Sentences with phrase «mp left the seat»

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But there is mounting concern among Labour MPs that the party is disregarding all other considerations in order to ensure that the leader's seat is left unchanged.

Labour, whose frontbench is divided on the issue, is still officially committed to leaving the single market (allowing Corbyn and McDonnell to make big state aid commitments) and ending free movement (a key concern of MPs with pro-Brexit seats).

Favoured sister Emily Thornberry, the Shadow Foreign Secretary and the leader's Islington neighbour, would very likely face a Northern challenge with MPs on the Left already talking of exerting pressure to run on Angela Rayner, a working class Shadow Education Secretary with a Greater Manchester seat and accent.

Around 2m Labour voters are believed to have voted for Leave, and Leave won in 70 % of Labour MPs» seats.

Despite Clegg's efforts at triangulation, [86][87] the Liberal Democrats experienced its worst - ever showing in the 2015 general election, losing 48 seats in the House of Commons, leaving them with only eight MPs.

Dozens of Liberal Democrat MPs lose their seats, leaving a rump of ten or so left.

In a similar vein, hardly anyone predicted that the SNP would get to 56 seats or meanwhile that the Liberal Democrats would be left with only eight (not a single one of those predictions on the May2015 website thought Clegg's party would have less than 20 MPs).

There are six places where more than one MP would have a right to seek selection for a seat, but where there are enough Labour seats to go round, so if MPs co-operate and agree between themselves who will stand where, no head - to - head challenge is necessary and no one is left empty handed.

This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the Speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two - thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.

Labour would lose 120 MPs, leaving them with 227 Commons seats.

The majority of Lib Dem MPs would leave Westminster, with just 19 keeping their seats.

According to the UK Polling Report swing calculator, this would leave David Cameron nine seats short of an overall majority - although this does not take account of the fact that there will hopefully be some additional Conservatives among the 18 MPs from Northern Ireland.

Corbyn's revolution will mean that not only are many current sitting Labour MPs staring de-selection in the face of they dobn't start singing the song the member ship want, but people fancying their chances of fighting a non-Labour seat as the Labour candidate are almost certainly going to fail in the selection phase unless they are seen to be left wing.

Though the Lib Dems actually lost seats, the 2010 election left neither Labour nor the Conservatives able to form a government without Clegg's MPs.

Labour MPs in traditional, working class seats, say the issue of immigration is drowning out other arguments in the referendum campaign, including the remain campaign's central argument that leaving would hit jobs and economic growth.

If correct it would leave Labour with more MPs than they won in 2010 or 2015 - and the Tories 12 seats short of an overall majority.

The Nationalist threat is «categorical», according to the findings, and could see the party win 45 of Scotland's 59 seats, leaving Labour with a rump of just ten Scots MPs.

In another 20 years I doubt there will be any such MPs left, and I think Labour's support in these seats will have substantially evaporated.