Unite Labour Leadership Hustings

Take part in the Unite Labour Leadership Hustings
10am Saturday 17 July 2010

The five candidates for the Labour leadership will take part in a hustings meeting on Saturday 17th July starting at 10am.

Diane Abbott, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham, David Miliband and Ed Milliband will all be there answering questions put by Unite members with Kevin Maguire of the Daily Mirror chairing proceedings.

The meeting will be broadcast live via the Unite website. You don’t need to be a member of Unite to watch it. Simply go to the home page at http://www.unitetheunion.org/ and click on the main image link at just before 10am on Saturday 17 July and view the meeting for yourself.

The broadcast will then be saved. So if you miss it first time, you can still go to the Unite website home page and view it at your leisure.

Gordon Brown’s dignified departure has opened up the race to be the next leader of the Labour Party and, hopefully, defeat the Con-Dem coalition to be the next British Prime Minister.

If you are a Unite member and also a member of the Labour Party, you can join your colleagues and watch the broadcast together at your nearest Unite regional office listed below. Please let the relevant contacts know if you are going to attend beforehand.

Unite members who pay the political levy will have an opportunity to cast a vote for which candidate will fulfil the leader’s role. We’d urge you to take part in the ballot when it takes place in September.

The Unite Executive will meet on Monday 26 July to determine which of the candidates the union recommends for you to back in the ballot.

You can cast your vote as a Unite political levy payer but you can also vote as a Labour Party member. If you haven’t joined the party yet, you can do so before 8 September and still take part in the ballot. To join, contact Andrew Dodgshon in the Unite Political Department at :andrew.dodgshon2@unitetheunion.org