Sentences with phrase «in leadership elections»

Union members will be able to pay # 3 to affiliate to the Labour Party, giving them - if they choose - the same right to vote in leadership elections as full party members, who pay # 45 a year.

The Labour leader's comments came as he hosted a special conference in London where delegates will vote on ending the automatic affiliation of trade union members and introducing «one member, one vote» in leadership elections.

In the leadership elections last year Eagle was recommended for deputy leader by the CLPD.

But there is no evidence that he is better placed to succeed David Cameron than Michael Gove or Theresa May or the unexpected candiate who pops up in leadership elections and usually wins.

«The Canadian liberals engaged all their registered supporters — their voters — as well as their members in leadership elections and candidate selection.

Watson has proposed abolishing the registered supporters system, under which those who are not party members can have a say in leadership elections in return for a payment.

«You'll be eligible to vote in leadership elections».

Simon Hughes had been the previous standard bearer in the leadership elections in 1999 and 2006.

Lawyers for the five - Christine Evangelou, the Rev Edward Leir, Hannah Fordham, Chris Granger and «FM», a teenage member - had argued the NEC had no power under the rules to retrospectively freeze a full member's ability to vote in leadership elections.

It is hard to forgive Michael Howard for trying to scrap our vote in leadership elections and David Cameron for stopping us from deselecting Europhile M.E.P.s

There will also be a system or registered supporters, people who are not full members of the Labour Party, who can also then take part in those leadership elections.

Alan Milburn, the former Health Secretary, says that only full party members should be allowed a vote in leadership elections and that the unions should no longer have a «structural relationship» with Labour.

Labour say this will make their party a mass - membership institution with individual union members choosing to affiliate to the party and having a say in leadership elections - one member one vote - instead of unions acting on their behalf.

Delegates voted to end the automatic affiliation of trade union members and introduce a «one member, one vote» system in leadership elections.

Once they have said yes to their union, they can be contacted by Labour to become an affiliated supporter with a vote in leadership elections and a right to attend constituency meetings.

Affiliated supporters will be able to vote in leadership elections and in the London mayoral primary next summer, but not in parliamentary selection contests.

Members of the public can pay # 3 to confirm their support for Labour's values, and in return are permitted to vote in leadership elections.

On the payment of a small registration fee (the level of which has not yet been decided), they too could vote in leadership elections.

Most attention normally focuses on who can vote in leadership elections but the rules on entering a contest in the first place are just as important.

The decision to hold a referendum, changing how members can vote in leadership elections, the butterfly effect of political whim and political will.

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

His lack of experience could hold him back, but the MSP for Central Scotland is a member of the Campaign for Socialism and his support for Corbyn could see him surprise many in the leadership election.

We think this the largest field operation that any political campaign has had in a leadership election in the history of British politics.»

It was a pledge originally made in his leadership election campaign at a time when his victory over rival David Davis was far from certain.

With only 56 % of the party membership taking part in the leadership election, the need to energise the grass roots has never been a higher priority.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

This idea would probably have been badly received had it been put forward in the leadership election and might well have cost Clegg his very narrow victory.

It was the NEC that chose to interpret Labour's constitution favourably for Corbyn when it ruled that, as the incumbent, he automatically qualified as a candidate in the leadership election.

The worry was that his reluctant participation in the leadership election would send the wrong message to voters.

Alan Milburn and Margaret Hodge both call for the party to deprieve the unions of a say in the leadership election, without whom, of course, Miliband would not have won.

«Now many more members will have the chance to vote in the leadership election, I am today calling for an extension of the timetable so that all members have the opportunity to engage with Jeremy and me before making their choice.»

In order to find out, we compare these two groups: older members (pre-GE2015) and newer members (who joined after May 2015 but before January 2016 and were therefore eligible to vote in the leadership election).

Though Corbyn's polling is diabolical and the likelihood of Labour winning an election under his leadership is slim, that does not mean Smith will defeat him in the leadership election.

Yet in a leadership election in which, though Corbyn can be expected to win comfortably, the result is not yet known, what are the stakes?

Labour's current rule book, as revised last year, gives a veto to MPs and MEPs over who can stand in a leadership election.

Clegg was replaced by Tim Farron, who was elected in the leadership election.

Constituency Labour Party nominations in the leadership election closed yesterday, with Jeremy Corbyn securing 285 CLPs, 84.3 % of all those that made nominations, compared to Owen Smith's 53, or 15.7 % of the total.

Power in the leadership election now resides entirely with the party members.

In far more detail Paul Mason has made a detailed analysis of the problems in which he describes Corbyn's leadership as «shambolic» before going on to propose a way forward and making clear that he is supporting Corbyn in the leadership election.

As a result he was not able to be a candidate in the leadership election of 1983 which he may well have won.

Whoever plans to stand in this leadership election, the very best of luck to them.

Lansman is referring to the Blairite organisation that, he says, was able to command only a tiny share of internal Labour support by 2015, as evidenced by Liz Kendall's miserable 4.5 % of first - preference votes in the leadership election.

Even on the old system, 60 % of Unite members did not vote for me in the leadership election, although they were recommended to do so.

In August 2015, it was revealed that Loughton was amongst a number of supporters of other political parties who had paid # 3 to register to join the Labour Party in an attempt to participate in its leadership election.

• I am a trade union member, and as my trade union is affiliated to the Labour party, I was told I would have a vote in the leadership election.

If Serwotka is not to be seen as hypocritical, I challenge him to introduce a rule change which will enable supporters to vote in the leadership election of the PCS by paying # 3 and stating they support the aims and objectives of the trade union movement.

Tomorrow's NEC meeting will rule on whether the Labour leader will need to get nominations from 51 MPs so he can stand in the leadership election, or whether he goes on the ballot automatically.

One source told me that early in a leadership election all that matters is numbers.

• I have been hearing Harriet Harman making claims that the scrutiny of the people registered to vote in the leadership election was proper and within the party rules.

Talking to politics.co.uk, the Labour leadership candidate insisted he was running «the largest field operation that any political campaign has had in a leadership election in the history of British politics».