Sentences with phrase «on leadership ballot»

Mr Corbyn will be on the leadership ballot paper, and Angela Eagle has already declared that she is running against him.

The Corbyn - supporting Abbott said her party's embattled leader must be on any leadership ballot as she played down talk of splits within the party and reports of political «Armageddon».

July 12 - Labour's national executive committee rules that Jeremy Corbyn should automatically appear on the leadership ballot.

But she faces a battle to win enough nominations to get her name on the leadership ballot.»

The left will have confirmation this week that any successor to Corbyn will be of their ilk, when a motion is passed to reduce the threshold from 15 % to 10 % for the number of MPs» votes needed to get on the leadership ballot paper (the difficulty for the left is getting backing from MPs, not from the members who ultimately chose the leader).

JEREMY Corbyn has won his bid to personally fight a legal action aimed at overturning the Labour Party's decision to guarantee him a place on the leadership ballot.

Jeremy Corbyn tells his MPs: Stop the sniping and get behind me Jeremy Corbyn attacks New Labour over financial crash Jeremy Corbyn warns Labour plotters he WILL be on leadership ballot paper

Good that MPs have put Jeremy Corbyn on the leadership ballot.

Mr Balls, who could finish fourth behind the Milibands and Diane Abbott, has yet to say who he will put as his second preference on the leadership ballot.

Not exact matches

In a secret ballot on 23 June 2015, Yindjibarndi people throughout the State voted by an overwhelming two - thirds majority for change in the management and leadership of Yindjibarndi Native Title business.

Butcher confirmed that the investigation found voting irregularities in the leadership contest that resulted in Clark defeating Kevin Falcon by 340 points on a regionally - weighted preferential ballot.

Unlike previous PC leadership races, according to recently changed party rules, if no candidate earns a majority of votes on the first ballot, only the first and second candidate move to the second ballot vote.

Mr. Johnston was the only MLA to support Ms. Redford on the first ballot of the PC leadership vote.

Both Minister Morton and Minister Lukaszuk supported Mr. Mar on the final ballot of the PC leadership contest.

Both Mr. Horne and Mr. Liepert were strong supporters of Mr. Mar in the leadership contest and would have likely ended up in similar positions had he not been defeated on the third ballot vote on October 1.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

A deputies» union on Thursday announced that 85 percent of its members who voted — 534 out of 628 — cast ballots expressing «no confidence» in the sheriff's leadership.

Yeah but you people actually let your extremists fill the parties leadership slots, what policies you push, and which names you put on your ballot.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Campaigning for the Ukip leadership will take place throughout August with ballot papers being issued on September 1.

If Levy fails to get onto the ballot, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox's hold on his leadership post will likely be further imperiled.

Both resigned after failing to defeat a challenge to their leadership on the first ballot.

As Brown prepared for Prime Minister's Questions, the former Cabinet ministers circulated a letter among colleagues calling for a secret ballot on his leadership.

«The full scale of the backlash against two former cabinet ministers» failed bid to initiate a secret ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership started to emerge today.

Boris is likely to have an ebuillient confidence that he would win the party leadership if ever he was one of two candidates on that members» ballot paper.

The leadership hopeful said: «I'm pleased the court has done the right thing and ruled that Jeremy should be on the ballot.

The vote is likely to trigger a leadership contest — but whether Corbyn will automatically get a place on the ballot is unclear as nobody knows for sure what they party rules are.

The National Executive Committee's decision to allow Corbyn to be automatically included on the ballot for the leadership may have given the party a breather.

On 6 January 2010, Field was one of the few Labour MPs to back Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt's calls for a secret ballot of the Parliamentary Labour Party with regard to the leadership of Gordon Brown.

Secondly, if there is a leadership challenge against Corbyn, the NEC decides whether he is automatically on the ballot paper, or not.

The continued need for major reform whether it's at the ballot box, on criminal justice issues, or reproductive health, reflects a failure of leadership at all levels.

Few could have anticipated the surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn, who after getting on to the Labour leadership ballot by the skin of his teeth has become remarkably popular among his party's grassroots.

The Labour leadership candidate, who has built his campaign on his ability to attract votes from the Liberal Democrats, said he would «make sure he is punished at the ballot box» for joining government with the Conservatives.

When there is a vacancy at the top, leadership candidates need the support of 15 % of MPs and MEPs in order to get on the ballot of members.

Those against him can not act because they've tried everything up to and including a leadership challenge and everything so far has failed; those on his side can not put someone keener to lead into the role because despite their strength in the party, they know that were Corbyn to go, their next candidate wouldn't make it to the ballot.

The landslide victory is a boost for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who earned mixed reviews for his first showing at the ballot box, with critics warning «the clock is ticking» on his leadership.

Jeremy Corbyn this morning suggested he might take legal action against Labour's National Executive Committee if he is denied a place on the ballot in the forthcoming leadership contest.

On Wednesday, Rushanara Ali, the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, dropped out of the deputy leadership race at the eleventh hour, allowing her supporters to give their nominations to other candidates who were struggling to get the 35 required to get on the balloOn Wednesday, Rushanara Ali, the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, dropped out of the deputy leadership race at the eleventh hour, allowing her supporters to give their nominations to other candidates who were struggling to get the 35 required to get on the balloon the ballot.

A huge row is being teed up between Mr Corbyn, his supporters and the rest of the party over whether he would automatically be on the ballot paper in a leadership contest.

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

His rival for the top job, Owen Smith, said the High Court has «done the right thing» by backing the decision to put Mr Corbyn on the ballot for the leadership.

Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC's Andrew Marr show he would launch a legal challenge against Labour's National Executive Committee if it decided he would not automatically be on the ballot paper in a leadership challenge.

Tomorrow's NEC meeting will rule on whether the Labour leader will need to get nominations from 51 MPs so he can stand in the leadership election, or whether he goes on the ballot automatically.

She told ITV's Peston on Sunday: «He will have to find nominations, I am ready to have a leadership contest and a debate with whoever's on the ballot.»

But a huge row is being teed up between Mr Corbyn, his supporters and the rest of the party over whether he would automatically be on the ballot paper in a leadership contest.

Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest after a legal challenge to force him to collect the backing of MPs was rejected by a High Court judge.

Jeremy Corbyn addressed thousands of supporters in London after finding out his name will be on the ballot paper in Labour's leadership contest.

[274] However, he was less unpopular with eurosceptics than Clarke, and on the third ballot of the subsequent leadership election Clarke, facing imminent defeat by William Hague, offered to stand aside in Heseltine's favour, but he declined on medical advice.

In a challenge to his internal critics, a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said today: «Our view is that the leader of the Labour party is on the ballot paper if there's a leadership election.»

Emails from irate Labour MPs obtained by LabourList show extent of dismay at yesterday's call for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership