Sentences with phrase «after labour gained»

He addressed the crowd at Plymouth Life Centre after Labour gained four seats from the Conservatives in the local elections.

The Conservatives were left humiliated after Labour gained dozens of seats, but they have done a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to cling to power

The contract was first negotiated by the Liberal Democrat - led council, before being signed after Labour gained control of the council in 2011.

Not exact matches

Investors had been interested in how the Bank of Canada would characterize the labour market after data on Friday showed a much stronger - than - expected jobs gain in November.

After that came ten years labouring as a parish priest of Prouille, a period of little success in gaining converts from Catharism, although he founded a small community of nuns who wanted to remain Catholic while living a life of comparable simplicity as they would have had as Cathars.

And if the reason is to stimulate bowl movement... some women are already worried about passing a bowl movement during labour... Raspberry leaf tea is not intended to induce labour, it's for the conditioning of the uterus before and after birth, it simply helps it retract and gain it's health.

The constitutional change agenda gained momentum after the 1997 Labour landslide, when important changes were passed, like devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Human Rights Act that incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.

Even defeated parties must find consolation somewhere, and Labour's will include hanging on to a knife - edge majority in Bradford, thanks to independent candidates, UKIP and Respect all losing seats, and gaining majorities in unitary Stockton - on - Tees, and, after a suspended recount and overnight rest, Cheshire West & Chester.

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.

If either a majority Labour or Conservative government is to emerge after May 7, they'd need to make a healthy number of net gains here.

She also suggested that 10,000 new police officers would be paid # 30 - per - year if Labour gain power after the General Election.

The Lord Ashcroft marginal seats poll, published on the Saturday after the results, and predicting Labour gains of 80 seats, claimed frayed nerves.

If UKIP were to disappear after the EU elections and the Tories were to be reunited with their lost voters, they would gain just 5.3 pts — not nearly enough to overhaul Labour's lead.

Barwell developed a strategy after 2010 that meant he had to gain more votes than in 2010 to counter Labour gaining votes from all parties, but especially the Liberal Democrats.

After fighting Lewisham West in 2001, he first fought Dartford in 2005, losing then to Labour's Howard Stoate by 706 votes, meaning that he now requires a swing of 1 % to gain the seat.

But Labour lost control of Derby, where the Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Chris Williamson is an MP, and lost Nuneaton and Bedworth, classic Westminster marginal territory, for only the second time in 44 years after the Tories gained eight seats.

SNP candidate Annabelle Ewing gained 28 % of the vote but failed to regain the seat she lost to Labour in 2005 after the area was redrawn.

However, in 1997, all 23 candidates won seats in Parliament and, after Labour assumed power, the Party gained its first members of the Cabinet since AV Alexander: Alun Michael 1998 — 99 (later First Minister for Wales) and Ed Balls 2007 — 2010.

In Norfolk Labour gained a byelection from UKIP in Norfolk when a UKIP councillor resigned after admitting to shop lifting.

However, the Conservatives ended up with three fewer wards after losing three to Labour, one to the Liberal Democrats and gaining one vacant ward.

After extensive boundary changes (the sitting Tory MP for Rugby & Kenilworth will fight the new Kenilworth & Southam seat) Mark effectively finds himself requiring a swing of 2.6 % to gain the seat from Labour.

After minor boundary changes, Hannah needs a swing of 8.1 % to gain the seat from Labour MP Ben Bradshaw.

After boundary changes, she needs a swing of 2.7 % to gain the seat, where sitting Labour MP Mark Todd is standing down.

After minor boundary changes, she requires a swing of 2.2 % to gain the seat from sitting Labour MP Nick Palmer.

She needs a swing of 1.5 % after minor boundary changes to gain the seat from sitting Labour MP Lynda Waltho.

Sitting Labour MP Ruth Kelly is standing down and, after boundary changes, Susan requires a swing of 6.0 % to gain the seat.

They discovered, despite the hope engendered by Labour returning to office after 18 years, that the price of gaining that office was too high, as the political principle they held dear were jettisoned.

Wilson's small majority after the 1964 general election had made the transaction of government business difficult, and in 1966 he called another election in which Labour gained a strong working majority of 96.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) is currently the second largest party behind Labour in the Scottish parliament and is expected to gain on the executive after the Scottish election on May 3rd.

Following Blair's announcement of his resignation and Brown's bid for leadership, the Labour Party rose in popularity in the polls, gaining three points after months of low polls and trailing behind the opposition Conservative Party.

The Labour Party retained its control of the council with an increased majority after increasing its vote share by 21.7 % and gaining three seats from the Liberal Democrats and five from various independents.

[16][17] He then stood for selection in Brent East after Labour lost the 2003 by - election but was left off the shortlist despite having gained the most nominations in the selection process.

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Labour has gained control of Tower Hamlets council from no overall control after winning 23 of the 45 seats.

Labour campaigned to secure a fourth consecutive term in office and to restore support lost since 1997, [12] while the Conservative Party sought to gain a dominant position in British politics after losses in the 1990s, and to replace Labour as the governing party.

After capturing control of the Council for the first time in 1949, Labour strengthened their hold by gaining an additional six seats in the Llanelli area.

But after the Clegg surge, those potential gains from the Lib Dems look far less likely, meaning that the Conservatives probably need to make 120 gains from Labour and fight the Lib Dems to a draw, thereby still securing enough seats for an overall majority.

Plaid also failed to gain any of its targets including Ynys Mon, where former leader Ieuan Wyn Jones was standing, as well Llanelli and Rhondda — a Welsh Assembly seat which party leader Leanne Wood took from Labour after a tough campaign in 2016.

This should be worrying for Labour supporters, because as well as losing large amounts of support after every election, during their previous stints in government the Conservatives have also won back large amounts of support in the two years prior to an election with an average gain of 18.5 % against Labour.

The problem is when labour feels like gaining voters it goes after the millions of people on welfare.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lost five seats each, with Labour gaining two after boundary changes reduced the total number of councillors overall by nine.

After overnight counts were completed, Labour had lost overall control of one council and a total of seven seats, while the Tories had gained nine seats and the Lib Dems had gained four.

There was a smile on Theresa May's face after Labour failed to make big gains in local elections across England.