Sentences with phrase «in leadership contests»

Ms Osamor, meanwhile, backed Mr Corbyn in both leadership contests and says the leader will build a «mass social movement».

After 1997 the Conservatives elected the wrong leader twice when decent alternatives were available in leadership contests.

If they opt in to this they will be attached to a constituency party, with the right to vote in leadership contests.

Butcher confirmed that the investigation found voting irregularities in the leadership contest that resulted in Clark defeating Kevin Falcon by 340 points on a regionally - weighted preferential ballot.

Regardless if these registered supporters actually vote in their leadership contest, their names are now entered into a database that will be useful for the Liberals in the next provincial election.

Both Mr. Horne and Mr. Liepert were strong supporters of Mr. Mar in the leadership contest and would have likely ended up in similar positions had he not been defeated on the third ballot vote on October 1.

The winner of the Conservative contest therefore needs to be not only a brilliant negotiator, but also a genius that can deal with the gradual realisation of some in the «Out» camp that the deal available from the EU will be nowhere near as dreamlike as the one floated in the leadership contest.

That last view in particular prompted anger from his elder brother David, who came a close second in the leadership contest.

While that is certainly possible (I have a small bet on her) Labour has yet to ever pick a woman over a man in a leadership contest and there is little evidence that is about to change.

Troubling new polling shows the damage that could be done if the Labour Party splits following a Jeremy Corbyn victory in its leadership contest.

I agree that I'd like to see electoral reform as one of the issues debated in the leadership contest.

Jacob Rees - Mogg, who acts more and more like he is in a leadership contest, said «I profoundly disagree with the chancellor» and damned ministers for being «cowed by the EU».

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has also faced a backlash after announcing that she is backing Smith in the leadership contest.

Although Blairism still attracts the support of many MPs and senior party figures, Liz Kendall's 4.5 % showing in the leadership contest implies that enthusiasm amongst the grassroots is desperately low.

He began saying how proud he was that 560,000 people had signed up to vote in the leadership contest — although he did not mention entryism or the shambles of the registered - supporters provision.

It is true that Jeremy Corbyn's participation in the leadership contest is not helping his cause.

The new selection rules opened the door to this left - wing revolt — though not before moderate Labour MPs, seeking to «widen the debate» in the leadership contest, helped Corbyn pass the nomination threshold of 15 % of Labour MPs.

The Labour leader responded to 12 departures from his shadow cabinet in 20 hours, by insisting that he would not resign and vowing to stand in any leadership contest.

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Hickinbottom stated: «At the time each of the claimants joined the party, it was the common understanding as reflected in the rule book that, if they joined the party prior to the election process commencing, as new members they would be entitled to vote in any leadership contest.

According to YouGov, 71 per cent of those who voted for Corbyn in the leadership contest believed parties should put forward policies «irrespective of whether they help to win elections».

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.

Having won the votes of only 15 MPs in the leadership contest (the other 20 MPs who nominated him did so to ensure the Left had a candidate), Corbyn has struggled to maintain his legitimacy within the parliamentary party.

His Campaign Manager in the leadership contest was Conservative MP and Davis's deputy as Shadow Home Secretary, Andrew Mitchell (who in 2010 became Secretary of State for International Development in Prime Minister David Cameron's Cabinet).

She has been sceptical about him from the start, voting for Yvette Cooper in the leadership contest and wondering aloud how a perennial rebel such as Corbyn could enforce party discipline.

David Miliband has again refused to serve with his brother Ed, over two years since he lost to him in a leadership contest.

One — an Ed voter in the leadership contest, and whose MP was a prominent member of the successful campaign — confided that the reception was «depressing».

A huge row is being teed up between Mr Corbyn, his supporters and the rest of the party over whether he would automatically be on the ballot paper in a leadership contest.

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

This takes the total electorate in the leadership contest down to 554,000.

After a heated six - hour debate, the ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Mr Corbyn should automatically be a candidate in the leadership contest.

But a huge row is being teed up between Mr Corbyn, his supporters and the rest of the party over whether he would automatically be on the ballot paper in a leadership contest.

Lawyers for Labour donor Michael Foster will today argue that the NEC was wrong to rule that Mr Corbyn did not need the backing of 51 MPs and MEPs to become a candidate in the leadership contest.

Like Miliband, Duncan Smith was an outsider in the leadership contest and was elected without leading a poll of the parliamentary party.

He's certainly never put himself up as a challenger to Miliband, in fact he supported Ed's brother David in the leadership contest.

Mr Kenny gave a clear warning to the Labour leader that his overwhelming victory in the leadership contest was not a mandate to push through changes.

But speaking after the meeting, the leader's defiant aides insisted their boss was going nowhere - and challenged his critics to take him on in a leadership contest.

«In this leadership contest, Ukip's Tea Party tendency — people obsessed with US Republican conventions — are well represented on the ballot paper,» declared Evans last month,

And you're seeing that in the leadership contest now.»

Umunna told me: «In this leadership contest, there are no free hits when you're voting.

«There's a long way to go in the leadership contest but this is another sign he is not all he is cracked up to be.»

Not least, the fact that Corbyn's sweeping first - round victory in the leadership contest was enabled, to a great extent, by three alternative candidates who utterly failed to inspire the selectorate.

Meanwhile, Labour was hit by a fresh row today after its ruling NEC said union members will not be able to vote in the leadership contest unless they joined before January 12.

ED MILIBAND yesterday vowed to unite the party after his knife - edge victory in the leadership contest.

As deputy leader I will be assuming his responsibilities with immediate effect, and over the next 48 hours will obviously be consulting colleagues - but I can confirm today that I intend to be candidate in the leadership contest that is to follow.

As incumbent leader, Mr Corbyn is guaranteed a place on the ballot in a leadership contest following the vote.

If those who seek to take his place think the route to victory in the leadership contest is Continuity Miliband with a different accent or gender, or with a higher level of emotional connection, they will consign Labour to another defeat.

«The fact that the party has suspended a high profile trade union member is bound to have a «chilling effect» on other members who may support one candidate or the other in the leadership contest and who may express critical political opinion or comments concerning one or both of the two leadership candidates.

But if Labour loses, neither may feature in the leadership contest that would follow.

Labour must not «move back», former Prime Minister Tony Blair warned as a poll put left - winger Jeremy Corbyn ahead in the leadership contest.