Sentences with phrase «as local constituency party»

In May — June 2003 or 2004, Ashley Green succeeded Alexandra Messervy as local constituency party chairman.

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Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

Watson claims that these groups — previously known as Militant and Socialist Organiser — are using the methods used by Militant in the 1980s to take control of local constituency Labour parties (CLPs).

As with some other constituencies that have produced sensational election results, from Lincoln (1973) to Blaenau Gwent (2005), the trust between a loyal, almost tribal, electorate and the local party was snapped.

[3] In September 2007, the Easington Constituency Labour Party (CLP) selected local councillor and CLP secretary Grahame Morris as their candidate for the 2010 election.

With Ed Miliband as the leader of the opposition party, the adoption of an expansionist visit strategy has the potential to boost Labour's local vote share — a factor that may be key in marginal constituencies.

As the Mail reported at the weekend, Mr Lyon has also just passed on his file on the complaint made by Tory MP Greg Hands a year ago about Gordon Brown's failure to declare his subletting of part of a constituency office to his local Labour Party.

A compromise would be to keep FPTP for the commons (and with it important direct local linkage between an MP and their constituency), but to have a much slimmed down second chamber that is 100 % elected at the same time as a general election but on PR and from party lists.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.&rParty HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.&rparty donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

She has been a Conservative Party member since 2006 and is chairman of her local party branch within the Salisbury constituency, living as she does just outside the Devizes constituParty member since 2006 and is chairman of her local party branch within the Salisbury constituency, living as she does just outside the Devizes constituparty branch within the Salisbury constituency, living as she does just outside the Devizes constituency.

Earlier, Mr Miliband received a standing ovation from union members, constituency MPs and members of local parties from around the country at London's ExCel centre, as he urged them to «seize» the chance to change Labour.