Sentences with phrase «clegg lost his seat»

Clegg lost his seat in Sheffield Hallam at this year's election to Labour's Jared O'Mara but has continued to make political interventions opposing Brexit.

Clegg losing his seat was not part of the narrative.

The Lib Dems gained just three extra seats overall and former deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg lost his seat in Sheffield Hallam.

Not exact matches

Farron goes on to pay tribute to Nick Clegg, who lost his seat last night: «Nick Clegg is a giant of British politics, a friend and a hero to me and countless others.

Former leader Nick Clegg, a former Deputy Prime Minister, lost his Sheffield Hallam seat.

That Clegg is at risk of losing his seat at all is remarkable, since this is just not something that happens to the leaders of mainstream political parties.

None of this means Nick Clegg is guaranteed to lose his seat.

Historically, on a good election night for the Tories, the Liberals always do badly — Clegg's only chance of gaining seats will be from Labour in the North because he will certainly lose seats to the Tories in the South.

International development minister Lynne Featherstone, campaign manager for Chris Huhne when he fought Clegg for the leadership and whose London seat would likely be lost if these election results were repeated, praised him to the hilt: «He is brave and capable, and taking us into government has achieved remarkable progress.»

Mr Clegg's performance in the election campaign appears top have impressed members, despite the party losing seats - 98 % said his performance had been effective or very effective.

Despite Clegg's efforts at triangulation, [86][87] the Liberal Democrats experienced its worst - ever showing in the 2015 general election, losing 48 seats in the House of Commons, leaving them with only eight MPs.

Charles Kennedy, the keeper of the social democratic flame, who died a few weeks after losing his Highlands seat, was keen to keep his distance from Clegg: a suggestion that Clegg might visit Kennedy's constituency in Scotland was met with a curt two - word reply.

Labour MP Paul Farrelly, who is likely to lose his seat under the reforms, said Clegg should never have gone along with the plans.

[72] According to The Guardian, «they lost control of Sheffield council — the city of Clegg's constituency — were ousted from Liverpool, Hull and Stockport, and lost every Manchester seat they stood in.

Norman Baker, Vince Cable and Lynne Featherstone have all written their accounts of their time in government since losing their seats last May, with Nick Clegg's to come later this year.

A Liberal Democrat defeat, in a seat where they trailed Labour by only 103 votes last May, would inevitably increase the pressure on Mr Clegg from the doubters in his party, which is used to winning by - elections rather than losing them.

Nick Clegg, the former party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, lost his seat to Labour newcomer Jared O'Mara in Sheffield Hallam.

Hopefully Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne will both lose their seats so they will have significantly reduced opportunity to bore the nation stiff with (especially Clegg) aimless waffle.

The poll - which showed Nick Clegg would lose his own seat in Sheffield if he stayed on as leader - was leaked to newspapers last night.

But this is clearly the most bittersweet victory for Clegg: his seat saved but his party decimated, his leadership in question, his cabinet seat lost.

Oakeshott commissioned polling suggesting the party would do better under Cable and that Clegg was set to lose his seat, before resigning with a warning that the party was «heading for disaster».

They expect to lose half their seats in 2015 and they expect Clegg will have to stand down as a result.

Nick Clegg may have lost his seat to a man who was subsequently suspended by the Labour party over...

Clegg, who lost his Sheffield Hallam seat to Labour's Jared O'Mara in the 2017 general election, was not the only ousted Lib Dem MP to find their voice at this year's party conference.

Nick Clegg may have lost his seat to a man who was subsequently suspended by the Labour party over claims of sexist and homophobic remarks.

The polls, commissioned by Lib Dem peer Matthew Oakeshott, showed several of the party's biggest hitters set to lose their seats if Clegg remains as leader.

Nick Clegg appeared defiant today in the face of the latest polling showing he could lose his seat...

Nick Clegg is on course to lose his seat to Labour in the general election according to another worrying new poll for the Lib Dem leader.

The Lib Dems will lose seats but it's unlikely to be the bloodbath Nick Clegg suffered in 2011.

The Liberal Democrats lost 48 of their 56 seats in May's general election, a result that triggered the resignation of the party's leader, Nick Clegg, the morning after polling day.

Nick Clegg's resignation followed a disastrous night at the polls for his party, which saw cabinet ministers Danny Alexander, Simon Hughes, Ed Davey and Lynne Featherstone lose their seats, along with former party leader Charles Kennedy.

The party's most recognisable MP after Nick Clegg lost his Sheffield Hallam seat is back in parliament after winning his old seat in Twickenham and might fancy finally taking the top job.

[190] Winning just eight seats, the Liberal Democrats lost their position as the UK's third party and found themselves tied in fourth place with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland in the House of Commons, with Nick Clegg being one of the few MPs from his party to retain his seat.

David Cameron and Ed Miliband were talking tax and business, while Nick Clegg was in the news over a poll suggesting he was as risk of losing his Sheffield seat, and Nigel Farage was in a Radio 4 interview taking questions on immigration targets.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

Oakeshott also said Cable had known about the controversial voting predictions — which suggested Clegg would lose his seat along with three other MPs — several weeks before the party's disastrous showing in the European and council elections.

The Liberal Democrats, led by outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, had their worst result since their formation in 1988, holding just eight out of their previous 57 seats with Cabinet ministers Vince Cable, Ed Davey and Danny Alexander losing their seats.

Nick Clegg, for all the hype and excitement in 2010, actually lost several seats to win just 57, albeit on a slightly higher share of the popular vote.

Nick Clegg has said «it's never easy to see dedicated, hardworking Liberal Democrat councillors lose ground,» after his party lost two councils and more than 100 seats in English local elections.

It is also feared the Lib Dems could lose up to 500 council seats in the local elections, further destabilising Mr Clegg.

Despite losing the seat by just 103 votes at last year's general election and although the Tories are allegedly holding back their campaign at David Cameron's request, Nick Clegg's party trails by 17 points in two separate surveys of voters in the key marginal.

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Nick Clegg's right - hand man, Danny Alexander, lost his seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey to the SNP.

When Nick Clegg stood on the stage at Sheffield Hallam on Friday morning and heard the declaration that he had lost his seat by 2,125 votes, he was a long way from the moment of political euphoria that produced «Cleggmania» and caused David Cameron, Gordon Brown and voters across the country to declare: «I agree with Nick».

Though the Lib Dems actually lost seats, the 2010 election left neither Labour nor the Conservatives able to form a government without Clegg's MPs.

Clegg was in the firing line after his party lost more than 300 council seats and ceded control of two key councils — Kingston - upon - Thames (to the Conservatives) and Portsmouth.

And a recent ICM poll suggested that Clegg would lose his seat to Labour by 33 points to 23 if respondents didn't change their minds by the 2015 election.

It was the morning of Friday 8 May 2015 and virtually every Lib Dem MP had lost their seat and Nick Clegg had made the most moving resignation speech in the history of global politics.

It did increase its MPs to 12 (despite Nick Clegg losing his own seat) but this remained way behind the party's post-war zenith of parliamentary representation of 62 MPs in 2005.

He also revealed Cable knew several weeks ago about the controversial voting predictions that suggested Clegg would lose his seat along with three other MPs — before the party's disastrous showing in the European and council elections.

Whatever the constitutional convention about the party with the largest number of seats getting first shot at forming a government, the pressure on Clegg to back a Cameron - led administration if the Tories won the largest share of the vote — rather than support a party that had lost its majority — would be intense.