Sentences with phrase «against official labour»

Joe Howells stood as an Independent against the official Labour candidate and won by a very narrow margin.

Clause I, section 4 of the membership section in Labour's rulebook says: «A member of the party who joins and / or supports a political organisation other than an official Labour group or other unit of the party, or supports any candidate who stands against an official Labour candidate, or publicly declares their intent to stand against a Labour candidate, shall automatically be ineligible to be or remain a party member.»

They state: «A member of the party who supports any candidate who stands against an official Labour candidate shall automatically be ineligible to be, or remain, a party member.»

Rahman stood as an independent against the official Labour candidate — surprise, surprise, the same third - placed rival — like Ken Livingstone before him.

Not exact matches

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell famously said he would «swim through vomit» to vote against the lower benefit cap in 2015, despite Labour's official stance of abstaining on the bill.

Labour MEPs opposed an increase in the budget because of continuing waste on the common agricultural policy, and were campaigning on violence against women, assistance for disabled people, allegations of corruption against EU officials in Kosovo, commitment to science and, with Steve Rotheram MP, on tyre safety.

The difference in spending may not necessarily work against the party, Labour officials insist, because Jeremy Corbyn is happy to portray himself as the down - to - earth leader against the slick Tory party machine.

This backfired somewhat when Hussain was selected as the official Labour Party candidate for the neighbouring constituency of Bradford East, standing against Liberal Democrat MP David Ward.

He added his spending would only do something to redress the spending imbalance saying that many Lib Dem and Labour candidates had told him that the Tories have «spent over # 100,000 campaigning against them, even before the official election campaign — and spending limits — started in December».

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

Several Labour MPs - including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and former minister Diane Abbott - voted against the bill, despite the party's official stance being to abstain after an amendment tabled by acting Labour leader Harriet Harman was defeated.

The Unite official at the centre of allegations of vote - rigging over the selection of a Labour parliamentary candidate in Falkirk resigned from his position at the Grangemouth power plant after a witch - hunt against trade unionists, Len McCluskey has said.

In the run - up to Sunday's vote, officials close to Corbyn and the Scottish Labour leader, Richard Leonard, had accused the pro-EU grouping of using the issue to mount a proxy war by Labour's moderates against the party's leadership — a charge they deny.

Britain needs a return to idealism, David Miliband declares, as he launches his official campaign against his brother Ed to become the next leader of the Labour party.