The article by Ben Brogan provides little substance for believing that serious efforts will be made
at deselection, however.
Not exact matches
Beyond anxieties over
deselection (or the threat of it), footballers are often
at risk of culture shock, whether in the literal sense of having to acclimatise to a new and unfamiliar country or in the more metaphorical sense of having to adapt quickly to life
at a new club or a new level: a Championship player moving to an established Premier League side, a youth - team star breaking into the first - team squad, a veteran making his way down the leagues.
But he raised fears among Labour MPs on Tuesday night when he told Channel 4 News: «Any selection, reselection, or
deselection is
at least three years away.»
And Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray directly addressed Labour MPs
at risk of
deselection from Corbyn supporters:
[7] Moffat chose to stand down
at the general election, and it was revealed that she had been negotiating a pension based on retirement with a health condition
at the same time she was fighting the
deselection.
Creasy hit back
at Mahmood on Facebook, saying that while she remained uncertain of how to vote: «the one thing I will not do is be bullied by a sitting Walthamstow Labour councilor with the threat of
deselection if I don't do what he wants».
At a launch, to which the media were invited, on 30 June 2016 for the publication of the Chakrabarti Inquiry report into allegations of antisemitism and racism in the Labour Party, Daily Telegraph journalist Kate McCann questioned Jeremy Corbyn about a «Momentum member» handing out a «leaflet» calling for the
deselection of anti-Corbyn MPs.
The survey shows little interest
at constituency level in
deselection.
Last Thursday neighbouring MP David Maclean - former Tory Chief Whip - visited Richard Bell
at his workplace and warned him that he could resign now or face a bitter and almost - certain - to - be-successful (in Maclean's view)
deselection effort from January.
There's also the claim in Conservative Home that McDonnell gave coded support to
deselection at a Momentum meeting which allowed «Socialist Party former Militant» to openly campaign and leaflet for
deselection of Labour moderates.
While Alan Johnson talked up the threat of «
deselections» by Momentum in his Prospect interview, the only Labour MP to have been deselected in recent party history wasn't done so
at the behest of Momentum.