Sentences with phrase «registered labour supporters»

Allies of Jeremy Corbyn believes that as many as a quarter of newly registered Labour supporters could be barred from voting in the upcoming leadership contest.

It comes as 180,541 people have applied to become registered Labour supporters to take part in the party's leadership election - netting the cash - strapped party a cool # 4.5 million.

However, we could adopt a closed primary system where registered Labour supporters (of which there are a considerable number in each constituency - 1000 or more in many cases) could take part.

The dossier also included a tweet in which Cobb posted a picture of his online application to become a registered Labour supporter, accompanied by the message: «Still the Enemy Within, Comrades.

Not exact matches

Standards in public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.

Hi Anthony, Not clear what you mean by «registered supporters» for Labour selections?

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

That would mean not only that fewer constituencies were Labour - winnable, but that there were simply fewer potential Labour supporters registered in 2020.

All of which is music to the ears of a Tory press delighting in Labour's current woes to the extent that one newspaper, the Daily Telegraph to be precise, ran a «joke» feature which encouraged its readers to become registered supporters of the Labour party: so that they could the vote to ensure Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader and Labour is «consigned to electoral oblivion».

As Corbyn goes to battle with Owen Smith for the Labour crown, a whopping 180,541 people have applied to become registered supporters - netting the party a cool # 4.5 million.

Labour Party general secretary Iain McNicol said anyone witnessing Labour members or registered supporter engaged in abusive or intimidatory behaviour, should report them to the party.

The last Labour leadership election was beset by rows over attempts by Labour officials to strike off registered supporters who did not «share the values and aims of the Labour party».

20th July 2016, Huffington Post: More than 180,000 sign up as «Registered Supporters» to vote in Labour leadership election

Labour members now face an unenviable dilemma: do they dethrone the leader they put in place so emphatically (through all sections of the Party, not just the new registered supporters) and thereby accept that the PLP are the real decision - makers?

We have surveyed 2,026 members and registered supporters of the Labour Party who joined it after the May 2015 general election.

«T. Bale, P. Webb & M. Poletti (2016), ESRC Party Members Project (PMP), Labour Party post-GE2015 Members and Registered Supporters Survey, May 2016 ″

Also Ed is talking about a closed primary where you have to register as being a Labour supporter before you can vote which will be a logistical mess for the elderly and disabled and will cost a bomb.

Labour is split over the decision by some MPs who will not vote for Mr Corbyn to nominate the left - winger in order to broaden the choice for Labour's 260,000 members and registered supporters.

It emerged last night that more than 183,000 people had paid # 25 to sign up as registered supporters of the Labour party and vote between Mr Smith and Mr Corbyn.

In August 2015, it was revealed that Loughton was amongst a number of supporters of other political parties who had paid # 3 to register to join the Labour Party in an attempt to participate in its leadership election.

The fee paid by Loughton to register to a supporter of the Labour Party was retained as a donation by the Labour Party.

He was coordinating phone canvassing as a tsunami crashed through Labour politics, with new members signing up in droves — for full membership, or as «registered supporters», who paid # 3 to get a leadership vote.

Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system.

They will mean that only party members, affiliated union supporters and registered supporters can vote in Labour leadership contests.

Nor is there much to be said for closed primaries if byclosed primaries it is meant that registered Labour party supporters should be permitted to take part.

Primaries are of two kinds — open (whereby anyone on the electoral register can have a vote to selecta Labour party candidate), and closed (whereby only party members or supporters can have a vote).

If these collective levy - payers wanted an individual relationship with the party, they could register as affiliated supporters (AS) by signing a statement of support for Labour values, giving the party contact details including a postal address, and confirming that they were on the electoral roll.

The Tory - supporting commentator Toby Young is among a number of people to have paid # 3 to become a «registered supporter» in order to damage Labour's future electoral chances.

Corbyn won comfortably in each of the three categories of Labour voters, but he was most emphatically backed by registered supporters who paid # 25 for a vote.

This comes after it emerged Tory MP Tim Loughton had been blocked from voting in Labour's leadership election after he tried to register as a supporter.

In the past fortnight, since Labour's election results I've spent time speaking to members, registered supporters, CLP office - holders, MPs and candidates to understand the answer to two questions: who switched to Corbyn — because this level of support for the hard left in the party is unprecedented — and why.

A senior source in one of the leadership camps said his team also had big concerns that tens of thousands of the registered supporters did not share the values of the Labour party.

However, the «registered supporters» would be included in the part of Labour's electoral college which includes the unions and affiliated socialist societies (the Fabian Society, Christian Socialist Movement, Labour Students, etc), which means - on the face of it - the unions» share of the leadership votes will be cut.

More than 600,000 Labour members, affiliates and registered supporters began to receive their ballot paper yesterday, following a surge in party membership after the election.

This is the reality check which both those on the left and the 200 or so Green Party members who have registered as Labour supporters to vote for Corbyn, need to face.

Jubilation among rebel Labour MPs on Tuesday evening at Angela Eagle dropping out to give Owen Smith a clear run against Corbyn was followed by what felt close to a wake on Wednesday night after news 184,000 registered supporters had paid # 25 each, a figure subsequently reduced to a still considerable 140,000 after duplications and the overtly hostile were stripped out, to buy a vote in the leadership race.

In a July post on the Labour List site, he attributed Corbyn's unexpected support to around 80,000 young and idealistic full party members who have joined since April, as well as another 20,000 registered supporters who have paid their # 3 fee for the right to vote.

There will also be a system or registered supporters, people who are not full members of the Labour Party, who can also then take part in those leadership elections.

In total, there have been 183,541 applications made to the Labour Party in the last 48 hours, to sign up as registered supporters.

Registered supporters who paid the # 25 fee will have the right to vote in the upcoming leadership election between current leader Jeremy Corbyn, and Labour MP Owen Smith.

• Labour officials discovered nearly 20 % of those joining the party as # 3 registered supporters had no record of previously voting Labour.

He said: «I've said all along from the very beginning I only want people to register as Labour supporters if they are genuine Labour supporters and intend to stay for the long run.»

Colleagues attacked Mr Miliband after his 2014 shake - up of Labour's rules - which included giving people a one - off «registered supporter» vote - prompted an influx of left - wingers.

Today's Times has a new YouGov poll of Labour party members and registered supporters (so members, registered trade unionists and # 3 supporters — the same group who were able to vote in the Labour leadership election).

Jon Lansman, a significant figure in the Corbyn camp, is understood to have discussed using the Labour party's new - found wealth, the result of its mass membership and registered supporters policy, to offer members of staff who are out of favour as much as a year's pay to leave Labour HQ.

Labour yesterday revealed that 444,000 people are registered to vote on the next leader — 282,000 full Labour Party members, 92,000 affiliated supporters and 70,000 registered supporters.

For the first time, all Labour members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters will be entitled to vote.

This meant anyone who had joined Labour since January 12 was not eligible to vote, and while many who signed up in the last contest as registered supporters for just # 3, they now have to pay # 25, and only have a two - day window to sign up.

They have opened up a # 2 a month registered supporter scheme, which will allow people to join the «Unite Community», with members of the affiliated union able to vote in the Labour leadership.

«I only want people to register as Labour supporters if they are genuine Labour supporters and they want to stay for the longer course,» Mr Corbyn added.