Sentences with phrase «kept off the ballot papers»

A successful coup requires a rigged leadership election, with Corbyn kept off the ballot paper.

The Labour leader has previously won the award in 2001, 2007, 2011, 2012 (shared), 2014, 2015 and 2016, but was kept off the ballot papers this time around «to allow new Parliamentary beards to make their mark».

Meanwhile, the candidate for whom I voted in the leadership election and who won an incredible 60 % mandate with over a quarter of a million votes is subject to an attempt to keep him off the ballot paper.

She must have been assured that he will be kept off the ballot paper.

One Boris - supporting MP said on Tuesday: «Downing Street loyalists are trying to run an establishment stitch - up to keep him off the ballot paper.

One Boris - supporting MP said: «Downing Street loyalists are trying to run an establishment stitch - up to keep him off the ballot paper.

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Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than Tony Blair, and two more than Gordon Brown, was widely expected from the beginning of the contest, with Labour's self - styled «moderates» seemingly reliant on keeping Corbyn off the ballot paper, something they failed to do in July's NEC meeting.

Any attempts to keep Jeremy Corbyn, elected just 10 months ago with an enormous mandate, off the ballot paper by legal means risks a lasting division in the party.

Persaud also declined to comment, but a lawyer for her campaign, Frank Carone, said he plans to file legal papers seeking to keep Pierre off the ballot.