Sentences with phrase «selecting labour leaders»

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The leader's office asserting the man himself hasn't expressed a view doesn't mean he isn't listening to advice and Corbyn's said by those close to him to instinctively favour involving as many of Labour's 500,000 + members as possible in selecting candidates.

Labour's fortune will be dominated by what happens to the coalition government, but also by who it selects as leader.

When I first joined the Labour Party in 1976, MPs were able to select the leader of the party without any recourse to members.

When the Labour Party chooses a leader, its members are not merely selecting a national spokesperson or an organiser - in - chief.

To little fanfare, Labour has effectively created an open primary system for selecting its leader.

After a couple of Labour councillors standing in the past two Holyrood elections, the Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has been selected to fight this seat in 2016.

The Labour leader is selected through an electoral college in which MPs and MEPs have a third of the vote, the unions a third and party members a third.

The former Labour MP Katy Clark, an ally of Corbyn who is now the Labour leader's political secretary, will lead a «party democracy review» to make the case for major changes to how the party elects leaders, selects MPs and forms policy.

Labour leader tells home office select committee that with hindsight he would not have used same phrase

Giving evidence at the home affairs select committee on Monday, the Labour leader said that he had used the phrase to describe the militant groups during a meeting in parliament in 2009.

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

Instead, Labour should set up an independently chaired inquiry to examine every aspect of the party, and then select a new leader based on a deep analysis of what's gone wrong

The Labour leader raised the issue in the Commons yesterday during a debate on the unrest but it was rejected by Mr Cameron, who insisted the ongoing home affairs select committee inquiry was a satisfactory vehicle.

Just 2 1/2 years ago, Lutfur Rahman was selected as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets with 433 votes compared with 251 for local London assembly member, John Biggs, and 157 for council leader, Helal Abbas.

Labour party figures are said to be waiting for Scottish Labour to have selected a leader before holding a by - election in Glenrothes, the constituency whose MP died on Tuesday.

Still waiting for a response to the points made against Corbyn, essentially that it doesn't help those in need of a Labour government to select an unelectable leader.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

«There is no question in my mind that Labour selected the right Miliband for leader,» she said.

Welsh Labour has won its battle to become a more autonomous party, able to make its own rules about how it chooses its leader and selects its candidates, including those standing to become MPs.

Cameron will then quit in 2015, at which point a new leader will have to be selected to fight the Progressives (who will result from the merger of the Liberals and Labour).

A Labour Leader should be a facilitator, keeping power with the grassroots through Conference and allowing constituency parties to draw up their own shortlists and select their own Parliamentary Candidates.

Gareth Snell was selected to stand in the seat, where Labour is facing a battle to hold off a challenge from Ukip leader Paul Nuttall.

Eagle is being presented as the «unity» candidate, where unity means members accepting the PLP's wishes and selecting a leader closer to, but crucially not seen as from, the party's «New Labour» wing.

Currently - under Labour's electoral college system - MPs and MEPs get a third of the votes to select a new leader, trade unions get a third and party members another third.

The local Labour party had selected as their PPC the left - winger Peter Tatchell, who was disowned by the then Labour leader Michael Foot.