Sentences with phrase «scottish labour members»

Scottish Labour members should be excited by the buzz surrounding the Corbyn campaign and embrace it, and clearly lots are doing so with almost 2000 signed up to attend his rallies in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow this week.

For many Scottish Labour members it feels as if we are in a perpetual leadership campaign.

A substantial number of Scottish Labour members have convinced themselves that the election of Corbyn will present Sturgeon with a problem.

Not exact matches

Unlike Scottish Labour, who welcome Yes voters, Davidson has said if any Tory members voice support for Scottish independence, there should be an «amicable parting of ways».

Anne McGuire, the Labour MP for Stirling, says in Scotland there are regional members of the Scottish parliament.

«Our analysis — modelled on the default scenario that the UK withdraws completely from the EU and fails to reach trade and customs agreements with remaining EU member states — opens the door to the possibility that Scottish businesses and taxpayers will face a range of additional financial burdens in the form of increased trading and labour costs.

Last Friday, Rowley took the step of writing to every member of the Scottish Labour Party, outlining in detail why he believed it was essential for them to unite behind Corbyn.

(Although since then Scottish Labour has again left the field with Kezia Dugdale quitting the leadership for love triggering a leadership battle between Richard Leonard and Anas Sarwar that's increasingly unseemly even though left wing Leonard has already all but won thanks to the now normal Labour practise of signing up lots of union members on the cheap.)

In his view the difficulty within the Party was much greater than any from the Scottish National Party and the Whips» judgement was that the Government could not rely on the votes of Labour Members from Merseyside or the North if we moved to reject the Repeal Order.

The Scottish Labour Party has only 13,000 members -(many of whom are ageing or inactive)- and has just lost 39 of its 40 Westminster MPs.

Instead 89 per cent consider Scottish Labour's result bad, including 88 per cent of members in Scotland.

In Scotland the Additional Member System agreed for the Scottish Parliament will hand Labour seats to parties to its right — the Liberal Democrats, SNP and even the Tories will benefit — and almost certainly lose Labour the majority it would have under the present system.

And he said that in many ways Scottish Labour was the «least modernised part of the Labour movement» and that he wanted his successor to be elected under a one member, one vote system.

And results north of the border looked appalling as Labour lost more than a dozen members of the Scottish Parliament.

Mark Griffin (born 19 October 1985) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Central Scotland region.

Following the election, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats formed the Scottish Executive, with Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) Donald Dewar becoming First Minister.

A Labour constituency party near Glasgow has issued a strongly - worded letter to Scottish Jewish leaders stating its members feel a «deep sense of shame» about the anti-semitism row splitting the party.

Des McNulty (born 28 July 1952, Stockport (then Cheshire, England), UK) is a Labour politician, and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency from 1999 to 2011, serving as Labour's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until he was defeated for re-election at the 2011 election.

97 # If the Scottish Labour Party are taking back rule breakers I cant see them knocking back somebody that hasnt been a member before.

In a statement to Labour party members today, nine months ahead of the Scottish elections in May next year, the 42 - year - old said she felt the time was right to «move on».

Later Freeman joined the Scottish Labour Party and was a member until the late 1990s.

Senior Labour Shadow Cabinet members, notably Ed Balls, Douglas Alexander, and Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, were defeated.

In all, 149 MPs (100 Labour, 35 Conservatives, 7 Liberal Democrats, 2 independents, 1 Independent Conservative and 1 member each from Plaid Cymru, Scottish National Party, the Democratic Unionist Party, and Social Democratic and Labour Party) announced that they would not be contesting the next election.

Membership of the major parties is at a historic low, with less than 1 % of the electorate a member of the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats or Labour; and even with surges in membership for the Greens and the Scottish National Party, trust in politics in the UK as a whole is at a grim low.

In response to Labour's poor performance in Scotland, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy initially resisted calls for his resignation by other senior party members.

Kezia Dugdale is a Member of Scottish Parliament and the former leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Claudia Hamilton Beamish [3](born 9 August 1952) is a Scottish Labour and Co-operative Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the South of Scotland region [4] since she was elected on 5 May 2011.

In 2010, Gaffney was one of the founding members of the Keir Hardie Society in 2010, alongside, Scottish author and longtime Labour member Bob Holman and, Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard, of whom Gaffney has been friends with since the 1990s.

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).

In July 2012, a member of Scottish Labour started Labour for Independence, a rebel group of Labour supporters who back Yes Scotland in the campaign for Scottish independence.

Bibby was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2011 to represent the West of Scotland region, as the Labour Party returned three members from the list.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has spoken to ITV Wales Political Editor Adrian Masters about the row over who chooses the Welsh and Scottish members of Labour's National Executive Committee.

The 33 - member ruling body agreed on Tuesday that Scottish and Welsh representatives would be added to the committee if the move was approved by Labour delegates at conference.

According to the BBC Mohammad Sarwar, father to current Scottish Labour deputy leader Anas Sarwar and until 2010 the Labour member for Glasgow Central, is to be appointed the governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province.

«This will allow the Scottish Labour party, its members and affiliates the opportunity to not only elect a new leader but a new leadership team focused on winning in 2016.»

The new representatives would be nominated by the Scottish and Welsh Labour leaders, rather than directly elected by party members.

Beamish's daughter, Claudia Hamilton Beamish, after standing for the South of Scotland in the 2003 and 2007 Scottish Parliament elections and for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale at the 2010 general election was elected Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the South of Scotland under the list system on 5 May 2011.

He acknowledged that Scottish Labour had a huge challenge ahead of it in the run up to next year's elections as it tries to improve on its 38 seats and take back majority party status from the SNP, who have 64 members.

He was appointed Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions and in 2013 was a member of Scottish Labour's commission to look at more devolved powers for Scotland.

It's therefore perhaps not surprising how many Conservative (and indeed Labour) Members of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly Members are content with AMS, a semi-proportional system, for whom it is now the status quo.

Shirley - Anne Somerville, a Scottish Nationalist member of the Scottish Parliament and one of the assembly's most striking redheads, said: «Coming from the doyenne of po - faced political correctness, these remarks show she and Labour have lost the plot since losing the Election.»

[144][145] In her letter of resignation, submitted to Scottish Labour Party Chairman Jamie Glackin, Lamont accused «senior members of the party» of questioning her role and said that she was taking herself «out of the equation» to allow Scottish Labour to have a discussion about the best way forward.

Tory candidates say members of the public are now spontaneously raising deep concerns about the prospect of Scottish nationalists deciding tax laws for England in the budget of a minority Labour government.