Sentences with phrase «hustings take»

This will be followed by six weeks of campaigning, the final three of which will see hustings take place across the country.

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.

Not exact matches

But he was taken aback at the GMB hustings event when all of the candidates were asked whether they supported the government's plan to lower the annual welfare cap to # 23,000.

Looking back on the hustings he has taken part in so far, Corbyn is largely positive — even though his rivals often «profoundly disagreed with my analysis that Labour should offer something more radical».

The four will take part yet more hustings, before facing a vote among Labour members and supporters.

However, there was little sign of unity among their supporters this afternoon as they took part in their first leadership hustings.

At least MPs no longer duel with the neighbours or take loaded pistols to the hustings

The candidates from the three main parties took part in a hustings debate in front of a healthy crowd at Uppermill Civic Hall yesterday.

At last night's hustings, the Yorkshire MP took heart from the fortunes of the Doncaster Rovers, who beat David Cameron's football team, Aston Villa, in the Carling Cup.

Equally, instead of party members taking part in the local hustings the campaigns could use their members to represent their sides of the argument.

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.

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.

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.

Guido Fawkes reports that Ukip hustings are set to take place at the weekend with six Kippers in the frame.

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.

The last Labour leadership contest was dull, dull, dull: dominated by seemingly endless staid hustings where contenders took it in turns to answer one worthy question after another from audiences made up of loyal party members.

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

The people's party has become a travelling circus in which the five leadership candidates perform at endless hustings and get reacquainted with an electorate that told them to take a running jump.

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

The pair, plus Mr Corbyn, took part in a special PLP hustings yesterday, and Ms Eagle is said to have impressed many MPs who had been previously edging towards backing Mr Smith.