Sentences with phrase «candidate in the leadership election»

It was the NEC that chose to interpret Labour's constitution favourably for Corbyn when it ruled that, as the incumbent, he automatically qualified as a candidate in the leadership election.

As a result he was not able to be a candidate in the leadership election of 1983 which he may well have won.

«I am clearly not a candidate in this leadership election,» he said.

But confusion surrounds whether he would automatically be a candidate in any leadership election, or if he would need to be nominated by at least 35 MPs.

... I'm clearly not a candidate in this leadership election.

At lunchtime on the day after the election, he told the BBC's World At One Programme: «I certainly intend to be a candidate in the leadership election.»