Sentences with phrase «labour party win»

He has also worked to help the Labour party win their historic third term in the UK and to build some of the insight and analysis infrastructure that was instrumental in Barack Obama's elections.

The underlying question is this: can a more left - wing Labour party win a general election?

But unlike May, Heath was booted out of Number 10 to make way for Harold Wilson, whose Labour party won a mere four seats more than the Tories.

If, say, the Labour Party won a majority vote in June, would they try to withdraw or backtrack on Article 50 (how they would do attempt it, or even if it's actually possible is another question).

In 2016 the Labour party won all three mayoral contests in Liverpool, Bristol and Salford, gaining Bristol.

The right - wing press has already swung into action and sought to delegitimise any prospect of the Labour party winning the second largest number of seats and governing with the support of the SNP.

The result was that the Labour Party won 258 seats and the Tories failed to win an overall majority.

The Labour Party won the 1997 general election with a landslide majority of 179; it was the largest Labour majority ever, and at the time the largest swing to a political party achieved since 1945.

The Labour Party won enough seats to become the largest party gaining 3 seats (2 from Con 1 from Lib Dem).

(For instance, in the 2005 UK General Election, the governing Labour party won by a majority of 66 seats in the House of Commons with only 35.2 % of the popular vote.)

«The way the Labour Party wins, is if it's at the cutting edge of the future, is if it's modernising.

Whoever triumphs may not only determine Scotland's future, but whether Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party wins the majority it needs to form a transformative government across Britain.

The Labour Party won every available council seat for the third election in a row, winning 77 % of the popular vote.

The Labour party won 232 seats at the last general election, so would need to win another ninety - four seats to secure an overall majority in the House of Commons.

In the UK general election in 2005, the ruling Labour party won 55 per cent of the seats on just 35 per cent of the total votes.

In 1997, when the Labour party won a landslide, pollsters over-estimated the size of the Labour win, but no one really noticed, says Curtice.

Not exact matches

The rebels won the British parliamentary vote by 307 to 294 votes, a majority of 13, after they received support from the Labour Party, a generally pro-European group accused by Cameron of «rank opportunism».

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

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.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

Historically this has played to Labour's advantage with each party «lending» voters to the other to win marginal seats.»

If it were up to me it would all go away, because it makes the AV vote harder to win by pissing off the Labour party.»

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.

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.

It begs the question: why was this revolutionary new approach to dealing with the Ukip threat not dealt with before 2014, when Labour became the first main opposition party in decades not to win?

The former Labour MP won the support of 71 per cent of Labour Party members in his head - to - head contest with former city councillor Steve Bedser.

Nuttall - state school educated and from Bootle in Liverpool - also made it clear that his primary aim was to win votes from the Labour party.

But 20 % indicated they would be prepared to vote for the party most likely to stop the Tories or Labour from winning.

It is an example of a European party with hard left policies winning votes, and comparisons with UK Labour underline just how radical Podemos actually is.

With Labour backing the Lib Dems, the Tories could only hope to win the close vote by buying the support of the nationalist and Northern Ireland parties.

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

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.

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.

If the Labour party wants to win, then these fundamentals can never be up for discussion or debate again.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

And that was good news for Labour, especially in the evening when the winning party's vote surged.

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

Several of the party's outer London targets failed to go Labour's way, while some of those that did were only won by tiny margins.

He attempts to get a US congressman to table a «favourable» motion (about independence) to «snooker» the Foreign Office, tries but fails to persuade the former (Labour) first minister Henry McLeish to back independence (he «is clearly torn between loyalty to party and country»), and tries but fails to win the Scottish Sun's backing (on September 7th Murdoch is still prevaricating; by September 16th he has opted for «benign neutrality»).

but in a Labour Party that is a vehicle of winning power not for combatting the Conservative Party in perpetual power.»

Nor could an alliance have been put together once Labour decided to support Brexit - the Lib Dems are seeking to win votes from both Labour and the Tories, while many left - wing Labourites have not forgiven Farron's party for the coalition.

Very recently the UK Independence Party won the 2014 European elections, the first time in over 100 years that neither the socialist labour or conservative parties had won a national election.

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.

But I do not believe that he and his allies are indifferent to winning a general election and are only interested in taking over a doomed Labour party.

Labour did well in London, winning Hammersmith and Fulham, David Cameron's favourite council, and overturning a Conservative hold on Croydon despite a strong track record by the party in the area.

To win an election Labour also needs to steal a significant number of votes from parties positioned to the right of it on the political spectrum, and right now that's not happening.

If last May - when Labour won just a single Westminster seat - looked to have marked an unsurpassable low for the party, the Scottish Parliament election result has just proved otherwise.

Many have blamed Jeremy Corbyn for Labour's low poll ratings and one Labour peer recently suggested that his party would would win the next election «by a mile» with Balls as leader.