Sentences with phrase «labour than the weekend»

It's clearly a smaller boost for Labour than the weekend polls displayed, but then the fieldwork was done a couple of days later when Gordon Brown's conference address was no longer ringing in respondents» ears.

Not exact matches

There was an Ipsos MORI poll this week (no change in lead), a ComRes phone poll this week (no change in lead), a ComRes online poll last weekend (shrinking Labour lead), two Populus polls (who have shown smaller Labour leads in their four post-Autumn Statement polls than their four before the statement) and five YouGov polls (whose post-Autumn statement polls have shown essentially the same Labour lead as those before).

Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.

Labour peers have been told to abstain on this amendment, which means the government can be reasonably confident that it will be able to vote it down, but, as the Observer reported at the weekend, more than 40 Labour peers are expected to defy the whip and vote with Alli.

Working steadily, the two men were able to finish four rooms — kitchen, living room, dining room and hallway — in a single weekend, saving more than $ 2,000 in labour versus having the work contracted out.

If perchance this Labour Day weekend you're not kicking back at a shack / hut / camp / cabin / dasha / chalet / cottage by the lake, you might like to browse through some pics of tiny houses, because, the excesses of the rich notwithstanding, one signal feature of these glorious rural redoubts is that they be modest, though some of those pictured are admittedly less unpretentious than others.