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    In 2013, Eric Joyce, member of the House of Commons for Falkirk, resigned from the Labour Party and announced he would not seek reelection. The process...
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    the Labour Party in relation to the Falkirk West selection process. It does so on behalf of the many decent trade unionists who have joined the Party in...
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    Eric Joyce (category Politics of Falkirk (council area))
    offender. A former member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Falkirk, formerly Falkirk West, from 2000 to 2015. Joining the...
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  • the incident becoming known as "plebgate". In the 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection, which began following the announcement that the incumbent...
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  • in 2013 after the Falkirk candidate-selection controversy. The Fire Brigades Union, which "severed links" with Labour in 2004, re-joined the party under...
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    Peter Mandelson (category Labour Party (UK) life peers)
    continued to "manipulate parliamentary selections" as was alleged in the 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection controversy. In April 2014, it was...
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    running Labour's elections and campaigns. He resigned from this position in July 2013, in light of the 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection row....
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    Cabinet after allegations of corruption over the selection of a parliamentary candidate for Falkirk. Watson had offered his resignation, but when Miliband...
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    Unite the Union (category Trade unions affiliated with the Labour Party (UK))
    candidates. There was particular controversy over the 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection. Unite claimed that it had not broken any Labour Party...
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  • election. Peter Law was expelled from the Labour Party after standing against an official Labour candidate in Blaenau Gwent at the 2005 UK general election...
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    Ineos (section 2013)
    Daily Telegraph. "Falkirk row: Unite union vindicated, says Len McCluskey". BBC News. 8 September 2013. "Labour: Falkirk Candidate Karie Murphy Quits"...
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    Karen Whitefield (category Labour MSPs)
    and flawed 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection), in a re-run in which all the previous candidates were excluded on 8 December 2013, Whitefield...
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    Shotts, and Linlithgow and East Falkirk. The Member of Parliament for this seat had been Robin Cook of the Labour Party since its creation in 1983. Following...
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    re-selection meeting on 14 October 2010, he faced a period of questioning, before being unanimously adopted as the Conservatives' candidate. The Labour Party...
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  • Labour Party leadership election was triggered by the resignation of Ed Miliband as Leader of the Labour Party on 8 May 2015, following the party's defeat...
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    Jonathan Ashworth (category Labour Co-operative MPs for English constituencies)
    alleged undue influence of trade unions in the Labour Party in the Falkirk parliamentary selection in 2013, Ashworth penned a piece for The Daily Telegraph...
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    politics'. The bill was introduced partly in response to the Labour selection process in Falkirk and the alleged shortcomings of the influence of Unite the...
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  • Karie Murphy (category Labour Party (UK) officials)
    nomination as a Labour Party parliamentary candidate several times. In 2013, the selection process for Falkirk led to a party inquiry into accusations of vote-rigging...
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    Johann Lamont (category Labour Co-operative MSPs)
    8 November 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2013. "Falkirk Labour: Karen Whitefield chosen after selection row". BBC News. BBC. 8 December 2013. Archived from...
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  • by Labour from the SNP Bathgate and Linlithgow, 2024 gained by Labour from the SNP Edinburgh South West, 2024 gained by Labour from the SNP Falkirk, 2024...
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  • East Kilbride and Falkirk and held the balance of power in Glasgow. However, this level of support was not to last and by 1978 Labour revival was evident...
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    over the 2013 Falkirk candidate selection, in which the trade union Unite allegedly tried to engineer the selection process in the Falkirk constituency;...
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  • A photograph of Ed Miliband, then the leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, eating a bacon sandwich became a source of sustained commentary...
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  • poor mental health. 7 June – Labour MP and frontbencher Gerald Jones wins his party's selection to become the Labour candidate for the new parliamentary...
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  • EdStone (category History of the Labour Party (UK))
    The "EdStone" was a large stone tablet which was commissioned by the Labour Party during the 2015 general election. The stone was 2.6 metres (8 ft 6 in)...
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    Ed Miliband (category Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies)
    Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015. Alongside his brother...
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    2016 Scottish Parliament election (category Use British English from June 2013)
    announced list candidates for all regions except the North East. Labour had announced a new selection process for regional candidates in November 2013, then revealed...
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    Jim Murphy (category Scottish Labour MPs)
    "overstepping the mark" for allegedly interfering with the selection of a candidate in Falkirk. A Labour Party investigation later cleared Unite of any wrongdoing...
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    One Nation Labour refers to the theme and branding of the British Labour Party adopted by the party in 2012 under the leadership of Ed Miliband. Miliband...
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  • Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) elected 19 members of the Shadow Cabinet from among their number in 2010. This follows the Labour Party's defeat at the...
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