Sentences with phrase «crushing election defeat»

The teenager behind the Milifandom movement has said she is «hugely disappointed and actually quite heartbroken» by Labour's crushing election defeat.

The Conservatives are heading to a crushing election defeat with only 31 % support according to a YouGov poll for the Sun and the Sunday Times.

The party's 400,000 selectorate, an incredible half of whom signed up for a vote since May's crushing election defeat, must decide whether to Stick with Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper or Twist with Jeremy Corbyn or Liz Kendall.

Not exact matches

The fortunes of the party in Scotland have failed to recover from the crushing defeat in the general election of 1997 when it failed to return a single MP to Westminster.

Yet its crushing 2011 election defeat showed that Labour is in clear need of a renaissance in Scotland.

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.

Douglas Carswell won the Clacton by - election with 21,113 votes, in a crushing defeat for Tory candidate Giles Watling, who won just 8,709 votes.

Corbyn initially stood in the British Labour leadership contest to give the party's left wing a voice in the debate on how to move on from its crushing defeat in May's general election.

At the risk of sounding cynical, everything about this — including the perfect timing — suggests to me that it's being staged: 1) Labour is on course for a huge defeat 2) no - one wants to take on the leadership of the doomed party at the 11th hour 3) GB's popularity (such as it is) is at an all - time low Given that no - one else wants the job on the eve of such a crushing defeat, surely the only chance Labour have of gaining support and mounting any semblance of an election campaign is to first restore some faith in their battered leader.

The crossfire, more than a month after Steele's election, is reflective of a minority party trying to find its way forward after a crushing defeat in November — looking for both a message and a messenger to take on President Barack Obama.

The result was that they lost their distinctive identity and, in May, were punished with two crushing defeats - in the referendum on the Alternative Vote and the local elections in England.