Sentences with phrase «party hustings»

Sunday will see the first Labour party hustings for the deputy leadership in Coventry - David Thompson will be taking the temperature live.

But yesterday's party hustings in Nuneaton showed that these fears were misplaced.

Not exact matches

He is quick to emphasise that, despite his party loyalties, he would relish the chance to see Chinese candidates from other parties on the hustings.

I don't think that our Conference should be used in quite the most obvious way to produce hustings, we need to present ourselves a a serious party.

The candidates from the three main parties took part in a hustings debate in front of a healthy crowd at Uppermill Civic Hall yesterday.

As the three candidates vying to replace Angus Robertson as Scottish National party deputy leader appear at crowded hustings events across the country, one question is dominating the debate: when should the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, call another independence referendum?

A Conservative party spokesman said: «Unfortunately candidates are not always able to attend every hustings due to clashes in the campaign diary.

The most popular questions that emerge from the various group sessions would then be put up for debate as a live hustings by local representatives of the presidential candidates» parties in front of all the attendees.

«Just heard my Tory oppo banned from doing hustings by Conservative Central Office; putting instructions from her party b4 Harrow residents»

Equally, instead of party members taking part in the local hustings the campaigns could use their members to represent their sides of the argument.

The former shadow pensions secretary will take on Eagle, who was previously shadow business secretary, in a parliamentary Labour party (PLP) hustings on Monday, as the two challengers vie for support from MPs and MEPs before Wednesday's deadline for nominations.

A new political landscape Back on the hustings, the Conservatives today accused Nick Clegg of trying to «hold the country to ransom» as they unveiled a mock election broadcast from the «Hung Parliament party» warning it would lead to financial catastrophe.

The final selection hustings for the seat, which has a 21,000 Labour majority, will take place on Saturday, when party members will vote for their preferred candidate to fight the by - election in June.

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

Candidates from the main parties in Dover are divided over whether to attend a hustings with the BNP.

The Labour Party wants to hold televised hustings in the parts of the country where it lost when it elects a new leader over the summer.

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?

Candidates will also be «stress tested» at open, televised hustings in areas of the country where the party failed at the election.

Ahead of the Manchester hustings, Sir Menzies, the party's acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said: «I want to win power, so that we can give power away.

Farron and rival Norman Lamb have attended 25 hustings and 100 campaign events in contest to lead a party looking to rebuild after election losses

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

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.

I won't comment here on the party board decision to top - list incumbent MEPs, apart from to say that as someone selected twice in open hustings I am the last person to complain about the party membership having the final say.

I said that in my opinion, the people of the UK were receiving a mixed message from the Labour party because a minority of our MPs had chosen to appear on platforms with the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, prominently on TV hustings, and one even on a boat with Nigel Farage during the ridiculous Thames flotilla.

Both have elongated contests involving exhaustive hustings and ending with a vote of the entire party membership rather than confining the choice to MPs.

At numerous hustings and meetings with members, they spoke of their liberal values, the direction they think we should go, and how to best rebuild the party over the coming months and years.

On Tuesday evening at Unite Scotland's HQ in Glasgow the two candidates for leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, Richard Leonard MSP and Anas Sarwar MSP, spoke at one of the first hustings to take place in Scotland.

The contest will involve a series of public and televised hustings over the coming weeks, with the winner announced before the party conference in September.

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.

Week after week, the candidates traipse around the country to address the party faithful at various hustings while answering near - identical questions on cuts, Trident, Iraq, immigration and the rest.

While it makes tactical sense for rebellious MPs to unite behind a single candidate, Monday's hustings entrench a misconception about the balance of opinion in the Labour party.

In the last few days I've followed the brothers to a Unison hustings in Leeds where Ed told the audience: «As your leader I will never leave this party behind.»

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.

The people's party has become a travelling circus in which the five leadership candidates perform at endless hustings and get reacquainted with an electorate that told them to take a running jump.

The party meets tomorrow for a hustings, where the two anti-Corbyn candidates will make their pitches.

The constituency party met overnight to draw up their own unofficial shortlist — an attempt to put pressure on the NEC panel to select some of their preferred candidates for the final hustings.

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.

The parliamentary Labour party will stage hustings for the leadership contenders on 8 June and for deputy leadership contenders on 9 June when nominations for both posts open.

«You and the other leadership contenders attended hustings in towns and cities across the UK, including eleven hosted by the Labour party.

In a letter to current party chairman Lord Feldman he said: ««Given the national urgency in making this final leadership decision, I believe that these hustings should be held over a three week period, during which time members can cast their ballots.