The hustings came as Conservative MPs who support all three remaining leadership candidates are urging the party to speed up the contest so a new prime minister is chosen by the end of the month.
One of the most memorable moments of the NS
hustings came after Ed Balls produced a lengthy answer, preventing other candidates from joining in that particular discussion.
Not exact matches
Later today Corbyn and Smith will
come face - to - face in the first leadership
hustings, being held in Cardiff.
The comments
come after Labour MP Jack Dromey was filmed also criticising Corbyn's leadership — and then warmly greeting the leader when he showed up at the Labour leadership
hustings in Birmingham.
Conservative election candidates are
coming under fire across the country for not attending local
hustings.
The meeting in Newport last night was the tenth of 11
hustings taking part across the country, and
came less than a week before ballots close next Monday.
The admission, during a hostile phone - in with BBC radio listeners,
came after Mr Smith was shouted down at a Labour women's
hustings with Jeremy Corbyn in Westminster.
Liz Kendall annoyed Andy Burnham's campaign team this week with her «country
comes first» swipe during the Newsnight leadership
hustings.
At numerous
hustings and meetings with members, they spoke of their liberal values, the direction they think we should go, and how to best rebuild the party over the
coming months and years.
The contest will involve a series of public and televised
hustings over the
coming weeks, with the winner announced before the party conference in September.
There are many public
hustings to
come.
«The meeting
came after five of the hopefuls made their case to the GMB union at a
hustings which saw Mr McDonnell win loud applause by attacking Margaret Thatcher's cuts in the 1980s.
15 Year 10 girls applied for the positions of Head Girls for the
coming academic year and gave their
hustings speeches to pupils and staff.