Sentences with phrase «dems in every byelection»

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Alexander was forced to clarify Rennard's role after Cable suggested that the peer, who orchestrated a series of Lib Dem byelection wins in the 1990s, could advise the party on an informal basis.

Labour's narrow lead in the Heywood and Middleton byelection was the result of a «collapse» of the Conservative and Lib Dem vote into support for Ukip, the shadow foreign secretary said.

On Sky News, also enjoying the scandal for all its worth, someone said last night that it was an unfortunate coincidence for Clegg that all this has happened when a crucial byelection is under way in Eastleigh, the former seat of Chris Huhne, yet another high - minded but dodgy Lib Dem.

Liverpool - born Rennard is credited with several political successes, directing the Lib Dem's general election campaigns in 2001 and 2005, as well as masterminding 12 byelection victories, including Eastleigh for David Chidgey in 1994.

Interviewing the Tory MP Mark Pritchard, secretary of the 1922 backbenchers» committee, for Radio 4's Week in Westminster, I was startled to hear him acknowledging the logic of it: he may hate the so - called «purple plotters» who would like to fuse the Tory and Lib Dem parties, but he'd like to see «closer co-operation» between Tories and Lib Dems in every byelection.

Then Chris Davies, the Lib Dem who won the old Littleborough and Saddleworth byelection in 1995 and is now an MEP, passionately burst out that this was impossible.

Given its record in byelections, it was perhaps dangerously easy to overlook the disadvantages the Lib Dem candidate faces: his predecessor disgraced, his party's national poll standing at a historic low, and the difficulty of attracting an already - squeezed local Labour vote — while preventing the Labour support borrowed last time from returning home.