Sentences with phrase «labour lose this seat»

Closing a hospital in Bethnal Green and Bow would most likely not lead to Labour losing the seat.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

Mr Corbyn argued he was not to blame for Labour losing a seat which they have held since the 1930s and said he was «proud» to continue as leader.

He committed to touring constituencies where Labour lost seats during his leadership bid to talk those who did not vote for the party as well as supporters.

First off Labour lost seats left right and centre (if you'll pardon the pun), left seats in Glasgow went SNP, centrist seats in Edinburgh went SNP and right leaning seats in perthshire which labour had to win went SNP.

While Labour lost seats in 2007 in Scotland at least they still ended up broadly level with the SNP.

On this basis it can be argued that the BNP cost Labour at least 9 seats in 2010: the seats where Labour lost the seat, and the winning margin was less than the margin of the BNP (votes taken from Labour) over UKiP (votes taken from Con / LD): Amber Valley, Bradford East, Burnley, Corby, Dewsbury, Nuneaton, Sherwood, Thurrock, Warwickshire North (7 Conservative gains, 2 Lib Dem).

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

Seats which Labour were expected by all and sundry to lose stayed red.

Labour would fail to improve on their 256 seats from the 2010 general election and in fact lose another four seats.

A previously safe Labour seat in Liverpool may be lost - despite a government announcement on a new hospital.

Roger Mullin lost his Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath seat to Labour.

One Labour MP said that he wanted a higher salary in case he lost his seat in the next general election.

There appears to be no election campaign whatsoever in Greater London and as a result the Tories could lose up to six seats to the Labour Party in our capital city.

That translates to Labour losing about 50 seats with uniform change projections.

Labour are already 90 seats off a majority and will lose another 20 - 40 in the boundary commission changes in 2018.

Many seats the Tories must win were lost to Tony Blair in 1997 and have stayed Labour ever since, but their long term decline is beginning to bite.

It is thought that, based on 2015 election results, Labour would lose around 25 seats.

Seat changes: Labour gain one seat / Ukip gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one Seat changes: Labour gain one seat / Ukip gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Ukip gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seatseat

Academics Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher have forecast that Labour will lose around 50 councillors in England while the Tories and Lib Dems will bag scores of seats.

It was clear from uniform change projections from the Scottish polls in 2015 that Labour were going to lose nearly all their seats.

Momentum largely lost out to better organised trade unions in the earlier round of selection battles in the seats Labour must win but the faction's discussing internally how to improve its success rate.

Seat changes: Ukip gain one seat / Labour gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one Seat changes: Ukip gain one seat / Labour gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Labour gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seatseat

A new poll of his Sheffield constituency found the Lib Dem leader is set to lose his seat to Labour, in what would be a historic moment for the party.

A few weeks before the last election, my friend and local Labour MP Phil Wilson told me that he was worried he might lose his seat.

Dugdale had some cause to celebrate in June when Scottish Labour won back six of the Westminster seats it had lost to the SNP in 2015 but even her dearest friend wouldn't argue that she had saved the party.

As Chris Hanretty explained last week, the British Election Study shows that Labour support is weakening and Conservative support strengthening in Labour's own seats relative to other seats - in other words, the Tories are disproportionately gaining ground, and Labour losing ground, where it hurts Labour most.

Last night Labour lost votes and seats to the Tories in Nuneaton.

Having lost her seat in Labour's terrible 1931 election, Ellen used time out of Parliament to continue to support causes at home and abroad undertaking political visits to Germany, Spain and India.

Even those close to Corbyn on the day of the election expected the Labour Party to lose rather than gain seats.

In the key marginal of Thanet South in Kent, the Conservative party are set to lose the seat to Labour with Ukip coming a close second, according to the first of eight new constituency polls.

It seems they are vulnerable on left and right, and could well end up losing seats to both Tories and Labour.

He lost his seat to Labour's Imran Hussain in 2015, five years after first winning election, but returned as a Lib Dem councillor in Bradford last year.

If borne out it would be the first time a leader of the three main political parties has lost their seat in a general election since Labour's Arthur Henderson in 1931.

At time of writing (May 13th 2015) Jim Murphy does not plan to stand down as Scottish Labour leader despite losing his seat.

Applying this swing gains the Tories about 59 seats, and Labour lose about 63.

Over 80 % of UKIP seats came from the Tories, and the Tories lost a greater proportion of their seats to UKIP than the Liberal Democrats, while Labour lost barely any to them.

The election also saw Labour's Laura Pidcock, who is standing for the seat of Durham North West in the general election, lose her council seat to the Tories.

who won the Seat of Battersea in 1987 the Tories, so Khan holding a seat that labour lost in 1987 ′ shows his appeal, there are other seats in London we lost in 87, have now kept of course, but Thurrock just on the corner of greater London, had a Tory majority of 500 in 1987 has A Tory majority now ofSeat of Battersea in 1987 the Tories, so Khan holding a seat that labour lost in 1987 ′ shows his appeal, there are other seats in London we lost in 87, have now kept of course, but Thurrock just on the corner of greater London, had a Tory majority of 500 in 1987 has A Tory majority now ofseat that labour lost in 1987 ′ shows his appeal, there are other seats in London we lost in 87, have now kept of course, but Thurrock just on the corner of greater London, had a Tory majority of 500 in 1987 has A Tory majority now of 500

Even defeated parties must find consolation somewhere, and Labour's will include hanging on to a knife - edge majority in Bradford, thanks to independent candidates, UKIP and Respect all losing seats, and gaining majorities in unitary Stockton - on - Tees, and, after a suspended recount and overnight rest, Cheshire West & Chester.

The Scottish Labour Party lost forty of their forty - one seats and the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost ten of their eleven seats — all to the SNP.

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

But despite this rejection of austerity amid the biggest ever decline in living standards, the Labour Party still lost seats and lost the election.

The seats lost by the Lib Dems to the Conservatives helped to boost the overall proportion of women, while the seats lost by Labour to the SNP and especially to the Conservatives had the opposite effect.

Tony McNulty - Labour Former home office minister Tony McNulty lost his Harrow East seat to Tory Bob Blackman by just over three thousand votes.

Losing such an established Labour - held seat will almost certainly re-ignite the debate about Corbyn's leadership and its effectiveness.

By comparison with a tally of 331 seats in 2015, the Conservatives lost 27 seats to Labour and 5 to the Liberal Democrats.

Besides a TNS poll the other day, which conservatively indicated that Labour would only lose half of its Scottish seats, most other recent predictions have been talking annihilation.

There appeared to be no fixed laws of political gravity when these two took voters from Labour, as the 40 Scottish Labour MPs who lost their seats might attest.

Well done, Sunder, for not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...