Sentences with phrase «labour election victory»

Appointed shadow home secretary, Prior urged Heath to submit himself to early re-election as leader, but he demurred and the delay until February 1975, following the more decisive second Labour election victory in October 1974, proved fatal and sealed Thatcher's triumph.

Following the 1997 Labour election victory he became a backbencher and chairman of the All - Party Group on Architecture and Planning.

The current polls clearly indicate that a Labour election victory led by JC is about an likely as snow in August.

By contrast, Tony Blair charmed his way into Downing Street and the history books with three Labour election victories, but his desire to please meant much of the first term was wasted.

He and Mr Jackson called on Mr Miliband to emulate the approach which led to Labour election victories in 1945, 1964 and 1997, all of which, they pointed out, involved attacks on a Tory party which had presided over a period of economic decay.

Not exact matches

«Having been hammered by political punters backing Jeremy Corbyn at 200/1 to be Labour leader, Donald Trump at 150/1 to be US President, Brexit and a Tory General Election victory both at 6/1, we're taking no chances this time round,» William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said.

Peter Mandelson1997 - 1998After his controversial role as campaign director in the Labour Party's landslide election victory in 1997, Mandelson was appointed Minister without Portfolio to ensure the party operated effectively.

Jarvis is clear that unless Labour changes tack, any chance of victory at the next general election will be extinguished.

Labour supporters might point to Tony Blair's three election victories in a row, but that ignores the fact that they were won partly due to moving to the centre ground, and partly due to the disintegration of the Conservative Party.

Rosena Allin - Khan, a junior doctor and local councillor, romped to victory with 17,894 votes - increasing Labour's majority in Tooting from 2,842 in last year's general election to 6,357.

Following New Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.

Michael Heseltine, another guest, grinned like a Cheshire cat as he saw Labour's hopes of election victory cascading down the toilet.

Indeed, as EU observers have been noting, the more extreme eurosceptic Conservative noises off from Westminster have been anticipating — in the event of a «Yes» win - the end of Cameron, a caretaker leader until the May 2015 general election and a Labour victory.

Coverage and analyses of the recent British general election of 7 May have focused predominantly on the surprise victory of the Conservatives, the poor showing of Labour, and the close to clean sweep of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

I look at the particular challenges for Labour in reconnecting to disillusioned liberal - left voters as part of the task of rebuilding the broad electoral coalition which won it three election victories.

Labour's candidate for the Oldham West and Royton seat won the by - election — and party leader Jeremy Corbyn is hailing it as a victory.

But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory general election victory apart from John Smith.

Recent political events such as the energy around the Scottish referendum and indeed the surprise people - movement that secured Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the Labour leadership election indicate that discontent with stale managerial politics is spreading.

It is argued that the challenge is not just about Labour winning elections again, but that any political victory must be worth having, based on clear differences from a Tory agenda.

If you continue to support Jeremy Corbyn, you therefore have to believe that, should he win the election, he will be able to improve significantly, head the party strongly and effectively, get the 81 % of MP's who voted no confidence back onside, and drive Labour to victory.

Nor do I understand how an alliance of Labour parliamentarians with the Liberal Democrats (that well - known election - winning machine), as Ewing suggests, will deliver victory.

«We want a Labour victory in 2015 and I'm sure the executive will want to give some of our money - the cleanest money in British politics - to ensuring the general election is a fair fight.

Putting the Liberal Democrats to one side for the moment, the election results for Labour and the Conservatives are not at all unusual, and in no way indicate a certain Labour victory at the next election.

UKIP's recent by election victory proves it: the public are extremely worried about immigration and its impacts on labour markets and communities.

A bullish Jeremy Corbyn insisted that he can guide Labour to general election victory as he launched his campaign for re-election as party leader.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

Why do you think you are better able to lead the Labour Party to victory than your comrades standing for election?

That was a local election that pointed to the Labour victory in 97.

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

Although most Labour Party members are now focused mainly on working for a Labour victory in the general election, there are some important internal party elections shortly after 7 May.

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In the 2010 Labour leadership election, union members tilted to the left and were decisive in handing victory to Ed Miliband.

The problem, as described by Lewis Minkin in The Blair Supremacy (Labour First «s secretary Luke Akehurst's «book of the year» in 2014), was that «Blair, despite a huge victory in his election as leader, had in practice only a narrow base of committed supporters of his full political project» [p663].

According to the Financial Times: «his views — higher taxes, mass nationalisation, more welfare, more borrowing — are seen as toxic by New Labour veterans, who prophesy a repeat of Michael Foot's disastrous leadership in the early 1980s that led to a landslide 1983 election victory for Margaret Thatcher».

Labour's better results in 2012 as they admit do not guarantee them an election victory in 2015.

[1] Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived districts, he rose to become Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet following Labour's victory in the 1997 general election.

Let's get Sadiq elected as London Mayor and start building the momentum for a Labour victory at the next General Election.

Labour look set to win all three of yesterday's by - elections, with victory already declared in Manchester Central and Cardiff South and Penarth.

Jeremy Corbyn has accused the media of ignoring a Labour victory in a parish council by - election.

With Kerr widely touted as a potential successor to Labour Leader Iain Gray, this was one of the major SNP victories of the election.

After the election defeat of 1992 a whole generation of Labour figures, who were to rise to prominence in the New Labour era from 1994 onwards, concluded that victory would only come if an intense and unyielding discipline on language and behaviour were maintained.

The Lib Dems, also on 12 %, have also benefited from the publicity surrounding their victory while Labour, at 40 %, have dipped nationally following their fourth place in the by - election.

The last Conservative gain from Labour at a by - election before their 1979 general election victory was in Ilford North (1978).

Ignore the view expressed by Labour that the Conservatives need to be winning 47 % of the vote to have a chance of victory at the next election.

Following the election, the Liberal Democrat Leader in the Lords, Lord Wallace, argued that the convention which constrains the Lords from voting down the governing party's manifesto promises (the Salisbury convention — established following Labour's landslide victory in 1945, when the party had just 16 peers) was out of date.

The last Labour gain from the Conservative before their 1997 general election victory was in Wirral South (1997).

This is more than twice as big as the swing from Labour to the Conservatives in the 1978 Ilford North by - election (7 per cent), which preceded the Conservatives 1979 general election victory.

Farage claimed victory in the British election, with results showing his party beating both the Conservatives and Labour.

Factors contributing to the Labour victory were a strong economy and falling unemployment, as well as that Labour was seen as having delivered on many key election pledges that it had made in 1997.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.