Sentences with phrase «mps choose a leader»

Those MPs choose a leader.

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To avoid choosing a leader that is unacceptable to the parliamentary party, members are presented with a «shortlist» of candidates nominated by MPs.

Labour previously used an electoral college of MPs / MEPs, party members and trade unionists to choose its leaders, including Ed Miliband in 2010.

It has always been possible for ordinary party members to choose a leader that MPs wouldn't like, but other parties haven't fallen into quite such a hole as a result.

If the majority of Labour MPs chose to break away from Corbyn — which seems likely — he would no longer be the Leader of the Opposition.

Told about the Mirror's front page calling for Corbyn to go for party unity she said: «Fleet Street and Labour MPs at Westminster do not choose the leader of the Labour party.

Despite Mr Benn's intervention, a majority of Labour MPs chose to vote with party leader Jeremy Corbyn against the military action.

It also hands too much power to the power brokers — up to 130 of Labour's MPs have backing from the Unite union, which has warned Labour to choose the «correct leader».

There have also been further murmurs from MPs and Labour members on the right that they are unhappy that Smith was chosen ahead of Eagle, believing that after the Conservatives adopted their second woman leader and prime minister, Labour should be getting round to its first.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron suffered a mini-rebellion of his own, with two of his party's nine MPs, Norman Lamb and Greg Mulholland, choosing to abstain.

Only once these overwhelmingly pro-Remain MPs have made their decisions will the party membership be able to choose its next leader.

Welsh Labour has won its battle to become a more autonomous party, able to make its own rules about how it chooses its leader and selects its candidates, including those standing to become MPs.

The left will have confirmation this week that any successor to Corbyn will be of their ilk, when a motion is passed to reduce the threshold from 15 % to 10 % for the number of MPs» votes needed to get on the leadership ballot paper (the difficulty for the left is getting backing from MPs, not from the members who ultimately chose the leader).

Gary Gibbons of Channel 4 reports that there is a wide expectation that when two names emerge from the ballots of Tory MPs to be chosen as next Tory leader after David Cameron, one of them will be an MP who openly backed the Leave campaign.

McAuliffe said: «We understand opposition leaders and MPs choosing not to meet President Mahama during his visit to the Scottish Parliament as Ghana's human rights record has serious failings.

A majority in the parliamentary party, however, fears that if either is chosen they could use the party machinery to attempt to purge moderate MPs and the many staff appointed before Corbyn became leader.