Sentences with phrase «ruling nec»

But Mr Kenny also warned that any attempt to break the unions» voting power at party conference or within the party's ruling NEC would break any deal.

Ashworth holds one of the three frontbench seats on Labour's ruling NEC - the body which controls the party and its rulebook.

... And one of three shadow cabinet seats on Labour's ruling NEC will be handed from Jonathan Ashworth to Kate Osamor.

Former Gordon Brown aide Mr Ashworth is shadow minister without portfolio and fills one of three valuable shadow cabinet seats on Labour's ruling NEC.

And a row is brewing over Labour's ruling NEC after Mr Corbyn unveiled plans to replace moderate Jonathan Ashworth with loyalist Kate Osamor.

Jeremy Corbyn has a big appointment tonight - Labour's ruling NEC will meet at the party conference.

Meanwhile, Labour was hit by a fresh row today after its ruling NEC said union members will not be able to vote in the leadership contest unless they joined before January 12.

Even by Labour's recent history of giving shambles a good name, today's meeting of the ruling NEC takes the biscuit.

He surprised members of the party's ruling NEC by tabling his 10 - point policy plan at its meeting on Saturday night.

At the High Court this afternoon, Mr Justice Foskett ruled the NEC was «correct» in law to ensure Mr Corbyn should be on the ballot automatically as the incumbent in the contest.

Indeed, with the removal of Jonathan Ashworth from the NEC, seemingly in exchange for remaining in the shadow cabinet, Corbyn supporters now also rule the NEC.

Not exact matches

Dputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hannah Tetteh has no right to speak on behalf of the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) without consulting the body.

After the policy forum election debacle, the NEC threat to Dan Jarvis is the second time in as many months that it has changed the rules midway through a contest to nobble a candidate it didn't like.

Keith Vaz arrived late to Labour's «Super Tuesday» NEC meeting and received a round of applause from most of the 32 other representatives on the party's ruling body.

[83] On 5 July, Labour MPs voted overwhelmingly by a margin of 196 to 41 to back the rule change, paving the way for NEC and conference approval, which was secured in September 2011.

It was the NEC that chose to interpret Labour's constitution favourably for Corbyn when it ruled that, as the incumbent, he automatically qualified as a candidate in the leadership election.

With their votes at the party conference, they could help to push through rule changes that assisted the centrists — perhaps to reintroduce the old electoral college for choosing leaders — and overturn the left's majority on the NEC, as they did in the early 1980s.

It could fall to Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) to make a ruling.

The NEC narrowly ruled that Corbyn, as serving leader, did not require renominating.

In a recent edition of a Ukip members» magazine, party chairman Steve Crowther wrote of social media: «The NEC has adopted a new set of rules for online communication to fill a notable hole in our code of discipline... My advice: just don't.

Justice Foskett ruled this afternoon the NEC was «correct in law» to ensure Corbyn should be on the ballot automatically as the incumbent leader in the contest.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) is a 33 - person body that internally presides over the implementation of the party's rules, including for Leadership elections.

On 10 July 2016 the NEC decided that eligible candidates had to have been members for at least five years, ruling out several possible nominations including Suzanne Evans, Douglas Carswell and Arron Banks; [11] although the NEC later reduced this requirement to two years» membership, potential candidates previously thought to be ineligible did not stand.

Firstly the NEC can eliminate the possibility of a coup by submitting the appropriate rule change proposal to Labour's national conference to tidy up Labour's rules.

The rules about how they're elected are not public; and nor was its membership published in recent NEC or NPF reports.

Thirdly, in the event of the right wing obtaining a court ruling that Corbyn is not on the ballot paper, the NEC can decide to accept that or to convene a special conference that tidies up the rule book so that Corbyn is on the ballot paper.

At the close of nominations on 31 July 2016, Woolfe missed the deadline for submitting his application by 17 minutes, owing to technical problems; on 3 August, the NEC ruled that this made him ineligible to stand.

Given the claimed ambiguity in Labour's rules, as to whether the current leader is automatically on the ballot, the political balance and views of Labour's 33 strong NEC are important.

The potential development was discussed by members of the Procedures Committee of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) last week.

Mr Justice Foskett ruled this afternoon the NEC was «correct in law» to ensure Mr Corbyn should be on the ballot automatically as the incumbent leader in the contest.

In a further strengthening of the left's position, the party has also increased the number of NEC delegates from members and unions and authorised a further review of party rules to be conducted by Corbyn's allies.

Odd that you take this approach to the Unions, Peter, particularly now that Labour's ruling clique appear to want to break the Union's collective relationship with Labour on the grounds of a report not even seen by the NEC.

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.

Yesterday the leader suggested he might take legal action against the NEC if it rules against him.

Lawyers for Labour donor Michael Foster will today argue that the NEC was wrong to rule that Mr Corbyn did not need the backing of 51 MPs and MEPs to become a candidate in the leadership contest.

In a statement afterwards, Mr Corbyn said he welcomed the High Court's decision to «respect the democracy of the Labour party» and criticised Mr Foster's attempt to overturn the NEC's ruling.

«If Unite elects a more moderate leader, the hard left would no longer have the votes on the NEC and at conference to push through rule changes,» says Luke Akehurst, secretary of Labour First, the network of Labour moderates.

The NEC is seldom referred to without the adjective «ruling» and the Corbynites will then have a ruling overall majority on the party's ruling body.

Changing the political makeup of Labour's representatives in parliament is a key aim of Corbyn's project to reshape his party; and the battle for the future of Labour has intensified this week after a clean sweep by leftwing candidates, including Momentum's Jon Lansman, in the latest round of elections to the party's ruling national executive committee (NEC).

A more significant reshuffle will take place tomorrow than last Monday's troubled effort by the prime minister, when the election results are announced for three new party member posts on Labour's ruling national executive committee (NEC).

A NEC Member of NLC, Comrade Issa Aremu has lauded the judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja which on Wednesday 25 April 2018 reaffirms the right of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make rules guiding the election timetable.

The long - awaited NEC rule package was sadly voted through at the conference.

2.2.3 Elected members of the NEC shall serve as Directors of the Company from the date upon which they are declared elected in accordance with this Constitution and the Rules until the date upon which their successor is elected.

1.2 «EGM» means an Extraordinary General Meeting 1.3 «NEC» means the National Executive Committee 1.4 «Rules» means Rules made by the NEC under this Constitution 1.5 Where the context so implies, the singular shall include the plural 1.6 Headings shall not form part of the meanings of Articles 1.7 «Branch» means a branch or constituency association 1.8 PPERA means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 PART II NAME AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PARTY Name 2.1 The Party exists as a Political Party registered with the UK Electoral Commission under the PPERA.

A formal leadership contest is now underway and Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) will meet tomorrow for its most important summit in a generation.

Tagged: Leadership · Members» Rights · NEC · NPF · Parliamentary Selections · Party Conference · Party democracy · Party Renewal · Party Rules

The Board of Commissioners of Liberia's National Elections Commission (NEC) has upheld Tuesday's ruling of NEC Dispute Hearing Officer which dismissed complaints of fraud...

Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) has reportedly discussed changing the rules to make it clear that the incumbent does not require re-nominating in the event of a challenge.

Jonathan said it was important for NEC to ensure that the collation of the results followed due process and laid down rules and regulations.

The claims came as a Labour frontbencher warned there was «real alarm» at the scale of the problem - while comedian Eddie Izzard, who became a member of the party's ruling national executive committee (NEC), said they needed to «make amends» to the Jewish community.