Sentences with word «deselection»

He said the «quid pro quo» should be for Corbyn to stamp out all talk of deselections of MPs or councillors by any supporters, to take a zero - tolerance approach to abuse and to sign up to a deadline at which the Labour party would take stock of progress with the public, when it could readdress issues including those around the leadership.

Members, in spite of unhappiness with public splits within the PLP, say there is no appetite for deselection of MPs.

He insisted MPs would unite behind the leader if Mr Corbyn won a second contest, and assured them they would not face deselection for disloyalty.

Asked whether MPs who have criticised his leadership should be worried about deselection, Corbyn — who won 61.8 % of the vote to see - off challenger Owen Smith — failed to totally rule out this possibility when he spoke to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

The Freddom Associations's Roger Helmer and Dan Hannan were threatened with deselection if they spoke on the same platform as UKIP's Nigel Farage.

Few would query the proposition that constituency Labour party groups should have a voice in how their parliamentary representatives cast their votes, but what has caused very considerable ill - feeling has been widespread suspicion that Momentum, a recently - formed group of Corbyn supporters, orchestrated a campaign to pull MPs into line — with the threat of deselection if they failed to do so.

The survey shows little interest at constituency level in deselection.

Punishment: Suspended from Parliamentary Labour Party; faces deselection as election candidate

And Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray directly addressed Labour MPs at risk of deselection from Corbyn supporters:

John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has refused to intervene to ensure Hilary Benn remains a Labour MP amid reports that he is facing a possible deselection battle with activists in his local party.

«The excitement in the media [over deselection] has been slightly distracting, but he is clear his number one job is to hold the government to account on Brexit.

Thus I doubt there will be mass deselections of the PLP.

A Conservative PPC will attempt to avoid deselection tonight as she faces party members who claim she misled them over her affair with a Conservative MP.

Creasy, who is associated with the right of the party, has not yet decided her position on Syria and is reportedly under pressure from local activists and even facing possible deselection over the issue.

But those involved are talking about serious numbers — As many as 150 Labour moderates effectively quitting in the face of a single deselection.

(It is for, example, no use getting in a lather about activists demanding deselections when you have been an integral part of a machine that specialised in the parachuting - in of chosen insiders to safe Labour seats.)

This change can happen either through them adopting positions more in line with those of the membership or through deselection.

In the pamphlet, Osland insists that he is not making a plea for «deselect early, deselect often» or calling for deselection on purely ideological grounds.

But some acknowledge that proposed boundary changes in 2018 could result in de-facto deselection.

The article by Ben Brogan provides little substance for believing that serious efforts will be made at deselection, however.

The Labour leader has declined to step in and block party rule changes that could make such deselections easier.

If the ConHome claim is true, then the leadership's claims that they do not support deselection look extremely duplicitous.

Labour's rules for the snap election didn't allow deselection — MPs simply had to fill in a form asking whether they want to stand again.

This book's contributors have refused to take part in a system of «disability deselection» which classifies certain people as «biologically incapacitated».

Chuck in the spectre of deselection already panicking a number of Labour figures elected a month ago and the realities of opposition are the fizz - level is definitely declining after the heady euphoria of a sweet defeat regarded as a victory.

«Early deselections would be an absolute nightmare,» a Shadow Cabinet Minister loyal to Corbyn told me.

Nor will she factor in candidates» views on Brexit in selections, and insists deselections are a matter for local constituency parties.

Either they break away now or they wait and attempt this same, futile process again, with the threat of deselection permanently hanging over them.

A snap election would also cut short any local deselection proceedings.

He has, however, dismissed suggestions that he would want to remove centrist MPs though deselections.

28th June 2016, Labour List: New members back deselection for MPs who rebel against Corbyn, new study shows

I suspect deselections will turn out to be a damp squib with a few symbolic victories but not enough to truly alter the overall shape of the Parliamentary party or more than a handful of councils.

Gerry Downing [smash], Mark Serwotka's deselection joy [crunch], Ken Livingstone [smash, crunch, smash].»

We are not doing deselection or reselection, we just want to make sure there is a smooth path from being a centralised hierarchical party to a social movement and that is what we are doing.

More interesting in the current political climate is the effect it would have on Labour internal battle and any potential deselections.

Both Mr Hogg and Mr MacKay were near the top of Conservative members» deselection league table.

But he also would not rule out future deselections, saying it was not a decision for him.

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.

Writing in the Guardian, Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, warned MPs tweeting and briefing against their leader that they could face mandatory deselections if they continued with their disloyalty.

Such was the case when Castle Point MP Bob Spink faced deselection problems a few years ago.

Unfortunately HF the modern Conservative party has taken the right of deselection away from ordinary members.

The closest it came to falling was in 1987 in the aftermath of a Michael Cocks deselection.

Moderate Labour MPs fear deselection plot after union boss Len McCluskey seen with left wing agitator

Henry Fenton was quoted in Loren Stein's California Lawyer article «Unnatural Deselection: Fired health plan doctors are seeking due process,»...

«Anti-Chemical Initiatives (chemical bans, chemical deselection mandates, and the future),» Ohio Chemistry Technology Council Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, April 2009

Accordingly, smokers» tendency to form homogeneous networks may be a consequence of the exclusion of non-smoking peers, implying a dominant deselection mechanism.

Appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, he was asked about deselection, which is being openly advocated by some of his backers, with the Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, saying disloyal MPs were «asking for it».

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.

Shadow chancellor says Labour leadership «won't interfere in local democracy» if Benn faces deselection battle in Leeds Central

Alternatively, a vote for Corbyn could hasten mass deselection, which is troublesome in terms of attracting the electorate and maintaining the institutions of the Labour Party.