Sentences with phrase «labour lost»

Sure, you can describe it as a class war the rich won & the unions / labour lost.

Last month, Labour lost its bid to extend eligibility for free school meals to pupils from all households claiming universal credit.

Even Shakespeare wrote in Love's Labour Lost «had I but one penny in the world thou shouldst have it to buy ginger - bread.»

In local elections Labour lost overall control almost everywhere except Glasgow and neighbouring North Lanarkshire.

There was a landslide shift towards the SNP, which took 56 of the 59 Scottish seats at Westminster, while Labour lost 40 of the 41 Westminster seats it was defending.

In October 1974 Labour won a narrow majority, there was record inflation, high unemployment, massive Conservative Local Election & By Election victories followed by the Winter of Discontent and yet while Labour lost, their total vote was very similar to that of the 1974 General Elections and it was more down to increased turnout for the Conservatives and collapse of the Liberals.

Will some people please study WHY Labour lost Scotland, and why Alex Salmond saw some of the swings to his party in less than two years, it was not because the majority wanted independence but because he provided a credible alternative to Labour and he had a positive message on his vision for Scotland!

The argument that Labour lost control of spending, and ignored a cavalier culture in the City, has resonated in living rooms, playgrounds and pubs across the country.

The people, in short, that Labour lost touch with in the 1980s and then reconnected with in the 1990s?

Thank you for an excellent article which clearly demonstrates not only some of the reasons labour lost so badly in 2010 & again last month, but equally shows why we urgently need reform and a change of agenda in British politics.

Labour lost votes to Greens & SNP because they were seen as being too similar to Conservatives.

But again that just serves to underline how much support Labour lost in subsequent years and the very damage that Ed Miliband is trying to repair.

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).

He was a shadow Labour spokesman throughout the 1980s before serving as Home Secretary, from 1997, in Tony Blair's first term as PM, becoming Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 and then holding a series of other front bench roles until Labour lost power in 2010.

Agreement about why Labour lost so badly in 2010 and 2015, and a shared understanding of the present «conjuncture».

Remember the bye election where William Hague, first stood in 1989 ′ the SDP and the Libdems stood, labour lost it's deposit, but it was still right to stand, Hague win with little over 35 % of the vote

Labour lost both its leader Ranjit Banwait, who was not at the count, and the mayor John Whitby on a night to forget for the party.

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

I don't know Cambridge at all but I'd be surprised if Labour lost it.

Exactly Tafia, and take the 1983 result in reverse after the 1975 refunding, and labour not accepting that result, when labour lost a lot of «remain» Votes in the 1983 election it took years to get back, im told

Mr Todd asks why Labour lost.

The analysis, for the Fabian Society, shows that Labour lost six votes from lower - income voters for every vote it lost among the professional middle classes.

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.

We have a Tory government because Labour lost battles on two fronts.

If Labour lost its Queens Speech and Budget — the Queens Speech alone would trigger a crisis if rejected — then the Tories and minority parties might well then want to trigger a vote of no confidence, and if won, Labour would be out in the cold and suffer irreparable damage.

Lamont has said that Labour lost the 2011 Scottish Parliament election because the party lost its direction, [50] and that having failed to recognise the 2007 result as a defeat, it picked up the wrong signals from the 2010 general election that saw a strong Scottish Labour vote at Westminster.

To answer you're question, Labour lost because of the economy, on Scotland (by failing to deal with the referendum and it's fallout and by not countering Cameron's allegation that there would be a Labour SNP coalition — not likely and not as distasteful as a Tory - DUP coalition), and because they did not put enough of a policy gap between themselves and the Tories.

Labour lost voters in Scotland pretty evenly across the classes.

Certainly on the right, many believe the reason Labour lost is because its agenda was far too left wing.

The Labour MP said: «It is a recognition that Labour lost the election, which I think has not been made clear until this point.

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.

Our real challenge is that we in Labour lost our way, lost our confidence and lost Scotland.»

I have thought about it, your thinking seems to be Labour lost because they weren't right wing enough which is bollocks imo.

Nuneaton and Bedworth was the first result in and it saw the only change as Labour lost overall control thanks to a surge in support for the Conservatives who picked up nine seats — eight of them at Labour's expense.

AlastairCampbell, Mr Blair's former communications director, said there had to be an assessment of why Labour lost support but added: «I would advise Ed against doing too much of the bashing of the past which marked out his launch and today's interview... Being overly and needlessly critical of the past is not the best way to start an argument about the future.»

The long term reason is that between 1997 and 2010, Labour lost five million voters.

He is intelligent enough to make token gestures to win back the ABC1 votes that Labour lost: there will be much talk of speaking «on behalf of the whole nation».

Tory MP for Nuneaton, Marcus Jones, said Labour lost «crucial marginal seats» and that seats won at Labour's expense were a «great result.»

Yet the opposite is true: New Labour lost 4 million votes between 1997 - 2005 plus a further 1 million by 2010 precisely because it wholly neglected its working class base and showed that its closest affinities were with the employers, the City and the very rich.

Between 1997 and 2010, for every voter Labour lost from the professional classes it lost three unskilled or unemployed workers, even after taking into account the declining share of the population that pollsters classify as working - class.

«Labour lost the 2015 general election because it lost the argument with the Conservatives on the economy»

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That meant Labour lost overall control of the council for the first time since 2012 - falling one seat short with 17.

Similarly, Labour lost out because it piled up votes in areas where it was already certain to win.

In the Essex town, where Labour lost control of the council after a Ukip surge, Miliband is expected to reiterate his admission that his party failed in the past to listen to complaints about uncontrolled immigration from the EU.

Labour lost a net 24 seats in May: 40 seats were lost to the SNP, 12 seats were won from the Liberal Democrats and a net 2 seats won from the Conservatives.

Set up last year, it aims to promote radical and practical debate about how to win back the 5 million votes Labour lost between 1997 and 2010, embracing three core themes.

Labour lost their majority on the council, finishing with 23 seats, 7 short of a majority.

At the last election in 2003 Labour lost their majority on the council, after winning 23 seats, compared to 15 for the Liberal Democrats, 13 Conservatives and 8 independents.

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