Sentences with phrase «labour election wins»

Brown's odds are even dafter - they assume three further Labour election wins.

He was also one of the 103 business leaders to sign an open letter earlier this month stating that a Labour election win would threaten Britain's economic recovery.

Not exact matches

«The mask has finally slipped,» John McDonnell, a lawmaker who would be finance minister if Labour win the election, said in a statement.

«My party (Labour) hasn't been strong enough to push for red lines» and the May - led - government «answers to only a few Brexiteers» with the prime minister focused on «keeping her party together and win the next elections,» Dance added.

A poll of polls says Labour will win the most seats at the election, but the analysis by Sky claims it won't be enough to gain a majority.

A Christian Labour MP tells Premier the party is enthusiastic about winning the election in June - even... More

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

I've spent a long long time in the Labour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thaLabour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thalabour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever that was.

The Tories line of attack is always «but he won't be here after the election even if Labour wins.»

His research focuses on how he won the Labour seat of Enfield Southgate on an 8.7 per cent swing at the last election, and on similar successes across the country.

Any impartial observer in the Commons chamber trying to predict who might win the general election would conclude Labour is on course for a thrashing.

He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

Labour will not win elections as an anti-business party.

Behind the headlines, Labour's hopes of winning the next election are basically unchanged.

However, he rejected the inevitable suggestion he is trying to bring back the Blairites, insisting: «There is only one question for Labour - how do we win the next election.»

Winning general elections is all about managing expectations — so it really matters that many are quietly deciding the Labour leader is more likely to end up in Downing Street after polling day.

At the centre of this pamphlet's assertions was the notion that Labour faces a difficult challenge it must overcome in order to win the next general election.

At the general election in 2015, he had won the seat with a 24,000 majority over Labour.

Jeremy Corbyn — all but certain to be re-elected as Labour leader next weekend - really believes he can win the next general election, despite having the worst ever poll ratings for a leader of the opposition, not just at this stage, but at any stage, of a parliament.

If Labour is going to win the next election it needs credible realistic policies that can stand up to media and public scrutiny.

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.

Corbyn said Labour would require companies bidding for public sector contracts to pay suppliers within 30 days, if it wins the next general election.

Labour have absolutely stacked it, and don't deserve to win the next election.

Next leader of Labour, if Miliband loses the next election and if Cameron is still in power and wins well, labour will look for somebody who has the same style as cameron, somebody who looks the same sounds the same, lets see who can thLabour, if Miliband loses the next election and if Cameron is still in power and wins well, labour will look for somebody who has the same style as cameron, somebody who looks the same sounds the same, lets see who can thlabour will look for somebody who has the same style as cameron, somebody who looks the same sounds the same, lets see who can that be.

It is not the kind of thing which wins over wavering voters, but it is a sign of an advanced political strategist and gives a good indication of how Balls wants to shape Labour's image when the 2015 general election comes.

Jeremy Corbyn has just competed under the most democratic election system that Labour has ever held and has won the biggest ever mandate of a leader.

«Our children deserve real jobs with real pay and Labour win any election by pledging to be a lighter shade of blue.»

Robert Courts won the Witney by - election by 5,702 votes as the Liberal Democrats surged past Labour into second.

Dugdale's comments prompted many of Corbyn supporters on Twitter to question whether the Scottish Labour leader had the credentials to speak out on how to win elections...

A majority of Conservative supporters believe Labour will win the next election, according to a new poll.

A BBC projection highlighting how the results would look if they were repeated at a general election showed Labour would win 29 % of the vote, compared to the Tories 25 %.

Conservatives betting their # 3s on his winning the Labour leadership could lose their party at the election.

And any Labour or Tory leader who failed to win a general election nowadays would surely step down.

Ultimately therefore the decision to extend voting rights to younger people will depend on both whether Labour wins the next election and crucially whether the party sees it as advantageous to increase its vote share slightly at the expense of becoming more reliant on a coalition of disparate interests.

As Douglas Alexander, Labour's general election coordinator, stated in an article on Friday, «it is on the ground where this election will be won or lost».

Labour needs to attract religious voters to help it win the general election, a Cabinet minister will say today.

Labour won the 1974 General Election after Enoch Powell had told his supporters to vote Labour because of Europe.

Labour has said that the minimum wage will rise to # 10 an hour within months if it wins the next general election.

The second is that the starting point for that analysis has to be that everything the Labour party has done since it last won an election in 2005 has been wrong.

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Poll finds fewer than half of all Labour party members think their leader will win the general election

In May's General Election, when the SNP won Jim Murphy's East Renfrewshire seat, it did not just topple the leader of Scottish Labour, it took a constituency that epitomises middle Scotland.

As the polls continue to drift Labour has found a new way to win the election - fear.

Both Labour and the Conservatives have work to do to win back the trust of Muslim voters at this election

Labour is poised to win the most seats in the Welsh Assembly elections but could just miss out on an outright majority.

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.

To get an idea of how disastrous this election has been for the Conservatives, look at what has happened in the Labour held seats that the Tories were targeting yesterday but didn't win:

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

It needs more funding and if that comes from Unions or Non Doms... Labour has in the years shown us membership is not a priority but ensuring Unions funding is and the hot potato is that if the Tories win the next election and the argument is about funding the Tories may hit back and state union funding is illegal.