Sentences with phrase «labour safe seats»

I agree, trouble is a lot of myths are fed to children as young as 10, especially in Labour safe seats.

How can the Conservatives ever secure London marginals that have become Labour safe seats overnight, such as Tooting and Ealing Central and Acton?

Ealing Central and Acton has gone from a 274 vote majority to nearly 14,000 - a 25 % majority in what has overnight become a rock solid Labour safe seat.

@SUE MARSH You mention Iran, whilst there are a tidy number of Iranians in the UK, I am not aware of any Labour safe seat which relies on the «Persian vote».

Find what is assumed to be a Labour safe seat and you'll find Labour's core vote.

Not exact matches

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

Imagine you are in a «safe» Labour seat (under FPTP).

The closed shop was as important for that as it was for giving the Tory forty - five per cent of the industrial working - class a moderating influence in the selection of Labour candidates for the safe Labour seats in which they lived.

The SNP might have taken even «safer» Labour seats had there been any.

But these are both safe Labour seats relatively close by, so it may be a regional thing.

It would seem that there are a lot very safe Labour council seats in Wales and the system is extremely biased to Labour.

After the calamity of the 10p tax abolition and the expenses scandal Labour was in danger of being slaughtered even in its very safest seats.

McMahon also secured a 10,835 majority over UKIP's John Bickley, who was tipped as Labour's strongest contender for the so - called Labour «safe seat» which Labour has held for the last 45 years.

The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.

It's an argument predicated on the assumption that, as he puts it, «naturally, Corbynites tend to be in safe Labour seats, so a catastrophic defeat for the party won't affect most of them».

When safe Labour seats first emerged in the 1920s, they were mostly in rural areas.

She was Labour's candidate in the 2014 Rochester and Strood by - election and has come close to getting the nod for the safe Labour seats of Slough and Tooting.

The respondents hail from across the winnability spectrum; from safe Labour seats to Tory strongholds, via vulnerable target seats.

It's a safe seat, so I tell the story of Labour's Emma Lewell - Buck, just leaving gaps for the victory speech and results.

Switching from Labour to UKIP in a Labour marginal, or switching to UKIP from anyone in a safe Labour seat, is clearly not going to make a Miliband premiership more likely.

Even in what is about to become a safe Labour seat, Boris is running neck and neck with Ken Livingstone.

[48] The party also came second place by 633 votes in the Bromley and Chislehurst by - election, threatening the safe Conservative seat and pushing Labour into fourth place behind the UK Independence Party.

He was selected to contest the safe Labour seat of Birkenhead at the 1979 general election on the retirement of the sitting MP Edmund Dell.

Against the advice of virtually all his closest political associates, he insisted on rejecting offers from safe Labour seats in which he would have had no trouble being selected and elected.

(It is for, example, no use getting in a lather about activists demanding deselections when you have been an integral part of a machine that specialised in the parachuting - in of chosen insiders to safe Labour seats.)

In Labour's safest seat in the country at the 2010 election, 28 % of voters still supported other parties.

This used to be a very safe Labour seat, with, in 2003, a 26.2 % majority.

SNP leader Alex Salmond said: «Obviously, we are disappointed not to take what was a safe Labour seat.

There will be marginal seats that Labour unexpectedly holds, and safe seats it unexpectedly loses.

Stephen Doughty won the Cardiff South poll with a comfortable majority in the notionally safe Labour seat with an impressive eight per cent swing away from the Conservatives.

Brian Clough had been asked to stand as a Labour Party candidate twice, once in a Conservative safe - seat in Richmond, Surrey and the other time in Moss Side, Manchester.

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.

After being rejected as Conservative candidate for Holborn and St. Pancras, he was selected as the party's candidate for Clwyd South in North Wales, a Labour Party safe seat.

The only seat that Conservative Central Office had to offer was the safe Labour seat of Hanley near Stoke on Trent, which he was told he had no chance of winning — but Harold had other ideas...

But from those that were, we can see a picture that is both grim and variable - Labour losing its ultra-marginals, in with half a chance of clinging onto one or two slightly more solid marginals, in danger of losing some of its semi-marginals, and at risk of losing rock solid safe seats in long - standing Labour heartlands.

What Ross shows is that Crosby recruited the best campaigners and pollsters, and carried out specific and detailed continuous polling in priority seats — Conservative marginals, but also Labour marginals, and increasingly in «safe» Lib Dem seats in the south and south west.

Labour has failed to win back the formerly safe seat of Blaenau Gwent, as it again fell to independents.

Ukip will be hoping for a good showing in the safe Labour seat after finishing second in a by - election in neighbouring Barnsley last year.

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

But if Labour emerges with 170 seats, the left would need Lewis and Maskell to pull through - plus one more, which is why Corbyn's insiders are so desperate to secure safe seats for allies like Katy Clark.

Corbynites complained about Labour's headquarters - staffed and run by party centrists - wasting campaign resources trying to defend safe seats.

Lots of Labour MSPs thought they had safe seats.

Labour Unite union aide Dan Carden should be parachuted into Liverpool Walton, the safest seat in the country, after previous MP Steve Rotheram won the metro mayor election.

Phyll Opoku - Gyimah, a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, had thrown her hat in the ring to run in the safe Labour seat of Lewisham East after Heidi Alexander stood down to work for the London Mayor.

In 2005, Labour lost the «safe» Labour seat of Blaenau Gwent to an independent candidate in just such circumstances.

Labour's George Howarth should make it victory number nine in Knowsley, the second - safest seat in the country.

Basically, under the current first past the post (FPTP) system, if you are a normal non-member and live in a safe Labour seat or an area where we have no chance of winning, the chances are you will be barely aware a local Labour party exists until an election comes along — and maybe not even then.

Labour held both safe seats that were contested.

«Labour easily beat the SNP at the Glasgow North East by - election as the Tories attain third place Main Two safe seats feature among the latest six to be seeking a candidate»

By the time Jeremy Corbyn's safe seat of Islington North declares, if things are really good - or really bad - he'll have inkling of whether he gets to keep his other job, as Labour leader.