Sentences with phrase «vote in the leadership election»

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

The Labour party is to ban members from voting in the leadership election if they engage in «abusive behaviour» the party's most senior official said today.

When you think that the French Socialists got 2.8 million people voting in their leadership election - for the price of $ 1 and a signature supporting the aims and values of the party - you see how far we have to go in the project of reconnecting with the British people.

The latest editorial in Blairite house magazine Progress states: «Attacks on New Labour may win a few votes in the leadership election — but at what cost?

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.

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

While the Tories found a new prime minister within a week of the first vote in their leadership election, Labour bigwigs spent hours pondering their own rules on who the members can and will actually have to choose between.

One MPs vote was worth hundreds of trade unionist votes in the leadership election.

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.

She said allowing union members to pay # 3 to affiliate to Labour and then vote in the leadership elections would «breathe fresh light» into the party.

In a shocking development, it has been revealed that the Labour Party is apparently excluding already - registered voters from voting in its leadership election.

Left - wing comedian Jeremy Hardy says he has been told by the Labour party that he can not vote in its leadership 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 may claim a large mandate from the many thousands of people who qualify to vote in the leadership election but he has very little support among MPs.

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.

For anybody who doesn't believe a Labour party that fleeces its new members for an extra # 25 to vote in a leadership election is irreparably corrupt and incapable of responding to the needs of poor people, there is an upside.

«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 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).

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.

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

Labour has been asked by the campaigns of Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall to conduct extra checks on those eligible to vote in its leadership election, amid continuing concerns about the integrity of the ballot.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

However as a Tory MP you will not get a vote in our leadership election.

It comes hot on the heels of lifelong Labour supporter and former NEC member Johanna Baxter being branded a «c ***» by one Twitter troll who claimed to be a party member with a vote in the leadership election.

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.

A Conservative Party member revealed he has been «very mischievous» by joining Labour to vote in its leadership election.

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.

Anyone that wished to vote in the leadership election must have either been a member of the Scottish Labour Party, an «affiliated supporter» (through being signed up as a Scottish Labour Party supporter through an affiliated organisation or union), or a «registered supporter» (which requires signing up online and paying a one - off fee of # 12) by 9 October.

«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.

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

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.

The union also urged those Unite members who are not already Labour Party members or registered as Affiliated Supporters of the Labour Party to sign up before the deadline of 9th October to participate and vote in the leadership election.

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

Meanwhile ICM's poll for the Politics Show contacted Conservative party members to ask how they would vote in the 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).

These figures include 300 people who are both party members AND members of affiliated unions; we count them in both groups, as they will have two votes in the leadership election.

The big three — Unison, Unite and GMB — comprise more than three - quarters of all union members with a vote in the leadership election, and are all officially backing Ed.

Separately, they will be asked to fill a form at no extra cost saying they would like to be an affiliated supporter, so giving them a right to vote in leadership elections, attend constituency meetings and vote on policy, but not select the parliamentary candidate.

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».