Sentences with phrase «leadership elections»

With the results of the Scottish Conservative party leadership elections expected later today, David Cameron has paid tribute to outgoing leader Annabel Goldie, and her contributions to both Scotland and the party.

Once they have said yes to their union, they can be contacted by Labour to become an affiliated supporter with a vote in leadership elections and a right to attend constituency meetings.

Affiliated supporters will be able to vote in leadership elections and in the London mayoral primary next summer, but not in parliamentary selection contests.

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.

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

With commentators and bloggers already discussing Mr Brown's likely successor, Mr Cable responded: «Given his own position the prime minister might not be wise to speculate about leadership elections.»

Members of the public can pay # 3 to confirm their support for Labour's values, and in return are permitted to vote in leadership elections.

An immediate priority might be reforming the rules for leadership elections!

This requirement for positive consent is a change: trade unionists were previously automatically entitled to vote in Labour leadership elections.

On the payment of a small registration fee (the level of which has not yet been decided), they too could vote in leadership elections.

National Executive Committee, 13 May 2015 This special executive was called to consider the arrangements for Labour's leadership and deputy - leadership elections.

Many of that large majority will not vote and of those who do, it is worth noting that in the last two leadership elections they have voted for candidates not supported by the majority of the PLP.

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than -LSB-...]

Tom Quinn's research interests include British party politics, the UK coalition agreement, leadership elections, and the Labour Party's relationship with the trade unions.

After two bruising leadership elections in less than two years, the second of which strengthened Corbyn's position, there's not much chance of anyone being willing to trigger a third attempt to remove Labour's increasingly embattled leader.

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.

Congratulations to Kez Dugdale and Alex Rowley on winning the Scottish Labour leadership elections.

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

«I have a live and current understanding and experience of the changes in the party, both from the two leadership elections and the general election where I was out on the doorstep with all of these new members,» says McKeever, who missed out on the Commons by just 1159 votes.

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

«We've had two leadership elections in the space of 18 months, we just can't make that our focus right now,» she says.

The ringleader of the Catholic doctrine posse, in Sullivan's view, is Denver's Archbishop Charles Chaput, one of «a handful of the most extreme bishops» who had «targeted Kerry in 2004 but [had] become marginalized in the bishops» conference ¯ losing key leadership elections — in part because of his extreme views about denying Communion to politicians.»

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D - NY) talks to journalist after attending the Senate Democrat party leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S. November 16, 2016.

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

His lack of experience could hold him back, but the MSP for Central Scotland is a member of the Campaign for Socialism and his support for Corbyn could see him surprise many in the leadership election.

The protests in Hong Kong were sparked when Beijing rejected a proposal for open nominations of candidates for Hong Kong's first - ever leadership election in 2017, meaning all candidates will continue to be picked by a panel that is mostly aligned with Beijing.

Some members of the party's national council are calling for a leadership election as early as May 2016, which would give an advantage to members who are already well - organized.

Ukip will face a fresh leadership election within 90 days after Mr Bolton lost the no confidence motion.

Democrats postponed their leadership election until Nov. 30 after junior lawmakers demanded more time to digest the party's disappointing Election Day showing, a warning shot at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

The piece notes the possibility of a leadership election, but what other things could I do in practice and within the law, were I able to find enough like - minded people to join me in that effort?

That process began with the 2005 leadership election campaign.

Heath became the Conservative Party's first elected leader in 1965, a reign brought to an end by Margaret Thatcher in a tumultuous party leadership election in February 1975.

And the ongoing row over a cut - off date for the leadership election led to McDonnell attacking the «small clique» on the National Executive Committee that was trying to restrict the vote to members who had signed up before 12 January.

His campaign had previously suggested there were «thousands» of Tories who had infiltrated the leadership election and suggested he could mount a legal challenge against a Corbyn win.

We think this the largest field operation that any political campaign has had in a leadership election in the history of British politics.»

The next event was the Labour leadership election in which Jeremy Corbyn sought a fresh mandate from his beleaguered party.

As Dan Hodges (rightly, for once) has pointed out, a leadership election before 2015 is most unlikely - maybe because of cost.

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.

It comes as 180,541 people have applied to become registered Labour supporters to take part in the party's leadership election - netting the cash - strapped party a cool # 4.5 million.

It was a pledge originally made in his leadership election campaign at a time when his victory over rival David Davis was far from certain.

Amongst the bitter mud slinging of Labour's leadership election it is prescient to assess the party's recent engagement with the NHS and ask why the gamble did not pay off.

Embattled UK opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will stand in any new party leadership election amid calls for his resignation in light of the referendum result.

With only 56 % of the party membership taking part in the leadership election, the need to energise the grass roots has never been a higher priority.

In its official response to the Ukip leadership election, Labour opted to focus on Nuttall's previous comments about the NHS.

I am not happy to disinter the leadership election which his long past.»

Now that we have been rushed into a leadership contest, there is an urgent need for those MPs who see themselves as democratic socialists (of whatever hue) to get together at a meeting in the Commons to agree on a candidate for the leadership election.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

This leadership election is, again, a battle between idealism and pragmatism, principle and power.

Owen Smith has tried to stress his left wing credentials after the path was cleared for him to stand as the sole candidate against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election.

These MPs will have ambitions of climbing the greasy pole and may have chosen to back Remain to satisfy Cameron or may have chosen to sit on the fence in case a Leave candidate such as Boris Johnson or Priti Patel wins the leadership election.