Sentences with phrase «row over candidate»

Earlier this year in the wake of the row over candidate selection in Falkirk, Ed Miliband announced that he wanted to reform the relationship between Labour and its affiliated trade union members.

«Hostilities within the Labour Party reached new heights yesterday as the party's biggest union donor claimed that it had been subjected to a «Kafkaesque» trial in a row over candidate selection.

Not exact matches

The comment refers to the party's decision to drop their candidate Ashuk Ahmed over a separate anti-Semitism row.

«I can tell you tenants would be much more likely to vote for governor on Row E if the candidate is Kenny Schaeffer,» Tenants PAC's Michael McKee told me this afternoon while trying to explain why his board decided to endorse the Working Families Party's placeholder candidate over the Democratic gubernatorial designee, Andrew Cuomo.

A damaging row over grammar schools policy, unease among the grassroots about the leadership's efforts to introduce more women and ethnic minority parliamentary candidates and Gordon Brown's self - assured performance as Prime Minister in the summer of 2007 imperilled the Tory recovery.

As I said earlier, it's no surprise that Collins has chosen to endorse Paladino over Lazio, since he mulled fighting the former congressman in a GOP primary for Row B. (Collins told me he was a «reluctant candidate» and only considered running because no one else was stepping up to the plate who he considered sufficiently credible — and conservative — to really bring the fight to AG Andrew Cuomo).

This culminated in a bitter row over Falkirk, when the right wing — Blairite shadow ministers, a majority of the PLP and the New Labour pressure group Progress — cried «foul «over UNITE's success in building support for yet another working class trade unionist candidate.

From a humble beginning garnering 141,000 votes on ballot Row F, our principles have attracted Empire State voters in sufficient numbers to raise the Party to Row C and twice received over a million votes for our candidate in a statewide election.

Labour's London mayoral candidates clashed in a furious row last night over whether to build a third runway at Heathrow.

The GOP's preferred candidate, Jane Corwin, continues to have a leg up over Iraq War veteran David Bellavia, Long said, in spite of Bellavia's arguments that the assemblywoman isn't sufficiently conservative to run on Row C.

A political row is developing in Cumbria over accusations made in an independent candidates» leaflet that Conservative county councillors «don't turn up to meetings».

«The allegation came amid a row over claims Unite broke party rules to try to get its nominee picked as Labour's candidate in Falkirk, Scotland.

In a recent article for Jacobin, Green Party Lieutenant Governor candidate Brian Jones argues that the party made substantial progress because the party's improved showing this year allows the party to move over two positions on the ballot line from Row «F» to Row «D».

The MP for Falkirk, Eric Joyce, has accused Unite union officials of acting arrogantly and irresponsibly in the row over the selection of a Labour candidate in the seat.

The row over David Cameron's ditching of a high - profile female candidate flared up again last night amid claims that a senior Tory official described her pregnancy as a «disability».

Claire Udy who had resigned from the party in a row over anti-semitism last week, said she would serve as an independent despite being on the ballot paper as a Labour candidate.

He has been spurred into action by a row over an alleged attempt by Unite to rig the contest to replace Eric Joyce as the party's election candidate in Falkirk.

Tom Watson, who was involved in the selection of Labour's election candidates, resigned his shadow cabinet position over the Falkirk row in July.