Sentences with phrase «selection as parliamentary candidates»

National Executive Committee, 24 March 2015 The NEC congratulated Rachael Maskell, Conor McGinn and Kate Osamor on their selection as parliamentary candidates for York Central, St Helens North and Edmonton.

The NEC congratulated Rachael Maskell, Conor McGinn and Kate Osamor on their selection as parliamentary candidates for York Central, St Helens North and Edmonton.

She began working for Theresa May during the 2010 general election campaign, after a few attempts to win selection as a parliamentary candidate.

In his wonderful Uncut interview last week, Andy Burnham set great store by the manner of his initial selection as a Parliamentary candidate in 2001.

Not exact matches

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 campaigAs 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 campaigas 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.

As in the US, the Lib Dem's selection process enables a range of candidates to compete to become the party's nominee for a parliamentary candidate position.

I really like the idea of doing this for council selections and for the London Mayor, as well as for Parliamentary candidates.

To recap, the disastrous selection process for Labour's parliamentary candidate for Falkirk West, where allegations of malpractice triggered the resignation of Tom Watson MP as its election campaign coordinator — and which even now is subject to wildly differing versions of events — has kicked off a wholesale reform programme of everything from party funding to MP candidate selection and conference voting.

His support for open primaries, for instance, could be used to undermine the trade union link and empower business sponsorship of candidates, as seen in the US and increasingly in Britain, with David Sainsbury's Blairite group Progress already training and sponsoring candidates in parliamentary selections.

No previous leader of the Conservatives has done as much, for example, to bust open the selection of Parliamentary candidates to include more women (now over a third) and more black and minority ethnic candidates.