Sentences with phrase «parliamentary selections»

We are entering a brave new world in parliamentary selections, this is the second time we have run an all - postal primary which really does give power to the people.

I have never been in favour of all women short - lists for parliamentary selections.

Just wondering: why isn't there any on the various parliamentary selections going on?

That is why we will also urgently agree new spending limits for Parliamentary selections to include for the first time all spending by outside organisations.

This morning Sir Menzies announced a # 200,000 fund to support ethnic minority and female candidates in parliamentary selection process.

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 next battle is fought in the minefields of parliamentary selections where the unions take no prisoners, arming and provisioning candidates to beat anybody, including Momentum.

Such as in future Parliamentary selections where a sitting MP is retiring and where the local party has dwindled, and a primary could make for a more properly representative selection process.

The unions have been accused of subsidising members to win Labour parliamentary selections, as the Unite union was accused of seeking to do in the Falkirk constituency.

The latter would give the right to participate in Labour's leadership election, though not parliamentary selections.

Georgian parliamentary selection has two categories: seats allocated on the proportion of votes gained by the various parties, and seats allocated by plurality of votes in territorially defined majoritarian districts.

The higher education minister David Lammy has mooted introducing primaries as a way of making parliamentary selection more open, and to involve the public.

(We have almost no Christian Democrats in Britain: the Chris Patten wing of the Tory party having been organised out in parliamentary selections over the last decade by a generation which is much more Eurosceptic than many people notice).

Removing rights of selection for Westminster is advanced in the consultation document on parliamentary selections which will go to this year's Labour Party conference for endorsement.

It's about our Parliament being more representative and more effective at making the decisions that have an impact far beyond the niceties of parliamentary selection procedures.

In the middle of a leadership election and in the first weeks of what could be a five - year fixed term parliament, it may seem too early to be talking about parliamentary selections.

Suggesting this is also appropriate for Party parliamentary selections really does begin to question the value of membership and affiliation.

They elected a new party chairman, Gray Allan, and once again the party attempted to move on from the disastrous parliamentary selection process.

Because of these failings, Labour has also failed in its obligation to run local and parliamentary selection contests in a way that commands the confidence of voters.

Back in January, Labour's national executive gave the go - ahead to 26 parliamentary selection processes, all in southern England and the Midlands.

Trade unions are to resist proposals backed by Ed Miliband to block them from spending more than # 50 to support a favoured candidate in a Labour parliamentary selection.

But Burnham certainly can not assume that Corbyn will be the next eliminated, and even if he was, those Corbyn voters who did transfer would split between Cooper and Burnham anyway — many see little to chose between them and may well favour a female candidate who, unlike Burnham, doesn't now say the last Labour government was guilty of overspending nor advocate primaries for parliamentary selections.

Labour's national executive met today with a row brewing over a handful of parliamentary selections where the current MP is retiring.

His support for open primaries, for instance, could be used to undermine the trade union link and empower business sponsorship of candidates, as seen in the US and increasingly in Britain, with David Sainsbury's Blairite group Progress already training and sponsoring candidates in parliamentary selections.

«I genuinely felt this, in 2015 I didn't do that well in parliamentary selections, I felt that someone had marked my card or something like that.

These doctors have managed to persuade the old political parties that all - women shortlists should be employed in parliamentary selections and the Labour party that they have to have a woman either as party leader or deputy.

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The current row between Progress and Unite is really about class politics and union influence — not one parliamentary selection in Scotland.

«They've only won three of the 16 parliamentary selections contested so far,» adds Akehurst.

He, like rival political parties and hostile voices in the media, continually questions the role of trade unions and of their members within our party — in parliamentary selections, in policy - making, and in electing the leader.

In the only substantive change agreed on Tuesday, the NEC removed a plan to impose a spending cap of # 50 on the amount a trade union can spend in support of a candidate in a parliamentary selection contest.

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General secretary Iain McNicol reported that parliamentary selections were virtually complete.

Emails also suggested he was instrumental in ensuring the initial investigation into claims Deans had attempted to fix the parliamentary selection process for the seat.

Rochester & Strood also held a campaign day for candidates last November following their parliamentary selection being postponed in June.

Given this is in one of the few remaning notional Conservative seats not to have selected their Parliamentary Candidate, we anticipate there will be many willing volunteers, especially as he Parliamentary selection is scheduled to start towards the end of May.

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Its report says: «The inquiry recognises that quotas in politics are not universally accepted; indeed only the Labour party has used them in the form of all - women shortlists for parliamentary selections.