Sentences with phrase «of leadership hustings»

Ahead of a leadership hustings debate at the Local Government Association conference this week, Mr Miliband even pledged to invite Labour's local government leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected party leader.

As a method of finding answers to the calamity of May 7, the current series of leadership hustings are simply not fit for purpose.

Not exact matches

However, there was little sign of unity among their supporters this afternoon as they took part in their first leadership hustings.

In a lively hustings, the Potypridd MP went to war over Europe, the «futility» of Corbyn's leadership, his inability to win key seats... and T - shirts.

In fourth place is our review of this week's first televised hustings for the Labour leadership contest.

The Labour leader sat in the aisle of the London to Newcastle service on 11 August as he made his way to a leadership hustings event with Owen Smith.

Mr Corbyn and Mr Smith will go head - to - head in their first hustings of the leadership campaign next week, The result of the election will be announced on 24 September.

Following hustings, the Labour party will convene a special conference to formally declare the result of the leadership contest.

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:

On Wednesday night Paul wrote about Channel Four's Labour leadership hustings and concisely concluded what each of the candidates was about.

People in Nuneaton shown photos of the Labour leadership hopefuls struggle to name them, as the contenders hold a hustings in the town

On the evening of 9 June, just hours after nominations for the Labour leadership closed, the New Statesman hosted the first official leadership hustings at Church House in Westminster.

As the New Statesman hustings showed, the battle for the leadership of the Labour Party has at its h

Ed Balls was in good form at last night's Labour leadership hustings at the TUC conference, producing a string of jokes which rather suggested that he thinks the contest is all over as far as he's concerned.

The last Labour leadership contest was dull, dull, dull: dominated by seemingly endless staid hustings where contenders took it in turns to answer one worthy question after another from audiences made up of loyal party members.

Mr Corbyn is set to address the Parliamentary Labour Party today at hustings ahead of this summer's leadership campaign.

But in a letter to Mr Corbyn and Mr McNicol last week, Mr Smith called for leadership hustings to be staged in each region of the UK.

David Miliband has warned Labour could be out of power for years as he made his bid for the party leadership at the final hustings before September's vote.

In the Summer of 2010, I drove Emily Thornberry to speak on Ed Milibands behalf at A leadership hustings, at Hornchurch and Upminster CLP in Essex, with Mike Gapes representing David Miliband, my reason for Backing Ed Miliband was he was aware and David didn't understand how un popular we were with the Public, following on from the Expenses scandal, Gordon Browns Comments, that Mrs Duffy's view on Immigration was dismissed by him as «that bigoted woman» and our obsession with the middle class.

IDS beat him out of sight at the hustings meetings in their leadership election.

The hustings came as Conservative MPs who support all three remaining leadership candidates are urging the party to speed up the contest so a new prime minister is chosen by the end of the month.

Labour has done nowhere near enough to address the basic charge of economic mismanagement; from the ludicrously long leadership hustings, which allowed the coalition government an unrivalled opportunity to set the political narrative for four whole months, to Balls» stupid delight in his «flat - lining» gesture, the damage has been done and is yet to be repaired.