Sentences with phrase «labour win the coming election»

The announcement that the days of patron saints may become bank holidays, should Labour win the coming election, could open the door for other national observances granted in Europe to become school holidays in the UK.

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It is not the kind of thing which wins over wavering voters, but it is a sign of an advanced political strategist and gives a good indication of how Balls wants to shape Labour's image when the 2015 general election comes.

It needs more funding and if that comes from Unions or Non Doms... Labour has in the years shown us membership is not a priority but ensuring Unions funding is and the hot potato is that if the Tories win the next election and the argument is about funding the Tories may hit back and state union funding is illegal.

The new pamphlet comes with exclusive polling data from YouGov, focussing on the key issues that led to Labour winning only 49 out of 302 seats in a region that can make or break elections.

Perhaps, as the union leaders become even more gung - ho, the Labour Party will never come back to election - winning strength, say Conservative thinkers.

Personally I can't forget Littleborough and Saddleworth, because I spent the full five weeks of the campaign in that Yorkshire seat as - in the first significant by - election under Blair - Peter Mandelson attempted to personally mastermind a Labour shock win, and came close.

Gordon Lindhurst is an advocate who stood for the seat of Edinburgh South West (which includes Edinburgh Pentlands) in the Westminster election last year when he came third behind Labour's Ricky Henderson (succeeding Alistair Darling) and the SNP's Joanna Cherry who won almost as many votes as the Labour and Conservative candidates added together.

[4] In the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that election.

And Conference, as we look forward to the General Election to come, determined to win a Labour majority, I want you all to know:

Until Harold came along, many of my generation feared that Labour would never again win a general election.

by the way even if 80 % of all the addtional votes labour needs to win an election came from ukip, and labour relied on the 37 % of labour voters who voted Brexit, it would mean that more than half the people labour would need for a overall majority in 2020 voted for leave in 2016.

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.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

It comes as Labour MP Jess Phillips has said she is ready to «knife» Corbyn if he is shown to be harming the party's chances of winning an election.

Last month, in my first election prediction, I expected Labour to stage a partial come - back in Scotland and retain 31 of the 41 seats they won in 2010.

What was discovered is that as things stand now, under the current closed list PR system used for European elections in the UK, Labour will win with 30 per cent of the vote, UKIP will come second with 25 per cent, the Conservatives will gain 23 per cent, the Greens 12, and the Liberal Democrats 10 (note the Liberal Democrats in fifth).

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) came top of the poll — the first time a political party other than the Labour Party or Conservative Party had won the popular vote at a British election since the 1906 general election.

Imagine that Labour comes close to winning a majority at the next election but fall just short, as the Tories did in 2010.

Instead, let's put the Commons numbers under a magnifying glass, and begin by assuming, sadly, that Labour will win the coming Corby by - election and keep the other seats it won in 2010.

The Labour Assembly Against Austerity saw over 200 party activists come together to discuss the cost of living crisis being caused by coalition austerity and the need for Labour to present an inspiring alternative vision that will win the 2015 election and then go on to change people's lives for the better.

The issue of ethnicity was always going to come up ahead of London's mayoral elections: if Labour candidate Sadiq Khan wins, he will become London's first Muslim mayor, and the first minority ethnic person to hold the office.

He argued that unity in Labour was essential if the party was to win the next general election, adding: «I heard in the speech yesterday a coming to terms with the need to change to a more collaborative and unifying style.»

«The awful shocking thing about this election is that Labour could have won it, or at least come a very near second.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

We have predicted here that Ed Miliband would come through to win the leadership election as have others as varied as Labour right - winger Luke Akehurst who supports him and (just about) Simon Heffer in today's Telegraph, who presumably doesn't.

Robert regarding your view that labour cold win with 35 %, yes, but we won in 1974 ′ with 37 % and I believe Callaghan actually got a few more votes in 79 ′ than 74 although the percentage was the me, the point was that the 74 manifesto was so far from what the public felt, that the following election lots of liberals or stay at home voters came out and the Tories would get 13 + million for the next f our.

Scotland's first minister last month predicted that his party would win 20 seats at the coming general election but the SNP has now lost two of the last three Scottish byelections to Labour.

That attack came back to haunt her after Labour won the 1997 election when, as minister for public health, she was forced by Tony Blair to allow tobacco advertising to continue in Formula One motor - racing.

When it comes to Labour rebels who want Mr Brown to quit now, Lord Mandelson warns them: «My message is please stop harming the rest of us in the party in our efforts to win the next general election.

However, at the 2009 European Parliament election the opposition Tories won over 27 per cent of the vote and came first, electing three MEPs, compared to Labour's 21 per cent vote and two MEPs.

His buoyant mood came after Labour won 262 seats in the General Election, up from the 232 secured by Ed Miliband in 2015.

BenM, I dnt know what these Blairites, in2010 you think predicted a easy Tory victory his time are, OK many people suggested in the media, it would take 2 election for the Tories too win in 2010, I recall many people saying the cuts would be so savage that whoever won, would be out of power for years after wards, Dan Hodges has been predicting a Tory win, but he backed David Miliband for leader, so he didn't start saying this till 2012 ′ and the bonus of Ulip (allegedly) spitting the right wing vote and ex Libdems coming back to us, would have made a labour win, all the easier,

His comments come after new shadow education secretary Lucy Powell pledged more «local oversight», and represent the party's first official confirmation that this oversight will be led by councils if Labour wins the next general election.