Sentence examples for being deselected from inspiring English sources

David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, warned against a return to the 1980s when moderate MPs faced the prospect of being deselected by left-wing activists.

Yesterday the Labour party announced plans that could lead to MPs who have brought the party into disrepute being deselected as parliamentary candidates.

"When Maureen Colquhoun was outed in the late 70s, she got a very frosty reception from the Labour party and ended up being deselected," he says.

"With a moderate MP like Tim Yeo being deselected, and 10% of Tory women MPs being kicked out, leaving or standing down, the Conservative party looks less and less like modern Britain".

MPs fear the change in the political makeup of their local memberships since thousands joined the party in support of Corbyn could result in many of them being deselected if open procedures were introduced.

In Walthamstow, where she was a councillor and, briefly, mayor – as well as being deselected for a while, the consequence of one of those arcane and footling bits of local politicking that is never worth looking at too closely – she developed a reputation for self-interest that proved hard to shake.

So Efimova was deselected.

"I hope she will be deselected".

Nobody will be "deselected" for supporting the education white paper.

"There is no way she should be deselected.

When he says "the vast majority" won't be deselected that's an unveiled threat.