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Coastguards call for vote of no confidence in the boss of their government agency

Post author:The Canary
Post published:13 August 2026
Post last modified:13 August 2026

Almost 600 Coastguards have called for a vote of no confidence in the chief executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). GMB Union wrote to the MCA chair Lord Stevens in July to ‘formally express our lack of confidence in the leadership of the MCA under Chief Executive Virginia McVea’. Since then, 580 Coastguards across the UK have signed up to the no confidence vote. Lord Stevens has not yet responded to GMB, and the union has now written a further letter to ‘formally escalate the concerns previously raised’. The volunteers are calling for an expression of no confidence, an…

Calls for Infantino to resign or face a vote of no confidence grow

Post author:Alaa Shamali
Post published:2 August 2026
Post last modified:2 August 2026

Calls have grown for FIFA President Gianni Infantino to resign or face a vote of no confidence. According to the Telegraph, UEFA’s stance is no longer limited to objecting to the proposed sale of a share of the World Cup’s commercial rights; it has evolved into questioning Infantino’s ability to continue leading FIFA. UEFA officials believe that the recent crisis over the now-dropped FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) project has exposed a flaw in the body’s decisionmaking mechanisms. The project being pursued without sufficient consultation with the continental confederations and member associations, is a breach of the principles of governance and transparency,…

Exclusive: Your Party CEC votes no confidence but must ask leadership to respect vote

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:13 July 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

The Your Party executive committee (CEC) no-confidence vote exclusively revealed by Skwawkbox last week took place on Sunday. The specially-arranged CEC meeting, to hold no-confidence votes in three key officials, was fraught and lasted almost three-and-a-half hours. Yet it ended without a clear conclusion, forcing members to ask party leaders to respect a clear majority vote that just failed to reach the required threshold. The issue was a vote of no confidence in three figures blamed for the suspension of three well-known CEC members for attending a socialist conference. A number of members left the meeting rather than participate, but the…