Sentences with phrase «labour rules say»

Existing Labour rules say that a sitting MP has the right to contest a new seat if it contains at least 40 % of their former constituency.

Not exact matches

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

Coles says its «preliminary analysis» is that the proposed order could increase transport costs by about 25 per cent or $ 300 million a year, but does not break this down between labour and rules costs.

As a long - standing, long - suffering Labour party member and activist said to me today — there are no rules.

Diane Abbott has said Labour should not rule out keeping Britain in the single market after Brexit and that Jeremy Corbyn agrees - despite the leader rejecting the option just days ago.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

At the same time, supporters of the Labour Party are more likely to say that colonial rule was a bad thing than those who back the Conservatives or UKIP.

Diane Abbott has said Labour should not rule out keeping Britain in the single market after Brexit...

Smith has thrown his hat into the ring after Labour's ruling body, the National Executive Committee, said Corbyn would automatically be on the ballot without needing to collect nominations from MPs.

Surely what you mean is «Ken may well employ sophistry to claim that he is not technically in breach of party rules, because saying that the candidate should not have been dropped, walking around for the TV cameras with the rival candidate (and having a quick chat about why the Labour candidate) did not in fact entail an explicit «vote Rahman» public statement (even though the whole point was to convey precisely that impression to any sentient being).

As an audience member noted, this may totally rule out any Labour government — and Miliband said that was a price he was willing to pay.

The Labour leader says the debates should be «just like at the last general election», appearing to rule out the participation of Nigel Farage.

A Labour minister — a high ranking official of the same party who only a few months ago, over ruled the ONS to release a work of fiction regarding knife crime — is implying that the ONS is politically motivated in its releases is rich to say the least!

Liam Byrne, who is overseeing Labour's policy review, says that he now expects the party's leadership rules to be «on the table» in discussions.

-LSB-...] member Peter Kenyon said on LC earlier this week that under Labour rules the deputy leader post could also be -LSB-...]

«Labour said all along that you can not have one rule for a Cabinet minister and one rule for everybody else.

He said that in future, all of Labour's members should get a vote in general secretary elections, rather than just those on the party's ruling national executive committee.

While the inquiry could not rule out a modest late swing towards the Conservatives, initial claims that the polling errors were due to «shy Tories» (respondents who deliberately misreported their intentions) or «lazy Labour» (Labour voters who said they'd vote but ultimately didn't) did not stand up to scrutiny.

Labour's manifesto says that it will implement Smith and «go further, with a Home Rule Bill to give extra powers to Scotland over tax, welfare and jobs».

Former foreign secretary rules himself out of Labour leadership race as he says voters delivered clear verdict on failure to embrace «aspiration and inclusion»

Speaking in the aftermath of the election results, he called on Labour's ruling National Executive Committee «not to rush our election», saying there was time for a «brutal post-mortem» about Labour's «underlying philosophy and thinking».

A senior Labour source said Mr Smith will announce his candidacy this week, and could even do it after tomorrow's meeting of the party's ruling national executive committee.

But he later ruled himself out of the top job, saying his principal aim was to become Labour's candidate for Mayor of London in 2016, saying «my strengths are in London and the south».

In a statement afterwards, Mr Corbyn said he welcomed the High Court's decision to «respect the democracy of the Labour party» and criticised Mr Foster's attempt to overturn the NEC's ruling.

«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 only good thing about it, as plotters they're f ****** useless,» McDonnell said, shortly after Labour's National Executive ruled that Corbyn will automatically be placed on the ballot.

So, sorry, whilst I don't as a matter of unconditional principal, deny that sometimes «devolution» can be inevitable (eg, Wales and Scotland), even desirable, but as with the very cynical, divide and rule, and destroy, motivation behind the regionalisation of the NHS, and the current «Northern Powerhouse» structures which draw Labour politicians into Austerity collaboration at an intimate local level, there is very little to be said in the favour of most «devolutionary» developments today from a radical socialist perspective.

«I think Labour's arrived at the right position on this issue, not ruling out a referendum in any circumstances, but neither making an open - ended, arbitrary commitment to one in three years» time,» the Labour peer said.

Peter Willsman, the secretary of CLPD and member of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee, said it was «undemocratic for MPs and MEPs to have powers to so tightly restrict the range of candidates».

Deputy leader Tom Watson has said «you should not rule anything out» on the issue, while Emily Thornberry has said Labour could back one if public opinion shifted.

On the automatic spot for the leader, Mr Willsman said: «Labour needs its rule book to be clear to ordinary people.

The Scottish vote was mainly Labour.The last Labour government, New Labour, ruled as a neo liberal government, appeasing the corporate and minimising the effects of the extreem on the working class, some may say bah!.

There is also concern that not everyone has to play by the rules, with Labour MPs grumbling that Diane Abbott seems to have had «free rein to say what she liked on the airwaves».

Labour party rules should change so that half of the shadow Cabinet are women, Harriet Harman has said.

Speaking in Sheffield Hallam, Mr Clegg said the Lib Dems had already taken on and defeated Labour's «one party fiefdoms in the north and the Tories in the southern shires and boroughs that they seem to think they were born to rule.»

Cameron retreats - he says Labour only changed the rule for one week.

Meanwhile, Labour was hit by a fresh row today after its ruling NEC said union members will not be able to vote in the leadership contest unless they joined before January 12.

The Shadow Health Secretary said it would be «easy to guess» the kind of exchanges going on between members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee.

Speaking to journalists, he said that he could envisage Unite changing its rules on funding to support other parties and leaving Labour, if the Labour was to lose the next election.

Speaking following the resignation of Labour leader Ed Miliband the politician ruled out taking on the leadership role himself but said there was a need for the party to think about how they appeal to the public in the wake of Thursday's election night defeat.

Labour would abolish the non-domicile rule but the shadow chancellor previously said this would «end up costing Britain».

Just over two thirds (68 %) of switchers from Labour to the SNP say they definitely rule out voting Labour again in 2015 — which means nearly one third are at least open to the idea of returning.

The claims came as a Labour frontbencher warned there was «real alarm» at the scale of the problem - while comedian Eddie Izzard, who became a member of the party's ruling national executive committee (NEC), said they needed to «make amends» to the Jewish community.

«Labour duped us when it signed the Lisbon Treaty and promised this kind of ruling wouldn't happen,» he said.

Advance briefing from Labour reveals he will say the non-dom rule has become a symbol of the scandal of tax avoidance and he would abolish it from April 2016.

In response, Lansman - who is Jewish and was elected to Labour's ruling national executive committee two weeks ago - said Galloway was guilty of anti-semitism and should not be allowed back into the Labour party.

Former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling has said the EU referendum result must be accepted, but ruled out giving the Government a «blank cheque».

Lord Mandelson said that the creators of new Labour should have changed the rules «when we had the chance».

Mr Watson first revealed he favoured a shake - up of Labour Party rules last month, saying former leader Ed Miliband had made a «terrible error of judgment» by ditching the electoral college system and shadow cabinet elections.

I do not want to serve a fourth term» and on the last day of the election campaign in an interview with John Humphreys on the BBC, Blair said «I can serve a full term», even going so far as to say that there was nothing in Labour rules that wuld require him to stand down 6 to 9 months ahead of the following election.