Sentences with phrase «hustings for»

Sunday will see the first Labour party hustings for the deputy leadership in Coventry - David Thompson will be taking the temperature live.

The parliamentary Labour party will stage hustings for the leadership contenders on 8 June and for deputy leadership contenders on 9 June when nominations for both posts open.

-LSB-...] 11.35 am: The New Statesman held a hustings for the Labour leadership candidates last night.

Last week Centre for Cities and local Chambers of Commerce held the first hustings for the Sheffield City Region mayoral election with all the leading candidates, focusing in particular on their plans for the local economy (Dave Allen of the English Democrats could not attend).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hitting the hustings for his pre-State of the State / budget address road show.

The final selection hustings for the seat, which has a 21,000 Labour majority, will take place on Saturday, when party members will vote for their preferred candidate to fight the by - election in June.

A hustings for the benefit of MPs will take place in a room at the Commons at 1 pm on Monday, and MPs will be able to nominate up until 5 pm on Wednesday.

In fourth place is our review of this week's first televised hustings for the Labour leadership contest.

Schumer has been an especially active participant on the hustings for Senate Democrats.

But the lack of visibility on the hustings for Democratic candidates is making for no shortage of concern for Cuomo's liberal critics.

As the campaign for the election gains momentum, Centre for Cities and the Liverpool and Sefton Chamber of Commerce are organising a hustings for candidates to set out their plans to drive growth in the city - region.

Despite the fact that he has been on the hustings for about nine months now, Maragos is unknown to 78 percent of New Yorkers.

Hoping to capture the seat from the Tories is Wildrose candidate and former Alberta Report publisher Link Byfield, who has been on the hustings for more than a year.

Not exact matches

In 1970, in what he later described as a fit of «vocational absentmindedness,» he ran for Congress, but his true vocation was the pulpit and the press, not the hustings.

Senate Republicans, meanwhile, attacked Kaminsky for being on the hustings this week and not in his seat in the state Assembly, which is back in session this week after passing the budget.

One of the most agonising moments of the hustings (apart from Smith getting booed for calling out anti-Semitism) was the section on the advancement of women.

As a method of finding answers to the calamity of May 7, the current series of leadership hustings are simply not fit for purpose.

Jacobs told me Cuomo will soon hit the hustings with some of the Senate Democrats» candidates in key districts and «doesn't look at this as a race for him alone.»

The Conservative candidate for mayor told a hustings organised by the property industry charity Land Aid that the city's post-war era housing estates are «past their use - by date» and must be «regenerated» in order to tackle London's housing crisis.

Final selection hustings to choose Labour candidate expected to be a «real tough battle» for the left

As the campaign for the election gains momentum, Centre for Cities and the Sheffield City Region Chambers of Commerce are delighted to be hosting a hustings where candidates will set out their plans to drive growth in the city region.

Arron Banks spoke out after last night's leadership hustings during which one candidate called for the death penalty for paedophiles, but not if the child «looked 18».

The most popular questions that emerge from the various group sessions would then be put up for debate as a live hustings by local representatives of the presidential candidates» parties in front of all the attendees.

In the hustings, Nuttall, said the death penalty should be returned for those who kill children, while Suzanne Evans and Peter Whittle were against the punishment.

Yesterday, Gareth Thomas, Labour candidate for Harrow West, suggested his rival candidate had been told not to attend hustings by CCHQ, tweeting:

Conservative election candidates are coming under fire across the country for not attending local hustings.

The former shadow pensions secretary will take on Eagle, who was previously shadow business secretary, in a parliamentary Labour party (PLP) hustings on Monday, as the two challengers vie for support from MPs and MEPs before Wednesday's deadline for nominations.

Speaking at a BBC Radio 5 Live hustings, Burnham tried to downplay worries about the contest and categorically ruled out launching legal action, while Cooper, Kendall and Corbyn also said they saw no grounds for contesting the result.

At the end of the first hustings, an apparent Respect supporter who had heckled from the side - lines throughout asked Naz Shah a question as she was leaving for the night:

Given the extensive debates and candidates» hustings, GMB members will cast their votes for a candidate of their choice for leader in the normal way.»

The Labour leadership hustings are not fit for purpose and the real answers are elsewhere, says Dan Hodges in his latest column for TP.

The Labour leadership hustings are not fit for purpose and the real answers are elsewhere, says Dan...

The Labour leader could have upgraded to first class for his journey to Gateshead to debate Owen Smith in the latest Labour leadership hustings.

As ballot papers go out for the Labour leadership election and after weeks of hustings, does it feel as though these are the people the party is talking about or talking to?

Despite the dozens of hustings, debates and interviews, none of the five candidates has yet been able to offer a convincing answer to that basic but all - important question: what do you stand for?»

LabourList reports the disgusting remarks at a hustings of John McDonnell, the Left - wing candidate for the Labour leadership, who is unlikely to reach the ballot paper due to lack of support:

On the evening of 9 June, just hours after nominations for the Labour leadership closed, the New Statesman hosted the first official leadership hustings at Church House in Westminster.

As the New Statesman hustings showed, the battle for the leadership of the Labour Party has at its h

During a hustings between the five contenders to replace Gordon Brown, Mr Miliband, the shadow energy secretary, said that the new top rate for those earning more than # 150,000 should remain in the interests of «fairness».

December 3rd November 20th will see a public hustings, with December 4th being the deadline for the return of ballot papers, followed by the count.

Other candidates sometimes missing hustings meetings or national media exposure to campaign for a neighbouring MP.

On Tuesday evening at Unite Scotland's HQ in Glasgow the two candidates for leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, Richard Leonard MSP and Anas Sarwar MSP, spoke at one of the first hustings to take place in Scotland.

Following the hustings and debate at Unite's Scottish Executive Committee today (Wednesday 20th September) the union decided overwhelmingly to nominate Richard Leonard for leader.

That was the question put to people in Nuneaton, the town chosen by Newsnight for the first live televised hustings debate with the Labour leadership contenders.

Several MPs tweeted from yesterday's PLP leadership hustings: John Woodcock, Rachel Reeves, Douglas Alexander and Denis MacShane, for instance.

While it makes tactical sense for rebellious MPs to unite behind a single candidate, Monday's hustings entrench a misconception about the balance of opinion in the Labour party.

But in a letter to Mr Corbyn and Mr McNicol last week, Mr Smith called for leadership hustings to be staged in each region of the UK.

The hustings event will be one of three set to take place, with the other two planned for Scotland and England.

«During the first major hustings event for the candidates vying to succeed Gordon Brown, Mr Burnham went further

David Miliband has warned Labour could be out of power for years as he made his bid for the party leadership at the final hustings before September's vote.