The Labour leader has opened his campaign vowing to fight inequality, but
the party leadership debate is only partly about policies.
The BBC will host a seven -
party leadership debate, in which three of the leaders will be women.
Not exact matches
Who won the United Conservative
Party's
leadership debate in Calgary Wednesday?
(I was economic advisor to Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, whom the Democratic
Party leadership blocked from even discussing a public option in the Congressional
debate.)
I'll leave it to others to
debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other
debate to be had about whether his
leadership of the Liberal Democrat
party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.
We will also move beyond
party manifestos, - admittedly the least emotional collection of texts -, and analyse public
debates,
leadership speeches, media content, and public documents.
The executive summary of the article concludes: «In preparing for a second election the Tory
leadership needs to negotiate for the
debates to take place earlier in the campaign; put more money into its ground war; build better relations with the whole of the
party and Conservative movement; trust professional polling to test messages; and develop clearer decision - making structures.»
The Scottish Tories will then have a
leadership contest that should be an opportunity for a wider
debate about the
party's position in Scotland.
Better precedents would be James Callaghan, the former Labour prime minister, and the ex-Conservative leader, Michael Howard, who both stayed on temporarily while their
parties debated changing
leadership selection rules.
BBC Parliament would be a good choice, if it wasn't for that annoying balance requirement (how about arguing the other
parties can also have their
leadership election
debates televised, they just have to hold a
leadership competition...)
You could not have a TV
debate onthe labour
party election
leadership, because no one would watch, and advert space would not pay, just like labour, a dead loss.
When the federal marriage amendment was being
debated in 2004, John McCain broke from his
party's
leadership and took to the Senate floor to denounce it in notably stark language.
The Liberal Democrat
leadership should listen to the words of those who spoke during the passionate
debate on the bedroom tax during the
party conference.
** September 15th UPDATE ** The SLF's amendments to tomorrow's economic policy
debate have rightly attracted attention from
party members, the
leadership and the media.
The opposition
parties claimed the appeal revealed Labour's unease at Brown's weak performances in the
leadership debates.
Professor Jane Green, Co-Investigator on the British Election Study, was interviewed by Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast News following the second
leadership debate between Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and UK Independence
Party leader Nigel Farage.
It was then
debated this morning, but anti-NHS reform campaigners managed to reject its central demand, thereby triggering a crisis for the
party leadership.
The majority owner of ConservativeHome, former Tory Treasurer and mastermind of the
party's marginal seats campaign will use a review of the general election campaign to criticise the
party leadership's decision to agree to election
debates and to campaign on the big society theme.
-LSB-...] Social Liberal Forum has called on the
party leadership to do this since long before the tuition fees
debate.
The format of the televised
debates is quite challenging, as the
leadership contenders have to pitch both to the
party and to a fragmented electorate.
Of course people can express their dissent and we can have that policy
debate and then we'll arrive at a democratic decision and then we expect people to unite in the interests of the
party and the country overall what to what we don't expect is people going to the media two days before polling to say there is going to be a coup against the
leadership.
The problem is that underlying the
debate over Syria is a deepening, intensifying and ever more acrimonious fissure between the Corbyn
leadership and the bulk of the parliamentary
party.
The shadow chancellor dismissed suggestions the
party's
leadership was trying to quash
debate on the issue, after pro-EU MPs, who are pushing leader Jeremy Corbyn to commit to permanent membership of the single market, failed in an attempt to stage a vote.
Policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary
party, Jeremy Corbyn has said in a
debate with his three
leadership rivals organised by the Guardian.
In August, he told the Guardian that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary
party to see the
leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of
debate.
THIS is the moment Tory
party leadership front runner Theresa May appears to nod off during a House of Commons
debate on the Chilcot report.
He added that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary
party to see the
leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of
debate.
Whilst the existence of the document itself is cause for much cheer, it appears as if the
leadership contenders are coming to the wider
debate about the future of the Labour
party with their direction already established.
While the Labour
leadership debated the economy today, the Conservative
party continued to push English MPs voting on English laws.
For his part, Mr Davis - who had led the seven - month race until the
party conference in Blackpool - said he looked at the
debates between them as «not just a contest for the
leadership, but a preamble to us winning the next general election».
«I wanted the Conservative
party to have a
debate about the way forward before we got into a
leadership contest.
«It is my understanding that both campaigns were clearly informed by the General Secretary of the Labour
party that broadcast
debates would form part of the official
leadership election timetable.
Jeremy Corbyn insisted he would put nuclear disarmament at the heart of his
leadership re-election campaign as he promised to vote against the renewal of Trident in a Commons
debate that will expose deep divisions within the Labour
party.
But whether this is more about asserting his standing within the
party, in advance both of an anticipated reshuffle and a potential
leadership election at some stage, than the national
leadership Darling sought can be
debated.
«I stood for the Labour
leadership as the candidate of the Left and trade union movement so that there could be a proper
debate about Labour's future in which all the wings of the
party were fully represented.
«We had television
debates for the
leadership of the Conservative
party.
The BBC's Ben Brown takes a closer look at the contenders for the Labour
Party leadership, who take part in a Newsnight
debate in Nuneaton on Wednesday evening.
[35][36] Seven
parties (Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, UKIP, SNP, PC and Green) participated in the election
leadership debates.
Lord Mandelson today hit back at criticism over his decision to publish his memoirs during the Labour
leadership election, claiming his analysis of New Labour was at its «most relevant» as the
party debates its future.
He warned: «Let us remember one thing if there is a
debate, if there is a
leadership contest, if there is a change of leader is the British public really going to wear the Labour
party carrying on in office, is it not going to ask for an immediate general election.
In the roughly hour - long
debate at Peconic Landing, Democratic candidate and town building department employee Damon Rallis peppered incumbent Republican Supervisor Scott Russell with frequent attacks on his
leadership and management skills, and accused Mr. Russell's administration of playing favorites based on political
party.
Ahead of a
leadership hustings
debate at the Local Government Association conference this week, Mr Miliband even pledged to invite Labour's local government leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected
party leader.
Mr Clarke said although the
debate about the
leadership of the
party and the future direction of the
party were linked, they were «not the same».
Of the other
leadership candidates, Yvette Cooper was first out of the traps to welcome the news, with a spokesman saying she «has always said she wanted to see the widest possible
debate about future of the
party in this contest».
Corbyn initially stood in the British Labour
leadership contest to give the
party's left wing a voice in the
debate on how to move on from its crushing defeat in May's general election.
Tim Congdon, who ran against Farage for the
party's
leadership in 2010 and led the internal referendum campaign opposed to forming a Pepp, said: «In 2011 Ukip held a big internal
debate on the issue.
If in the TV
debates at the next election the other
parties» candidates turned on any of the current Labour
leadership contenders and sneered «You're no John Kennedy», what answer would they have?»
Angela Eagle, candidate for Deputy Leader, weighed in on the
leadership debate yesterday attacking those who have said they would not work with Jeremy Corbyn, and calling for the
party's elite to respect the membership's decision if they elect him.
In 2012 the budget
debate pitted the Conservative
leadership (for the budget settlement) against the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative
party and Labour who opposed it.
Right now, most of the contributions to the Labour
debate are coming from the part of the
party that lost the
leadership election.