Sentences with phrase «doing deselection»

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But Mr Dugher said: «I think it might be quite useful if he went along to it because he can have a word with them as their former chairman and say to them «stop the intimidation, stop the abuse and stop the talk of deselections and going after Labour MPs who voted in a way they didn't approve of.

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.

Corbyn aroused fear among some on Sunday when he said the «vast majority» did not have to worry about deselection.

If you open up deselections as a factional tool, don't be surprised if you lose some of your own.

Creasy has hit back, saying she will not be «be bullied by a sitting Walthamstow Labour councilor with the threat of deselection if I don't do what he wants».

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».

The only effective way to do so is by the wholesale discarding the PLP coup supporters, either through deselection or, if the boundary changes come about, by rejecting them for the new constituencies.

Any report produced by the sub-committee can be discussed on the floor of the Lords, but the sub-committee does not have the power to sanction peers, who are appointed rather than elected and do not face deselection.

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.

Had Helm picked up the phone to anyone in the South Suffolk constituency he would have known the reasons behind the deselection were to do with Yeo's absenteeism.