Sentences with phrase «leadership election»

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

But rather than the election itself, it will most likely be the forthcoming Labour leadership election that will truly give birth to this blogging movement.

For the result may undermine my first rule of leadership elections - that the winner is usually the youngest candidate.

There are huge difficulties associated with this when it comes to winning leadership elections.

I actually voted for her 10 months ago in the deputy leadership election where she finished a poor fourth out of five, hardly a ringing endorsement of her election - winning qualities.

Two years ago, he was losing the Conservative leadership election until he got on his feet and delivered a speech that changed his destiny.

He said the contest - which saw him admitting to having both gay and heterosexual relationships after repeated media questioning - was «a really good leadership election campaign».

The election was the first held under the new leadership election rules that had been introduced in 1993, which included an element of one member, one vote.

We've just had our second leadership election within a year.

Also, I'm restricting the scope of the elections to public office, rather than leadership elections which may occur within private organizations.

Not only will you be able to vote in the upcoming leadership election, but you can have a say in forming our policy platform at party conferences as well as choosing local candidates.

I witnessed the 2010 leadership election process close up and thought I would be comfortable with what it involved.

And the current leadership election will likely trigger only more civil war for a party that seems to currently thrive on uncertainty and ambiguity.

Unlike previous leadership elections, this election was held on a one - person - one - vote basis.

This would be the most important leadership election in the party's history.

Individual voting in closed primary by party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters on same basis as national leadership election.

But among the new members, who make up half the membership allocated a vote in this latest leadership election, priorities are different.

What the members are looking for now is for this party to unite and come together - not necessarily a bloody leadership election campaign.

He would have a track record on making this type of progress and the fear of a divisive leadership election would be used to discourage rival candidates supporters declaring publicly.

Then we can have an enjoyable, positive leadership election that focuses on the future.

If there were a Conservative leadership election tomorrow, it's very hard to predict who would win.

My own research on leadership elections demonstrates that when parties are divided, they invariably choose leaders who offer unity.

Between them, the three main British parties have held 19 ordinary leadership elections since the war.

-LSB-...] leadership election is over, all eyes will be on the SNP over the coming weeks and months.

He shouldn't complain: he was always in favour of annual leadership elections.

In many local union chapters around the country, less than 20 % of current classroom teachers even vote in union leadership elections.

I want to thank the more than 300,000 members and supporters who have given me their support and trust in this Labour leadership election.

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.

In 1998, the system of leadership elections was altered to the present form, where MPs choose a shortlist of two candidates, who are then presented to the mass membership to choose.

The fee for any future leadership and deputy leadership election would be set when one is called.

After the second leadership election we all really pulled together.

Once we know the result of the Conservative leadership election, there may be an immediate general election, so we can not afford to wait.

That process began with the 2005 leadership election campaign.

As with the previous leadership election, the election was held under one - person - one - vote from an electorate of members, affiliated supporters and registered supporters.

That's even before the huge influx of members after the latest leadership election was announced.

«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.

Fairer votes would be fine, but the system we've got isn't critically unfair and, as a Labour party member, I can't get a nagging scene out of my head: the announcement of the result of the Labour leadership election last year, with the numbers from each stage of the voting flashing up on the big screen and no - one understanding quite what was happening or who was winning.

The two - term Texas Democrat supported Pelosi over Rep. Tim Ryan (D - Ohio) during leadership elections at the end of last November.

Gove came third in the first round of the Tory leadership election last night, with 48 votes, compared to 165 for Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom who polled 66.

Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour leadership election by a landslide, easily taking more than the other three candidates put together.

But in the next leadership election campaign, Susan Taylor accused Beck of failing to protect teachers and argued that the experiment should be curtailed.

Would he take on Corbyn in a future leadership election if the party has bad results in elections this year?

What other publication would think to link together the Conservative Party leadership election result and advances in maxillofacial surgery, and say so much as a result?

I do not think the threshold of one - eighth of all Labour MPs is unreasonable, and in 2007 the same threshold produced a deputy leadership election with six validly nominated candidates.

[3] Kassam contested the party's November 2016 leadership election before dropping out of the race on 31 October 2016.

MPs and MEPs, who collectively also have a third of the votes in leadership elections at present, will be relegated to a role in short - listing candidates.

The Green party is holding leadership elections for the first time in its history, with Euro MEP Caroline Lucas running against former star of The Bill, Ashley Gunstock.

During the subsequent leadership election on 20 November, he polled 152 votes (40.9 %) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory.

Once it has found its feet - CCHQ has published no timetable - it will also have the power to appoint an interim leader before leadership elections take place later in the year.