Sentences with phrase «last leadership election»

The turnout in last leadership election suggests otherwise.

In fact, during the last leadership election for Jeremy Corbyn, and at many of his rallies in this campaign, I was repeatedly taken by how many teachers and nurses and fire - fighters and doctors I came across.

The political debate from both left and right was extraordinarily thin in the last leadership election.

In its place will be an arguably more democratic «one member, one vote» system, which — had it been in place for the last leadership election would have almost certainly chosen David Miliband over Ed.

They signed up in their droves to vote in the last leadership election, but will they back Corbyn again?

Based on the numbers who voted in the last leadership election a 10 % opt - in rate would have been optimistic, and an immediate 90 % cut in affiliation fees would have left the party unable to function, with no corresponding reduction in Tory funding.

In the 12 months since Corbyn was elected by a huge majority, buoyed by a flood of new members and supporters (who paid # 3 to vote in the last leadership election), there has been almost constant arguing.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is known to three quarters (74 %) of Britons whilst 60 % have heard of former shadow foreign secretary Hillary Benn (whose sacking triggered Labour's last leadership election).

Our raw data finds that slightly more people who voted in the last leadership election backed Ed Miliband rather than his brother David, even though David won more votes among individual party members.

Margaret Mullane, secretary of the CLP in Dagenham and Rainham, which Labour holds, said: «The CLP voted overwhelmingly for Jeremy at the last leadership election and we have been ringing up members regularly and I get the impression nothing has changed.»

BBC Newsnight has found out of 50 chairs and secretaries of local Labour parties who supported Mr Corbyn in the last leadership election, 45 would back him again.

He defected from UKIP to the Conservatives in 2011, despite having been the main author of the UKIP 2010 General Election manifesto, and having finished third in UKIP's last leadership election, behind Nigel Farage and Tim Congdon.

Mr Miliband won the last leadership election largely thanks to support from unions, but Mr McCluskey said he suspected only 10 % of its one million members affiliated to Labour would opt to stay in if asked now.

Less than 23 percent of the 40,000 members of United Teachers of Los Angeles cast ballots in the final round of voting for union president in 2011, the union's last leadership election.