Sentences with phrase «vote in the leadership»

Regardless if these registered supporters actually vote in their leadership contest, their names are now entered into a database that will be useful for the Liberals in the next provincial election.

The decision to hold a referendum, changing how members can vote in leadership elections, the butterfly effect of political whim and political will.

He began saying how proud he was that 560,000 people had signed up to vote in the leadership contest — although he did not mention entryism or the shambles of the registered - supporters provision.

Most attention normally focuses on who can vote in leadership elections but the rules on entering a contest in the first place are just as important.

«Now many more members will have the chance to vote in the leadership election, I am today calling for an extension of the timetable so that all members have the opportunity to engage with Jeremy and me before making their choice.»

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Hickinbottom stated: «At the time each of the claimants joined the party, it was the common understanding as reflected in the rule book that, if they joined the party prior to the election process commencing, as new members they would be entitled to vote in any leadership contest.

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

In order to find out, we compare these two groups: older members (pre-GE2015) and newer members (who joined after May 2015 but before January 2016 and were therefore eligible to vote in the leadership election).

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.

On the payment of a small registration fee (the level of which has not yet been decided), they too could vote in leadership elections.

Members of the public can pay # 3 to confirm their support for Labour's values, and in return are permitted to vote in leadership elections.

In second place is the news that a Labour supporting blogger who had been critical of his local council has been banned from voting in the leadership race.

Labour have been accused of «purging» critical voices from the party after a Labour - supporting blogger was banned from voting in the leadership race, after criticising his local council.

Lansman is referring to the Blairite organisation that, he says, was able to command only a tiny share of internal Labour support by 2015, as evidenced by Liz Kendall's miserable 4.5 % of first - preference votes in the leadership election.

Affiliated supporters will be able to vote in leadership elections and in the London mayoral primary next summer, but not in parliamentary selection contests.

• I am a trade union member, and as my trade union is affiliated to the Labour party, I was told I would have a vote in the leadership election.

If Serwotka is not to be seen as hypocritical, I challenge him to introduce a rule change which will enable supporters to vote in the leadership election of the PCS by paying # 3 and stating they support the aims and objectives of the trade union movement.

• I have been hearing Harriet Harman making claims that the scrutiny of the people registered to vote in the leadership election was proper and within the party rules.

If they opt in to this they will be attached to a constituency party, with the right to vote in leadership contests.

Once they have said yes to their union, they can be contacted by Labour to become an affiliated supporter with a vote in leadership elections and a right to attend constituency meetings.

They don't want me to vote in the leadership election and I have no idea why.

They may occasionally be allowed to vote in a leadership election, but that's where it will stop.

A source at Unite, which has 950,000 members who are eligible to vote in the leadership election, said: «The discussion before the vote was very much whether it should be Ed Miliband or Ed Balls.

I don't object to having some time limit on joining to vote in the leadership election but 1) that should be made known when people join and 2) six months is far too long — it should be no more than one or two.

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.

We know, from party sources, how Labour's selectorate divides between full party members and those who have signed up, either via their trade union or by paying # 3, to vote in the leadership election.

Had only they voted in the leadership election, it is touch - and - go whether Mr Corbyn would have won at all.

Around 70,000 people who voted in the leadership election did NOT vote Labour in May's general election.

A further 170,000 people paid # 25 to sign up as registered supporters to vote in the leadership race — though more than 40,000 have reportedly since been rejected by the party.

Meanwhile, the candidate for whom I voted in the leadership election and who won an incredible 60 % mandate with over a quarter of a million votes is subject to an attempt to keep him off the ballot paper.

Jubilation among rebel Labour MPs on Tuesday evening at Angela Eagle dropping out to give Owen Smith a clear run against Corbyn was followed by what felt close to a wake on Wednesday night after news 184,000 registered supporters had paid # 25 each, a figure subsequently reduced to a still considerable 140,000 after duplications and the overtly hostile were stripped out, to buy a vote in the leadership race.

Corbyn has majority support among all three groups of people that are eligible to vote in the leadership contest.

Alan Milburn, the former Health Secretary, says that only full party members should be allowed a vote in leadership elections and that the unions should no longer have a «structural relationship» with Labour.

It is hard to forgive Michael Howard for trying to scrap our vote in leadership elections and David Cameron for stopping us from deselecting Europhile M.E.P.s

He argued when people joined they were told «very clearly» they would be able to vote in the leadership contest and «to deny them that democratic right flies against all the traditions of our party».

«We regret that Tom Watson also forced through the decision yesterday at Labour's NEC meeting to challenge the court judgement to restore the right to vote in the leadership election.

Lawyers for the five - Christine Evangelou, the Rev Edward Leir, Hannah Fordham, Chris Granger and «FM», a teenage member - had argued the NEC had no power under the rules to retrospectively freeze a full member's ability to vote in leadership elections.

«You'll be eligible to vote in leadership elections».

A left - wing comedian has said he was told by the Labour party that he could not vote in its leadership election.

Part of the reason it hasn't happened is that many CLPs are wedded to the «leader leads» model which is, for them, a reason to prevent a grassroots movement emerging (i.e. it's not that new members are simply «consumer members» who only want to vote in the leadership election).

Updated data was presented to the NEC on Tuesday, but it is hard to know if those failing to renew their membership are supporters of Corbyn who joined to vote in the leadership contest, or his opponents who do not like the direction the party is taking.

Labour's acting leader has said that party officials are «rigorously, robustly and fairly» verifying those applying to vote in its leadership contest.

Left - wing comedian Jeremy Hardy says he has been told by the Labour party that he can not vote in its leadership election.

Boldly, Ed discredited the system by saying that it «should be a thing of the past for people to have more than one vote in the leadership election».

Last night a spokesman for Jeremy's leadership campaign, said:» This result clearly shows that there is a desire for real and genuine change in our party under the continued leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, but we are not going to take anything for granted and we will be campaigning for every vote in the leadership contest.»

MPs and MEPs, who currently have a third of the votes in the leadership election, will be relegated to a role in shortlisting candidates, a move likely to cause a backlash among Labour MPs.

Union members will be able to pay # 3 to affiliate to the Labour Party, giving them - if they choose - the same right to vote in leadership elections as full party members, who pay # 45 a year.

In another mooted change, registered supporters - those who have registered their support but are not full party members - would be entitled to vote in leadership and mayoral elections «for a small fee».

And they accused him of pulling strings in the Labour Party's appeal against a High Court ruling that new Labour members should be allowed to vote in the leadership election — which would be a boost for Jezza.

It was the second boost of the day for Mr Corbyn, after a High Court ruling said more than 100,000 new party members should be allowed to vote in the leadership election.