David and Ed, waiting until Saturday afternoon to discover which of them will be given the task of leading the party.

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.

Labour is facing a lengthy leadership election - and only after a possible court battle over whether Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot - while Theresa May settles in as Prime Minister.

«First, if anyone is undemocratic enough to think that there can be a new leadership election with the existing leader kept off the ballot, then they are setting the Labour party on course for a split.

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than Tony Blair, and two more than Gordon Brown, was widely expected from the beginning of the contest, with Labour's self - styled «moderates» seemingly reliant on keeping Corbyn off the ballot paper, something they failed to do in July's NEC meeting.

The London Labour selection this summer, as with the leadership contest, is decided by an «alternative vote» ballot, where you rank candidates in order of preference.

The 2008 Labour group leadership election was the first time Labour had elected its Scottish leader with the participation of its members, using a system similar to that used at the time by the UK - wide Labour Party (the system had been adopted in 2007, but no ballot had taken place as Alexander had been unopposed).

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[137] A challenge to Brown's leadership was made in January 2010 when Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon wrote to Labour MPs calling for a secret ballot on the issue.

In September 2010, the party issued 13,135 ballot papers to party members during the Labour Party (UK) leadership election.

If you mean chosen without any form of election (a) Gordon Brown isn't unique (every Tory leader pre Edward Heath was chosen without election)(b) presumably if there is a ballot for the Labour leadership, it would be up to anyone who wished to be leader to put their name forward.

Blair's book, A Journey, gives fresh details of the depths of the struggle between the two most powerful men in the Labour government and reopens the wounds of the Blair - Brown era on the day the ballots were sent out in the Labour leadership election.

As we went to press, a letter was being circulated among Labour MPs calling for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership.

The surge of new left MPs, like Marsha de Cordova in Battersea, Lloyd Russell - Moyle in Brighton Kemptown, and of course the return of Chris Williamson in Derby North, mean that in future another candidate from Labour's left might be able to make a leadership election ballot without charity nominations.

People who want that to happen need to be persuaded that this means doing a lot more than placing a cross on a ballot form in Labour leadership elections.

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.

«Supporters of Diane Abbott are urging fellow backbencher MP John McDonnell to stand down from the Labour leadership race to give the left a greater chance of having a candidate on the final ballot.»

Jeremy Corbyn will be automatically included on the ballot in Labour's leadership contest, the party's National Executive Committee has ruled.