Sentences with phrase «labour loses the next election»

Everyone escaped in the end, but few doubt the scandal hastened Blair's departure from office, and precipitated the financial difficulties which could still see Labour lose the next election.

John McDonnell suggested at the weekend that Corbyn would at least call it a day should Labour lose the next election.

Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, is facing accusations that she is «on manoeuvres» for a leadership contest if Labour loses the next election.

The findings of the survey, carried out by YouGov, will be a blow for Ms Harman who has faced accusations of disloyalty and political manoeuvring to succeed Gordon Brown if Labour loses the next election.

I reckon Corbyn would still cling on even if Labour lost the next election (which they will by a landslide, by the way).

Not exact matches

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

Labour will lose the next election and we will hear nothing more of electoral reform.

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 thatNext 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 thatnext 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.

Labour continued to lose ground in the battle for cash ahead of next year's general election, new figures show.

Heath went onto to lose two elections in February and October of 1974 to the Harold Wilson and Labour governed for the next five years presiding over industrial strife, inexorable decline, class conflict, an IMF - bailout and the «winter of discontent».

Some may argue that Labour can afford to lose some support in its heartlands so long as it does well where it needs to win seats at the next general election.

Labour will be lucky if they simply lose the next election - if I had any say in it - they would all be hanging from the lamp posts in Parliament square.

From the moment the Lib Dems joined the Conservatives in coalition, the next election was Labour's to lose.

The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.

Ok the Unions have surrendered to Progress and the boy scout leader who is Miliband sadly we do not need boy Scouts and labour will lose the next election because none of us believe that Ball's or Miliband have a clue.

For the Tories to win the next election outright, they need to claw back voters from Ukip, hope Labour loses their votes back to the Lib Dems, and then somehow win over a whole bunch of other voters they failed to persuade in 2010.

However, expectations continue to be that Labour will lose the next election.

It's the last set of figures showing Labour in 3rd place if Ed Balls was leader — this is not fantasy land / as per my previous predictions — that is where Labour will be within months of losing the next election (3rd place) before breaking up for good — once again cut and paste!!

When Labour loses the next general election it will be the fault of those who lacked the backbone to do something before it was too late.

The leadership need to show patience and accuracy in their attack, to ensure that if we lose the European argument, the party is not left isolated - otherwise we could end up with the Constitution and a Labour Government after the next election - and that would be a disaster.

He believes the Prime Minister's focus on the economy has left a dangerous void on other domestic policy issues, and he predicts that Labour will lose the general election expected next year unless it develops a wide - ranging, forward - looking agenda.

«The public know sleaze when they see it and the public know spin when they see it,» she told MPs, before predicting Labour would lose the next election.

Red and buried: Labour rocked as shock poll says party will lose next TWO elections, seven key figures quit and MPs plot to oust Corbyn after Left - winger's sensational victory 12 September 2015

Many MPs confess to being unenthusiastic about the party's leadership contest and concede that Labour will likely lose the next election.

Political economist and life peer Your question is based on the assumption that Labour will lose the next election.

Prime Minister Baldwin perceived the public mood as against re-armament and apparently thought that if he moved towards re-armament he would lose the next election to the Labour and Liberal parties.

The next Labour leader should be ditched in mid-parliament if the party looks set to lose the 2020 election, a newly elected Labour MP has warned.

But they may be less impressed wth Beard's declaration that Corbyn wouldn't «necessarily make a great Prime Minister» and that «the outcome of a Corbyn election might be messy, and it might lose Labour the next election».

Well if this is to be the tone of how Labour will fight the next election they have lost the arguement.

Speaking to journalists, he said that he could envisage Unite changing its rules on funding to support other parties and leaving Labour, if the Labour was to lose the next election.

Mr Blair — who has accused Mr Brown of losing the election by abandoning New Labour — warned his party against a shift to the left, telling The Guardian: «If we take this path, the next defeat will be even more stinging.»

If the Liberal Democrats lost only 10 or 11 seats at the next election they'd probably be quite pleased... but remember, the Lib Dems also have around 10 English seats where Labour is the challenger and 11 seats in Scotland that could be vulnerable to either Labour or the SNP, so this is not the only battleground for them.

The Scottish boundary commission don't report until next month, but for obvious reasons the Conservatives and Labour can only lose a maximum of one seat each there, meaning that on these boundaries the Conservatives would have had a majority of around 40 at the last election.

Recently, Len McCluskey envisaged a scenario where Unite could disaffiliate from the party if Labour lost the next general election.

But the leading psephologist Professor John Curtice has predicted Labour could lose between 50 and 100 seats in next month's local elections.

Later on, Corbyn also hits out at the BBC for promoting the narrative that Labour needed to do better in May's local elections — when it lost fewer than 20 council seats — to show it was on track to win the next general election.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

Labour might lose their majority at the next election but it's going to be difficult for the Conservatives to gain a majority of their own unless they (we) can start winning a lot of the seats currently held by the Liberal Democrats.

Labour are set to lose a shedful of votes in the Welsh Assembly elections next May.

If Labour isn't breaking through on the economy two years out from the next general election, then it will lose again.

The next election many seat where the Tories lost to labour by 5000 votes will be the ones, that the Tories can put up, candidates who backed remain, Estelle Mcvey.

This means that Labour are narrowly ahead in all the polls just seven months after losing the election, and it will probably get even better next year.

If you look at where the lost Liberal Democrat support has gone (and I'm looking now at standard polls asking how people would vote tomorrow), the biggest chunks have gone straight over to Labour, or are saying they don't know what they'd do at the next election.

Blunkett's comments come amid rising tension within the Labour party over Miliband's leadership, with frontbench MPs set to warn him that he will have to resign as leader if he loses the general election next year.

Many people who are councillors in marginal areas, or have previously been in that position, know enough of history, or are old enough recall the 1980's, maybe they blame council election defeats of 1982, and the general elections on the Falklands, maybe they take credit for Andrew Mckintosh winning the GLC for livingstone in 1981, maybe they feel we lost in 1979 as it wasn't left wing enough, But they voted Corbyn and won't accept that we will lose by a mile in 2020 with him, even if we get half as any votes in the council elections over the next 3 years, as before, Various things can be done, Blue labour needs to work with Labour first, like compass before them, anti neo liberalism, felt Blair lost his way after his first 6 years, Yes progress has a large following and ability of resources, but since 2007 it's been redlabour needs to work with Labour first, like compass before them, anti neo liberalism, felt Blair lost his way after his first 6 years, Yes progress has a large following and ability of resources, but since 2007 it's been redLabour first, like compass before them, anti neo liberalism, felt Blair lost his way after his first 6 years, Yes progress has a large following and ability of resources, but since 2007 it's been redundant

YAAI'd be happy to take a big bet with you that Labour lose their majority at the next election As I have said before - I dissaprove of gambling and don't take part in raffles, lotteries or any kind of gambling irrespective of the probabilities.

Another Labour MP declared that it was «inevitable» that the party would lose the next election to the Tories.

If repeated on a uniform national swing at the next election, Electoral Calculus reports Labour and the Liberal Democrats would lose more than half their seats, and the Conservative majority would be 272.