The re-run process for deciding if Sir Robin Wales will again be Labour’s mayoral candidate for Newham without having to win a separate selection contest will be completed by the end of 11 February, according a timetable set by the party’s London regional body. Voting arrangements for members of Labour ward branches within the East Ham parliamentary constituency […]
Labour Party members in Newham having asked the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to order an immediate open selection contest for choosing their candidate for May’s mayoral election in the borough, rather than re-running the disputed “trigger ballot” that initially saw the incumbent Sir Robin Wales go forward automatically for the role. Newham Labour councillor […]
The process which led to Sir Robin Wales being endorsed to seek a fifth term as Labour Mayor of Newham is to be re-run following claims by party members first made a year ago that a number of alleged irregularities had made “a material difference to the result”. In an email sent out this evening, […]
Labour Party members in Newham seeking to overturn the re-selection of Sir Robin Wales as their mayoral candidate next year have hit an initial target of £10,000 to pursue a legal case against their party’s governing body. In January, Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) declined a request to investigate the affirmative nomination process or “trigger ballot” held last […]
Among complaints still being pursued by Labour members in Newham about how Sir Robin Wales was re-selected as mayoral candidate for next year – making him near certain to boss the Town Hall in that role for an unprecedented fifth term – is one concerning how the TSSA union came to give him its support. After all, […]
Next May, Sir Robin Wales will be elected executive Mayor of Newham for the fifth time in a row, extending his leadership of the East London borough in that post, which he first won at its inaugural election in 2002. He will be, that is, unless one of two things stops him. One would be his […]
Labour’s governing National Executive Committee (NEC) has refused to look into claims by party members in Newham that the process resulting in the re-selection of Sir Robin Wales as their candidate for next year’s borough mayor election was unlawful. A letter from lawyers representing the NEC, seen by On London, says they have been instructed that a request […]
A London GMB official has explained why he believes his union followed correct procedures in the Labour Party process that led to the selection of Sir Robin Wales to seek a fifth term as Newham Mayor but which 47 party members in the borough have claimed contained many “procedural irregularities” that “made a material difference to the result”. […]
