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What does Labour’s internal election briefing say?

By Mark Pack | Mon 27th April 2009 - 9:20 am

A leaked copy of Labour’s internal June elections briefing document show just how limited Labour’s hopes for the elections are. In a slide listing “Labour priorities”, the party’s ambitions for the elections are given as:

  • Maximise Labour vote in Euro election
  • Stop BNP gaining Euro seat
  • Hold 4 Labour County Councils
  • North Tyneside and Doncaster Mayoral races

“Maximise vote” is telling as the alternatives would be “gain seats” or “hold seats”. “Maximise vote” is polite shorthand for “lose as few seats as possible”.

Whilst stopping the BNP would be on many party’s equivalent lists, for county councils Labour’s ambitions are also very limited: simply trying to …

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Doncaster update: Labour expels Mayor

By Mark Pack | Fri 30th May 2008 - 2:55 pm

A quick follow up to my earlier post about Labour’s splits in Doncaster: the Mayor, Martin Winter, has now been expelled from the Labour Party (source: BBC).

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Labour Party splits into two in Doncaster

By Mark Pack | Tue 13th May 2008 - 10:00 am

It looks as if the impending self-imposed term limit for the Labour Mayor of Doncaster has helped trigger a split in the Labour Group. The current Labour Mayor, Martin Winter, has twice been elected as Mayor but Labour’s internal rules don’t allow someone to run for a third time. However,

Doncaster’s mayor, Martin Winter, has been given an ultimatum by party officials after it emerged he and two other leading Labour councillors in the borough had set up their own independent group in the wake of the local elections earlier this month.

Furious regional party officials have told Mayor Winter and cabinet

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