Sentences with phrase «labour seats in the house»

Regular readers will recall that the Magic Number — the difference between the number of Conservative and Labour seats in the House of Commons, and therefore the combined number of net Tory losses and net Labour gains needed for the parties to have the same number of MPs after the next election — is 46.

Not exact matches

Campaigner is to be given a seat in the House of Lords and will sit on Labour's benches in the Upper hHouse of Lords and will sit on Labour's benches in the Upper househouse.

Then, following the referendum, Blunkett watched on from his seat in the House of Lords as a spectacular rebellion against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn stuttered and then, seemingly, stalled.

The «baby of the house», 20 - year - old SNP MP Mhairi Black, is the best known of the brood after ousting Labour heavyweight Douglas Alexander from his seat in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

So New Labour is now a charity what a lot of hot air, Blair felt he could get enough money by selling seats in the house of lords, sadly the sleaze got to much.

It's often said in UK politics that the Conservatives usually require a 7 percent lead in the popular vote to gain an overall majority of seats in the House of Commons; but the Labour party can get a majority with practically no lead at all (indeed it's not inconceivable that the Conservatives could have a small plurality of votes and Labour still have a majority of seats).

And since it is becoming increasingly unlikely that the Liberal Democrats will supply Labour with sufficient seats to command a majority in the House of Commons, Labour's manifesto also opens the door to a potential dialogue with the SNP.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

But Labour is still expected to be quite some distance from a bare majority, which is 326 seats, and would need closer to 340 to sustain a workable majority in the House of Commons.

The problems of the first - past - the - post system go beyond the fact that Labour and the Conservatives are unable to secure a majority of seats in the House of Commons.

Police launched an investigation into possible breaches of the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 earlier this year, after claims that Labour was offering wealthy backers a seat in the House of Lords in return for loans.

Assuming a uniform national swing, Labour would on this basis win 270 seats in the House of Commons, the Conservatives 241 seats and the Liberal Democrats 108 seats.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

Translated into a projection of seats, however, this would leave Labour the largest party in the House of Commons, though well short of an overall majority.

Assuming a uniform national swing, Labour would on this basis win 267 seats in the House of Commons, the Conservatives 255 seats and the Liberal Democrats 97 seats, all within a handful of seats of what is projected by the poll of polls.

After weeks of polling putting it neck - and - neck with Labour, the incumbents have secured 331 seats in the House of Commons — a comfortable majority and many more than Labour's 232 seats.

[24] With the Liberals thus in disarray, Labour won 142 seats in 1922, making it the second largest political group in the House of Commons and the official opposition to the Conservative government.

The 2015 general election unexpectedly resulted in a net loss of seats, with Labour representation falling to 232 seats in the House of Commons.

Labour was — and still is — considerably larger than the nine (or eight, depending on how you classify Sinn Fein MPs, who don't take up their seats in the chamber) other parties in the House of Commons which are not in government.

The main point to note here is the dominance of the Labour Party in terms of the Scottish House of Commons seats.

That means that the parties whose seat shares exceed their vote shares (the Conservatives, Labour, the SNP, the DUP, and — fractionally — Sinn Féin and the SDLP) collectively hold 24 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons more than they would if they were represented in exact proportion to their votes — that is, about 156 seats more.

But then the SNP did win previously safe - as - houses Glasgow East from Labour at the by - election earlier in the summer on a swing of over 20 per cent, and they start with an advantage in Glenrothes in that the party already holds the almost identical Fife Central seat in the Scottish Parliament.

A LABOUR activist who has been given a seat in the House of Lords by Jeremy Corbyn has defended far - left anti-Semites, it emerged today.

The Labour Party had the largest number of seats in the House of Commons, but not an overall majority.

The housing minister Gavin Barwell lost his seat of Croydon Central after a spirited campaign by his Labour rival Sarah Jones which saw scores of party activists knocking on doors in the area.

Labour could end up with fewer than 150 seats in the House of Commons after the next election but will not be replaced as the UK's main opposition, the Fabian Society has warned.

That could see the nationalists, who won six seats in the House of Commons in 2010, return 47 MPs this time around, with Labour losing all but 10 of the 41 Scottish constituencies it secured in in the last general election.

«The Conservatives can afford to lose no more than 22 seats to Labour before they cease to be the largest party in the House of Commons.

(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.)

Labour currently holds four of the eight London seats in the European Parliament, 49 of 73 London seats in the House of Commons and 12 out of 25 seats in the London Assembly.

At the election, Labour lost 91 seats in the House of Commons, but the Conservatives failed to achieve an overall majority, resulting in the first hung parliament since 1974.

But it was his call for every Labour MP to be re-selected for their seats after a review by Parliament which will cause alarm for his colleagues in the House of Commons.

Labour's strength in the House of Commons would be permanently diminished if its 41 MPs with Scottish seats are no longer able to vote on key issues.

After the 1964 election when Labour's majority in the House of Commons was just four seats, he was persuaded by the Government to accept the position of Deputy Speaker.

Reproduced as a uniform swing across the country, this would put both the Conservatives on 282 seats, one seat ahead of Labour on 281, which would make the projected 56 seats for the Liberal Democrats critical to securing a majority in the House of Commons.

Ukip sensed a chance at victory among the disaffected Labour voters in the seat, which in various guises has been Labour for the past 50 years, ever since housing estates were built to relocate thousands of poor residents from central Manchester back in the early 1960s.

The implied swing of 5.5 % to Labour since then would not only see the Conservatives fail to make any gains, but gift Labour up to 80 extra seats and an overall majority in the House of Commons of about 30.

How this translates into seats or a coalition is unclear but based on our numbers we'd put the Conservatives ahead of Labour on vote share but the two parties within 10 seats of each other in the new House of Commons.

The Labour MP Heidi Alexander will quit the House of Commons to be Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for transport, setting in motion what could be a fierce battle for her safe south London seat, my colleague Jessica Elgot reports.

The Labour MP Heidi Alexander will quit the House of Commons to be Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for transport, setting in motion what could be a fierce battle for her safe south London seat.

Labour peer Ms Chakrabarti took her seat in the House of Lords under a cloud of controversy last month.

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.

Most likely at the General Election - Labour and the Liberal Democrats will lose every single seat in the South of England outside London and Labour will pickup seats from the Liberal Democrats in the rest of England, and will probably mostly hold their position in Scotland and Wales leaving a Conservative parliamentary party in the House of Commons with a similar number of seats to those Labour had in 1987 and Labour with a similar majority to now, and Nick Clegg probably just hanging on as leader because there is no obvious replacement.

While the Liberal Democrats only occupy 8 seats in the House of Commons, Farron said that he was confident that the party's 106 peers would have enough Labour and crossbench support in the House of Lords to oppose an attempt to repeal the 1998 law.

Additionally, despite only occupying eight seats in the Commons, Tim Farron told the Guardian he was confident that the Liberal Democrat's 106 peers would be able to generate enough support from Labour and cross bench peers to cause problems for the Conservatives in the House of Lords, where they do not enjoy a majority.