Sentences with phrase «constituency parties»

And it is increasingly clear that constituency parties are no enthusiasts for such radical change either.

The appointment of former MP and losing candidate for London Mayor, Oona King, to the House of Lords means she loses her place representing constituency parties on Labour's national executive before she'd even attended her first proper meeting.

We need closer links with Labour local councillors, a more coordinated way of discussing policy across the UK involving members in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and we need to look again at local structures to ensure we learn from the many vibrant and growing constituency parties across the country.

Asked on ITV's Peston on Sunday show whether it would lead to deselections, Mr Corbyn said: «There will be selections made by local constituency parties.

They are not just in parliament, but in the salaried organisation and the constituency parties, and they have been for as long as most can remember.

The veteran left - winger has won the backing of more local constituency parties in Wales and the UK than the other three candidates.

constituency parties and affiliated organisations?

August 15 - Mr Corbyn's team says 285 constituency parties are backing him for leader, compared to just 53 parties for Mr Smith.

A Labour Leader should be a facilitator, keeping power with the grassroots through Conference and allowing constituency parties to draw up their own shortlists and select their own Parliamentary Candidates.

This was something the Blair leadership repeatedly made clear as it bypassed Labour conference and constituency parties by the use of an increasingly centralised model of policymaking.

The decision reverses an earlier decision reported here, and follows pressure from constituency parties eager to start campaigning against the Tory - led government.

The Lib Dem leadership rules state that a leader can be removed by a vote of no confidence passed by a majority of MPs or by a statement calling on him to go submitted by 75 local constituency parties.

They will also be under pressure from their constituency parties to show some loyalty.

A progressive boycott of Labour party conference by local constituency parties has been revealed in figures presented to Labour's National Executive yesterday.

At Labour's conference in Manchester next week, delegates will be debating and voting on a number of key changes to the party's rule book, tabled both by the national executive and by constituency parties.

By this time, the party's structure in the nation was complex, with constituency parties, and branches of affiliated parties, but no co-ordination at the national level.

«We need to acknowledge that those who supported him have invested a lot personally in Corbyn, we are not going to convince them overnight they were wrong and before then they will provide an army to draw on as they become absorbed into constituency parties.

At the Labour Party Conference at Scarborough that autumn, he lost his place as an elected constituency representative on the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC), the members of which were increasingly elected by Bevanites in the constituency parties.

We need to start giving the most vocal of these troublemakers a scare with deselection demands by their constituency parties ASAP — «to encourage the others» to shut up or push off.

At the end of an election, the marked postal voter lists are open for public inspection and also can be purchased by the Electoral Commission, candidates, elected representatives, government departments, police forces, registered political parties and local constituency parties.

Former enterprise minister Iain Gray appeared the clear frontrunner to replace Wendy Alexander, having secured the support of more unions, elected members and constituency parties than his rivals.

It is a brave (or foolish) politician that voices opinions about either their constituents or constituency parties but many would find their inner thoughts played out in the numerous scenes that litter political fiction - of a lumpen, apathetic electorate or the zealous bores that attend the average party committee meeting.

BD: The reason I'm asking is because there appears to be a divide between the modernising Conservative leadership and the constituency parties?

One third of Conservative MPs remain pro-European, although some will find it hard to be re-selected by their constituency parties, if Central Office has its way.

That's more than the combined donations to the central party (as opposed to individual constituency parties) from the all of the unions.

A candidate will need the support of two MPs, plus 200 members or 20 constituency parties.

The grassroots revolt that put Jeremy Corbyn into the leadership has re-energised the city's moribund constituency parties — but it has also heaped pressure on its more centrist MPs who were already under threat from planned boundary changes

Half of the votes go to the unions and half to constituency parties.

Winning lots of new councillors will revitalise local constituency parties up and down the country and help rebuild a Labour campaign machine that rusted and fell apart over thirteen years in power.

Corbyn's allies have so far struggled to get his supporters accepted by constituency parties, with local or union - backed candidates preferred.

Since the closing date for nominations in those elections is 10 June and many constituency parties won't even have a cycle of meetings before that date, many -LSB-...]

The Labour general secretary, Iain McNicol, has written to Labour branches in the wake of Clegg's announcements, saying plans to reorganise Labour constituency parties in England and Wales will not now go ahead.

It is the constituency parties that bear the brunt of this — though Unite and other unions were clearly resentful about it too this year — and we consider why it happens and how to end it.

Militant's tactics were to take over moribund constituency parties by the simple expedient of joining the party, getting themselves elected to local committees and then boring and antagonising more moderate members into resigning.

And it is up to constituency parties to make sure that their rights and interests are energetically represented — which is not what Rachel Reeves and Seema Malhotra have been doing.

However, the PLP still held 30 % of the vote with 30 % going to constituency parties and 40 % to affiliated trade unions.

He may rely on others to enforce discipline: Ken Livingstone's old backroom team from his London mayoral days; constituency parties threatening to de-select rebellious MPs; the major union leaders moving back into frontline Labour politics.

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.

Now, he is the most popular candidate among trade unions and grassroots Labour activists, having been endorsed by 162 Labour constituency parties — ahead of Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall — and by six unions, including Labour's two biggest affiliates, Unite and Unison.

A Tory MP heavily implicated in the expenses scandal survived an attempt by some constituency party members to deselect her last night.

Under the current Labour system, the National Policy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy positions.

As anyone who has campaigned will know, losing a full half of the constituency party before the election, plus dealing with de-selection attempts, will have had a huge impact on Lord Taylor's ability to win.

They have shown themselves willing to overturn staff recommendations on some issues this year, but very rarely when it comes to constituency party proposals.

«It's still too early to be writing my memoirs», he wrote in a letter to his constituency party, and did not «want to spend the rest of my life just being an ex-chancellor.

You have only a few days in which to get your policy amendments in to Labour's policy process — they must be submitted by constituency party secretaries through the Your Britain website by 13 June.

There are three important national committees on which constituency party representatives are up for election:

The MEP said he would now sit as an independent Tory in Strasbourg, still representing his Yorkshire and Humberside constituency with, he says, the backing of the vast majority at home, including the constituency party.

From 1989 until 1991 Angela was the constituency party secretary for Peckham in South London before being selected as the Labour Party candidate for the constituency of Wallasey.

As a constituency party we now look to begin the process of finding our parliamentary candidate for the 2015 general election and winning a Labour majority.

One might have thought that the Tory leadership — one that looks certain to deliver general election victory — would be popular with the constituency party, but the reverse is true.