Sentences with phrase «leadership contest began»

The Labour leadership contest began in earnest with the New Statesman debate at Church House in Westminster on 9 June.

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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.

If and when he and his party wield power again will depend on whether the contest for its leadership really does begin Labour's renewal.

As the Labour Party begins its leadership contest, it may be a faux pas to mention Karl Marx.

A committee of Labour's ruling body set a cap of # 156,000 for each leadership contender — equivalent to # 1 for each party member registered at the time the contest began.

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

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.

I began Labour's leadership contest by believing that Ed Miliband was the best of the candidates.

The Labour leadership contest had just begun and the government's welfare bill was coming up for a vote at second reading.

A spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn has said voting is about to begin at the National Executive Committee on whether he needs the nominations of 51 MPs and MEPs to stand in the leadership contest.

It showed that not since modern polling methods began in the 1950s has Labour been so far behind a year after a leadership contest.