Sentences with phrase «labour open primaries»
Further support for Labour open primaries for Parliamentary candidates has come from the ubiquitous and decidedly non-socialist Douglas Carswell.
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More importantly, a CLP needs to DO it (i.e. have a closed primary open to declared Labour supporters.)
· We should be closing the gap between the public and our Party by experimenting with open primaries, so carrying a Labour membership card in your wallet isn't the be all and end of all of whether you can take part.
To little fanfare, Labour has effectively created an open primary system for selecting its leader.
Well maybe it's a problem that no one living in a strong Tory area will be able to secure a seat in parliament, because where I live it wouldn't really matter whether they had an open primary or they drew the names out of a hat - it ain't gonna be Labour winning this seat any time soon.
Primaries are of two kinds — open (whereby anyone on the electoral register can have a vote to selecta Labour party candidate), and closed (whereby only party members or supporters can have a vote).
Two locals Barry Howard and Michael Ellis compete with Rutland A-lister Christine Emmett for the seat of Northampton North (projected Labour majority 3,483) in an open primary selection this evening.
Kevin Hollinrake was selected at last night's Dewsbury open primary - beating Karen Woods for the opportunity to overturn Shahid Malik's projected Labour majority of 4,924.
As for open primaries for the mayor etc, I not Luke Akehurst is progress and not a fan, but the point of open primaries is that non members can vote for a choice, but surely if union, or for that matter Fabians or aco - op embers ca vote for labour leader, then why not non members vote for choice of mayor in primaries,
Imagine the boost to our campaigns, for elections soon after, if our candidates were selected in open primaries that require engagement with tens of thousands of Labour voters around the city even before the mayoral election gets under way.
Some may fear that open primaries would lead to candidates not as committed to Labour, though I doubt this.
A google search duly turns up a story: Miliband backs open primaries Labour urged to alter MP selection.
Today's open primary selection has provided local solicitor David Nuttall, 44, with a second opportunity to unseat Labour MP David Chaytor in Bury North.
He'll know that open primaries would help to pep up some local Labour organisations.
Openly gay Leeds councillor Stuart Andrew has been selected by open primary for the Labour - held seat of Pudsey.
Nusrat Ghani - After winning an open primary selection, Ms Ghani is standing for the safe Sussex constituency of Wealden, having cut her teeth in the Labour stronghold of Birmingham Ladywood in 2010.
Sadiq Khan or David Lammy or even Oona King would be better candidates, but I think that she'll stand and all of Ken's lot and the unions will back her, give her the selection and she'll lose to Seb Coe unless there is an open primary for the Mayoral selection which I hope happens as a Labour supporter.
He wants open primaries, in which all voters in a constituency get to choose the candidates that will stand for Labour, the Conservatives, Lib Dems and the rest rather than party selection committees.