Sentences with phrase «labour landslide»

Before 1997, it was the safest Conservative seat in Scotland, [4] however in the 1997 Labour landslide, it was won by Jim Murphy who held the seat until 2015.

The Tories suffered this problem after the first Labour landslide in 1997.

One of the bright points of a grey evening was seeing Birmingham Edgbaston — the first seat to indicate the Labour landslide back in 1997 — stay Labour.

More information about her time in Parliament can be found here, and her Twitter account is here, but she stands little realistic chance of being elected, short of a Labour landslide.

Blair came to office in the 1997 Labour landslide and served a record 10 years in office before resigning at a time of his own choosing.

Against the background of opinion polls pointing to a Labour landslide, in a week he transformed the political weather, forcing Brown to back down at the eleventh hour.

Power and Responsibility: 1999 - 2001 (Hutchinson, # 25) covers the conflict in Kosovo to the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the second Labour landslide victory.

Looking at the 55 + age group, the Conservatives had higher support than Labour, in every election except the Labour landslide of 1997.

However, infighting between the two rival candidates for the Labour nomination, Mohammed Sarwar and Mike Watson, along with an energetic local campaign, resulted in Glasgow Govan being the only Scottish seat to see a swing away from Labour in the midst of a Labour landslide nationwide.

Labour strategists wanted to energise voters who had drifted away from the party since 1997's New Labour landslide.

The advert failed to prevent a Labour landslide in 1997, but was still said to have made Blair's character a legitimate subject of debate in the election.

In 1997, the polls failed to predict the size of the Labour landslide.

The constitutional change agenda gained momentum after the 1997 Labour landslide, when important changes were passed, like devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Human Rights Act that incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.

Back in the late 90s, shortly after the Scottish Tories were wiped out in the 1997 Labour landslide, Sir Malcolm Rifkind used to make a little speech in which he claimed that up to 40 % of Scots voters were potential Conservatives.

Not exact matches

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.

He addresses a number of myths, not least that which became a convenient excuse for the Conservatives, defeated in the landslide election of 1945, that their party organisation had atrophied during the war whilst Labour's had strengthened.

In third place is a report on a new poll which showed that the Labour candidate for mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was on course for a landslide win over his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith.

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

Under Labour rules Corbyn would automatically go on the ballot and the election would then be rerun on the same process that has just handed him a landslide.

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.

Even on the day of Labour's mayoral announcement, most commentators assumed that Labour's Tessa Jowell would scoop the nomination, yet Khan ended up winning by a landslide.

The early results from the local elections point the way to a Tory landslide, Labour pains and both Ukip and ardent Remainers facing an existential crisis

I think the whole project would have just taken a bit longer, but with a larger majority (as without Healey sure the Labour Govt would have collapsed to a landslide in 1979?).

Meanwhile, an SNP landslide is expected in Scotland which would be hugely damaging for Labour and have major implications for the government formation process.

And when he did speak out he claimed Labour had «a mountain to climb» to prevent a Tory landslide.

None of this changes the fact that Labour are still 15 - 20 points behind in the polls and facing a landslide defeat.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

Shortly after Labour's landslide victory in 1997, for some perverse reason I invited Ken Clarke to attend one of our monthly Tribune dinners in the Gay Hussar restaurant, that old canteen of the Labour Left, in London's Soho.

It was a long road from 1983 to Labour's historic 1997 landslide win.

As someone who gives a somewhat greater credibility to polls than many, I was not among those of the true faith who never doubted that Labour would do well, and indeed was, until late April, in despair as polls had consistently for about five months indicated a Tory landslide, for which the poor local election -LSB-...]

Some of them believe that the Labour party is going to get around 40 % at the next election and win by a landslide.

Labour would have won an even larger landslide in 1997.

This fundamental rebuilding of confidence in Labour - that the party could be trusted with the economy again - was arguably the biggest single component of Tony Blair's 1997 landslide.

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).

Mr Salter, who entered parliament as part of Labour's landslide victory in 1997, said he wanted to be free to work with Labour back benchers to put forward «positive proposals» on education reform.

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».

John Curtice has just indicated that Labour's lead is 1 %, which matches the movement from Blair's landslide in 1997 to Hague's Conservatives in 1998.

This constituency is held by Iain Gray, the MSP who led Labour to landslide defeat at the last 2011 Scottish parliament election.

Much has been written and spoken about Jeremy Corbyn since he secured a landslide victory in the Labour leadership contest last year.

That it was not enthusiasm for New Labour which produced the landslide in seats is further confirmed by the turnout — overall the smallest since 1935 with nine out of ten of the lowest turnouts in safe Labour seats.

They were therefore surprised at Labour's landslide victory in 1945.

Within twelve hours a new opinion poll of members was released suggesting Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership by a landslide, with none of his rivals even coming close.

Labour also remain the largest party in the Welsh Assembly — losing just a single seat - and are on course to win back London by a landslide.

The landslide victory is a boost for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who earned mixed reviews for his first showing at the ballot box, with critics warning «the clock is ticking» on his leadership.

The findings came just 24 hours after it emerged Mr Corbyn has received the landslide support of local Labour branches.

The last Labour occupant was Tony Blair, consistently well ahead in the polls en route to a landslide victory in 1997.

Its Wednesday article, which was bylined «Telegraph Comment Desk», read: «A lot of people, both in the Labour Party and outside it, think [Corbyn's leadership] would be dreadful for Labour, the sort of political disaster the party last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot's Left - wing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

Sadiq Khan is the first Labour Mayor of London for 8 years after winning a landslide victory over Tory Zac Goldsmith.

Labour's Sadiq Khan has capped a bumper day of local election results by winning the London mayoralty by a landslide.

The Labour victor outstripped Boris Johnson's 2008 record tonight to win a landslide 1,310,143 votes in his race to be Mayor of London.