Sentences with phrase «crucial marginal seats»

Tory MP for Nuneaton, Marcus Jones, said Labour lost «crucial marginal seats» and that seats won at Labour's expense were a «great result.»

Polling by former the Tory backer Lord Ashcroft, however, had very good news for Labour, showing the party well ahead in crucial marginal seats that it will need to take in 2015.

1997 taught the Conservative Party that a fringe party like the Referendum Party does not need to do spectacularly in order to deny us victory in crucial marginal seats.

Not exact matches

In August 2011 I conducted a poll of 41 marginal Conservative - held seats to find out whether the static national polls were hiding a more nuanced picture on this crucial battleground.

We have often had, I think, these relationships going only one way (only helping the marginal), where perhaps what we could do would be to have the marginal helping the safe seat in less crucial times and safe helping marginal in run - up to elections.

The Tories were also soon confronted with a major electoral threat in the form of the right - wing United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which seemed primed to steal crucial Tory votes in marginal seats.

The Conservative party chairman said:» Labour should be very worried that in a week when Gordon Brown has dominated the news, the Conservatives have made a crucial gain from Labour in the north and achieved a swing in three marginal seats which would mean three strong Conservative gains in a general election.»