Sentences with phrase «deputy leadership candidate»

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Labour deputy leadership candidate Stella Creasy has responded to internet trolls by releasing a video in which she reads out some of the offensive messages she has been sent during the campaign.

All three deputy leadership candidates attended and continue to answer questions about referendum timing at local hustings.

The Labour party is a 20th - century organisation trying to solve 21st - century problems, one of the party's deputy leadership candidates, Tom Watson, has said.

The soon - to - be prime minister has warned the six deputy leadership candidates not to retreat to the «soft options» of old Labour after one of the hopefuls spoke of Labour's «proud» socialist traditions.

Minutes after Natalie Bennett was elected Green party leader, deputy leadership candidates Caroline Allen and Alexandra Phillip were dropped from the race because of their genitals.

As soon as Bennet won, deputy leadership candidates Caroline Allen and Alexandra Phillips were dropped from the race in favour of their male colleagues, preventing the party from having an all - female leadership.

Of all the leadership and deputy leadership candidates, only Corbyn and Watson voted through the «No» lobby on that occasion.This capitulation by Harriet Harman has been seen by some, including LabourList's Conor Pope, as her attempt to guide the narrative of the leadership contest.

Not exact matches

Labour party membership could disappear within seven years if the current rate of decline continues, a candidate for the deputy leadership warned yesterday.

On Wednesday, Rushanara Ali, the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, dropped out of the deputy leadership race at the eleventh hour, allowing her supporters to give their nominations to other candidates who were struggling to get the 35 required to get on the ballot.

Creasy admitted that some of the messages may have been provoked by the deluge of emails people have received over the past few months from contenders not only in the deputy leadership contest, but also the campaigns for leader and London mayoral candidate.

Some in particular have suggested that the likelihood of a Corbyn victory in the leadership could boost the chances of female deputy candidates if members are keen on gender balance.

Stella Creasy, another candidate for the deputy leadership, criticised what she described as «machine politics» in the Labour movement.

It's also unclear whether the leadership vote will result in one of the candidates becoming deputy majority leader, replacing Sen. Tom Libous, who also faces a charge of lying to the FBI in a separate case.

In the latest intervention, Harriet Harman, the constitutional affairs minister and deputy Labour leadership candidate, told the New Statesman: «You can either be against discrimination or you can allow for it.

Cabinet ministers standing for the Labour deputy leadership should quit their jobs to allow a proper debate, the one non-ministerial candidate has declared.

It comes as new research from lobbying firm Westminster Public Affairs puts Tom Watson and Stella Creasy as clear joint favourites for the deputy leadership among Labour candidates.

Former Ukip deputy chair and one - time leadership candidate Suzanne Evans said that Bolton had not quite lived up to his billing.

As deputy leader I will be assuming his responsibilities with immediate effect, and over the next 48 hours will obviously be consulting colleagues - but I can confirm today that I intend to be candidate in the leadership contest that is to follow.

Plans to inform candidates 30 minutes before the announcement, after removing mobiles, reminds me of the TV carry - on surrounding the 2007 deputy leadership.

Deputy prime minister says former party member who branded his leadership a disaster is free to give money to any candidate

Fellow Labour MP Angela Eagle, who is also standing as deputy leader, said it was up to the leadership candidates to decide if Mann's idea should be implemented.

Then maybe Yvette would have won, as Andy's campaign was so bad, she would have won it on merit The deputy leadership, saw two centre right, female candidates in the last three, both had the anyone but Watson tag, considering one of the male candidates Ben Bradshaw had this Tom Watson partly win, due to transfers from Bradshaw, was it sexist that he won, no, had he not win on the third round, could one of the females beat him, due to their combined vote, who knows but it wouldn't have been on gender, but their voters dislike of Watson

In any future leadership election, candidates from either gender would be free to stand; in any deputy leadership election, the candidates would be all female or all male (to counterbalance the existing leader), with perhaps the option of a triggered election for deputy leader within 12 months of a new leader if necessary.

Pamphlet editor Jon Cruddas was Tony Blair's link man between Downing Street and the unions in the late 1990s and a leftwing candidate in last year's deputy leadership contest, surprising many by coming third.

Angela Eagle, candidate for Deputy Leader, weighed in on the leadership debate yesterday attacking those who have said they would not work with Jeremy Corbyn, and calling for the party's elite to respect the membership's decision if they elect him.

Sarwar won the deputy leadership contest very comfortably when he stood in 2011, winning 51 % of the vote against two other candidates.

It has been suggested that this could be guaranteed by insisting that whenever a leadership election took place, each leadership candidate would run on a joint ticket with their favoured deputy.

After Swinson, who was elected deputy leader last week, the party's health spokesman and 2015 leadership candidate Norman Lamb also ruled out running.

I do not think the threshold of one - eighth of all Labour MPs is unreasonable, and in 2007 the same threshold produced a deputy leadership election with six validly nominated candidates.

Faced by a choice of Tony Blair, John Prescott, and Margaret Beckett, every major union recommended their memberships vote for either Beckett or Prescott, and every single union membership voted for Blair... (but) every single union in 2007 that recommended a candidate (for the deputy leadership) delivered between 40 and 50 % of their union's vote to their favourite son or daughter.

In this context «leadership» was defined as the majority leader and deputy leaders that the next speaker names, but Rosenthal said the Women's Caucus also pushed the candidates on committing to strong female representation as chairs of Council committees.

Keith Brown, Julie Hepburn and Chris McEleny are the candidates as nominations close in the SNP deputy leadership race.

«I don't believe it is a question of deciding a credible candidate, we had an extremely good, effective, thoughtful deputy leadership election and it did the party a power of good to debate those issues debated in public and I believe if it came to that it would be the case again in the future.