Sentences with phrase «labour victory in»

An election intervened in the course of both reports; the resounding Labour victory in 1997 and the Coalition win earlier this year.

At the end of last year, I wrote on three reasons for Labour victory in 2015: brand, economy, and leadership.

BREAKING: Tony Newman has declared a Labour victory in Croydon, with seven wards declared #croydon2014

Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon addresses the Scottish parliament on Thursday, dismissing the idea of a Labour victory in the upcoming general election as fantasy.

Tony Blair might be despondent about Labour's prospects but all is not lost, there are three reasons for Labour victory in 2015: leadership, economy and brand.

Liz Kendall is the best candidate to deliver a progressive agenda in British society, through a Labour victory in 2020.

Look what happened after the Labour victory in 1997.

Jeremy Corbyn has accused the media of ignoring a Labour victory in a parish council by - election.

So what you are saying in effect Bubby is that it was the City that kicked the Tories out and delivered a Labour victory in 1997.

It will not do as the basis of what the government actually does however.I suspect most of us will grit our teeth and campaign as best we can for a Labour victory in spite of our disagreement with many aspects of the manifesto including the central thrust of the economic approach.

Although most Labour Party members are now focused mainly on working for a Labour victory in the general election, there are some important internal party elections shortly after 7 May.

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

That was a local election that pointed to the Labour victory in 97.

«We want a Labour victory in 2015 and I'm sure the executive will want to give some of our money - the cleanest money in British politics - to ensuring the general election is a fair fight.

I wish many of them had stayed and got involved and used their skills and political experience to further the cause of a Labour victory in 2020.

Im not sure Labours victories in 1997 and 2001 were down to its position on Europe tho.

Not exact matches

Victory for Labour in either of these would be hailed as a major success for Corbyn and an equally big setback for May.

In the end, the Lib Dem's scale of victory was in excess of the desultory 1,500 votes recorded by LabouIn the end, the Lib Dem's scale of victory was in excess of the desultory 1,500 votes recorded by Labouin excess of the desultory 1,500 votes recorded by Labour.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

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Manchester United laboured to a 1 - 0 victory over Crystal Palace to move up to sixth position in the fledgling Premier League table.

Their response was to labour to victory over Championship side Leeds in the FA Cup, but they were anything but convincing, in a game they were also favourites to win.

Churchill's victory in 1951 presaged Eisenhower's in 1952; Kennedy's win in 1960 led to Wilson's four years later and so on, through Nixon and Heath, Wilson and Carter, Thatcher and Reagan, until Clinton's New Democrats gave birth to New Labour in the 1990s.

Peter Mandelson1997 - 1998After his controversial role as campaign director in the Labour Party's landslide election victory in 1997, Mandelson was appointed Minister without Portfolio to ensure the party operated effectively.

Just ask yourself one simple question: in the Prime Minister's office, in Tory high command, how much of their time do they spend worrying about the prospect of a Labour victory at the present time?

The victory means Labour's 74 - year stint as the dominant party in the constituency will continue uninterrupted.

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.

Troubling new polling shows the damage that could be done if the Labour Party splits following a Jeremy Corbyn victory in its leadership contest.

Rosena Allin - Khan, a junior doctor and local councillor, romped to victory with 17,894 votes - increasing Labour's majority in Tooting from 2,842 in last year's general election to 6,357.

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

While all the public polls have shown Khan with a healthy lead over his rival Zac Goldsmith, Labour are worried that a low turnout in inner London could benefit the Tories and rob Khan of victory.

Following New Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.

This view, closely reflected in a recent piece by Labour List editor Mark Ferguson, is that potential candidates should «work for a Labour victory before working for their own.»

And the world is duly transformed for Labour at 11:30 when Jeremy Corbyn romps home to victory for the second time in less than a year with an increased majority.

Instead Labour's success in London has only proved a saving grace for the national party of opposition, helping reduce the impact of Ukip's national victory.

Labour's unexpected victory in Hammersmith and Fulham was heavily dependent on a campaign against the downgrading of Charing Cross hospital, for instance.

After three electoral victories and 13 years in office, New Labour had lost its appeal due to the legacy of the Iraq war, a series of burning scandals and endless backbenchers» rebellions.

Indeed, as EU observers have been noting, the more extreme eurosceptic Conservative noises off from Westminster have been anticipating — in the event of a «Yes» win - the end of Cameron, a caretaker leader until the May 2015 general election and a Labour victory.

Miliband's announcements represent a victory in the shadow Cabinet for shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who had been calling for Labour to integrate health and social care.

The phone - hacking scandal, shocking in its detail and devastating in its implications, delivered the Labour leader with his first comprehensively one - sided victory.

Privately, the PM would be pleased to keep Bexley and Bromley as Labour romp to victory on the back of an anti-Brexit backlash in London.

I look at the particular challenges for Labour in reconnecting to disillusioned liberal - left voters as part of the task of rebuilding the broad electoral coalition which won it three election victories.

Shortly after Labour's landslide victory in 1997, for some perverse reason I invited Ken Clarke to attend one of our monthly Tribune dinners in the Gay Hussar restaurant, that old canteen of the Labour Left, in London's Soho.

For Labour, setbacks in the Midlands and a failure to live up to sky - high expectations in the capital, where it had set its sights on Wandsworth and Westminster, took the shine off an unexpected victory in Plymouth.

Corbyn's victory over Owen Smith, who challenged him in the summer following a vote of no confidence in the leader by Labour MPs, was decisive.

Only 25 % of the voting public supported the Tories, which has been conflated as a massive victory over Labour, in reality it means that the majority of people see through Tory duplicity but do not yet understand what is actually happening around them, that is where we need to focus on.

Because even if Labour could agree to an alliance, it will only ever agree to one in which another party stands down to secure its victory.

If Labour delivers victory for Cameron in his referendum we will be able to say goodnight to Corbyn's little renaissance and watch helplessly as the pasokification of the Labour Party recommences and comes to completion.

Recent political events such as the energy around the Scottish referendum and indeed the surprise people - movement that secured Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the Labour leadership election indicate that discontent with stale managerial politics is spreading.

As in Scotland when Labour delivered victory to Cameron in the indepedence referendum Labour's death in England and Wales will be assured.