Sentences with phrase «at the local elections labour»

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With a general election less than a year away at most and the Labour government facing a host of local difficulties it is well worth reading Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary Volume Two: With James Callaghan in No 10 (Jonathan Cape # 30.00).

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national lLocal elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national llocal issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

The Labour leader attracted unusually high levels of criticism online during his interview for BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme, in which he refused to speculate on his party's performance in Thursday's local elections by declaring he is not interested in «political commentary».

Jeremy Corbyn has talked up Labour's chances at next month's local elections despite pollsters predicting his party is headed for a drubbing.

However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

If a similar pattern is maintained at these local elections — and it was in last year's county council elections — then the Labour vote will increase more (or fall less) were the Remain vote was higher in 2016, while the converse will be true of the Conservatives.

[99] On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31 % of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.

But compared with last year's local elections Labour suffered at least as much.

After Labour's 1997 general election win, she was appointed minister for local government and housing at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, and had special responsibility for neighbourhood renewal.

In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.

Labour lost by 6.5 % in 2015, and the projected vote share at the local elections showed Labour beating the Tories by a point.

In an open letter, signed by Clive Lewis and Jon Cruddas, they argued that cooperation with other progressive parties at last Thursday's local elections could have tipped the balance in close - fought councils, just as it could have delivered a Labour - led government in 2017.

At the end of last year, he was promoted to the management team for Hanover's UK public affairs operation and in May's local elections he successfully ran as a councillor in Milton Keynes, picking up a seat from Labour with a majority of 204.

A Com / Res poll for ITV on 30 April put UKIP 11 points ahead of Labour, with 38 % of voters saying they intend to vote for Nigel Farage's party at the European and local elections on 22 May.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

2) The rise of UKIP at the 2013 local elections dramatically alters the predicted UKIP vote share, lowers both the Conservative and Labour vote shares but also increases the margin of error around the predictions.

1) Each local election predicts that the Conservatives will win more of the vote than Labour at the next election, though the confidence intervals for the 2012 and 2013 elections are overlapping.

In general Labour traditionally does better than average in urban areas, and the Conservatives better in rural England, and at this particular point of the local election cycle, most council seats up for re-election were urban.

In many parts of my own area, at least in local authority elections, there has often been no Labour candidate.

Contrary to widespread media propaganda, claiming a set back for Labour at the English local elections on 3 May, Labour in fact secured a modest but significant electoral advance.

The vote shares (National Equivalent Vote) in the English local elections put Labour at the top, on 33 per cent (3 points up on 2015).

While at last year's local elections the Conservatives were on 43 % to Labour's 24 %.

But if they're wise enough to vote Liberal Democrat at the next local elections in Hull, or for the Conservatives in any seat where we are well - placed to defeat Labour, then they will have a council that is fulfilling its statutory duty.

A mild drama occurred on Friday day at the premises of St Anthony Anglican Church, Igboukwu, Aguata Local Government Area, Anambra State when the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Chris Ngige jokingly told the candidate of the Labour Party, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah that he will defeat him in the election.

While the party had fared especially well in the more working class parts of the city at the 2009 Local and European elections and the 2011 General Election, Labour actually fared (slightly) better in the more middle class Dublin constituencies at the 2014 Local Elections than they did in the more working class electorelections and the 2011 General Election, Labour actually fared (slightly) better in the more middle class Dublin constituencies at the 2014 Local Elections than they did in the more working class electorElections than they did in the more working class electoral areas.

At every election, local or national, the attention of politicians and political pundits turns to Nuneaton, a key marginal, a bellwether seat in the heart of England that oscillates between Labour and the Tories.

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.

He was the Executive Member for Adult Social Care and Health in the Borough between 2006 and the local elections earlier this year, when Labour regained power at Camden Town Hall, at which point he replaced Andrew Marshall as Conservative group leader.

Labour won 121,900 first preference votes at the 2014 Local Elections.

Regionally, the party still fared best in the Dublin region at the local elections, where Labour candidates won 12.0 % of all the first preference votes, but the party vote share in Dublin fell dramatically from a 26.4 % level at the 2009 elections.

[26] Suffering mass electoral defeat at the local elections, in London, Labour lost 15 boroughs, including Livingstone's London Borough of Lambeth, which came under Conservative control.

Labour did not contest roughly twenty percent of the constituencies at these local elections.

At these local elections, the Conservatives benefitted from this restructuring of UKIP supporters, gaining Basildon, bringing Dudley to an even split with Labour and almost decimating Labour's leads in North - East Lincolnshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth — all of which were heavily Leave - voting areas.

In My Old Man's a Tory (1965), Harold (replete with Gannex mac and pipe) hopes to secure the Labour nomination at the forthcoming local elections, particularly after his branch party has passed a withering motion on Vietnam.

Newly victorious Conservatives at Lancashire county council have decided to scrap the council's Labour - like rose logo in their first act since the local elections.

They already know that Labour achieved a disastrously small share of the vote in the local elections, projected at around 23 per cent.

The Labour party claims to have caught 214 people who stood as Green candidates at local or other elections.

UKIP's leader has spoken of running joint candidates at future elections after talks with some Conservative associations and one local Labour party.

It is not, as some of Corbyn's detractors have claimed, the worst local election performance for decades (Ed Miliband's Labour did a little worse in 2011 and William Hague did significantly worse for the Tories in 1998) but it is the sort of local election performance heralding failure at the next general election.

Oppositions that were roughly neck - and - neck with the government in local elections (like Labour in 1984, 1988 and 2011, or the Tories in 2002) went on to be defeated at the following election.

At the general election - with a very small local party membership and without target seat status and all its associated benefits - Kashif was less than 2,500 votes behind the victorious Labour MP.

Coleman At Large (Newstalk Radio): Discussion relating to the Labour Party's prospects in next local and general elections in the light of poor opinion poll showings (28th August 2013).

Mike Weatherley, who won Hove from Labour at the election, used his maiden speech last Thursday to celebrate the local contribution to the British music and film industries:

The Labour leader also uses the film to hit back at those MPs who predicted he would crash and burn in the recent local elections.

Later on, Corbyn also hits out at the BBC for promoting the narrative that Labour needed to do better in May's local elections — when it lost fewer than 20 council seats — to show it was on track to win the next general election.

Prime Minister Brown suffered some crushing defeats at the local election polls last week, while Boris Johnson's victory over Labour's Ken Livingston as London mayor added to his political woes.

Given the different changes in turnout that we have seen it could be that as much as one quarter of the 4 % swing to the Conservatives from Labour was due to the different pattern of local elections taking place at the same time.

At the 2007 local elections, control of Medway Council was held by the Conservatives; 33 of the council's 55 seats were held by the Conservatives, 13 by the Labour Party, 8 by the Liberal Democrats and 1 by an Independent.

The Labour activist who famously turned up at the Crewe and Nantwich by - election in top hat and tails to play class war against Cameron was on the phone to local Tory Chairmen, advising on how they could best motivate their members to campaign on this issue.

Having collected data from all of these local councils for the first time, today we can take a unique look at Ukip's growing presence in local elections, their specific threat to Labour and the Conservatives and their targeting of areas being vacated by the moribund BNP and its local strongholds.