Sentences with phrase «local constituency labour»

Local Constituency Labour Parties - including that of Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna in Streatham - have passed protest motions and are up in arms.

Graf has taken a tour of local constituency Labour parties (CLPs) to find out their concerns — and rightly so.

A leaked document purporting to comprise Unite's «political strategy» last week, suggested that the union «flood» the local constituency Labour parties with Unite members, which would be marshalled by central command, with the aim of delivering the union's strategy within the party.

But the 25 - year - old failed to win the backing of her local constituency Labour party of Eastwood in Renfrewshire last night, meaning she can no longer run.

He insisted that Labour would fight May's «extreme Brexit» and said he had been visiting local constituency Labour parties across the country and speaking to thousands of members and supporters, «so I know how strongly people feel about Brexit».

Watson claims that these groups — previously known as Militant and Socialist Organiser — are using the methods used by Militant in the 1980s to take control of local constituency Labour parties (CLPs).

Not exact matches

The chair of the communities and local government committee, whose Sheffield South East constituency borders Rotherham, said the failure to implement child protection policies means at least one officer should join Labour's council leader Roger Stone in losing their job.

As a result, Graham is currently working on a play about Labour, set at the local constituency level.

Voters are warming to the idea of an Ed Miliband - led government, and Labour is contacting more voters in local constituencies.

In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.

Having spent the last few days consulting with local people in my constituency and considering in detail the evidence and proposals from the Government I am very saddened to have received the following message from someone who says they are a Labour Party member but not clear where from.

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

Labour MPs representing metropolitan constituencies may want to adopt an anti-Brexit stance, but MPs for constituencies in the North and Midlands which voted Leave will be keen to reflect local opinion.

The six constituency NEC places are also being elected this year, with nominations by local Labour Parties being made up until 24 June and ballot papers being sent to all members around 7 July.

Local Labour MP Lucy Powell said she had not been invited to the event in her own constituency.

Doubtless Labour, whose support fell by five points, will argue that it had its own particular local difficulties in Copeland — the party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, used at least to be antipathetic to the nuclear power industry, on which the constituency is heavily dependent.

In 2007 Livingston and Edinburgh East were part of the SNP growth in constituency wins, with Angela Constance becoming a new MSP and Kenny MacAskill moving from the regional list, replacing Susan Deacon who stood down that year, her Labour successor Norman Murray, an unpopular local councillor, finishing second, with 1,382 fewer votes.

Winning lots of new councillors will revitalise local constituency parties up and down the country and help rebuild a Labour campaign machine that rusted and fell apart over thirteen years in power.

While the party had fared especially well in the more working class parts of the city at the 2009 Local and European elections and the 2011 General Election, Labour actually fared (slightly) better in the more middle class Dublin constituencies at the 2014 Local Elections than they did in the more working class electoral areas.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

For the last two years the Refounding Labour funds, established with membership subscriptions, have been channelled into key seats, but after the election constituencies will again be able to bid for support for projects to improve local organisation or enhance democracy and diversity.

Labour did not contest roughly twenty percent of the constituencies at these local elections.

Branches and party councils organise the Party's local activity including selecting candidates, campaigning and liaising with Constituency Labour Parties.

So henceforth, the Labour Party will establish standard constituency agreements with each trade union so that nobody can allege that individuals are being put under pressure at local level.

[3] In September 2007, the Easington Constituency Labour Party (CLP) selected local councillor and CLP secretary Grahame Morris as their candidate for the 2010 election.

John Bell the local candidate was selected for Clwyd South, John stood for the Constituency in the Welsh Assembly Elections achieving a 6.6 % swing from Labour to Conservatives and increased our share of the vote by 10.2 % whilst increasing the Conservative vote by some 60 %.

With Ed Miliband as the leader of the opposition party, the adoption of an expansionist visit strategy has the potential to boost Labour's local vote share — a factor that may be key in marginal constituencies.

But in the ongoing centrally - controlled selection in Edmonton, sources tell us local members and elected constituency Labour party (CLP) officers have specifically requested an all - women shortlist.

Stella has been working for Labour alongside local activists and community campaign groups for many years as an active member of our Walthamstow constituency, whether as a branch secretary, GC delegate, LGC delegate or a campaign organiser.

Ian McKenzie, chair of the Lewisham East constituency Labour party, had written to local members during the week urging them to make their feelings about the selection date known to senior officials.

As the Mail reported at the weekend, Mr Lyon has also just passed on his file on the complaint made by Tory MP Greg Hands a year ago about Gordon Brown's failure to declare his subletting of part of a constituency office to his local Labour Party.

A progressive boycott of Labour party conference by local constituency parties has been revealed in figures presented to Labour's National Executive yesterday.

Shadow Chancellor Mr McDonnell claimed there were «unique circumstances» in the constituency because of the local economy's dependence on the nuclear industry, and said Labour «couldn't cut through» on that issue.

In a 2009 article on MPs» expenses, we said «senior Labour sources» had predicted that Shahid Malik MP, who had stepped down as justice minister pending an investigation into his renting a flat in his Dewsbury constituency from a local businessman, would not return to government and that the prime minister, Gordon Brown, had «lost confidence in Malik».

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

John Slinger was a member of the Labour Party from 1991 until September 2016, was previously a member of the party's National Parliamentary Panel, Vice-Chair of a Constituency Labour Party, a local election candidate and researcher to Labour MPs in the House of Commons between 2003 - 2006.

, appeared to be using his parliamentary expenses to employ a local Labour councillor as his «Constituency Political Secretary».

John Mann, a Labour MP who has led calls for her resignation, will attend a meeting in the culture secretary's constituency of Basingstoke to hear the concerns of local voters.

The local communities which make up the new constituency have been badly let down by the Labour Party both locally and nationally - the resounding defeat last month of Labour's Congestion Charge is just the latest example of how out - of - touch Labour have become from the concerns of residents.

They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman's «pink bus» but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates» returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, «used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies — at a cost of # 35,000».

However, it bodes well for Iain that the Conservatives were calculated to hold a lead of 12 % over Labour across the new constituency at the 2008 local elections.

Kendall, a former Labour leadership candidate who is well regarded by the party's right wing, has a majority of just over 7,000 in her Leicester West constituency, but local Tories say they are hopeful of taking the seat.

Presumably if the local labour party had worked the ward in the council elections, there would now be no Lib Dem councillors in this constituency.

We need closer links with Labour local councillors, a more coordinated way of discussing policy across the UK involving members in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and we need to look again at local structures to ensure we learn from the many vibrant and growing constituency parties across the country.

An electoral alliance survives to this day between the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party, which fields Labour Co-operative candidates in general elections in several constituencies, and in some local council elections.

Earlier, Mr Miliband received a standing ovation from union members, constituency MPs and members of local parties from around the country at London's ExCel centre, as he urged them to «seize» the chance to change Labour.

Among his targets were Michelle Mone («a laughable vulgarian»); Labour's Dave Watts (a «leery drongo»); Anne McIntosh, former Tory MP for Thirsk & Malton «who so impressed her local constituency party that it dumped her»; former party official Emma Pidding («a busy - bee activist whose orangey lipstick has long been an annual wonder on stage at Tory party conferences»).