Sentences with phrase «told local party members»

He twice resigned from Cabinet posts under Tony Blair but told local party members that standing down was «by far the most difficult political decision I have ever made, in a lifetime of extremely difficult decisions».

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«When the town asks regional authorities for funding for a project, it's told: you have Rusal, go work it out with them,» said Erik Chernyshev, a local Communist Party politician, former member of the region's upper house, who also worked as an engineer at the factory for 18 years.

The chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, Jeremy Newmark, explained how a Jewish Labour councillor had been verbally abused by other members of his local party and told that «you are responsible for the slave trade» just days after Jackie Walker's Facebook comments.

And I am not happy at all, to put it mildly, that a local party, and I don't care who's in it, or where they are, if you are confronted with those kind of allegations about a Liberal Democrat member, you tell somebody else so that action can be taken.

Now, the former shadow transport secretary claims she was told to «f *** off» by her own local party members in Nottingham after explaining why she was backing Owen Smith to be Labour leader.

But in the ongoing centrally - controlled selection in Edmonton, sources tell us local members and elected constituency Labour party (CLP) officers have specifically requested an all - women shortlist.

Rockland County GOP Chairman Vincent Reda told the Rockland County Times this week that he takes umbrage with the use of the word «Republican» by the self - titled «Rockland Republican Academy,» a dissident group of about 100 local Republican Party members who have organized to challenge his leadership.

Lamont's long list of grievances included being elbowed aside during Miliband's Beria - style takeover of the Falkirk selection process in 2013, [32] The process of selecting a new Labour parliamentary candidate for Falkirk began after sitting mp Eric Joyce launched a drunken assault (headbuttings, etc.) on fellow members of the House of Commons and rapidly descended into a turf war, with skullduggery on both sides, between the Mandelson faction and local union officials, culminating with Miliband's decision to call in the police to deal with his party comrades, only to be told there was insignificant evidence to launch a criminal investigation.