Sentences with phrase «abolishing shadow cabinet elections»

That, some pundits say, is the reason for abolishing shadow cabinet elections.

Labour MPs have voted today to back Ed Miliband in abolishing shadow cabinet elections, with 196 (76 %, or 83 % of those voting) in favour, 41 against and 20 not voting.

These were amended four years ago at the request of the then leader, Ed Miliband, to abolish shadow cabinet elections which had long taken place annually when the party was in opposition — a move which the same MPs had rejected only a year earlier.

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One such conciliatory option to win them is the request by a swathe of mainstream Labour MPs for a return to MPs voting in shadow cabinet elections, which was abolished under Ed Miliband's leadership in 2011.

Such elections were abolished by Ed Miliband in 2011, meaning all shadow cabinet appointments are currently in the gift of the Labour leader.

Many will argue that keeping the post but abolishing elections represents a reduction in accountability — Labour's leaders (though not, it seems, its shadow cabinet or cabinet) should be directly elected.