Sentences with phrase «leadership ballot papers»

Labour leadership ballot papers will be issued by the Electoral Reform Society so unions can not try to skew the votes of their members, Harriet Harman is to say.

As leadership ballot papers are despatched, here's John Slinger with his top ten for a centre - left party that is serious about winning.

Jeremy Corbyn tells his MPs: Stop the sniping and get behind me Jeremy Corbyn attacks New Labour over financial crash Jeremy Corbyn warns Labour plotters he WILL be on leadership ballot paper

The left will have confirmation this week that any successor to Corbyn will be of their ilk, when a motion is passed to reduce the threshold from 15 % to 10 % for the number of MPs» votes needed to get on the leadership ballot paper (the difficulty for the left is getting backing from MPs, not from the members who ultimately chose the leader).

Mr Corbyn will be on the leadership ballot paper, and Angela Eagle has already declared that she is running against him.

Not exact matches

Campaigning for the Ukip leadership will take place throughout August with ballot papers being issued on September 1.

Boris is likely to have an ebuillient confidence that he would win the party leadership if ever he was one of two candidates on that members» ballot paper.

Labour moderates were left licking their wounds this afternoon after it was confirmed that Jeremy Corbyn will not be thrown off the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest.

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

Secondly, if there is a leadership challenge against Corbyn, the NEC decides whether he is automatically on the ballot paper, or not.

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.

Meanwhile, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell took a swipe at Mr Smith today, telling BBC News that former leadership candidate Angela Eagle was «forced off the ballot paper by pressure from Owen Smith's campaign».

YouGov said: «With the ballot papers out for the Labour leadership contest, Labour members will be dismayed to see the party's rating in the polls dipping below the 30 % mark once again.»

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.

Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC's Andrew Marr show he would launch a legal challenge against Labour's National Executive Committee if it decided he would not automatically be on the ballot paper in a leadership challenge.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest after a legal challenge to force him to collect the backing of MPs was rejected by a High Court judge.

Jeremy Corbyn addressed thousands of supporters in London after finding out his name will be on the ballot paper in Labour's leadership contest.

In a challenge to his internal critics, a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said today: «Our view is that the leader of the Labour party is on the ballot paper if there's a leadership election.»

«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,

Michael Meacher and John McDonnell both intend to challenge the chancellor for the leadership but it has been questioned whether they will have the support of 44 MPs necessary to appear on the ballot paper.

However, Corbyn's aides have insisted he will automatically be on the ballot paper if there is another leadership election, virtually guaranteeing him victory given his continued popularity with the party rank - and - file.

So why did Diane Abbott only make it onto the ballot paper through the intervention of David Miliband, who himself only backed her in an attempt to create a more diverse Labour leadership race?

Johanna Baxter hit out after the NEC voted by 18 - 14 in favour of putting Mr Corbyn straight onto the ballot paper for Labour's forthcoming leadership election.

«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.

As ballot papers go out for the Labour leadership election and after weeks of hustings, does it feel as though these are the people the party is talking about or talking to?

LabourList reports the disgusting remarks at a hustings of John McDonnell, the Left - wing candidate for the Labour leadership, who is unlikely to reach the ballot paper due to lack of support:

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.

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.

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.

The country's first Green MP is asking the leadership candidates to support her amendment to the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill so as to offer a PR option on the ballot paper in the forthcoming referendum.

In September 2010, the party issued 13,135 ballot papers to party members during the Labour Party (UK) leadership election.

However, Mr Corbyn's aides have insisted he will automatically be on the ballot paper if there is another leadership election, virtually guaranteeing him victory given his continued popularity with the party rank - and - file.

The ballot papers for the Conservative leadership election will be sent out next Friday, and conventional wisdom is that most party members will return them almost straightaway.

In short, whether Jeremy Corbyn is automatically included on the ballot paper in what seems like an inevitable leadership contest.

The Left (and more) will recognise her courage in ensuring Dianne Abbott was on the ballot paper and she has succeeded in ensuring that women are not marginalised in the way they (including Harriet herself) were under Gordon Brown's leadership and in the election campaign in particular.

How exactly does this square with even having an option on the ballot paper for taking no position on a leadership contest it described in May as «an essential opportunity for the party» to think «long and hard about how it renews and transforms itself in the years ahead»?

As ballot papers for Labour's leadership land on doorsteps this week, those electing the next Leader of the Opposition, namely party members, MPs and affiliated trades unionists have a duty not only to consider their party's best interests, but the country's best interests too.

Labour's Yvette Cooper says she can beat leading left - wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn to win the party's leadership election, as ballot papers begin to arrive.

Ballot papers to vote in the Labour leadership contest are being sent out to the 640,000 members and supporters who are eligible to vote.

AAAS section leadership also called for a comprehensive legal framework to augment a «necessary, but insufficient» paper ballot system and ensure the integrity of the paper trail.